Title: True to Its Name
Review: This book is intended to follow in the footsteps of Scott Meyers' "Effective C++" books, and does a great job of it! The 57 (instead of Meyers' 50) topics are very well chosen, and the level of detail is excellent. Code examples, showing both the correct way and the wrong way to do things, are just the right length - complete enough to make their point, yet still nice and short. The items on equals(), clone(), and the typesafe enum pattern are worth the price of the book themselves. BTW, avoid the vastly inferior "Practical Java" - it's more of an introduction to Java, with much less detail, and many tips which will seem trivial to an experienced Java programmer.
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