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Regarding your question, it would be really helpful if you could be more specific what your level of experience is and what you want to do! Some thoughts and additional suggestions to those already given:
Regarding specific applications:
What more do you want to do?
I still find LaTeX's author's original book useful.
But if you are trying to start out with LaTeX, the canonical tutorial is lshort2e.
No, not Donald Knuth's The TeXbook that taught the TeX system Knuth designed (pdf search), but Leslie Lamport's classic LaTeX2e book that taught the LaTeX system Lamport designed on top of TeX (pdf search).
The book by Leslie Lamport (http://www.amazon.ca/LaTeX-Document-Preparation-Leslie-Lamport/dp/0201529831/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1300579479&sr=8-1) is a really nice introduction.
The TeXbook isn't really appropriate for LaTeX. You want LaTeX: A Document Preparation System.
Unfortunately it's rather dated at this point, so it'll need to be supplemented with info from the web about fonts, colors, PDF, XeTeX vs LuaTeX, and so on.