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There's some overlap in contents, but I feel they complement each other very well.
Some of the examples are a bit dated now, and this type of immersive learning at intermediate/advanced levels is increasingly common (e.g. the Head First series, Codecademy, etc) but when this book came out it was rare to have this learning method presented for anything other than the most beginning levels of a language.
Two books 1. Learn you some erlang ( http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ ) Why? Because it is written in a style in which technical books are rarely written. It has cartoons, jokes, references to pop culture but still it conveys the core subject exceedingly well. I understand that this is written in style of learn you some haskell so I am going to read that as well at some point. The best part is you can read the book sec…
Am I the only one who's curious why the poster specified an "eBook" instead of just "book"?
Surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet. Hands down the most eye opening technical book I've read is SICP. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ http://sicpebook.wordpress.com/ebook/
Not very technical, but there's some interesting stuff in there, for example about working on the atomic bomb in WWII.