Subject Reading Lists
Subject Reading Lists
There may be times during your Private Study where you may have completed all of your homework. This list has been compiled by departments, and is full of opportunities to study, read, and extend your knowledge. If you are in the Sixth Form area, and a member of staff directs you to get on with some work, and you don't have anything on your to do list, this is your starting point.
Where possible the links take you to online versions of the book (provided by external sources) or link to the status of the book in our own Library using the Oliver system, with the shelf code so you can find it easily.
Biology Course Materials
OUP OCR Biology A - textbook issued to you by the school
Biozone OCR Biology book – excellent textbook that challenges a little more than the OUP one.
OCR Biology Maths Skills Booklet
OCR Biology Practical Skills Handbook
Biology Additional Reading (1= easy to read, 5=one for the true biology lovers)
2. The hidden life of trees, Peter Wohlleben – as you’d expect, a book about trees, but it’s very interesting
3. A crack in creation – Jennifer Doudna and Sam Sternberg – excellent book about gene editing
2. Other minds: the octopus and the evolution of intelligent life, Peter Godfrey-Smith – book about the evolution of intelligence
4. The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin – no description necessary
3. The double helix, James Watson – story about the discovery of the structure of DNA
1. The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot – reads like a novel, it’s about the most important cell line in Science
3. Genome: the autobiography of a species in 23 chapter, Matt Ridley – introduction to human genetics
1. The Hot Zone, Richard Preston – slightly scary book about filoviridae
5. Molecular Biology of the Cell, Alberts – a monster of a textbook about cell Biology. Well written and extremely detailed but it’s heavy and expensive. Worth investing in a copy if you’re doing something biological at university
1. Amazing rare things, David Attenborough and Susan Owens – book about the use of art in natural history
3. The Epigenetics Revolution, Nessa Carey – book about epigenetics and disease
3. Life on the Edge, Jim AlKalili and Johnjo McFadden – book about quantum Biology, really interesting
4. Biology, Campbell and Reece – big textbook that bridges the gap between a-level and degree.
4. Nature v Nurture by Matt Ridley
2. The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins (Link enables read online copy)
Biology Videos
Breaking The Mould - BBC Drama on the development of Penicillin by Florey & Chain
The Counter-Current Multiplier in The Kidney
Genetic Sequencing - a great collection of clips
The Stages of Mitosis Video/Animation
Intensive Dairy Farming - Part 1
Intensive Dairy Farming - Part 2 (2016 Update)
The Founder Effect, Genetic Drift & Genetic Bottlenecking
An Introduction to Business
The Entrepreneur’s Book of Checklists: 1000 Tips to Help You Start and Grow Your Business - Robert Ashton How I Made It: 40 Successful Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Made Millions - Rachel Bridge
Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur - Sir Richard Branson
Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours - Tarun Khanna
Impatient Optimist: Bill Gates in his own words – Bill Gates
Complete A-Z Business Studies Handbook (5th rev Ed) – David Lines, Barry Martin and Ian Marcouse
Human Resources
The Google Story - David A. Vise
The Witch Doctors: What Management Gurus Are Saying, Why It Matters and How to
Make Sense of It – John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
Key Management Ideas: Thinkers that Changed the Management World (3rd Ed) – Stuart Crainer
The World According to Peter Drucker – Jack Beatty and Peter Drucker
Real Leaders for the Real World: Essential Traits Of Successful And Authentic Leaders – John Mclachlan and Karen Meager
Marketing
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Malcolm Gladwell
No Logo - Naomi Klein
Principles of Marketing (12th Ed) – Philip Kotler and Gary Armstrong
Authentic Selling: How to boost your sales performance by being yourself – Guy Anastaze
Finance
The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham
House of Cards: How Wall Street's Gamblers Broke Capitalism - William D Cohan
Financial Accounting for Dummies – Steven Collins and Maire Loughran
Operations
The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer - Jeffrey Liker
Strategy
Sun Tzu - The Art of War for Managers: 50 Strategic Rules Updated for Today's Business - Gerald A. Michaelson
Maths Skills for A Level Chemistry - Dan McGowan
Head Start to A Level Chemistry - CGP Books
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out - Richard Feynman
Periodic Tales - Hugh Aldersey-Williams
The Disappearing Spoon - Sam Kean
Uncle Tungsten - Oliver Sachs
The Shocking History of Phosphorus: A Biography of the Devil’s Element - John Emsley
Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
Why Chemical Reactions Happen - James Keeler and Peter Wothers
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History- Penny Le Couteir, Jay Burreson
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World - Mark Miodownik
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World – Simon Garfield
Greek Religion – Walter Burkert (available from Classics department)
Greek Tragedy in Action – Oliver Taplin
A Handbook of Classical Drama – Philip Whaley Harsh (available in the Classics department)
World of Athens – JACT (available in the Classics department)
The Odyssey (copies available from Classics department)
Roman Vergil – W.F. Jackson Knight (available from the Classics department)
Virgil’s Aeneid – Kenneth Quinn (available from the Classics department)
