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Wait, there are other dive books beyond my two go-to tomes? 
Best Comprehensive Book on Diving
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That is not the aforementioned NOAA Diving Manual, published by Best Publishing.
NOAA Diving Manual 6th Edition
Also available as an ebook on: About the Book All serious divers should have this comprehensive manual in their library. Dozens of the foremost diving scientists, educators, and other professionals in the field have contributed to and reviewed this important volume. The 6th edition is vastly...www.bestpub.com
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Yes, those are the tables. NOT the Diving Manual itself. Which is not free.
How about the Navy manual?
https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Portals/103/Documents/SUPSALV/Diving/US DIVING MANUAL_REV7.pdf
https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Portals/103/Documents/SUPSALV/Diving/US DIVING MANUAL_REV7.pdf
It is an excellent book, but VERY oriented toward Navy operations.
The NOAA Manual is much better for sport divers.
Definitely not for the recreational diver. The science [physiology, physics, etc.] and open circuit SCUBA are worth reading and applicable to sport diving. Surface supplied, O2 diving sections, not so much. Still worth having an edition in your library.
My vote for the recreational diver still is for The New Science of Skin and Scuba Diving, followed by the NOAA manual for the scientific diver.
Fred Roberts' Basic SCUBA, is the Bible for vintage equipment divers who need to know how to repair their double hose regulators.
Latter editions have jacket BCDs, maybe not BP/W but BP/W is generally taught at advanced / technical training. Regulators are for all intents and purposes the same today as they were in 1980. Dive Computers are new technology that was just beginning in the 80s [ remember the Orca Edge? Bueller? Bueller?]
Best practices? I and many others who learned to dive before 1980 believe, with good reason, that the practices were better back in the 1970s than they are today with most O/W diving courses only covering a fraction of what we learned back in our classes.
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