Reference books provide background information on a topic, such as definitions of terms, key figures and events, and well written overviews. They can be a useful starting point for any research project, because they fill in missing knowledge about the topic or provide you with the language of the discipline.
Selected books from our Reference collection:
The atlas of food : who eats what, where, and why by Search selected dictionaries and encyclopedias from Oxford University Press:
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AccessScience is a multi-media scholarly reference in the area of science and technology.
Search Sage Knowledge for indepth, authoritative background information on social sciences topics.
