AJAX Guide

This is less a book than a category of the Mozilla Developer Center wiki, but it does contain good information on AJAX development. It also includes links to some external resources for learing AJAX.

Core JavaScript 1.5 Guide

The Core Javascript guide is a wiki-based online tutorial for learning to program Javascript. Assumes a general understanding of the Internet and the Web, and good working knowledge of HTML.

Chapters include:

1. About this Guide
2. JavaScript Overview
3. Core Language Features
4. Expressions and Operators
5. Regular Expressions
6. Statements
7. Functions
8. Working with Objects
9. Details of the Object Model
10. LiveConnect Overview
11. Processing XML with E4X

Core JavaScript 1.5 Reference

This online book in wiki format provides a thorough reference  to the core JavaScript language.

Topics covered include:

1. About this Reference
2. Global Objects
3. Global Properties
4. Global Functions
5. Functions
6. Statements
7. Operators
8. 8 Comments
9. LiveConnect Class Reference
10. Appendix A - Reserved Words
11. Appendix B - Deprecated Features

Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript in 24 Hours

This book serves as a tutorial on both scripting basics and the JavaScript language in particular. The writing style is light and easy to follow with lots of practical examples.

Included topics:

• Using Javascript to enhance interactive forms
• objects
• Javascript for manupulating cookies
• JavaScript for games, animation, and multimedia

Each chapter ends with a Summary, Q&A, Quiz and Exercises.

This book does not specifically cover using Javascript for AJAX.