Yellow Book

Yellow Book may refer to:

  • The Yellow Book (1894-97), a leading UK literary journal
  • Yellow Book (CD standard), the standard format for CD-ROMs
  • Yellow Book (directory), a US telephone directory publisher
  • "Yellow Book", nickname for Guidance for applying TCSEC in Specific Environments, part of the "Rainbow Series" of computer security standards books
  • General Location of National System of Interstate Highways, nicknamed "Yellow Book"
  • The set of telecommunications Recommendations, issued by the International Telecommunication Union Standardisation Sector in 1980, is referred to as the yellow book because of the color of their covers. This is to be contrasted with the red book (1984) and blue book (1988) versions of ITU-T Recommendations.
  • Yellow Book (CDC), nickname for Health Information for International Travel published by the CDC
  • Government Auditing Standards (Yellow Book), standards relating to audits of governments in the United States, issued by the Government Accountability Office
  • A UK guide to owners of approved open gardens published by the National Gardens Scheme
  • The Yellow Book (Listing Rules), term for the UK Listing Authority's Listing Rules

Famous quotes containing the words yellow and/or book:

    “Ask a toad what beauty is, the supreme beauty, the to kalon. He will tell you it is his lady toad with her two big round eyes coming out of her little head, her large flat snout, yellow belly, brown back.”
    —Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

    “‘Tis to rebuke a vicious taste which has crept into thousands besides herself,—of reading straight forwards, more in quest of the adventures, than of the deep erudition and knowledge which a book of this cast, if read over as it should be, would infallibly impart.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)