Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution to look for all books (print and digital) owned by your college as well as the print titles at the other two schools.
The following searches are a sampling of possibilities. To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books. Note that all these searches are in the Books+Media channel. In examples #1, 3 and 4 below, using keywords [Any Field] (rather than subjects) will pick up results from chapter titles.
("environmental protection agency") AND (lobby* OR partisan* OR polariz* OR judge* OR politic*) [Any Field]
"investments, foreign" AND (asia* OR japan* OR china OR chinese) [Subjects] AND (politic* OR policy) [Any Field]
("food security" OR "food insecurity") AND (protest OR protests OR violence OR strike* OR riot*) [Any Field]
"residential school*" AND (canada OR canadian*) AND (reconciliation OR law OR reparat* OR government) [Any Field]
(politic* OR race) AND "united states" [Subjects] AND ("racial priming" OR "racial appeal*" OR "identity politics") [Any Field]
** Try opening a search above and replace one of the topics with your research interest.
An important place to look for many materials not owned by the Tricollege Libraries. This combined library catalog contains more than 500 million records for material owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan. Use the button to place requests. Also note that older books, reports and dissertations are often listed with open access URLs.