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1 Book Details View your print and copy allowances.
2 Annotations Icon View your highlights, notes and bookmarks.
3 Search Within Book Type your search term into the search box, making sure to put phrases in quotes. Search results are displayed with frequency bars next to each chapter. Select the chapter name to see the results per page and contextual snippets of text.
4 Book Download Downloading a book is an easy 3-step process to computers, tablets, and phones.
5 Chapter Download Download a chapter to PDF. Text is searchable and selectable, and a citation is included. Pages included in your Chapter Download are counted as part of your overall print allowances.
6 Copy Copy the whole page by selecting the copy icon in the navigation toolbar. To copy text within a page, select your text and use the copy icon in the pop-up menu.
7 Print Create a PDF of a page, or a range of pages that can be printed or saved, and which includes a citation of the book. Printed pages are counted as part of your overall print allowances.
8 Add to Bookshelf Save this book to your online bookshelf. If you have already added the title, the icon will be disabled.
9 Share Link Copy a URL to this page in the book, which you may share with others at your institution.
10 Cite Create a citation from your choice of styles: APA, Chicago/Turabian - Notes-Bibliography, Chicago/Turabian - Author-Date, Harvard, MLA, or Vancouver. If you have a preferred citation style, you may set that preference in Settings.

Search Within, Search Results, and Reader Navigation Tips

11 Search Terms by Chapter and Page Expand the Table of Contents to see search terms by chapter and page and click in the contextual snippet of text to navigate to that page.
12 Zoom Options Zoom in (+), zoom out (-), fit to width, or fit to page.
13 Go To Page To navigate to a specific page in the book, click on top of the page number and enter your desired page.
14 Previous/Next Move backward or forward through a book one page at a time.
15 Settings Reset your password, change your default citation style, and more.

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