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| Browser Compatibility |
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| Plug-ins |
| For images Images from the image library are available to download in either a Zip file (which contains jpeg image files) or in a PowerPoint presentation, for which you will require Winzip, PKZip or Stuffit Expander, or Microsoft PowerPoint, respectively. For sample chapters The freely available sample chapters available on this site are in pdf format, for which you will need Adobe Acrobat For animations Animations offered in interactive extras are in Flash, for which you will require Macromedia Flash. For videos You will need QuickTime to play the videos available on this site. |
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