handbooks, manuals, etc

A companion guide to the epic "Beowulf" that traces the history and culture behind the poem, examines its symbolism, language, style, and structure, and explores how the poem has been used throughout history.

Profiles fifty sights in the night sky, such as constellations, planets, and meteor showers, describing their unique traits and explaining how to observe them.

With over 650 helpful suggestions and 130 illustrations to incorporate into everyday life, this is the girl's answer on how to be safe in today's world. Advocating incident prevention first and foremost, sometimes things happen anyway and therefore teaches self-defense techniques that are direct and highly effective. The illustrations show how to defend yourself and how to stop an attacker in his tracks. While appropriate for women of all ages, teenage girls will find the information particularly useful. Covers both physical and psychological abuse.

A guide to cataloging for school library media specialists, providing a brief history of cataloging, looking at how cataloging standards work with the MARC format, featuring instructions and exercises for using the MARC format to catalog book and non-book materials, and including discussion of the future of cataloging.

An easy-to-understand handbook that answers the most frequently asked questions on physics covering topics such as acceleration, boiling point, catalyst, electrolyte, gamma radiation, inertia, relative atomic mass, and white dwarf; and contains chronologies, biographies, and glossary entries.

Presents a comprehensive reference to the life and work of twentieth-century American author, John Steinbeck, and provides entries on his family and friends, summaries of his novels, short stories, and nonfiction, and descriptions of major films and television adaptations.

Contains brief descriptions of seventy degree and certificate programs offered at community colleges throughout the U.S., each with lists of typical courses, potential employers, colleges that offer the program, and sources of additional information, and some including interviews with people in the field.

Provides information about the history of billiards, with tips on pool etiquette and choosing a place to play; offers advice on purchasing a cue or table; and discusses the techniques of the sport.