Books

New users are encouraged to buy a copy of "UNIX in a Nutshell". It contains everything you'll ever need to know about UNIX, and it even has a section about emacs. It costs under $10, and you can get it at the Stanford Bookstore.

: Daniel Gilly and O'Reilly staff
UNIX in A Nutshell, System V Release 4, 2nd edition
O'Reilly, 1992
ISBN:1-56592-001-5
$9.95

The only other book that is really worth buying is a LaTeX book, if you are trying to learn how to use LaTeX.

The latest version of the standard LaTeX book:: Leslie Lamport
LaTeX: A Documentation Preparation System, 2nd edition
Addison-Wesley, 1994
ISBN: 0-201-52983-1
272 pages, $32.95
A much better LaTeX book:: Helmut Kopka and Patrick W. Daly
A Guide to LaTeX2e, 2nd edition
Addison-Wesley, 1995
ISBN: 0-201-42777-X
554 pages, $33.95
Another book, recommended by Brett:: The LaTeX companion
Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, and Alexander Samarin
The LaTeX Companion
Addison Wesley, 1994
$32.95

I don't think you need an emacs book or any more UNIX books, but here are some more references anyway:

Emacs books

GNU Emacs Manual, 11th edition
Richard Stallman
Free Software Foundation, 1995
ISBN:1-882114-52-3
$25.00
UNIX books

A very good tutorial / reference book ...
Mark Sobell
UNIX System V: Practical Guide, 3rd Edition
Addison Wesley, 1994
ISBN:0-8053-7566-X
$32.95
A very good hand-holding tutorial-type book - highly recommended
Mitchell Waite, Donald Martin, and Stephen Prata
Waite Group's UNIX System V Primer, 2nd Edition
Macmillan, 1992
ISBN:0-672-30194-6
$29.95
A good, comprehensive hands-on text
Brent Heslop and David Angell
Mastering Solaris 2.0
Sybex, 1993
ISBN:0-7821-1072-X
$39.95

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