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Whatever the reason for your wanting to use Ajax, one of these books will provide you with what you need to know.

1. Pragmatic Ajax

If you are reasonably experienced at programming and want to know not only how to use Ajax butr also when it is an appropriate tool to use then this is the book for you.

2. Head Rush AJAX

For the person with little programming experience wanting to learn how to perform web page updates without reloading the page. This book introduces Ajax in a fun way that will help you learn what you need to know to be able use Ajax.

3. Ajax Design Patterns

practical applications for using Ajax to enhance the interactivity of your web site.

4. Build Your Own Ajax Web Applications

This book looks first at practical uses for Ajax and then shows you how to do it properly using a real world example.

5. Professional AJAX

If you have lots of Javascript experience and knowledge of at least one server side language then this book will show you how to combine them together through Ajax to perform a variety of interactive functions..

6. AJAX Hacks

Just about everything that can be done on a web page can use Ajax if you really want to. This book shows even web novices how to use Ajax to add all the server lookup bells and whistles to what would otherwise be an ordinary web page.

7. DHTML Utopia

This book is primarily about modern unobtrusive scripting techniques for using Javascript and the Document Object Model to make interactive web pages. It clearly demonstrates how Ajax fits into this process where server side lookupt are required.
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