I am enrolled in a software engineering class this semster. Our semester project, a basketball score keeping application is in its final stages and we will soon be designing the product's help manual.

I figured I might be over-reacting to the arrival of autumn when I found myself wandering around a bookshop recently, browsing through a number of titles that I would never buy, all of which could ...

Help! But do you really need it? THIS month millions of self-help manuals to improve your job, marriage, money and personality will be sold. JULIE CARPENTER investigates how useful they are.