Red Book

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Red Book, Redbooks, Little Red Book or Big Red Book may refer to:

Political or ideological pamphlets

• Mao's Little Red Book, the name commonly known in the West for the pocket-size edition of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
• The Little Red Schoolbook, published in Denmark in 1969
• Red Book (Liberal Party of Canada), the policy platform of the Liberal Party of Canada in the 1993 election
• Red Book (Albania), memorandum for the autonomy of Albania
• The Charter of the Malagasy Socialist Revolution (the Red Book, Malagasy: Boky Mena), published in 1975 by Didier Ratsiraka

Reference manuals, handbooks and standards

• The Little Red Book (Alcoholics Anonymous) to The Big Book (Alcoholics Anonymous)
• AAP Red Book, a reference on pediatric infectious diseases
• Red Book Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA), an audio CD standard (IEC 908, IEC 60908) and the first member of the Rainbow Books Compact Disc format specification series
• IBM Redbooks, named for their red covers, are technical how-to books written by IBM professionals
• IUPAC Red Book: Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry
• IUPAP Red Book: Handbook of Symbols, Units, Nomenclature and Fundamental Constants in Physics published/revised by the SUNAMCO Commission of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
• Iowa Official Register, a biannual publication of Iowa government, politics, and history. Called the "Redbook" for its red covers.
• Personal Child Health Record, a child health record as used by the National Health Service of the United Kingdom, popularly known as the "Red Book."
• Red Book, alternate name for NTIA Manual of Regulations and Procedures for Federal Radio Frequency Management, a publication of the United States Office of Spectrum Management of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration or NTIA, the official source for all technical regulations relating to the use of the electromagnetic frequency spectrum
• Red Book, nickname for A 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 formed
• Red Book, a drug reference published by Thomson Reuters
• Red Book, a series of recommendations published by the CCITT (now ITU-T) in 1984. Among them was the first publication of the X.400 standard. Preceded by the "Yellow book" and succeeded by the "Blue book". The covers of the publications were red.
• Red Book, a British computer networking protocol from the 1980s, one of the Coloured Book standards
• Red Book, nickname for the Statement of Fees and Allowances, adopted by the UK General medical services in 1990 and abolished in 2004
• Red Book, US guide to prescription medicines published by Thomson, including data such as Average Wholesale Price
• Red Book, otherwise known as Trusted Network Interpretation, part of the Rainbow Series of books from the National Computer Security Center
• Red Books, books illustrating the plans for landscape gardens by Humphry Repton
• Redbooks, another name for the firefighter training manuals published by the International Fire Service Training Association (IFSTA). Historically, these books have had red covers
• The Red Book, alternate name for the RICS Appraisal and Valuation Standards, the professional guidelines for real estate valuers in the United Kingdom
• The Red Book, alternate name for the 8th edition of the OpenGL Programming Guide
• The Red Book, alternate name for the 3rd edition of the PostScript Language Reference
• The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style by Bryan A. Garner
• AAUP Policy Documents and Reports, also known as the Redbook, by the American Association of University Professors.

Music

• Red Book (album), the eighth album released by Texas in 2005
• "My Little Red Book," a song by Burt Bacharach and Hal David
  • "My Little Red Book", cover version of the song by Love in 1966
  • My Little Red Book of Winners, studio album by Manfred Mann
  • "My Little Red Book", song recorded by Manfred Mann and featured in the 1965 film What's New, Pussycat?
• Little Red Songbook, song book published by the Industrial Workers of the World

Lists of endangered entities

• Red Book of Endangered Species, international listing (since 1948)
  • Regional Red List, regional or country equivalents
  • Red Data Book of the Russian Federation, a list of endangered and protected species, prohibited for hunting, in Russia and most CIS states
• The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire (1991)
• Red Book of Endangered Languages, a comprehensive list of the world's languages currently facing extinction (2009)
• Red Book of Ukraine, a list of endangered animals and plants that live in Ukraine

Manuscripts

• Red Book of the Exchequer, a 13th-century manuscript
• Red Book of Hergest, a medieval Welsh manuscript
• Red Book (Jung), manuscript of Carl Gustav Jung, published in 2009.

Other uses

• Redbook, a women's magazine
• Red Book of Westmarch, a fictional manuscript written by Hobbits, a conceit of author J. R. R. Tolkien to explain the source of his stories
• Monty Python's Big Red Book, a humour book first published in 1971
• The Red Book (film), 1994 experimental film
• The Red Book (C&S), nickname for the 1st edition of the Chivalry & Sorcery role-playing game
• Red Book of Varieties and Schemes a series of lecture notes by mathematician David Mumford on the theory of schemes
• The Red Fairy Book, in the collection of fairy tales by Andrew Lang

See also

• Black book (disambiguation)
• Blue book
• Green Book (disambiguation)
• Orange Book (disambiguation)
• Pink Book (disambiguation)
• Plum Book
• White book (disambiguation)
• Yellow Book (disambiguation)