Heroes of Greece and Troy – Roger Lancelyn Green (available in the Classics department)
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism - Ha-Joon Chang
Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance - Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna
The Undercover Economist – Tim Harford
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run or Ruin an Economy – Tim Harford
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Steven D. Levitt
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance - Steven D. Levitt
Everlasting Light Bulbs: How Economics Illuminates the World - John Kay
The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life - Stephen E. Landsburg
Free Lunch – 2012 edition - David Smith
The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do & Why It Matters - Diane Coyle
Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them—And They Shape Us - Sharman and Fishman
Ten Great Economists - Philip Thornton
The Box - How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger- Marc Levinson
Economics: The User’s Guide - Ha-Joon Chang
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon - Brad Stone
The Great Escape - Professor Angus Deaton
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics - Richard Thaler
The Upstarts: How Uber and Airbnb are changing the world - Brad Stone
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets - Professor Michael Sandel
Who Gets What - And Why: Understand the Choices You Have, Improve the Choices You Make - Al Roth
Building Vocabulary and Comprehension skills:
Mot à Mot : Paul Humberstone Vocabulary lists based on A level French topic-check that you get hold of a relatively up-to date version as it has been going for many years.
Click on ‘langue française’ followed by ‘apprendre le français’- wide range of interactive materials to develop vocab and grammar
Click on ‘langue française’ followed by ‘7 jours sur la planète’- a video clip with a weekly round-up of the world news in French with interactive activities pitched at a range of levels to test understanding
Read French newspapers online:
http://www.journauxfrancais.net
A site with links to all the online French national and regional newspapers
http://www.institut-francais.org.uk
Visit the French Institute in London- look at the website for details of specific courses, films, exhibitions etc. on offer
A guide to French cultural events taking place in London
Wider reading
Any of the books below will be a perfect starting point to help you to while away your holidays (Unless you are on holiday in France, of course, in which case you won’t stand out at all).
Amélie Nothomb—Hygiène de l’assassin
René Goscinny- Le Petit Nicolas
Fred Vargas- Coule la Seine
Jacques Prévert –Paroles
Katherine Pancol- Les Yeux jaunes des crocodiles
Joseph Joffo – Un sac de Billes
Geography Review - Copies available in the library
GeoFactsheets – many different titles covering a wide range of both physical and human geography available on the student shared area.
Contemporary Case Studies Series including:-
Natural Hazards and Disasters
Cities and Urbanisation
Population and Migration
Superpowers
Environmental Change – Andrew Goudie
Advanced Topic Master Series including:-
Glaciation and Periglaciation
Rivers
Additional/Oxbridge Reading.
Pan’s Travail J Donald Hughes— an interesting read about how the Greeks and Romans brought many animals to the edge of extinction
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson the book that started the environmental movement, with the discovery of the link between DDT and Bird deaths
Climate Change - A very short introduction
Flotsametrics and the Floating World - Ebbesymeyer and Sciglianoa - how one man’s obsession with runaway sneakers and rubber ducks revolutionised ocean science
Banker to the Poor - The Story of the Grameen Bank - Muhammad Yunus an alternative way of funding the world out of poverty - Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Economics
Some Lives- a GP’s EastEnd - David Wiggery - the clash of cultures between Docklands and the people living in the East End of London
The Revenge of Gaia - James Lovelock
Turbulence - Giles Fowden - a fictional account of the strategy for forecasting the Weather for D day.
Global Warming - a very short introduction - Mark Maslin - great pocket size guide to climate change
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail- Bill Bryson
London - Peter Ackroyd -an amazing insight into the history of London
Thames - Peter Ackroyd - journey along the river from source to mouth and learn some amazing details about the history and the geography of this lovely river
Touching the Void (Film Link) - Joe Simpson (Book) - a mountain climbing classic
An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore - a great book that goes with a great film
AQA German A Level Textbook (Year 1 and Year 2 books) – OUP (provided by the department)
AQA German A Level and AS Grammar & Translation Workbook - OUP (provided by the department)
Modern Languages Study Guides: Der Besuch der alten Dame, Friedrich Dürrenmatt Literature Study Guide – Paul Elliot published by Hodder Education.
Useful to buy your own copy of for the course:
Wort für Wort Sixth Edition: GermanVocabulary for AQA A Level – Paul Stocker. Vocab lists based on German topics.
Der Besuch der alten Dame by Friedrich Durrenmatt published by Taylor & Francis Ltd , Routledge, series Twentieth Century Texts, ISBN-13: 9780415051408
The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, translated 1962 by Jonathan Cape Ltd. ISBN9780224009140
Additional reading/ language practice for Year 11 plus:
Fiction
Zonenkinder by Jana Hensel (2004) – After the Wallin English translation, but it is fairly short with approachable German.
Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee (At the Shorter End of Sonnenallee) by Thomas Brussig
Current and cultural affairs
Deutsch Welle –DW Themen – global news in in German with story links to videos and audio
Deutsch Welle – Deutsch Lernen – home to "Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten" a daily audio news at a slower speed with transcript, Deutschtrainer feature and many links to other learner websites.
Thisislanguage.com – hundreds of authentic videos with interactive activities to complete, and some good grammar videos for revision prior to A Level
Goethe on Demand – lots of German films to stream on Vimeo free until 30/06/2020
ARD Mediathek – Geman films and TV streaming site (a bit like BBC iPlayer)
Goethe Institut A Level Site – Topic links for the A Level. Start with Family Life and do some reading and watching around this topic.
Step into German – lots of cultural learning and fun to be had on this website; German songs with lyrics, podcasts about current music and cinema, and a short film of the month to watch (with English subtitles) – put the website language into English, if you need help.
A Top 10 of German Magazines – with descriptions to help you choose which may be best for you. Simply click on the links and find something to read that interests you.
Grammar
German Grammar exercises – stick to the exercises on the page this opens to and the Grammar topics listed on the left of the page for further information and exercises.
English Grammar for Students of German 6th ed. (O&H Study Guides) (German) – available on amazon. Set text for German university courses, useful for beginners alike.
Good Bye Lenin! is a 2003 German tragicomedy film, directed by Wolfgang Becker.
Lola rennt ( Run Lola Run) is a 1998 German thriller film. The film was written and directed by Tom Tykwer, and stars Franka Potente as Lola and Moritz Bleibtreu as Manni.
Sonnenallee (Sun Avenue or Sun Alley ) is a 1999 comedy film about life in East Berlin in the late 1970s. The movie was directed by Leander Haußmann.
Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) is a 2006 German drama film, marking the feature film debut of filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.
Der ganz grosse Traum Directed by Sebastian Grobler. With Daniel Brühl; An English teacher brings soccer from England to Germany in the late 19th Century by teaching it to his class.
(The Economy of Society)
Overy, R. J. The Nazi Economic Recovery 1932–1938. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Overy, Richard J. War and Economy in the Third Reich. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.
Koch, H. W. Hitler Youth: Origins and Development, 1922–1945. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1996.
Bessel, Richard. Life in the Third Reich. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987
Mason, Timothy W., and Jane Caplan. Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
(Opposition/Popular Support)
Gellately, Robert. Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Geyer, Michael & John Boyer,(eds). Resistance Against the Third Reich, 1933-1990. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
McDonough, Frank. Opposition and Resistance in Nazi Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001
Peukert, Detlev. Inside Nazi Germany: Conformity, Opposition and Racism in Everyday Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.
Snyder, Louis L. Hitler's German Enemies. New York: Berkley Books, 1992.
(Documentary Readers)
Noakes, Jeremy. Documents on Nazism, 1919-1945. New York: Viking Press, 1975.
Snyder, Louis L. Hitler's Third Reich: A Documentary History. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1981
(Nazi Germany)
Evans, Richard J. The Coming of the Third Reich. New York: Penguin, 2005. ISBN 978-0141009759
Evans, Richard J. The Third Reich in Power. New York: Penguin, 2006. ISBN 978-0141009766
Evans, Richard J. The Third Reich at War: 1939–1945. New York: Penguin, 2010. ISBN 978-0141015484
Fischer, Conan. The Rise of the Nazis. Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 1995.
Bracher, Karl Dietrich. The German Dictatorship; The Origins, Structure, and Effects of National Socialism; New York, Praeger 1970
Gregor, Neil, ed. Nazism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Mommsen, Hans. The Third Reich between Vision and Reality: New Perspectives on German History, 1918–1945. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2003.
Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960
Broszat, Martin. Hitler and the Collapse of Weimar Germany. London: Berg Publishers, 1987
Bullock, Alan. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny. New York: Harper & Row, 1964.
Fest, Joachim C. Hitler. Orlando, FL.: Mariner Books, 2002.
Geary, Dick. Hitler and Nazism. Lancaster Pamphlets. London: Routledge, 1993.
Kershaw, Ian. The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich., 1987.
Kershaw, Ian. Hitler: 1889–1936: Hubris. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999.leading scholarly history
Kershaw, Ian. Hitler, 1936–1945: Nemesis. New York; London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.leading scholarly history
Kershaw, Ian. Hitler: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008.
Fest, Joachim C. The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970
Bessel, Richard. Nazism and War. New York: Modern Library, 2006.
