Encyclopedias and Handbooks will give you a great overview of a given topic. They will also help you develop terminology useful for searching across more narrowly focused articles (via databases tab).
Please note: the databases listed here search across eBook collections relevant to Public Health.
Books, reference works, handbooks, in the social sciences, from Sage and CQ Press.
Full-text ebooks published by Springer from across the sciences, mathematics, engineering, business, social sciences, and humanities. Includes titles from Springer, Palgrave McMillan, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, as well as Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science.