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Dickens bicentenary

1812-2012

This year, Melbourne joins the rest of the world in commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens on February 7, 1812. Read more...

After 200 years, Charles Dickens is still one of our most popular authors. Peter Craven explains why.

Richard Jackson - Marketing and Communications Associate

Think about the last decision you made. Perhaps the choice of a brand in the supermarket, or what to watch on television. Perfectly rational, wasn't it? You considered all the alternatives, weighed up according to some criteria, and made your choice.

If this narrative rings true for you, chances are you're in a very small minority, or perhaps you're telling yourself stories about your decision making processes which aren't quite true. As Lehrer tells it, our classic model of rational decision-making has a lot to learn from recent discoveries in neuroscience.

How We Decide dissects the brain and its operations to explain counterintuitive findings: we learn about how the brain is wired to learn, the role of emotions in decisions, how the brain accounts gains and losses, how we frame problems and cherry pick data according to our biases. Along the way, we uncover the underlying neurological reasons why we make mistakes in decisions.

It's a great book for anyone who wants make better decisions by understanding the decisions they make; it's also very useful for understanding the decision making of others so that you can better influence positive outcomes.

And on top of all this, highly readable!

What is appropriation? : an anthology of critical writings on Australian art in the 1980s and 1990s

The Prague cemetery

More or less : democracy & new media

Founding Brass : George Stewardson and Extruded Metals

Complete New books list

Above is a selection of recently added titles. A complete list of new titles added in the previous month is available here. New books.

Writing Guides

Embarking on your first assignment at University? Need help getting your head around the writing requirements of the different disciplines? Writing an economics essay is not the same as a lab report or a history essay. Your Ormond tutors are here to help and the Ormond library has some excellent guides. Click here for a list of titles. Keywords to use when searching include: Academic writing; Report writing, Medical writing [Subject] authorship. Call numbers - try 808.066 or with the area you are writing in e.g. Art History 709.9.

State of the Climate

State of the Climate Report 2012

Australia’s land and oceans have continued to warm in response to rising CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

This is the headline finding in the State of the Climate 2012, an updated summary of Australia’s long term climate trends released by CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology in March.

Textbooks in the Library
	The Library has textbooks and selected titles from recommended reading lists. Where demand is high for a particular textbook, we buy a proportionate number of books for lending and put one copy on the Reserve shelf for use in the Library only. Request your books online via the Library website or using a paper Request form in the Library.
To check your booklist, logon to the UniMelb Student Portal, click the 'Admin' tab then scroll down to 'Check My Booklist'. Search for 2012 Courses, Subjects, Specialisations or Breadth Tracks in the University of Melbourne Handbook.

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Check out the home pages of specialised libraries like the Brownless Biomedical Library, the Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Library, the Giblin Eunson Business, Economics and Education Library or the Eastern Resource Centre.

Lib Guides are a fantastic resource! Find information on many topics, such as 'Medicine', 'Business & Economics' or 'Specialist'... e.g. Statistics and Mathematical Software.

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Worth a look

The Conversation is a new initiative to bring academics and researchers into the public debate.

It is an independent source of information, analysis and commentary from the university and research sector – written by acknowledged experts - on the issues of the day. The brainchild of a former editor of The Age, Andrew Jaspan, and Melbourne University vice-chancellor Glyn Davis, its founding partners include the Australian National University and the universities of Melbourne, Monash and Western Australia, as well as the University of Technology Sydney and the CSIRO.

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MAKING A DIFFERENCE

How secure are we?

A recently completed Independent Review of the Intelligence Community (IRIC) led by Associate Professor Rufus Black and Mr Robert Cornall AO, assesses the state of our intelligence agencies after a decade of legislative and funding changes. The findings on the whole are that we are moving in the right direction to meet "the new geo-political and technological realities facing Australia as a middle power with global interests".

The Prime Minister's press release

Further reading?
Try these search terms: National Security; Terrorism

The Globalist

How the world really hangs together. This website focuses on the global economy, politics and culture. Register to subscribe to its free daily online magazine.

Arts & Letters Daily is widely regarded as the Internet's best source for culture and ideas. The most intelligent, provocative, and illuminating news stories, critical reviews, political essays, and commentaries published online - all in one space!

Clearing up the climate debate

"At 'The Conversation' we thought, just for a change, that those who research atmospheric science, geology, meteorology, physics, economics, marine science, mathematics and psychology – a few of the varied fields that intersect with that nebulous beast we know as "climate change" – might like to talk about just that". Read more...

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