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To get the most from Google, you need to understand Google. Building Research Tools With Google For Dummies explains how Google works and how you can build more effective queries (hint: it’s a lot more than just using the “Advanced Search” techniques!) It even shows you how to think like a researcher and how to package the results of your research so it means something to your audience. You’ll be able to:

• Understand Google research techniques and use the custom search-related syntax
• Recognize Google’s strengths-and limitations
• Target your search by using Google operators
• Use Google to research photos, or even an entire industry
• Improve the effectiveness of your results by understanding Google’s comparative methodology
• Build custom tools using WDSL and Web ServicesYou don’t have to become a programmer to use Google, but if you know a little about software development and want to explore new, more focused search techniques, Building Research Tools With Google For Dummies has a section just for you. It introduces you to the Google API, shows you how to download a developer key, and leads you through building a C# .Net Google application. On the companion Web site, you’ll find the source code and software discussed in the book as well as links to lots of other resources for researchers. Before you know it, you’ll be Googling your way to research success!

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Madonna’s infamous coffee table photo-book, simply called ‘Sex’, shocked the world when it was released worldwide on October 21, 1992. Madonna, already best-known for her controversial tendencies, broke all boundaries with this book - no other mainstream artist had revealed him- or herself in such ways before.

All photgraphs were taken by Steven Meisel. It’s no surprise that Meisel was responsible for taking the pictures as he had a very close friendship with Madonna and they obviously both inspired eachother very much. He was also responsible for the cover of Madonna’s 1984 album Like A Virgin and photographed most of Madonna’s photos in the early ’90s. Meisel was in the ’90s what Herb Ritts was to Madonna in the ’80s as they both created some of the most iconic and memorable photos of Madonna.
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Don’t you wish you could do all the cool tricks that MacGyver did? Now you can. The Unofficial MacGyver How-to Handbook: Revised 2nd Edition provides step-by-step instructions to MacGyver’s most inventive tricks.

As viewers of the show, we had always assumed that MacGyver’s tricks were fiction, the kind of stuff that only works on TV. Inspired by a rerun in which MacGyver seals an acid leak with a chocolate bar, we decided to dig up our old high school science books and find out if this stuff really works. The result of our investigation is The Unofficial MacGyver How-to Handbook: Revised 2nd Edition, an illustrated primer to MacGyver’s tricks complete with scientific explanations.

We provide step-by-step, how-to instructions that unlock the scientific secrets and spy genius of MacGyver’s many tricks, including: How to pick a lock with a pocket knife; How to develop film with orange juice; How to create homemade fog; How to use a paperclip to undress a woman AND disarm a missile!Each entry includes: A description of the materials you need to perform the trick; Step-by-step instructions on how to accomplish the trick; The scientific explanation of why the trick works.

In depicting these tricks, The Unofficial MacGyver How-to Handbook: Revised 2nd Edition, offers a mix of extreme scenarios and practical applications. So while you’ll probably never have the thrill of breaking into a high security laboratory, you can feel like a secret agent while you develop photos in the kitchen sink with orange juice.

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