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POWER SEARCH HINTS
Basic features:
You may search for our books by author name, individual words in the title and subtitle, individual words in the descriptive text about the book, or any combination of these fields. The default search will look for all books that match the words you enter in ANY of the fields.
Author names include co-authors, editors, and translators. If you are searching for a common name, including the first initial will help to limit unwanted hits.
Keywords in the title/subtitle or book description fields may be combined using AND or OR. If you don't use AND or OR, the search engine will return hits that match ANY single one of your terms. If you use AND between your search terms, the search will assume you are looking for hits that combine ALL of the words entered. NOT is also available, so searches like 'good AND NOT bad' work too.
ISBN numbers may be entered as keywords in either the title or book description field with or without hyphens.
Making a search case sensitive can be helpful if you are looking for a name that is also common in lower case. You may also raise or limit the number of hits to be returned by entering a number (the maximum allowed is 1000).
Advanced features:
Using the option buttons at the top of the screen, you may select whether to have the search look for all books that match the words you enter in ANY of the fields or only those books that match ALL of the fields entered. The default is the more inclusive ANY. Using ALL results in a shorter, more exclusive hitlist.
If you opt to allow partial match to a word, a search for "berg" will fetch compounds such as "Bergson," "Feinberg," and "icebergs," etc.
If you opt for fixed string match, the Boolean operators will be disabled and the search will look for the entire string you enter as an uninterrupted unit.
You may allow for misspellings up to four wrong letters or you may tell the search to return the best match it can find. Allowing misspellings will also allow the omission of punctuation in fixed string searches.
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