Search for complete phrases by enclosing them in quotation marks.
Words enclosed in double quotes will appear together in all results exactly as typed.

"spanish civil war"
"mass in b minor"
"consumer spending"
"hip hop"

Use And or Or to search the words in any field, in any order.

travel And cape cod
fashion Or apparel 

Use And not to exclude words.

radiation And not nuclear

Select the operator you wish to use from the selection list.
Parentheses group words together when using Boolean operators.

dakota And not
(north Or
south)

Use Near to find words in any order within 10 words of each other

internet Near
security

Use Before and After to specify the order of words within a field

corporate Before
espionage

environment* polic*

Use a double asterisk ** for open-ended truncation.

inter**

You may also use a question mark ? to replace a single letter in the word.

wom?n

Use * alone in combination with one or more limits to search just on the limits.

* And
Publisher: perishable press

Select a field limit to search for a word only in a specified field.
Author: Search only author fields
Title: Search only title fields
Subject: Search only subject fields
Note: Search only note fields

Author:nietzsche And
Title:zarathustra

Title:lincoln And
Subject:fiction

Subject:roosevelt And
Note:scribners