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- noun Plural form of
handbook .
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"The handbooks are the same everywhere, but they're interpreted and handled differently by different locations."
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Traditional social practices are not embodied in standard "handbooks" of best practice; instead, they are transmitted through networks of training and imitation.
Technical practices Daniel Little 2009
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Traditional social practices are not embodied in standard "handbooks" of best practice; instead, they are transmitted through networks of training and imitation.
Archive 2009-03-01 Daniel Little 2009
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Scientists need to publish, subscribe, syndicate (e.g. updates to handbooks), remix (e.g. taking ideas from different disciplines and pull them together to get new advances).
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Scientists need to publish, subscribe, syndicate (e.g. updates to handbooks), remix (e.g. taking ideas from different disciplines and pull them together to get new advances).
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Scientists need to publish, subscribe, syndicate (e.g. updates to handbooks), remix (e.g. taking ideas from different disciplines and pull them together to get new advances).
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If we allow gay/lesbian alliances in schools and include anti-discrimination and anti-bullying policies in student handbooks, we can really reduce suicide attempts.
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He comparison-shopped dog toys, leashes and handbooks.
Stinson Carter: Brother's Bite-- When Sibling Rivalry Is Man Versus Dog Stinson Carter 2011
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Teach-yourself-English phrasebooks nestled among handbooks of archaic tongues like PASCAL and BASIC and COBAL; and, for reasons I never divined, copy after yellowing copy of The Journal of Heat Transfer.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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The involvement with Age Concern started when I was asked to write a series of handbooks for carers.
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