try this one out!.. i bought 3 books already :
- intermediate robot building (David Cook)
- insectronics (Karl Williams)
- amphibionics (Karl Williams)
I bought them at the same time because I'm from belgium and they just can't check it out if any of my intrests are available, i'd have to buy them at the same time. I'm very pleased of the first book, lots of theory and well for learning..gOOd explained and very detailed. I didn't read the other two books yet but my first opinion when i read some pages here and there.. its just like : this is the robot we are going to make, this is how you do it, here's the program and the pcb.. and done; not any further explenation about components or "how does it work"... but ok..I bought two books.. I'll make some robots out of if, mayby I'll learn about it when I'm working on it and see things for myselve.
Have a good book-hunting!