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Homebrewing guidebooks?
I learn best from books. Can anyone recommend any about homebrewing?
I think the books you choose will depend on your experience with home brewing. Here is one title to consider "The Complete Joy of Homebrewing" (I don't own it so I can't recommend on a first hand basis). Amazon.com has a selection of books to choose from and offers reviews from past buyers. If you want to check it out go to Amazon and search the Books category for "Home Brew". Cheers!
My favorite home brewing book is Ray Daniels' book entitled "Designing Great Beers." Although it tends to be oriented toward the advanced brewer, it gives a fantastic insight into recipe creation based upon style analysis of contest winning beers. It also has great information about the calculations one can use to determine specific information about a recipe.
For the beginner, my favorite recomendation would be John Palmer's book "How to brew." Hope this helps.
There is also a great online guide at http://www.howtobrew.com/sitemap.html
Best thing is, its free. 
I've found the "Complete Joy of Homebrewing" to be immensely helpful. It's great for the beginner and continues to provide information as you advance as a homebrewer. Well worth the investment.
indeed. charlie papazian's, "The Complete Joy of Homebrewing" is invaluable. i read it cover to cover before i even brewed my first batch. it is a font of information and encouragment. i can't reccommend it enough.
Charlie Papazian is one of the best authors of the homebrewing genre. His books are remarkable informative and entertaining. Another one to consider is Randy Mosher (Radical Brewing). His books are a font of information and a very good read the entire length through. I like Dave Miller for his easy style of writing (He really knows how to break things down into basics!), as well as his huge stockpile of recipes.
I second the suggestion for Randy Mosher's Radical Brewing. A great book with many traditional recipes. More for an intermediate level, but fine once you have made one or two batches.
A very good Mead book is "The Compleat Meadmaker" by Ken Schramm. A good website would be www.gotmead.com
"The Complete Joy of Homebrewing" by Charlie Papazian is an awesome guidebook for beginners and has been in publication for many years. If you are past the novice stage and want to learn the microbiological basics of brewing I highly recommend "Brewing Lager Beer" by Greg Noonan, it really sheds a lot of light on the fermentation process without being too pretentious. Also, do not neglect the internet world out there. Something that has brought me a lot of satisfaction with my brewing library is to create a "Blinklist" account that will bookmark and track all of the sites you wish so you have an easy forum to privately revisit any sites you have blundered upon. You can also share your blinklist with friends.
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