Diablo Valley College Library: Persuasive Essay: In-depth Research

Sample eBooks

Books provide you with detailed analyses of broader topics. You can get background, history, context, and multiple perspectives.

This list highlights a few examples. You can use OneSearch to find many more.

Climate Change and Global Equity
Call Number: eBook 2014

In this collection of essays, Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth A. Stanton show that the impact of inaction on climate change will be far worse than the cost of ambitious climate policies. After setting out the basic principles which must shape contemporary climate economics, Ackerman and Stanton consider common flaws in climate change policy – from mistaken assumptions that dismiss the welfare of future generations and anticipate little or no growth in low-income countries, to unrealistic projections of climate damages that dismiss catastrophic risks – and offer their own insightful remedies.
Threatened Species
Call Number: eBook 2014

This book examines the global rate of species extinction, and explains the importance of biodiversity conservation. What are Australia’s most endangered species? What legal and practical measures is Australia taking to conserve its threatened species? Is the planet on the brink of an extinction crisis? Also includes: worksheets and activities, fast facts, glossary, web links, index.

Academic Search Complete (Ebsco)
This database has full-text academic articles in almost every subject, including quite a few peer-reviewed and scholarly journals. A good choice for almost any topic.

Health Source: Consumer Edition (Ebsco)
This database provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.

MasterFILE Complete & MasterFILE Reference eBook Collection (Ebsco)
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and 164,424 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of 440,207 photos, maps & flags.

US Major Dailies (ProQuest)
US Major Dailies provides access to the five most respected U.S. national and regional newspapers: The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and the Wall Street Journal. With print and online editions, the titles offer researchers thorough and timely coverage of local, regional, and global events with journalistic balance and perspective. The content is available by 8 AM U.S. Eastern time each day and provides archives stretching as far back as 1980.