Appendix A General Instrumentation Books For the most part, individual technical chapters of the Instrumentation Reference Book give references for further reading to books with a particular relevance to the topic of that chapter. Here we list some more general books that each give an overview of a wide range of instrumentation sub- jects. To help the reader decide whether any particular book will help with a particular problem, we include a table of contents for each of these books. Abnormal Situation Consortium, ASM Consortium Guide- lines: Effective Operator Display Design, ASM Consor- tium, Phoenix, AZ (2008). introduction Preventing and Responding to Abnormal Situations Guideline detail and Examples Bolton, W., Industrial Control and Instrumentation, Longman, Harlow, U.K. (1991). Measurement systems Control systems Transducers Signal conditioning and processing Controllers Correction units data display Measurement systems Control systems Bolton, W., Instrumentation and Process Measurements, Longman, Harlow, U.K. (1991). Basic instrument systems