Maths Skills for A-Level Chemistry - Emma Poole & Dan McGowan
Professor Stewarts Cabinet of Mathematic Curiosities by Ian Stewart
Professor Stewarts Hoard of Mathematic Curiosities by Ian Stewart
The curious incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
As Easy as Pi by Jamie Buchan
Hexaflexagons, probability paradoxes and the Tower of Hanoi by Mark Gardner
Alex’s Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos
Finding Moonshine; a mathematical journey through symmetry by Marcus de Sautoy
How to Think Like a Mathematician by Keven Houston
Link to HMB's A-level reading list
Sport & PE: A complete Guide to A-Level Study - Hartigan, Wesson, James & Thompson (2005)
AS PE for AQA - James, Thompson & James (2005)
A Brief History of Time Hawking Stephen
A Short History of Nearly Everything Bryson Bill
About Time, Einstein's Unfinished Revolution Davies Paul
Astrophysics Bishop Christopher
Black Holes and the Universe Novikov Igor
Cartoon Guide to Physics Gonick Larry & Huffman Art
Cartoon History of The Universe Gonick Larry & Huffman Art
Einstein for Beginners Schwartz J & McGuinness
Richard P Bentall (2010) Doctoring the Mind: Why psychiatric treatments fail.
John Duncan (2010) How intelligence happens.
Malcolm Gladwell (2005) Blink - the power of thinking without thinking
(He’s not a psychologist, but he writes very knowledgably about psychology).
Daniel Gilbert (2007) Stumbling on happiness.
Ben Goldacre (2009) Bad Science .
(Not a Psychologist, but a journalist who’s also a medical doctor. Good for basic research methods background and evaluation of research evidence).
Judith Harris (2009) The Nurture Assumption.
Daniel Kahneman (2012) Thinking, Fast and Slow.
(A psychologist, who won the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences)
Lilienfeld, S.O., Lynn, S.J., Ruscio, J. & Beverstein, B.L. (2009) 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions About Human Behavior.
Steven Pinker (2008) The Stuff of Thought: Language As a Window Into Human Nature
Steven Pinker (2003) The language instinct: the new science of language and mind.
Vilayanur Ramachandran (2012) The tell-tale brain.
Vasudevi Reddy 92010) How infants know minds.
Stuart Sutherland (2007) Irrationality (Founding Professor of Experimental Psychology at Sussex)
Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson (2008) Mistakes were made (but not by me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions and Hurtful Acts.
Human Relationships (2001) David Moxon (an A-level topic)
Memory (2000) David Moxon (an AS topic)
Messer, Neil. SCM Studyguide Christian Ethics. SCM Press, 2006. ISBN 0-334-02995-3
McGrath, Alister E. Christian Theology: An Introduction. Wiley-Blackwell; 5th Revised edition, 2010. ISBN 978-1444335149
McGrath, Alister E. The Christian Theology Reader. Wiley-Blackwell; 4th Revised edition, 2011. ISBN 978-0470654842
Hick, J. The Myth of God Incarnate. SCM Press London, 2012. ISBN 978-0334010654
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
Plato’s Republic
Augustine The City of God
Mackie, J. The Miracle of Theism. Oxford University Press, 1983. ISBN 978-0198246824
Otto, R. The Idea of the Holy. Martino Fine Books, 2010. ISBN 978-1578988617
Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion. Hendrickson Publishers Inc; Rev. Ed edition, 2007. ISBN 978-1598561685
James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures 9, 10, 16, 17 and 20 CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. ISBN 978-1539007326
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. Letters and Papers from Prison and The Cost of Discipleship
FIBRES and FABRICS
Textiles at the Cutting Edge - Lesley Cresswell
Textile Innovation - Ros Hibbert
Fabric for Fashion The Swatch Book - Clive Hallett and Amanda Johnston
Fabric for fashion A comprehensive guide to natural fibres—Clive Hallett and Amanda Johnston
Clothing Technology H Eberle
Technology of textile Properties—Marjorie A Taylor
Textiles Properties and behaviour in clothing use—Miller
FASHION HISTORY
Fashionpedia The visual dictionary of Fashion Design
Fashion The Ultimate book of Costume and Style
Vogue Twentieth Century fashion—Linda Watson
Textiles and Fashion—Jenny Udale
NEA
Fashion Drawing - John Hopkins
Research and Design—Simon Seivewright
Developing a Collection—Colin Renfrew and Elinor Renfrew
Construction—Anette Fischer
AQA AS and A Level Music Study Guide (Richard Knight and Richard Bristow) Rhinegold Education ISBN 978-1-78558-155-7
AQA AS and A Level Music Listening Tests Rhinegold Education ISBN 978-1-78558-156-4
AQA A Level Music Revision Guide (Richard Knight and Richard Bristow) Rhinegold Education ISBN 978-1-78558-158-8