user's manual

It has no user’s manual, no glossary.

She sold the proposal to her publisher more than 10 years ago, after another pop culture experience — an installment in the “Alien” movie franchise — got her thinking about how we need a “user’s manual for the female mammal.”

Pepper's new book, "Saving Democracy: A User's Manual for Every American" builds on that foundation, providing not just a user's manual, but a diagnostic framework to help users orient themselves to the task at hand.

And many of the new monuments come with what often read like a user’s manual, instructing the visitor on what to feel, to think, even what to do.

It is one of football’s most mysterious, oft-criticized guides — a user’s manual for fourth-down daring, a mathematical reservoir for calculated risk.