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Naked Statistics

Looking for a fun and simple guide to statistics? This is the book for you!

Charles Wheelan, Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data, New York: Norton, 2013.

Can't find items on your reading list?

This new online tutorial will help you identify and locate books, book chapters, and journal articles. You can test yourself to check your knowledge.

How to Not Write Bad

Ben Yagoda says that teaching students to write well may be too ambitious a goal. Instead he aims to improve your writing by eliminating those common errors such as spelling mistakes, poorly chosen words, and train-wreck punctuation. In his book How to Not Write Bad you’ll find lots of helpful advice.

How to Write a Lot

Motivational books are not usually found in university libraries, but one that seems appropriate is How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Academic Writing. Psychologist Paul Silvia discusses specious barriers to writing (can't find the time... need to do more research first... need a better computer... or just waiting for inspiration), and offers motivational tools and practical suggestions for overcoming them.

Audiovisual Library tours

Do you need to access films and other audiovisual material from the Library collections? Come to the Audiovisual Library and join a 10 minutes tour!

General Library Tours

Lost? It does not have to be this way. We are offering tours through the General Library during the first two weeks of Semester 1.

Emile Durkheim - a new biography by Marcel Fournier

We have one copy of this book in the General Library. The call number is 301.0944 D96Y.

Creative Printmaking in New Zealand, 1930-2007: An Annotated Bibliography

Fiona Ward has listed 105 references that record all available published, unpublished and digital material about the history of creative printmaking in New Zealand from 1930 to 2007.

Resilience: Japan and New Zealand moving forward

The New Zealand Asia Institute, the Waseda Institute for New Zealand Studies, and the Japan Society for New Zealand Studies are hosting a conference to mark the sixtieth anniversary of New Zealand-Japan diplomatic and economic relations.

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