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Use quotation marks for more precise searches. For example, searching for "Ancient Greece" brings up only products with that exact phrase rather than products that contain either the word “Ancient” or “Greece”.
Use wildcards (*) to expand a search to include variations of a word. For example searching for “America*” will pull up products that contain the phrase "America 1492" or the phrase "American Revolution."
Check the spelling of the search word or phrase you entered. It's all too easy to enter what we think is the correct word to find out that we've missed a letter or added an extra character by mistake.
Don't bother entering dashes when searching by a whole or partial ISBN. The system will automatically strip them out, so save yourself some keystrokes!
If searching by ISBN, remember that you do not need to enter the complete number. Try entering the last 4 or 5 digits to avoid miskeying the whole thing.
If searching by ISBN, don't bother entering the first few numbers since they are used on nearly every product. For example, entering '978' would bring up every single product in our catalogues! (The same thing would happen if you enter any of these number combinations: '4109', '4034', '5757')
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