Dan Wellman has just launched his new book about the jQuery UI and his publishers have sent me a copy to review. I’ll have more on that later, but I’m certainly looking forward to reading it; here’s how he describes the book

An example-based approach leads you step-by-step through the implementation and customization of each library component and its associated resources in turn. To emphasize the way that jQuery UI takes the difficulty out of user interface design and implementation, each chapter ends with a `fun with’ section that puts together what you’ve learned throughout the chapter to make a usable and fun page. In these sections you’ll often get to experiment with the latest associated technologies like AJAX and JSON.

I really like the idea of the 'fun with’ sections, quite often the biggest barrier to absorbing a text book is the tedium of the examples.