Bestsellers

The top 25 best-selling O'Reilly books for this week based on Bookscan. Nielsen Bookscan aggregates point-of-sale data from about 70% of US bookstores, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, and many smaller chains and leading independent bookstores. Each week they supply us a list of the top 10,000 computer books, which we load into a MySQL-based data mart, categorize, and use to drive our bestseller rankings. You can read more about Bookscan in Tim's blog Book Sales as a Technology Trend Indicator.

iPad: The Missing Manual

by J.D. Biersdorfer
June 2010
Print: $24.99
Ebook: $19.99
Bundle: $27.49

How can you harness the tremendous potential of Apple's iPad? With this book, you'll quickly learn how to use each feature and application of the iPad to browse online, read, play games, work, and manage your music, video, and photo files. iPad: The Missing Manual offers clear step-by-step instructions, undocumented shortcuts, workarounds, and lots of practical, time-saving advice. Read more.
Photoshop Elements 9: The Missing Manual

by Barbara Brundage
September 2010
Print: $44.99
Ebook: $35.99
Bundle: $49.49

Elements 9 offers much of Photoshop's power without the huge price tag. It's an ideal tool for most image-editing buffs -- including scrapbookers, photographers, and aspiring graphic artists. But Elements still doesn't come with a decent manual. This bestselling book will help you get the most out of the program, from the basics to advanced tips for both Windows and Mac. Read more.
iPhone: The Missing Manual: Covers iPhone 4 & All Other Models with iOS 4 Software, Fourth Edition

by David Pogue
Fourth Edition August 2010
Print: $24.99
Ebook: $19.99
Bundle: $27.49

The new iPhone 4 and iPhone 4.0 software have arrived, and New York Times tech columnist David Pogue is on top of it with a thoroughly updated edition of iPhone: The Missing Manual. Each custom-designed page helps you use your iPhone for everything from web browsing to watching videos. The iPhone is packed with possibilities, and with this handy book, you can explore them all. Read more.
Best iPad Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders

by Peter Meyers
December 2010
Print: $21.99
Ebook: $17.99
Bundle: $24.19

With tens of thousands of apps available for your iPad, who knows what to download? You can try to sort through a gazillion customer reviews with a mix of 5- and 1-star ratings, but that’s a head-hurting time-waster. The stakes are getting higher, too: instead of freebies and 99-cent trinkets, the price of iPad apps is steadily creeping up and beyond their iPhone predecessors. Best iPad Apps guides you to the hidden treasures in the App Store's crowded aisles. Author Peter Meyers stress-tested thousands of options to put together this irresistible, page-turner of a catalog. Inside these pages, you'll find apps as magical as the iPad itself. Read more.
Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual

by David Pogue
October 2009
Print: $34.99
Ebook: $27.99
Bundle: $38.49

For a company that promised to "put a pause on new features," Apple sure has been busy-there's barely a feature left untouched in Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard." There's more speed, more polish, more refinement-but still no manual. Fortunately, David Pogue is back, with the humor and expertise that have made this the #1 bestselling Mac book for eight years straight. This one witty, expert guide makes it all crystal clear. Read more.
Windows 7: The Missing Manual

by David Pogue
March 2010
Print: $39.99
Ebook: $31.99
Bundle: $43.99

In early reviews, geeks raved about Windows 7. But if you're an ordinary mortal, learning what this new system is all about will be challenging. Fear not: David Pogue's Windows 7: The Missing Manual comes to the rescue. Like its predecessors, this book illuminates its subject with reader-friendly insight, plenty of wit, and hardnosed objectivity for beginners as well as veteran PC users. Read more.
Windows? 7 Step by Step

by Joan Lambert , Joyce Cox
September 2009
Print: $24.99
Ebook: $19.99
Bundle: $27.49

The smart way to learn to Windows 7��one step at a time! Work at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on exercises, building exactly the skills you need, just when you need them. Read more.
Windows? 7 Plain & Simple

by Jerry Joyce , Marianne Moon
September 2009
Print: $21.99
Ebook: $19.99
Bundle: $24.19

