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• Handbook for Chairmen of Panels (2006), by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML and PDF in Hong Kong)
• Handbook for Chairmen of Bills Committees, by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML and PDF in Hong Kong)

• Handbook for Chairmen of Panels (2006), by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML and PDF in Hong Kong)
• Handbook for Chairmen of Bills Committees, by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML and PDF in Hong Kong)

• How to Be a Board or Committee Member (New York: Association Press, c1953), by Roy Sorenson, illust. by George Maurice Lichty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Step by Step in Better Board and Committee Work: Drawn From Roy Sorenson's How to be a Board or Committee Member (New York: Association Press, c1962), by William C. Tuck, contrib. by Roy Sorenson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Handbook for Chairmen of Subcommittees on Subsidiary Legislation/Other Instruments, by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML at legco.gov.hk)

• The History of Legislative Methods in the Period Before 1825 (New Haven: Yale University Press; et al., 1917), by Ralph Volney Harlow (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School: Report of the Office of the Child Advocate (Hartford, CT: State of Connecticut, 2014), by Connecticut Office of the Child Advocate (PDF at ct.gov)

• Chicago Police Investigations: Three Reports (aka Police in America, a 1971 compilation of reports from 1898-1912) (PDF files at Northwestern)

• Providing Special Investigative Authorities for the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Report Together with Minority and Dissenting Views (to Accompany H. Res. 167) (Washington: GPO, 1997), by United States House Committee on Rules (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Election (2 redacted volumes in 1; 2019), by Robert S. Mueller, ed. by William Pelham Barr (PDF at govinfo.gov)
• The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew (hearing before the committee, August 1, 2007; Washington: GPO, 2008), by United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alyeska Pipeline Service Company Covert Operation: Report of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session (4 volumes, first labeled "draft report", others labeled exhibit appendixes; Washington: GPO, 1992), by United States House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Referral from Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr in Conformity with the Requirements of Title 28, United States Code, Section 595(c): Communication From Kenneth W. Starr, Independent Counsel, Transmitting a Referral to the United States House of Representatives Filed in Conformity with the Requirements of Title 28, United States Code, section 595(c) (the Starr Report on Clinton and Lewinsky, with appendices), by Kenneth Starr (page images at HathiTrust)

• Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (Washington: GPO, 2022), by United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (PDF and text at govinfo.gov)

• Owen Lattimore and the "Loss" of China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Robert P. Newman (HTML at UC Press)

• Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations (the McCarthy hearing transcripts, 1953-1954 (5 volumes plus an index); made public in 2003), by United States Senate Committee on Government Operations Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, ed. by Donald A. Ritchie, Beth Bolling, and Diane B. Boyle, contrib. by Joseph McCarthy
  • Volume 1: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Volume 2: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Volume 3: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Volume 4: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Volume 5: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Index volume: PDF and HTML at govinfo.gov
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• Annual Report, by United States House Committee on Un-American Activities (partial serial archives)

• Silas Timberman (New York: Blue Heron Press, 1954), by Howard Fast (page images at HathiTrust)

• Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (with supporting materials; 2015), by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (PDF files at trc.ca)

• Flowers in the Wall: Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Melanesia (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2017), ed. by David Webster (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)

• Flowers in the Wall: Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Melanesia (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2017), ed. by David Webster (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)

• Flowers in the Wall: Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Melanesia (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2017), ed. by David Webster (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)

• The Legislative Committee Game: A Comparative Analysis of Fifty States (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Wayne L. Francis (PDF at Ohio State)

• Operation Mind: A Brief Documentary Account of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions; Civil Liberties Committee of the University of Michigan, 1952), by Ann Arbor Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Guide for Discussion Leaders (GI Roundtable #1; 1944), by Donald W. Goodrich
  • illustrated HTML at historians.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy Through Deliberative Elections (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), by John Gastil (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2015), by Joseph M. Reagle (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
• From Workplace to Workspace: Using Email Lists to Work Together (1998), by Maureen James and Liz Rykert (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)
• Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum (c1998), ed. by Donna Reiss, Dickie Selfe, and Art Young (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)

• Net.Wars (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Wendy Grossman (multiple formats at NYU)

• Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by Joseph M. Reagle, contrib. by Lawrence Lessig (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Wikipedia: The Missing Manual (online Wikipedian-edited edition; originally published 2008), by John Broughton (at en.wikipedia.org)

• Die Parlamentarische Obstruktion, ihre Geschichte und ihre Bedeutung (in German; Dresden: v. Zahn und Jaensch, 1904), by Erich Brandenburg
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Parliamentary Practice: An Introduction to Parliamentary Law (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., c1921), by Henry M. Robert (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pocket Manual of Rules of Order For Deliberative Assemblies (Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Company, 1876), by Henry M. Robert (Gutenberg text)
• Reed's Parliamentary Rules: A Manual of General Parliamentary Law, With Suggestions for Special Rules, by Thomas B. Reed (HTML at wa.gov)
• Robert's Rules of Order Revised (1915 edition), by Henry M. Robert (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Your Farm Bureau (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1958), by Alice Sturgis, contrib. by Richard Armour, illust. by Leo Hershfield and Alan Atkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Standing Orders of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, by Alberta Legislative Assembly (PDF at assembly.ab.ca)

• The Woman's Manual of Parliamentary Law: With Practical Illustrations Especially Adapted to Women's Organizations (fourth edition; Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1894), by Harriette R. Shattuck (page images at HathiTrust)

• Manual of Parliamentary Procedures in the Government of India (current edition, published in or after 2018), by India Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs (PDF in India)

• Standing Orders and Rules of the National Assembly, by Mauritius National Assembly (JavaScript-dependent HTML in Mauritius)

• How a Bill Becomes Law in New Brunswick, by New Brunswick Legislative Assembly (HTML at gnb.ca)

• Standing Orders of the National Assembly of Tanzania (in Swahili; 2007, 2013, and 2016 editions), by Tanzania National Assembly (partial serial archives)

• Deschler's Precedents of the United States House of Representatives, Including References to Provisions of the Constitution and Laws, and to Decisions of the Courts (1974), by Lewis Deschler (PDF and text at house.gov)
• Hughes' American Parliamentary Guide, Prepared for Ohio General Assembly: The Process of Lawmaking (Columbus: F. J. Heer Printing Co., 1922), by Edward Wakefield Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lex Parliamentaria Americana: Elements of the Law and Practice of Legislative Assemblies in the United States of America (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1856), by Luther Stearns Cushing (page images at MOA)
• Parliamentary Law: Method of Transacting Business in Deliberate Assemblies, Uses of the Various Motions, Method of Conducting Elections, the Duties of Members and Officers, Discipline, Model By-Laws, Forms and Definitions of Parliamentary Terms (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts Inc., c1923), by Henry M. Robert (multiple formats at archive.org)
• House Practice: A Guide to the Rules, Precedents and Procedures of the House (current and past editions, 1996-present), contrib. by Wm. Holmes Brown, Charles W. Johnson, John V. Sullivan, and Thomas J. Wickham (PDF and text files with commentary at govinfo.gov)
• A Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States (Washington: Davis and Force, 1820), by Thomas Jefferson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Warrington's Manual: A Manual for the Information of Officers and Members of Legislatures, Conventions, Societies, Corporations, Orders, Etc., by William S. Robinson (page images at MOA)

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