Andy Budd, the first author of CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions, is renowned in the web development community as one of the foremost proponents of web standard in Great Britain. 
This is a 300 page book, very hands on, which demonstrate what CSS can achieve. It is a hands-on learning tool rather than a reference text. It has lots of code examples, is good when it comes to discussing cross-browser support, has some discussion of CSS3, as well as CSS3 examples, showing new CSS3 features, and CSS3 equivalents to tried and tested CSS2 techniques.
The book starts off with a discussion of CSS and its basics. Then we immediately delve deeper into the use of it – visual formatting with CSS, positioning, design effects, and so on. The focus is more on design issues than with the coding itself. Chapters 6 and 7 focus on efficient layouts.
The book is good at conveying best practice concepts in CSS design, as well as solutions to some tricky problems in CSS (two chapters are devoted to this). The section on dealing with browser bugs is very good.
This is not a book for beginners. It is more advanced and more design oriented. There are lots of discussions of fairly advanced techniques, which makes the book useful for more experienced designers. I would say it is an intermediate level book.
One problem with this book needs to be mentioned: It has a lot of typos and errors. The list of errors (available online) is now more than 11 pages long. If you can live with that – personally I don’t much like books with typos and errors – then this is a good book to learn from.
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