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I've got some old classics: Bernstein's "The Careful Writer," Joseph
Williams "Style," Brusaw/Aldred/Oliu's "Handbook of Technical Writing,"
Houp & Pearsall's "Reporting Technical Information." Those plus a US
Government Style Guide go back to my days at RPI.
More recent is Horton's "Designing and Writing Online Documentation."
There are a few technical reference manuals for telecom, but I don't
need them in my current gig.
The two most relevant things on my shelf for the current job are
Millhollon & Murray's "Microsoft Word 2002 Inside Out" and a 1/6 scale
model of the Army's AH-6 "Little Bird" helicopter. (It's about 3.5' [1m]
long, so it takes up a -lot- of space. This is a honkin' big model.)
