Recommendations - books and tutorials on advanced features.

Dear members:
While reading a few books on presentations over the weekend I became quite interested in using some advanced features and animations to enhance my presentations. The books I've read mention these advanced animations but do not give the technical details on how to get them done.
Is there a book (or maybe books) I can read that would cover advanced techniques in Keynote including advanced animation options ? What about tutorial ? Everything I have found only seems to cover the basic.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance,
Joseph Chamberlain

Hi, Alancito.
Thank you for your help and suggestions.
I have tried the Apple Training Series before and really don't like the format they have adopted. The books in these series try to simulate a class where you have to read and then do some exercise on your computer. This may work well for others but I find it quite difficult annoying to follow this format.
They type of effects I am trying to implement include type effects, transitions (both object transitions and slide transitions) and visual special effects.
I just recently read "Slideology" which is authored by Nancy Duarte, CEO of Duarte Design and the one who designed the entire presentation used by Al Gore for his movie and presentations "An Inconvenience Truth". She describes on this book transitions that she created with text (not for An Inconvenient Truth but another presentation) so that as attendees would walk into the room they would be greeted by this text special effect on the screen. This section appears on page 154 and is titled "Playing Text Animations as the Audience Enters".
This is just a sample of the type of information I am looking for. I haven't even been able to create reflection for text in Keynote let alone any type of interesting special effects for text.
I am looking for books that go beyond the texts offered by Apple to cover basic topics and dive deeper into advanced effects and tricks such as the one above.
Do you have any idea of where I can find information on advanced techniques in Keynote ?
Thank you again for your help,
Joseph

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