The US Federal code of regulations. Im a US customs broker. At 50 titles and sometimes 100s of pages per title if not thousands, it’d be quite the read in one go!
Edit: I just checked, it changes pretty regularly, usually stands somewhere around 90 thousand pages.
The specific code on customs brokers is title 19 part 111. But really the whole thing is specific to my job in one way or another. I’ve never actually read the entire thing personally as it’s practically impossible. I look up whatever I need to as needed.
It’s a book that takes the theory out of acoustic design and loudspeaker placement / management, and says “Life sucks, it’s never perfect, let’s make it suck less.”
As someone going into conservation I'd probably just throw a copy Nat Geo at them or something. If we were talking about shows/movies I'd go with Wildcat, even if it is a depressing documentary.
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intensely_human@lemm.ee · 36 pts · 3y
If I knew of a book that explained my job I’d read it myself.
Choco1ateCh1p@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Ditto!
Dan_Phillips@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 3y
As a librarian, this question tickles me.
MariaRomanov@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 3y
Got any good books on librarian science?
doug_fir@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 3y
"bullshit jobs" by David Graeber
pinwurm@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
Excel for Dummies 2023
Linuturk@lemmy.onitato.com · 9 pts · 3y
The Phoenix Project
MariaRomanov@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 3y
This is the book I had in mind when I created this thread. :)
AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
I'm sure this is unpopular, but I hate that book with Mrs.White-level hatred.
I'm so glad there are people like you who do things like this so I don't have to.
RustedSwitch@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Ha, this was going to be my answer as well
hardcoreufo@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
Microchip Fabrication by van Zant. Specifically chapters 8 and 10 discussing photolithography. Might be different chapters in current version.
Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 3y
"It" -Stephen King
Today@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Clown? Boat builder? Serial killer?
DrMango@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Orgy host.
Today@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
ieightpi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Upgrade by Blake Crouch
Contramuffin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton!
SWIM@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Textbooks
Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 3y
Makers by Cory Doctorow
spare_muppet@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
I'm a supervisor in a machine and welding shop so I would pick Carl Vernon's " Surrounded By Morons Make the Most of it. "
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 4 pts · 3y
Is there a book for The Big Lebowski? 🤔
Fondots@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
It actually is a very loose adaptation/inspired by the Raymond Chandler novel The Big Sleep.
So kind of?
GARlactic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
ASHRAE Fundamentals Handbook, 2021 edition.
Today@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
What do you do? My honey is an ashraer.
GARlactic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
I'm a mechanical engineer.
sparemethewearysigh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
The US Federal code of regulations. Im a US customs broker. At 50 titles and sometimes 100s of pages per title if not thousands, it’d be quite the read in one go!
Edit: I just checked, it changes pretty regularly, usually stands somewhere around 90 thousand pages. The specific code on customs brokers is title 19 part 111. But really the whole thing is specific to my job in one way or another. I’ve never actually read the entire thing personally as it’s practically impossible. I look up whatever I need to as needed.
EyesEyesBaby@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Kanski's clinical ophthalmology; https://shop.elsevier.com/books/kanskis-clinical-ophthalmology/salmon/978-0-7020-7711-1
unwellsnail@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 3y
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
The Design of Everyday Things.
dom@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3y
Ux designer or product manager?
AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Designer. :)
Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Between the lines
It’s a book that takes the theory out of acoustic design and loudspeaker placement / management, and says “Life sucks, it’s never perfect, let’s make it suck less.”
Evolone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
James Dukeminier’s “Property”
loppwn@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y
Bastard Operator from Hell
TheWeirdestCunt@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y
As someone going into conservation I'd probably just throw a copy Nat Geo at them or something. If we were talking about shows/movies I'd go with Wildcat, even if it is a depressing documentary.
nbailey@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 3y
The Linux and Unix System Administration Handbook (6th edition)
moobythegoldensock@geddit.social · 1 pts · 3y
The House of God