Best "learn a language" book I've read was the first edition of Joe Armstrong's Programming Erlang book. For a Software Engineering book, it's hard to beat The

Best "learn a language" book I've read was the first edition of Joe Armstrong's Programming Erlang book. For a Software Engineering book, it's hard to beat The Pragmatic Programmer. A good working-with-other-people book is Extreme Programming Explained 2nd ed.