Python for Data Analysis, Wes McKinney, 2022 (O'Reilly Media) - A practical guide for data wrangling with Python's pandas library, including reading and writing various file formats (CSV, Excel, JSON) and interacting with databases.
Database System Concepts, Avi Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan, 2019 (McGraw-Hill) - A comprehensive academic text on database systems, providing foundational knowledge on relational databases, SQL, and database management principles.
Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python, Joel Grus, 2019 (O'Reilly Media) - Offers a practical introduction to data acquisition from web sources, including working with APIs and basic web scraping using Python.