Books

Books cover virtually any topic, fact or fiction. For research purposes, you will probably be looking for books that provide broad, in-depth coverage of a topic.

Libraries organize and store their book collections. A few books called e-books, purchased by your library, are now available electronically through the online catalog.

Use a Book

• when looking for a lot of information on a topic
• to put your topic in context with other important issues
• to find historical information
• to find summaries of research to support an argument

Examples

• Eisler, Richard M. & Michel Hersen, eds. Handbook of Gender, Culture, and Health, 2000.
• Gore, Al. An Inconvenient Truth, 2006.
• Hanrahan, Clare, ed. America's Prisons: Opposing Viewpoints, 2006.