Get fast facts that make learning Windows 7 plain and simple! This no-nonsense guide uses easy, numbered steps and concise, straightforward language to show the most expedient way to perform tasks and solve problems in Windows 7. Read more.
Office 2011 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

by Chris Grover
December 2010
Print: $34.99
Ebook: $27.99
Bundle: $38.49

Office 2011 for Mac is easy to use, but to unleash its full power, you need to go beyond the basics. This entertaining guide not only gets you started with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and the new Outlook for Mac, it also reveals useful lots of things you didn't know the software could do. Get crystal-clear explanations on the features you use most -- and plenty of power-user tips when you're ready for more. Read more.
Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML

by Elisabeth Robson , Eric Freeman
December 2005
Print: $39.99
Ebook: $31.99
Bundle: $43.99

Tired of reading HTML books that only make sense after you're an expert? Then it's about time you picked up Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML and really learn HTML. You want to learn HTML so you can finally create those web pages you've always wanted, so you can communicate more effectively with friends, family, fans, and fanatic customers. You also want to do it right so you can actually maintain and expand your web pages over time, and so your web pages work in all the browsers and mobile devices out there. So what are you waiting for? Leave those other dusty books behind and come join us in Webville. Your tour is about to begin. Read more.
Windows? 7 Inside Out

by Carl Siechert , Craig Stinson , Ed Bott
September 2009
Print: $49.99
Ebook: $39.99
Bundle: $54.99

Learn how to conquer Windows 7��from the inside out! This book packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds into a concise, fast-answer format. Plus, the companion CD includes tools, downloads, and helpful resources. Read more.
Microsoft? Office 2010 Plain & Simple

by Katherine Murray
June 2010
Print: $29.99
Ebook: $23.99
Bundle: $32.99

Your easy, colorful, SEE-HOW guide to Office 2010! Use easy-to-follow steps and screenshots to learn the simplest ways to get things done with Microsoft Word, Excel®, Outlook®, PowerPoint®, Access®, Publisher, and OneNote®. Read more.
MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-680): Configuring Windows? 7

by Ian McLean , Orin Thomas
October 2009
Print: $69.99
Ebook: $55.99
Bundle: $76.99

This 2-in-1 training kit delivers in-depth preparation plus practice for 70-680, the exam for the new MCTS: Windows 7, Configuration certification. Ace your exam prep��and build real-world job skills��with lessons, labs, and practice tests. Read more.
Programming Python, Fourth Edition

by Mark Lutz
Fourth Edition December 2010
Print: $64.99
Ebook: $51.99
Bundle: $71.49

If you've mastered Python’s fundamentals, you're ready to start using it to get real work done. Programming Python will show you how, with in-depth tutorials on the language's primary application domains: system administration, GUIs, and the Web. You'll also explore how Python is used in databases, networking, front-end scripting layers, text processing, and more. Completely updated for version 3.x, this book focuses on commonly used tools and libraries to give you a comprehensive understanding of Python’s many roles in practical, real-world programming. Read more.
Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition

by David Pogue
December 2009
Print: $29.99
Ebook: $23.99
Bundle: $32.99

Ready to make the leap to Snow Leopard? There has never been a better time to switch from Windows to Mac, and this incomparable guide will help you make a smooth transition. New York Times columnist and Missing Manuals creator David Pogue gets you past three challenges: transferring your stuff, assembling Mac programs so you can do what you did with Windows, and learning your way around Mac OS X. Read more.
Make: Electronics: Learning Through Discovery

by Charles Platt
December 2009
Print: $34.99
Ebook: $27.99
Bundle: $38.49

Want to learn the fundamentals of electronics in a fun, hands-on way? With Make: Electronics, you'll start working on real projects as soon as you crack open the book. Explore all of the key components and essential principles through a series of fascinating experiments. You'll build the circuits first, then learn the theory behind them! Step-by-step instructions and more than 500 full-color photographs and illustrations will help you use -- and understand -- electronics concepts and techniques. Read more.
Dreamweaver CS5: The Missing Manual

