This document provides summaries of books and resources related to Hadoop and big data projects. It describes 12 books or resources, including titles like Hadoop in Practice, Programming Hive, Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, Apache Solr 3.1 Cookbook, and How to Develop Big Data Applications for Hadoop. For each item, it lists the title, author(s), publisher, publication date, ISBN number, and a brief 1-3 sentence description of what the book or resource covers.