Well, it will be my birthday soon, and I'm wanting to buy a couple of Perl (or Perl oriented) books.

I'm a self taught programmer, and I have a reasonably good understanding of Perl, especially in relation to OO, web and database programming.

But every now and again, a theoretical discussion starts which loses me completely. The theory is the bit I am missing, whether it is N-grams, B-tree, sets, sorting algorithms, mixins, etc etc.

What books would you recommend that deal with these subjects, and that would be suitable for a reasonably advanced practical programmer but an ignorant theoritician.

Thanks

UPDATE

I've gone with the recommended Mastering Algorithms with perl, and also got Higher Order Perl and Perl Best Practices

2006-10-17 Retitled by g0n, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'It's my birthday give me pressies!'

In reply to Books on Data Structure and Algorithms by clinton

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