by David Sawyer McFarland
June 2010
Print: $49.99
Ebook: $35.99
Bundle: $54.99

This Missing Manual helps you quickly and painlessly master the latest version of this industry-standard web design and management program. Perfect for beginners who need step-by-step guidance and for longtime Dreamweaver masters who need a handy reference, the 7th edition of this bestselling Missing Manual offers jargon-free language and clear descriptions for designing, organizing, building, and deploying websites. It's the ultimate atlas for Dreamweaver CS5. Read more.
Microsoft? Expression? Web 4 Step by Step

by Chris Leeds
December 2010
Print: $44.99
Ebook: $35.99
Bundle: $49.49

The smart way to learn Microsoft Expression Web 4 -- one step at a time! Quickly teach yourself how to create dynamic, standards-based Web sites. With Step by Step, you set the pace -- building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them. Read more.
Head First Java

by Kathy Sierra , Bert Bates
February 2005
Print: $44.95
Ebook: $35.99
Bundle: $49.45

Head First Java delivers a highly interactive, multisensory learning experience that lets new programmers pick up the fundamentals of the Java language quickly. Through mind-stretching exercises, memorable analogies, humorous pictures, and casual language, Head First Java encourages readers to think like a Java programmer. This revised second edition focuses on Java 5.0, the latest version of the Java development platform. Read more.
Microsoft? Office Excel? 2007 Step by Step

by Curtis Frye
January 2007
Print: $24.99
Ebook: $19.99
Bundle: $27.49

The smart way to learn the latest version of Office Excel 2007��one step at a time! Build exactly the skills you need by working at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on practice files on CD. Read more.
slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations

by Nancy Duarte
August 2008
Print: $34.99
Ebook: $27.99
Bundle: $38.49

Presentation software requires professionals to think visually on an almost daily basis. But unlike verbal skills, effective visual expression is not easy, natural, or actively taught in schools or business training programs. slide:ology offers practical approaches that combine conceptual thinking and inspirational design, with insightful case studies from the world's leading brands. Written by the President and CEO of Duarte Design, the firm that created the presentation for Al Gore's Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth. Read more.
iPod: The Missing Manual, Ninth Edition

by J.D. Biersdorfer
Ninth Edition October 2010
Print: $19.99
Ebook: $15.99
Bundle: $21.99

Get the complete scoop the latest line of iPods and the most recent version of iTunes with the guide that outshines them all -- iPod: The Missing Manual. Teeming with high-quality color graphics, this books helps you manage your media, play back music, videos, and photo slideshows, and keep your calendars and contacts up-to-date. Whether you have a brand-new iPod or an old favorite, this book provides expert guidance on all the amazing things you can do. Read more.
QuickBooks 2011: The Missing Manual

by Bonnie Biafore
November 2010
Print: $29.99
Ebook: $27.99
Bundle: $32.99

With QuickBooks 2011: The Missing Manual, you don't just learn how to use this popular program, you learn why and when to use specific features. You also get basic accounting advice so that everything makes sense along the way. Get more out of QuickBooks 2011, whether you're a beginner or an old pro. Read more.
Microsoft? Office Project 2007 Step by Step

by Carl Chatfield , Timothy Johnson
February 2007
Print: $29.99
Ebook: $23.99
Bundle: $32.99

The smart way to learn the latest version of Microsoft Office Project 2007��one step at a time! Build exactly the skills you need by working at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on practice files on CD. Read more.
CSS: The Missing Manual, Second Edition

by David Sawyer McFarland
Second Edition August 2009
Print: $34.99
Ebook: $27.99
Bundle: $38.49

Cascading Style Sheets can turn humdrum websites into highly-functional, professional-looking destinations, but many designers merely treat CSS as window-dressing to spruce up their site's appearance. Tap into the real power of this tool with CSS: The Missing Manual. This second edition combines crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, and step-by-step tutorials to help you build new websites with CSS, or refurbish old sites that are due for an upgrade. Read more.