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...Search Inside the Book," which turns the site into the Google of literature. Every page of some 120,000 in-print titles has been scanned into a vast computer database and can be accessed as text. This doesn't mean you'll be reading your favorite best sellers on Amazon for free; there are limits on how many pages you can browse in a single book. But it does mean you can do the kind of comprehensive search that most librarians would give their Dewey decimal systems...
Enter weapons of mass destruction into Amazon's search box, for example, and you don't get only the dozen or so books in print with WMD in the title. You get all 1,690 books in the Amazon collection in which the author wrote that phrase--including such unlikely sources as On Writing by Stephen King or The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan. A couple more clicks and you get an image of the page where the phrase appears (and, if you choose, two or three pages before and after). Care only about books that discuss...
...probably the most useful tool for shoppers, scholars and bibliophiles ever invented. In fact, there's no reason why you can't use the service to search books you already have on your shelves. No matter how fast you try to thumb to and from the index pages, Amazon's computers can do it faster. Now you know how Garry Kasparov felt when he was beaten by a chess program...
...museum’s walls hangs Franz von Stuck’s Wounded Amazon, a painting of a fictional battle between Amazons and centaurs. Scholars have speculated that the injured Amazon in the center of the painting, which von Stuck had previously used to symbolize the ‘new’ art he was creating, represents the opposition faced by modern art at the turn of the 20th century...
...only artist to be exhibited in three different media is Franz von Stuck, whose noteworthy contributions in printmaking and painting methods are supplemented with the exhibit’s only sculpture. Titled Amazon, its smooth, dark silhouette outlines a muscular woman atop a wide-eyed horse’s back, her left hand gripping the horse’s mane while her other hand is positioned to fling a pointy spear. The moment is one of everlasting tension, freezing the Amazon’s attack at the brink of its culmination...