Red Book

standard for playing digital sound from compact discs in a computer

Red Book may refer to: In literature:Red Book (Liberal Party of Canada), the policy platform of the Liberal Party of Canada in the 1993 electionThe Little Red Book, the pocket-size edition of Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-TungRed Books (landscaping), books illustrating the plans for landscape gardens by Humphry ReptonRedbook, a women's magazineRed Book of Hergest, a medieval Welsh manuscriptThe Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian EmpireRed Book of Westmarch, in J. R. R. Tolkien's realm of Middle-earth, supposedly contained the original versions of the stories Tolkien wroteMonty Python's Big Red Book of Monty Python's Flying CircusRed Book of Endangered SpeciesRed Data Book of the Russian Federation, a list of endangered and protected species, prohibited for hunting, in Russia and most CIS statesRed Book of Endangered Languages, a comprehensive list of the world's languages currently facing extinctionThe Manager's Red Book is a standard book which Managers in the hospitality industry use as a system for organizing, planning, and communicationRed Book of Varieties and Schemes (ISBN 3-540-63293-X) is a series of lecture notes by mathematician David Mumford on the theory of schemesThe Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style (ISBN 0-314-16891-5) is a guide to the essential rules on legal writing.The Little Red Schoolbook, a book published in the United Kingdom in the 1960s espousing the theory that all adults are paper tigersA Guide Book of United States Coins by R. S. Yeoman, an overview of and pricing guide for coins from the United States and the colonies before the U.S. was formedStatement of Fees and Allowances, adopted by the UK General medical services in 1990 and abolished in 2004The RICS Appraisal and Valuation Standards, commonly known as the Red Book; the professional guidelines for real estate valuers in the United Kingdom. See Real estate appraisal."Redbooks" is another name for the firefighter training manuals published by the International Fire Service Training Association (IFSTA). Historically, these books have had red covers.
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1. <publication> Informal name for one of the four standard references on PostScript. The other three official guides are known as the Blue Book, the Green Book, and the White Book.
["PostScript Language Reference Manual", Adobe Systems, Addison-Wesley, 1985 (ISBN 0-201-10174-2); second edition 1990 (ISBN 0-201-18127-4)].
2. <publication> Informal name for one of the three standard references on Smalltalk. This book also has blue and green siblings.
["Smalltalk-80: The Interactive Programming Environment", Adele Goldberg, Addison-Wesley, 1984; (ISBN 0-201-11372-4)].
3. <publication> Any of the 1984 standards issued by the ITU-T eighth plenary assembly. These include, among other things, the X.400 electronic mail specification, the Group 1 through 4 fax standards, ISDN, the R2 signalling system (Q.400 series recommendations), data communication via the PSTN (the V series recommendations) and tariffs and metering principles (the D series).
4. <publication> The new version of the Green Book - IEEE 1003.1-1990, also known as ISO 9945-1 - is (because of the colour and the fact that it is printed on A4 paper) known in the USA. as "the Ugly Red Book That Won't Fit On The Shelf" and in Europe as "the Ugly Red Book That's A Sensible Size".
5. <publication> The NSA "Trusted Network Interpretation" companion to the Orange Book.
See also book titles.
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