Handbooks

About Handbooks

On this page, you will find a selective list of online handbooks in a variety of broad subject areas available to Concordia users.

Handbooks are comprehensive reference sources which are useful for finding current data, instructions, or specific information on a topic.

Handbooks can have information presented concisely as data, tables, and illustrations, as well as practical applications, techniques, and best practices. Many handbooks have comprehensive reviews of current theory, and summaries of research, presenting overviews of major problems and positions taken by major researchers in the field.

Handbooks serve as a framework for subsequent research and are a suitable point of entry for students unfamiliar with a particular subject area. You can find many more handbooks, in print or online, by searching the library catalogue.

Business

• Cambridge handbook of culture, organizations, and work
  This handbook presents a review and analysis of the available research in the field of organizational studies as influenced by cultural differences. This handbook also focuses on explicating the interactive relationships between culture, work, and organizations, as well as the implications for these findings for future research and theory development.
• Canadian Business Financing Handbook (CBF)
  This handbook is your primary resource when you need to research the financial marketplace, identify the obstacles and pitfalls of financing, and understand the operational, legal and tax implications of financing in Canada.
• CPA Canada Standards and Guidance Collection (CPACHB)
  The CPA Canada Standards and Guidance Collection contains documentation from the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada), including the CPA Canada Handbook.
• Handbook of economics and ethics
  This handbook provides a reference manual for those seeking insights into the connections between economics and ethics.
• Handbook on entrepreneurship research
  This handbook covers all of the primary topics in entrepreneurship, including entrepreneurial behavior, risk and opportunity recognition, equity financing, business culture and strategy, innovation, and the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth and development.
• Handbook on group decision and negotiation
  This handbook covers approaches to the principles and practice of negotiation, group decision-making, and collaboration, including the origins, development, and prospects of electronic negotiation, as well as the associated development of on-line or computer-based arbitration systems.
• International Financial Reporting Standards (2010)
  The complete set of International Financial Reporting Standards incorporating International Accounting Standards and Interpretations.
• The handbook of globalisation
  This handbook addresses such topics as the international debt crisis, the role of multinational corporations in the world economy, and the relationship between globalization and national economic policy.
• The handbook of research on top management teams
  This handbook presents original research and theory on executives, top management teams, and boards of directors.

