Alison Balter's Mastering Microsoft Office Access 2003

the long version

What Alison's book offers over other books in that she is able to take a highly technical topic and present it in a manner that is easy to comprehend. It is a book that the reader will often want to read from cover to cover, but it can also act as an excellent reference. Readers of this book will learn: Access 11 application development and real-world solutions to specific development and programming problems. Professional programming techniques backed by concise, no-nonsense explanations of the underlying theories. Debugging and troubleshooting methods to solve problems quickly and get stalled development projects back on track.