Research Guides: CITY 229: Comparative Urbanism: Mirrors to the City: Finding Books

Locating Books & Journals

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Borrowing Beyond the Tri-Co
Can't find the book you want in Tripod? You can request books or chapters of books from other libraries. Log into EZ Borrow or ILL (Inter-library Loan) to request these titles.

WorldCat
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A catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries. Includes manuscripts, maps, films and sound recordings. Covers works published before 1,000 BC-present.

Oxford Reference
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Bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias, Oxford Reference is the premier online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas with coverage from 2002 to the present.
Brill's Encyclopedia of China
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Covers the history, geography, society, economy, politics, science, and culture of China, focusing on the modern period from the mid-XIXth to the XXIst century.
Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World
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Traces the history and cultural influence of Neo-Latin, the form of Latin that originated in the Italian Renaissance and persists to the modern era. Featuring original contributions by distinguished international scholars, this reference work explores aspecst of the civilized world from literature and law to philosophy and the sciences.