Windows Azure Platform (Expert's Voice in .NET) by Tejaswi Redkar (2010-01-05) Mass Market Paperback – 1 Jan. 1788

I don't know the great deal about Windows Azure and I would like to learn not only how to write code, but also understand the cloud. For that I found this book to be perfect. The first part is focused on the idea behind the cloud, how to use it in a business, when to use it and even what competitors have to offer. After that the book goes deeper and deeper into Azure, showing how to start, how Azure is organised and how to make it work. It's very good even if you've never worked with Azure before. The rest of the book goes into each part of Azure in depth. The relation between code and text is definitely in favour of the latter and you can find a lot of explanation on how things work that help to understand both the concept and the code.