High Performance Web Sites by Steve Souders

This book is  a very good introduction to website performance optimization for front-end developers.

http://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-Web-Sites-Essential/dp/0596529309/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1418058621&sr=1-1&keywords=high+performance+websites

UML Distilled by Martin Fowler

This is a good book if you want to learn about UML.

http://www.amazon.com/UML-Distilled-Standard-Modeling-Language/dp/0321193687/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417561005&sr=1-1&keywords=uml+distilled

Some topics in this book might be little difficult to understand at the beginning. You can also look at Learning UML 2.0 by Russ Mile and Kim Hamilton.

http://www.amazon.com/Learning-UML-2-0-Russ-Miles/dp/0596009828/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1428352111&sr=1-1&keywords=uml

Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers by Michael Schrenk

This book helped me to achieve many goals at work and in School. Be careful though! Web scraping can be addictive.

http://www.amazon.com/Webbots-Spiders-Screen-Scrapers-Developing/dp/1593273975/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417560802&sr=1-5&keywords=web+scraping

JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford

JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford is a good read. This was the first JavaScript book I read and enjoyed.

http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockford/dp/0596517742/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417560742&sr=1-1&keywords=javascript+the+good+parts

Professional JavaScript for Web Developers By Nicholas C. Zakas

Professional JavaScript for Web Developers by Nicholas C. Zakas is a really good read for any JavaScript developer. Many of my posts are from this book. If you have some JavaScript knowledge and you are looking for only one book to take you to the next level, I would suggest to get this book.

http://www.amazon.com/Professional-JavaScript-Developers-Nicholas-Zakas/dp/1118026691/ref=tmm_pap_title_0