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• cookery Italian
• Adams John
• Sports medicine
• feng shui
• Dickens Charles (results should include biographical information as well as critical analysis of the author's work)

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• Use a subject search to find materials about a person as well as a topic. You have to know at least their last name.
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• Japan history
• United States history civil war
• world war 1939 1945
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