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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Database Structure for Everyone: Records, Fields, and Indexes | |
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| Historical Background | |
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| Indexing and Abstracting Services | |
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| From Printed Volumes to Databases | |
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| Database Building Blocks | |
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| Fields and Records | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| Beyond Fields and Records | |
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| Field Indexes | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| Examples of Indexes | |
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| Exercises and Points to Consider | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Searcher's Toolkit: Part 1 | |
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| The First Basic Tools | |
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| Basic Tool No. 1: Boolean Logic | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| Basic Tool No. 2: Controlled Vocabulary | |
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| Basic Tool No. 3: Field Searching | |
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| Terms in the Searching Lexicon | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| Applying the Tools | |
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| Master FILE Premier: Notes and Search Examples | |
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| Exercises and Points to Consider | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Searcher's Toolkit: Part 2 | |
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| Completing the Toolkit: Basic Tools 4-7 | |
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| Basic Tool No. 4: Proximity Searching | |
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| Basic Tool No. 5: Truncation | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| Basic Tool No. 6: Limits to Constrain Your Search | |
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| Basic Tool No. 7: "Pearl Growing," A Useful Search Strategy | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| Your Mental Toolkit | |
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| Summary and Advice | |
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| Exercises and Points to Consider | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Social Science Databases | |
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| Introduction to Subject Databases | |
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| Library Literature & Information Science | |
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| Background and Coverage | |
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| Notes and Search Examples | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| ERIC on the Web | |
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| Background and Coverage | |
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| Notes and Search Examples | |
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| Working with Results: The Clipboard | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| Psyc INFO from Ovid | |
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| Background and Coverage | |
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| Notes and Search Examples | |
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| Working with Results | |
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| Additional Feature: The PsycINFO Thesaurus | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| Exercises and Points to Consider | |
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| Beyond the Textbook Exercises | |
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| Notes | |
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| Databases For Science and Medicine | |
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| PubMed and MEDLINE | |
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| About MEDLINE | |
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| PubMed: More than MEDLINE | |
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| Introduction to the PubMed Interface | |
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| Notes and Search Examples | |
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| Output in PubMed | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| The Web of Science and the Citation Indexes | |
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| History of the Citation Indexes | |
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| Web of Science Content | |
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| An Index Focused on Citations | |
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| Additional Differences in Available Fields | |
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| Searching the Web of Science: Main Search Interface | |
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| Cited Reference Searching | |
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| E-mail, Print, Save, or Export Results | |
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| Advanced Features: Advanced Search and Analyze | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| Exercises and Points to Consider | |
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| Beyond the Textbook Exercises | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliographic Databases | |
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| WorldCat: The "OPAC of OPACs" | |
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| Background and Coverage | |
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| A Tool for Many Parts of the Library | |
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| Notes and Search Examples | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| WorldCat.org | |
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| Background: The Path to WorldCat.org | |
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| Notes and Search Examples | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| Revisiting Your Local OPAC | |
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| Exercises and Points to Consider | |
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| Beyond the Textbook Exercise | |
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| Notes | |
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| Humanities Databases | |
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| America: History and Life | |
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| Background and Coverage | |
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| Notes and Search Examples | |
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| Many Tools: Folder, Output Options, and More | |
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| Special Feature: CLIO Notes | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| MIA International Bibliography | |
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| Background and Coverage | |
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| Notes and Search Examples | |
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| The Marked List and Output | |
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| Additional Feature: Directory of Periodicals | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| Exercises and Points to Consider | |
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| Beyond the Textbook Exercises | |
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| Notes | |
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| Numerical Databases | |
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| Finding Numbers | |
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| Concepts about Numbers | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| A Comment about Searching for Numbers | |
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| Statistical Insight from ProQuest | |
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| Background and Coverage | |
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| Notes and Search Examples | |
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| Outputting Records | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| American FactFinder | |
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| Background and Coverage | |
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| Search Modes in American FactFinder | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| Bureau of Labor Statistics | |
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| Pay & Benefits at the Bureau of Labor Statistics | |
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| Occupation Information at the Bureau of Labor Statistics | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| Numbers and the Reference Interview | |
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| Exercises and Points to Consider | |
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| Beyond the Textbook Exercises | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Notes | |
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| Focus on People | |
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| Part 1: Information Seeking Behavior | |
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| Some Theoretical Background on Information Seeking | |
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| Applied Research on Information Seeking Behavior | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| Part 2: The Reference Interview | |
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| What Is the Real Question? | |
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| Question Negotiation in the Reference Interview | |
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| Beyond the Face-to-Face Reference Interview | |
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| Why Is the Reference Interview So Important? | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| Exercises and Points to Consider | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Notes | |
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| Choosing the Right Resource for the Question | |
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| Start With the Reference Interview | |
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| Questions for Databases | |
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| Why and When to Try a Database | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| Choosing a Database | |
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| Free Databases on the Web | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| Questions for the Web | |
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| Personal Uses of the Web | |
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| Professional Uses of the Web | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| Exercises and Points to Consider | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Notes | |
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| Evaluating Databases | |
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| Basic Facts and Figures | |
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| Initial Factual Information to Gather | |
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| Testing and Benchmarking | |
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| Testing | |
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| Benchmarking | |
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| Making a Request for Purchase | |
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| Elements to Include in the Request | |
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| Exercises and Points to Consider | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Notes | |
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| Teaching Other People About Databases | |
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| Teaching Principles | |
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| Principle 1: Teach to Your Audience | |
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| Principle 2: Avoid Lecturing | |
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| Principle 3: Wait for Answers | |
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| Principle 4: Less Is More | |
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| Principle 5: Transparency in Teaching | |
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| Principle 6: You Have the Right to be Wrong | |
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| Principle 7: Teaching with Technology | |
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| Principle 8: Practice | |
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| Database Teaching Opportunities | |
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| Teaching at the Reference Desk | |
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| Teaching an Information Literacy Session | |
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| A Staff Presentation | |
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| The Full Semester Class | |
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| Exercises and Points to Consider | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |