(the book was still in early access, finished, but not published yet).The first seven chapters teach the basics. They are easy to follow. I felt that the chapter on concurrency was not clear enough. A lot of text about common concurrency issues, but no practical examples of the different Clojure features. Maybe in the sections that I skipped ? (more on that next). I just wanted to see one example using multiple threads and Refs, Agents and others.
Leaving the basics, chapter 8 shows how to do mocking and stubbing in unit testing. Then come four chapters using third party libraries and frameworks. I'm ashamed to say that I skipped most of their content (50 pages). HBase, Redis, RabbitMQ, Hadoop... That would have been fine with small libraries which do not require configuration or knowledge. This does not reduce the value of the book though. It's an "In Action" book after all. It is clearly stated on the cover that it will use these frameworks. If you are interested to learn more than just the language, this book contains a vast panorama of "in action" examples. I may come back to these chapters later.
Then, back to the core. Protocols, macros, etc... The modus operandi thing in the Protocols chapter confused me more than anything, although it's a good exercise at making macros.
I haven’t read other books on Clojure so I can’t compare this one to others. I'm pleased with this book, although I was interested only in the core functionality. I think it will give you enough grounding to get going with Clojure.
is a recipe-styled book, where each recipe shows how to use a particular feature of the Android SDK. Each recipe is more or less independent of the others. It's not a classical beginners book, but I think it can still be used to start learning about Android development. It starts with an overview of the Android platform, then presents various recipes in a logical order. First, the most basic recipes : activities, intents, threads, services, alerts, widgets and other ui, events like key presses and Touch events. Then recipes explaining how to use specific functionalities : multimedia, hardware (sensors), networking, data storage, location services like Google Maps, and many more advances recipes. Finally, recipes on debugging. 
will teach you how to create professional and redistributable RCP applications. Part I and II look like a tutorial, but the rest of the book goes far beyond. First, you will create a chat application, adding views, editors, actions, help, integrating a third party library... The style is clear, and the progression is logical. API details are left for Part III, where RCP indispensable components are discussed, and that is where the simple tutorial ends.
. The book was supposed to be released at the end of July, but it has been postponed once to mid-August, and again to the end of August. Let's hope it's the last time the publication date is being delayed.
(APress)", by Iggy Fernandez. First of all, I am not a DBA. I'm using Oracle at work, but, most of the time, I'm only using basic SQL. I have nothing to do with database administration, but recently I wanted to know more about Oracle, and this book is just what I needed. The author doesn't go deeply into details, which that is not the purpose of the book. He introduces the most important topics (installation, monitoring, backups, recoveries, tuning...) in a very understandable manner. I don't think that this book will turn anyone into an Oracle Professional, as the title suggests, but it does cover enough material to make you more than a novice. I recommend it highly to anyone who wants to know the basic notions of the Oracle architecture and administration.