How to Find Out Anything: From Extreme Google Searches to Scouring Government Documents, a Guide to Uncovering Anything About Everyone and Everything

I am a consultant assigned to a nonprofit. Within 30 minutes of opening this book, I was reading their annual form 990 and had a much clearer picture of their revenue sources and priorities. This book is incredibly helpful guide to doing research and in formulating your research goals.

If you need to search for information frequently, this book will pay for itself just for the chapter on "googling" effectively. Of course, everything you find here you can find on the internet- but here you get everything in one neat bundle. After (and during) reading this book, I found a lot more information on how to get information, and this has helped tremendously not just with my projects, but also with my daughter's schoolwork. She is also becoming quite proficient in her searches.

I got the book and there are no rips or writing in the book.

I teach information literacy at the library. I use this book as my aid and think it is the best book on the subjectof online research because:a) It is written in a friendly and comfortable styleb) It is NOT a textbookc) It focuses on connections more then the new fad technologyThis is a great book and I encourageDon to write more books for information literacy educatorsto share with their students.

There are many useful search tips and websites references discussed and listed. And yes, it is very google centric. To be very useful, an update is needed. Much has changed on the landscape since this book was published.

This book is really informative with an interesting approach. It focuses on building your resource library so when you go to research/investigate a topic, all the shortcuts are at your fingertips. I am a trained paralegal and I found this book resourceful.

nice

If you use the tips in the book you can in fact find out anything.

New book, price right, good book, on time.

Estilo llano, con muchos ejemplos. Mejor que la mayoría de su género. Adecuado en extensión, formato y contenido. Muy recomendable.

Stunning book and must have.

An interesting and informative read; How to Find Out Anything is well-researched (duh!) and the information is presented in a commonsense and straight-forward manner. Macleod's prose is effective and clear. Though he does get a little repetitive in some parts. The level of information in this book falls between beginner - intermediate researcher skill. It goes well beyond the ubiquitous Googling of the internet age (though he does cover the less-well-known tips and tricks of effective online search engine use), and begins to delve into the timeless art of library and archive based research.

It is too american to be of any real use