A power search is used to retrieve book information using a complex query.
The syntax for a power search is shown below:
author: ambrose
author: ambrose and binding: (abridged or large print) and pubdate: after 11-1996
subject: history and (spain or mexico) and not military and language: spanish
(subject: marketing and author: kotler) or (publisher: harper and subject: "high technology")
keywords: "high tech*" and not fiction and pubdate: during 1999
isbn: 0446394319 or 0306806819 or 1567993850
You can use the following properties of a book in your search:
Title
Subject
Author
Keyword
ISBN
Publisher
Language
Publication date (pubdate)
You can use the words and, or, and not to link different parts of a book description. You can also group properties together using parentheses if that seems necessary to convey the precise meaning of your description.