The painting shows the influence of popular 15th-century handbooks on the art of dying (Ars moriendi), intended to help Christians choose Christ over sinful pleasures.

He became an expert on how to legally avoid the draft, and even wrote a popular handbook on the subject.

A noted electrical engineer, he wrote a popular handbook on naval electrical systems, and contributed to the use of radio in the Navy.

(Much of his postgraduate training came from popular how-to handbooks.)

The faces that they pulled were taken from a popular handbook on how to whistle.

Of the popular agricultural handbooks the most complete was produced by Jakub Kazimierz Haur in 1675.

Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy was the most popular philosophical handbook of the Middle Ages.

A popular handbook to the National Gallery, 1888.

His book became a popular handbook for architects that was reprinted several times and served to spread the ideas of Scamozzi throughout the Netherlands.

He co-authored a popular handbook on cutaneous disease.