0 a book that contains instructions or advice about how to do something or the most important and useful information about a subject:
1 a book that contains advice about how to do something or information about esp. an organization:
The student handbook describes all the campus activities.
2 a book that contains instructions about how to do or use something or important information about a subject:
a company/department/employee handbook
These three factors facilitate the production of synthetic overviews but, as said, they are not sufficient causes of this proliferation of handbooks.
It is a practical handbook and a work of reference, and is both well written and very interesting.
The text becomes a real handbook at this point, indispensable to those working with older adults with a range of difficulties and needs.
However, the legal handbooks differed over which form of notice was best.
Handbook of the biology of aging, sixth edition.
The nurses' handbook contains the information introduced in the didactic presentations, as well as the handouts for the activities and home exercises.
The generalizing iterative narratives of earlier handbooks are replaced by narratives with an increased emphasis on the exact methods of proper behavior.
This later handbook was written with this very thing in mind.
