Books are rarely the most current source of information on a topic, but they are often useful because they offer a broader perspective. 

To search for books on a topic, choose the Books tab, choose Keywords from the dropdown, enter your keywords, and search. 

To find a specific book using OneSearch, choose the books tab and enter the title in quotation marks. 

All of our recent computing science related books are electronic. For instruction in limiting a search to e-books, see the tutorial immediately below.

Searching for EBSCO eBooks (5:27) 

See these instructional videos to help you navigate the library catalogue

• Three entry points into the catalogue
• Using the Basic Search screen
• Using the Advanced Search screen: here, and here
• Making the best use of catalogue results: here, and here
• This tutorial (YouTube) provides basic information on using EBSCOhost e-books. 

All tutorials can be located on this page. 

Searching the Catalogue

When you search in the library catalogue using either a Basic search, or an Advanced search use the most explicit, discipline-specific, or technical vocabulary that you can think of - focus the catalogue’s attention on your topic.

For example, instead of searching “economics”, try terms like:

Capitalism

Development economics

Economic development

Equilibrium (economics)

Evolutionary economics

Gross Domestic Product

Labour economies

Macroeconomics

Resource allocation

Stagnation (economics)

Value

Wealth

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New Titles in the Catalogue

There are hundreds of economics and economics-related titles in the library's book catalogue. Here are some examples. To open an e-Book from the catalogue choose "Weblink".

 Author names and titles are often unknown, so search using 'keyword' or 'subject' words. For help in doing this efficiently, check the boxes on the left side of this page. 

• America's First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder After the Panic of 1837
• Arguing About the World: the Work and Legacy of Meghnad Desai 
• Challenges of African Transformation: Exploring Through Innovation Approach
• Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
• Economic Crisis and Crime
• The Economics of Religion: Anthropological Approaches
• The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
• The Hidden Enterprise Culture: Entrepreneurship in the Underground Economy
• Islamic Economics and Finance: an Epistemological Inquiry
• Owning Our Future: the Emerging Ownership Revolution: Journeys to the Generative Economy
• Politics in the New Hard Times: the Great Recession in Comparative Perspective
• The Vitality of Contradiction: Hegel, Politics, and the Dialectic of Liberal-capitalism