Engineering and Computer Science

• ASHRAE Handbook: Fundamentals
  Covers basic principles and data used in the HVAC&R industry, such as thermodynamics, psychrometrics, and heat transfer.
• ASHRAE Handbook: Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning Applications
  Includes more than 60 chapters covering a broad range of facilities and topics, written to help engineers design and use equipment and systems described in other Handbook volumes. Main sections cover comfort, industrial, energy-related, general applications, and building operations and management.
• ASHRAE Handbook: Refrigeration
  Covers the refrigeration equipment and systems for applications other than human comfort. This volume includes data and guidance on cooling, freezing, and storing food; industrial and medical applications of refrigeration; and low-temperature refrigeration.
• ASM Handbooks
  ASM Handbooks Online features the complete content of twenty-four ASM Handbook volumes plus two ASM Desk Editions. Source of detailed background information, properties and processes related to metals and composites.
• ASM Handbooks online
  American Society for Metals (ASM) Handbooks Online features the complete content of twenty-four ASM Handbook volumes plus two ASM Desk Editions.
• Building services handbook
  This handbook summarizes all elements of building services practice, techniques and procedures. It has been revised and expanded to take into account the latest amendments to the Building Regulations.
• Concrete Construction Engineering Handbook
  This second edition of the Concrete Construction Engineering Handbook covers the entire range of issues pertaining to the construction and design of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures
• Engineering handbooks by Springer
  A list of engineering reference works published by Springer.
• Handbook of cloud computing
  This handbook presents the systems, tools, and services of the leading providers of cloud computing; including Google, Yahoo, Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft. The basic concepts of cloud computing and cloud computing applications are also introduced. Current and future technologies applied in cloud computing are also discussed. Case studies, examples, and exercises are provided throughout.
• Handbook of information and communication security
  This handbook covers some of the latest advances in fundamentals, cryptography, intrusion detection, access control, networking (including extensive sections on optics and wireless systems), software, forensics, and legal issues.
• Handbook of signal processing systems
  This handbook is organized in four parts. The first part motivates representative applications that drive and apply state-of-the art methods for design and implementation of signal processing systems; the second part discusses architectures for implementing these applications; the third part focuses on compilers and simulation tools; and the fourth part describes models of computation and their associated design tools and methodologies.
• Handbook of space technology
  This handbook is intended to acquaint readers with the design, construction, and operation of a space system. This book also leads the way to a deeper understanding of the corresponding specialized areas.
• Harris' shock and vibration handbook
  This handbook provides all the information needed to design, analyze, install, and maintain systems subject to mechanical shock and vibrations. The book covers theory, measurement, testing, design, and control methodologies, and practical applications.
• Industrial control technology: a handbook for engineers and researchers
  This handbook covers real-time and distributed-control applications.
• Knovel (technical references)
  Access engineering reference sources including technical handbooks and material property data.
• Sensors handbook
  This handbook provides all of the information needed to select the optimum sensor for any type of application, including engineering, semiconductor manufacturing, medical, military, agricultural, geographical, and environmental implementations.
• Springer handbook of automation
  This handbook covers: the development and impacts of automation; theory and scientific foundations, design theory, elements, and methods including integration; industrial automation, infrastructure and service; automation in medical and healthcare systems; and home, office, and enterprise automation.
• Springer handbook of mechanical engineering
  This handbook offers a concise but detailed and authoritative treatment of the following topics: Engineering Mathematics, Mechanics, Materials Science and Tribology, Thermodynamics, Design of Machine Elements, Manufacturing Engineering, Measuring and Quality Control, Engineering Design, among others.
• Springer handbook of nanotechnology
  This handbook integrates the knowledge from nanofabrication, nanodevices, nanomechanics, Nanotribology, materials science, and reliability engineering.
• Standard handbook for electrical engineers
  This handbook covers units, symbols, definitions, and conversion factors, electric and magnetic circuits, measurements and instruments, properties of materials, generation, prime movers, alternating- and direct-current generators, hydroelectric power generation, among others.

Humanities

• Handbook of descriptive linguistic fieldwork
  This handbook provides detailed discussions of the theoretical, practical, and ethical issues involved in language selection, data collection, data management, interaction and work with consultants, and language analysis and description.
• Handbook of religion and social institutions
  This handbook covers recent studies and theoretical approaches that relate religious variables to many subjects. The handbook focuses on several major themes: Social Institutions such as Politics, Economics, Education, Health and Social Welfare; Family and the Life Cycle; Inequality; Social Control; Culture; and Religion as a Social Institution and in a Global Perspective.
• Oxford handbook of philosophy of religion
  Each chapter of this handbook is representative of a distinct viewpoint related to new developments of logic and epistemology which mounted both sophisticated defences of, and attacks on, religious claims.
• The handbook of journalism studies
  This handbook explores the current state of journalism theory and sets an agenda for future research in an international context. It covers scholarship on news production and organizations; news content; journalism and society; and, journalism in a global context.
• The Oxford companion to philosophy
  This handbook features 2,000 entries, including more than 50 extended entries on great philosophers and on key areas of philosophy.

Science

The vast majority of science handbooks are available in print only. Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry, and Physics handbooks are listed separately on their respective subject guides. See also online science encyclopedias. Below is a selective list of online handbooks.

