There's nothing like a good reference book. Especially
since a lot of software doesn't come with much in the way of manuals these days.Here
are some of the books that I have handy on my shelves:
Computer/Office:
Special
Edition: Using Windows Me (Bott) - Que, 2000, 856 pages, CD-ROM
Special
Edition: Using Windows 98 (Bott/Person) - Que, 1999, 947 pages, CD-ROM
Special
Edition: Using Windows 95 (Person) - Que, 1995, 1,287 pages, CD-ROM
Office XP Inside Out (Halvorson/Young) - Microsoft Press,
2001, 1,632 pages, CD-ROM
Special
Edition: Using Microsoft Office XP (Bott/Leonhard) - Que,
2001, 1,184 pages
Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Inside Out (Buyens) - Microsoft
Press, 2001, 1,264 pages, CD-ROM
Special
Edition: Using Microsoft Outlook 2002 (Padwick) - Que,
2001, 896 pages
Running
Office 2000 Premium (Halvorson/Young) - Microsoft Press
1999, 1,540 pages
Running
Access 2000 (Viescas) - Microsoft Press 1999, 940 pages, CD-ROM
Running Word
for Windows 95 (Borland) - Microsoft Press 1995, 1,009 pages
Running Excel
for Windows 95 (Dodge/Kinata/Stinson) - Microsoft Press 1995, 1,084 pages
Running Access
for Windows 95 (Viescas) - Microsoft Press 1996, 845 pages, CD-ROM
Website Design:
Special
Edition: Using Microsoft FrontPage 2002 (Jones/Randall) - Que,
2001, 944 pages
Running
FrontPage 2000 (Buyens) - Microsoft Press 1999, 836 pages, CD-ROM
Special
Edition: Using Microsoft FrontPage 2000 (Randall & Jones) -
Que, 1999, 1,213 pages, CD-ROM
Running
FrontPage 98 (Buyens) - Microsoft Press 1997, 656 pages, CD-ROM
FrontPage 98:
The Complete Reference (Matthews/Paulsen) - Osborne McGraw-Hill 1998,
728 pages, CD-ROM
Official
Microsoft Image Composer Book (Tait/Sagman) - Microsoft Press 1997, 352
pages, CD-ROM
Microsoft Image Composer
For Dummies (Johnson) - IDG Books 1998, 384
pages, CD-ROM
Short Order
Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 (Joss/Dunn) - Hayden, 2000,
256 pages
Microsoft
PhotoDraw 2000 For Dummies (King) - IDG Books 1998,
336 pages
Introducing
FrontPage 97 (Lehto/Polonsky) - Microsoft Press 1997, 384 pages
Web Publishing
with HTML 3.0 (Lemay) - Sams.net 1996, 518 pages
Web
Database Development
Step by Step (Buyens) -Microsoft 2000, 450 pages,
CD-ROM
Web Development
with Microsoft Resources (Townsend, et al) - Sams.net 1996, 756 pages,
CD-ROM
Special
Edition: Using CGI (Dwight & Erwin) - Que, 1996, 828 pages, CD-ROM (2nd Edition)
Official
Netscape Navigator Gold 3.0 Book (Simpson) - Ventana 1996, 934 pages,
CD-ROM
Professional
Active Server Pages (Homer/Enfield/Gross/Jakab) - WROX, 1997, 500 pages
On my list of books to get:
Mastering
Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 (Hunt) - Sybex, 1999, 400 pages
Wild Web
Graphics With Microsoft Image Composer (Karlins) - Que, 1997, 290 pages
Programming
Active Server Pages (Hillier & Mezick) - Microsoft Press, 1997, 336
pages, CD-ROM
Special
Edition: Using Active Server Pages (Johnson/Ballinger/Chapman) - Que,
1997, 850 pages
Official
Microsoft NetMeeting Book (Summers) - Microsoft Press, 1998, 400 pages,
CD-ROM
Writing and Proofreading:
The Associated
Press Stylebook and Libel Manual - Addison-Wesley 1987, 341 pages
Oxford Complete
Wordfinder - Reader's Digest 1996, 1,829 pages
The Elements of
Style (Strunk & White) - MacMillan 1979, 92 pages
The
Merriam-Webster Dictionary - Wallaby 1974, 849 pages
Webster's New
World Dictionary - Simon & Schuster 1978, 1,692 pages
Miss
Thistlebottom's Hobgoblins (Bernstein) - Simon & Schuster 1971, 260
pages
The Writing
Business (MacCampbell) - Crown 1978, 120 pages *
A Dictionary of
Modern English Usage (Fowler) - Oxford 1967, 725 pages *
Modern American
Usage (Follett) - Hill & Wang 1966, 462 pages *
(* - borrowed from Doris Wagner and not returned
yet)
Also handy:
Beatles - The
Complete Scores - Hal Leonard 1993, 1,136 pages
