Black book

Black book

Black book or Black Book may refer to:

In history:
*The Black Book, the list of people to be arrested by the Gestapo following a planned Nazi invasion of Britain in the Second World War
*Black Book (World War II), a compilation of documentary reports about the actions of Nazis against Jews in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust

In literature:
*"The Black Book" (1938 novel), a 1938 novel by Lawrence Durrell
*"The Black Book" (1990 novel), a 1990 novel by Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk
*"The Black Book" (1993 novel), a 1993 novel by Scottish writer Ian Rankin
*"Black Book of Carmarthen", one of the earliest surviving manuscripts written entirely in Welsh"
*"Yazidi Black Book", one of the two holy books of the Yazidi religion
* "", a 2000 dissident publication
* "The Black Book of English Canada", a 2001 book detailing the history of Canada's crimes against ethnic minorities
* "The Black Book of Capitalism", a book that attempts to assign blame for historic repressions to capitalism
* "The black book of colonialism", a book documenting evils attributed to colonialism.
* "The Black Book of Communism", a 1999 publication that attempts to catalog crimes that it argues resulted from the pursuit of communism

In television:
*"The Black Book (Garfield and Friends)", episode of "Garfield and Friends" from 1989
*"Black Books", a British television sitcom broadcast on Channel 4

In film and its derivatives:
*"Black Book" (film), a 2006 film of director Paul Verhoeven
**"Black Book" (novel), the novelization of the 2006 film "Black Book"
**"Black Book" (soundtrack), the soundtrack of the 2006 film "Black Book"
*"The Black Book" (serial), a 1929 film serial
*"Little Black Book", a 2006 film directed by Nick Hurran

In other fields:
*Black book, a revision of a technical paper named according to common practice after the color of its cover page. Other possibilities include "white paper", "orange book", etc.
* a small book, usually an address book with a black cover, that a person writes the info (name, telephone number, sexual rating) of their ex-partners, hook-ups, or one night stands
* Black Book (gaming), a nickname for a list of individuals blacklisted from casinos
* A book or collection of papers used by graffiti artists to practice writing.
* An informal term for a Black MacBook, a notebook computer produced by Apple Inc.

ee also

*Book of Negroes, a 1783 list of the Black Loyalists, those African Americans who fought for the British Crown


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