How to perform a search

• Have you checked the spelling of the item entered for the search?

Try your search again or alternatively use the advanced search or read our tips on how to search below.

How to Search

Our search engine makes it easy to find what you're looking for. You can search by author, title or ISBN and by selecting advanced search a combination of title and author.

To perform a search, click on the "Search" button.

By default the search is done on title only. If you want to search by author, click on the author radio button or if by ISBN click on the ISBN radio button.

Alternatively select advanced search and select the author and title for a combined search.

If you use more than one keyword our search engine will restrict the results to books that each match all the keywords you enter, for example:-

• Entering Practical Accounting will return results with Practical or Accounting in the selection parameters. 

Abbreviations

Some words in the titles of books, have been abbreviated, and these abbreviations should be used when conducting a search:

• DICT = Dictionary
• INTRO = Introduction, Introducing, Introductory
• SA = Suid- Afrika, South Africa, Suidelike Afrika, Southern Africa, South African
• USA = United States of America
• UK = United Kingdom
• GR = Grade/Graad
• INL = Inleiding
• STD = Standard/Standerd
• & = And/en

Hyphens are not used - with the exception of using it with titles starting with "A-Z", as well as for historical dates.