Trouble with 'handling the Big Jets' is that it is thirty years out of date - now there's a job for someone with time on his hands...................
Beware looking too closely at 'revision guides' which are allied to a particular operators SOP's. As you are 737NG current, you will be in tune with Mr Boeings philosophy and assuming that you are about to join a UK 757 Operator you will get all the guidance you need in groundschool/simulator - not joining an airline with pink starfish on the tail are you ?