An introduction to Blender 2.54+ by John M. Blain file

An introduction to Blender 2.54+, a free e-book written by John M. Blain, over 300 pages. Covers interface, navigation, creating/editing objects, materials, textures, world settings, lighting, camera, rendering, raytracing, basics of animation, 3d text, nurbsand metashapes, modifiers, particle systems, child-parent relationship, constraints, armatures, relative shapes keys, nodes, game engine, and video sequence editor. You can support the author by buying his book The Complete Guide to Blender Graphics: Computer Modeling and Animation.