JavaScript & JQuery, by Jon Duckett, is perhaps the most elegant, visually engaging book you can learn JavaScript from. This is part of Lifehacker’s book review series.

The jQuery Anti-Pattern for Performance is also good, especially if you want to learn what NOT to do. A lot of jQuery tutorials are very guilty of doing many things on this list.

Don't forget those previously linked videos by the author of that book. Man, the dude needs some serious lubrication, he's very dry and boring to watch but the information is the king. He also ...