[.ca] Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book (ISBN 0321499824)

Good for complete beginners:
This is a relatively good book if you're a complete beginner and learn by practicing. Covers the basics of Flash, so you'll need another book if you need to go deeper. This book covers a lot of different, medium size examples. For one big example, i.e. creating a website in Flash from a to z, try Flash CS3 Visual Quickproject. For a more advanced book or a reference book, go with Flash CS3 Visual Quickstart. When you're ready to go with ActionScript, try the Flash CS3 Professional Advanced Visual Quickpro.