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"I keep this book beside my computer all the time. It's astonishing how often I rely on it to guide me in making efficient, accurate research inquiries "
- Bruce, Lawyer

"I thought I knew my way around a search engine, but the tips in here improved my research strategies ten times over."
- Rachel, college student

The Research Virtuoso is an easy and thoroughly up-to-date guide to seeking, sourcing, and sorting information on any given topic. From card catalogs to Internet blogs, readers will find explanations on every kind of research tool available today and step-by-step advice on how to use them.

At the library: How to make effective use of extensive print, audio, and video resources, as well as librarians.
On the internet: Secrets to finding reliable, credible, and specialized websites, including accessing metasearch engines and the deep web.

Each chapter breaks down the search process into manageable steps and offers hands-on suggestions for collecting data while maintaining a critical perspective. Along the way, examples from an ongoing sample research project illustrate how it's done, plus interesting tidbits discuss the changing role of technology.

Complete with time-saving tips, recommended websites, and droll cartoons to keep things light, The Research Virtuoso is a passport to the rich possibilities of the information age. No one should log on without it.

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The Toronto Notes 2008 includes exciting new changes that will further help students prepare for the Canadian and American medical licensing exams. This year, the Toronto Notes 2008 package includes:
-A concise textbook with in depth coverage of 29 chapters as listed in the concise TOC at the end of this document
-Extensive updating of amterial, including up-to-date Evidence Based meidcine reviews
-A CD-ROM containing an imporived imaging Teacher with CT and MRI sequences to enhance skills in Diagnostic Imaging
-A new and improved teaching program for ECG iterpretation (included on the CD)
-A re-designed PDA version with a user-friendly interface for quick reference on the wards (both Palm and Pocket PC versions)
-A high quality Colour Atlas cross-referenced with the text (included on the CD)
-Exam preparation tools and lots of practice questions
-A 300-page pocket reference guide, highlighting common clinical management scenarios and helpful tips on clerkship basics (perfect to carry on the wards)

New to the 2008 Toronto Notes are:
-For the first time, the entire Toronto Notes text will be available online, including all pictures, diagrams and tables. Access to the web version will be included with the purchase of the 2008 Toronto Notes.
-A comprehensive neuroanatomy atlas (Functional Neuroanatomy), which includes MRI images (with the option to show labels), brainstem and spinal cord slices, vascular territories, angiograms, surface anatomy, and more.
-The Atlas will be included on the CD, including X-rays, CT and MRI scans, angiograms, skin lesions, and common pathology from endocrinology, gastroenterology, gynecology, hematology, infectious diseases, nephrology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, pediatrics, plastic surgery, rheumatology and urology..
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My name is Sarah Dearly, and I've got major problems Last month, I was turned into a vampire by the world's worst blind date. Then I may have, totally by accident, started a war between the mostly peaceful bloodsuckers and a bunch of sociopathic vamp hunters who have nicknamed me the Slayer of Slayers. Now I'm being used as bait to draw out the hunters' bad-ass leader, while my gorgeous 600-year-old boyfriend Thierry seems to be blowing me off, and my sizzle-hot, fanged friend Quinn is trying to turn my self-defense lessons into make-out sessions. So you know what? I'm done. I've had it. There comes a time when a vamp has to just suck it up and go after what she wants. And as soon as I figure out what that is, that's exactly what I'll do....
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Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient. 256 pp..
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Developed by Ronald J. Williams over fifteen years in a formal course on Hebrew syntax at the University of Toronto, Williams' Hebrew Syntax has since been widely used as an intermediate textbook in biblical Hebrew. First published in 1967, with a second edition issued in 1976, this substantially revised and expanded third edition is designed as an intermediate textbook for students of Biblical Hebrew. The guide explains the meanings of morphological categories and the way that words, phrases, and clauses relate to one another to create meaning.

Expanded to meet the demands of contemporary classroom use, John C. Beckman's third edition also functions as a grammatical reference, providing updated analysis and thoroughly up-to-date cross-references to literature in the field. By providing interlinear translations and final translations for examples, the latest edition better enables students with modest vocabulary and knowledge of parsing to understand the examples and grammatical points.

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Shut Up, I'm Talking is a smart, hilarious insider take on Israeli politics that reads like the bastard child of Thomas Friedman and David Sedaris Now a political writer for Salon, Gregory Levey stumbled into a job as speechwriter for the Israeli delegation to the United Nations at age twenty-five and suddenly found himself, like a latter-day Zelig, in the company of foreign ministers, U.S. senators, and heads of state. Much to his surprise, he was soon attending U.N. sessions and drafting official government statements. The situation got stranger still when he was transferred to Jerusalem to write speeches for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

Shut Up, I'm Talking is a startling account of Levey's journey into the nerve center of Middle Eastern politics at one of the most turbulent times in Israeli history. During his three years in the Israeli government, the Second Intifada continued on in fits and starts, Yasser Arafat died, Hamas came to power, and Ariel Sharon fell into a coma. Levey was repeatedly thrust into highly improbable situations -- from being the sole "Israeli" delegate (even though he's Canadian) at the U.N. General Assembly, with no idea how "his" country wanted to vote; to nearly inciting an international incident with his high school French translation of an Arab diplomat's anti-Israel remarks; to communicating with Israeli intelligence about the suspected perpetrators of suicide bombings; to being offered leftover salami from Ariel Sharon's lunch. As Levey got better acquainted with the personalities in the government's inner sanctum, he witnessed firsthand the improvisational and ridiculously casual nature of the country's behind-the-scenes leadership -- and realized that he wasn't the only one faking his way through politics.

With sharp insight and great appreciation for the absurd, Levey offers the first-ever look inside Israel's politics from the perspective of a complete outsider, ultimately concluding that the Israeli government is no place for a nice Jewish boy..
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This Wordly Wise Answer Key accompanies Wordly Wise 3000, Grade 4, 2nd Edition. Answers for each lesson are included; passages are given full-sentence answers and puzzle/hidden message exercises are reproduced with the correct answers filled in. 11 pages, softcover..
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Grant Jeffrey’s new prophecy book Surveillance Society examines the fascinating predictions that are setting the stage for the rise of the Antichrist and world government in the last days. New advances in the technology of global surveillance are threatening our freedom and privacy. This includes:

·The plans of NATO to create a world government
·Astonishing surveillance technologies that threaten our freedom and privacy
·Your e-mail and Internet surfing is recorded and available for viewing
·The secret Echelon global surveillance that monitors your phone calls
·The threat from computer information weapons
·Global economic war
·The rise of the Antichrist and the world’s first super state
·Government and corporate databases contain every detail of your life..
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After years in Canada, Simon St. Bride is ready to return to England. But his plans are delayed by a duel and a young woman he feels honor-bound to marry, knowing that his family is unlikely to welcome her. For despite her beauty and seeming innocence, Jane Otterburn is hesitant to speak of her past. But when treachery strikes their world, Simon and Jane must fight side-by-side-and they discover a love beyond price and a passion beyond measure..
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