Going to buy some books on after effects. Which ones do you suggest?

I'll be ordering them from amazon.co.uk so the selection is slightly worse than amazon.com's
Here's whats available:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_13?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords =after+effects&x=0&y=0&sprefix=After+effects
Anyone have any experience with these?

>What do you guys think about buying books that are for CS4 when I have CS5?
>  Big difference or barely noticable?
I say to go for it. In fact, going back to CS3 is still valuable for good tutorials and books. Further than that gets confusing.
The big changes in After Effects CS5 from CS4 were under the hood: the 64-bit port and lots of performance and memory improvements. And we added a few big things that are pretty well isolated, such as Roto Brush---which is great, but it doesn't change the way that a lot of other things are done. There weren't very many little changes, which are the things that would make using a book from a different version difficult.
Here's a complete list of changes between After Effects CS4 and After Effects CS5.
Here's a complete list of changes between After Effects CS3 and After Effects CS4: UI changes and feature-level changes.

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