Some of best ways to learn photography are studying photographs of great photographers, reading about their techniques & methods and learning from others. Sure, you have to know that what was good for someone else might not work for you. Also, if you want to build your own style, you have to listen to photographer inside you.
But, at the beginning we all need to see what are others doing in order to mark our place in space of photography and set our course of improvement.
What better way to achieve all this than by reading good book on the subject. Amazon currently has special promotion: you add 4 books (all under 10$) to your shopping cart, and they give you the cheapest one of those for free.
Here are some titles I found that qualify for promotion: