Red Book
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Red Book may refer to:
- IBM Redbooks, named for their red covers, are technical how to books, written by IBM professionals
- Redbook, a women's magazine
- Red Book (Texas album), an audio CD released by Texas in 2005
- The Red Book Comics, an Australian band
- Red Book (Liberal Party of Canada), the policy platform of the Liberal Party of Canada in the 1993 election
- The set of telecommunications Recommendations, issued by the International Telecommunication Union Standardisation Sector in 1984, is referred to as the red book because of the color of their covers. This is to be contrasted with blue book (1988) and yellow book (1980) versions of ITU-T Recommendations.
Red Book in fiction and literature may refer to:
- The Little Red Book, the pocket-size edition of Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
- The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
- Red Book of Westmarch, in J. R. R. Tolkien's realm of Middle-earth, supposedly contained the original versions of the stories Tolkien wrote
- The Little Red Schoolbook is a book published in the United Kingdom in the 1960s espousing the theory that all adults are paper Tigers
- Monty Python's Big Red Book of Monty Python's Flying Circus
A number of guides and technical references that are formally known as the Red Book including:
- Red Book of Endangered Species
- Red Data Book of the Russian Federation, a list of endangered and protected species, prohibited for hunting, in Russia and most CIS states
- The UNESCO Red Book of Endangered Languages
- The Red Book (cars), an Australian table of new and used car values
- Red Book (audio CD standard), an audio CD standard (IEC 908)
- 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
- A name for the Statement of Fees and Allowances adopted by the UK General medical services in 1990 and abolished in 2004
- Trusted Network Interpretation (The Red Book) is part of the Rainbow Series of books from the National Computer Security Center
- NTIA Manual of Regulations and Procedures for Federal Radio Frequency Management
- The Manager's Red Book is a standard book which Managers in the hospitality industry use as a system for organizing, planning, and communication
- The Red Book of Varieties and Schemes (ISBN 3-540-63293-X) is a series of lecture notes by mathematician David Mumford on the theory of schemes
- The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style (ISBN 0-314-16891-5) is a guide to the essential rules on legal writing.
- Books detailing the plans for landscape gardens by Humphry Repton
Technical guides and handbooks informally known as the Red Book include:
- 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
- OpenGL Programming Guide
- PostScript Language Reference
- The first publication to describe the X.400 standard in 1984
- Unix System Administration Handbook by Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass, and Hein is referred to as the Red Book even though the third edition has a purple cover
- A nickname for the Weekly Survey of Intelligence produced by the UK Joint Intelligence Committee
- A British computer networking protocol from the 1980s, one of the Coloured Book standards