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handbook

[ hand-book ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a book of instruction or guidance, as for an occupation; manual:
a handbook of radio.
a guidebook for travelers:
a handbook of Italy.
a reference book in a particular field:
a medical handbook.
a scholarly book on a specific subject, often consisting of separate essays or articles:
a handbook of lectures on criticism.

handbook

/ ˈhændˌbʊk /

a reference book listing brief facts on a subject or place or directions for maintenance or repair, as of a car
a tourists' handbook

Translation of German Handbuch

It only takes one glance of Alton's Ebola Survival Handbook to recognize the real threat: him.

His book, ‘Ebola Survival Handbook,’ is already a bestseller.

When the PERF report was finally released, alongside it was a brand new use-of-force policy handbook (PDF).

The Jewish/Israel lobby will have to throw away its handbook.

In the 1970s, he wrote a book called Handbook on Abortion, which he updated and republished in seven editions over the years.

The matter came to a crisis yesterday, when one of them produced a handbook on British regiments and their histories.

I quote from the Lawn-Tennis Association handbook for the dimensions of the court.

Here is yet one more handbook of the subject presenting in a series of rough plates a complete sequence of the cards.

To cover the whole field of glass-blowing in a small handbook would be impossible.

Francesco Tonnelli's book is a worthless mixture of a biobibliographical dictionary and a bibliographical handbook.

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