• Handbook of chemicals and safety
  This handbook provides a tool for the management of a range of chemical substances commonly used, handled, stored, transported, and disposed of as wastes.
• Handbook of industrial chemistry and biotechnology
  Incorporating the most relevant and current technologies and information available in the field, the handbook covers such overarching topics as green engineering, process safety, utilization of renewable resources, fossil fuels, nuclear power, and many of the major individual components of the chemical process industry.
• Handbook of nuclear chemistry
  This set of handbooks covers all of the chemical aspects of nuclear science starting from the physical basics and including such diverse areas as the chemistry of transactinides and exotic atoms as well as radioactive waste management and radiopharmaceutical chemistry relevant to nuclear medicine.
• Springer handbook of atomic, molecular, and optical physics
  This handbook comprises a comprehensive reference source that unifies the entire fields of atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics, assembling the principal ideas, techniques and results of the field from atomic spectroscopy to applications in comets.
• Springer Handbook of Condensed Matter and Materials Data
  This handbook provides a concise compilation of data and functional relationships from the fields of solid-state physics and materials. The data, encapsulated in over 750 tables and 1025 illustrations, have been selected and extracted primarily from the extensive high-quality data collection Landolt-Börnstein and also from other systematic data sources and recent publications of physical and technical property data.
• The handbook of biomarkers
  This handbook serves as a guide to furthering the understanding of biomarkers, which, by facilitating the combination of therapeutics with diagnostics, promise to play an important role in the development of personalized medicine.
• The structure of physical chemistry
  This handbook reveals in one single continuous logical development what each successive kind of physical hypothesis tells us about the nature of things.

Social Sciences

• A handbook for the study of mental health: social contexts, theories, and systems
  This handbook provides a comprehensive review of the sociology of mental health.
• APA handbook of industrial and organizational psychology
  This handbook presents the types of issues that industrial and organizational psychologists study, the questions they pursue, the research they conduct, and the interventions they implement.
• Cambridge handbook of culture, organizations, and work
  This handbook presents a review and analysis of the available research in the field of organizational studies as influenced by cultural differences. This handbook also focuses on explicating the interactive relationships between culture, work, and organizations, as well as the implications for these findings for future research and theory development.
• Cambridge handbook of personality psychology
   
• Handbook of economics and ethics
  This handbook provides a reference manual for those seeking insights into the connections between economics and ethics.
• Handbook of personality and self-regulation
  This handbook covers current thinking and methods regarding those aspects of personality that are linked to traits and behaviours of self-regulation, with attention to ongoing research.
• Handbook of politics: state and society in global perspective
  This handbook summarizes state-of-the-art theory, research, and methods used in the study of politics and society. This area of research encompasses a wide variety of perspectives and methods that span social science disciplines. In addition, it will cover developments in the developed and underdeveloped worlds.
• Handbook of religion and social institutions
  This handbook covers recent studies and theoretical approaches that relate religious variables to many subjects. The handbook focuses on several major themes: Social Institutions such as Politics, Economics, Education, Health and Social Welfare; Family and the Life Cycle; Inequality; Social Control; Culture; and Religion as a Social Institution and in a Global Perspective.
• Higher education: handbook of theory and research
  This handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Agendas for future research intended to advance knowledge on chosen topics are also set forth.
• International handbook of comparative education
  This handbook presents an analysis of the shifting agendas of scholarly research, the different intellectual and ideological perspectives and the changing methodological approaches used to examine and interpret education and pedagogy across different political formations, societies and cultures.
• International handbook of English language teaching
  This handbook provides a comprehensive examination of policy, practice, research and theory related to English Language Teaching in international contexts. More than 70 chapters highlight the research foundation for best practices, frameworks for policy decisions, and areas of consensus and controversy in second language acquisition and pedagogy.
• Political handbook of the world
  This handbook is a source for finding complete facts and analysis on each country’s governmental and political makeup. It covers of all major and minor political parties and groups in each political system around the world. It also provides names of key ambassadors and international memberships of each country, plus profiles of over 75 intergovernmental organizations (IGOs).