Sixth FormReading List

2015 -16

Arabic

جبران خليل جبران Jubran Khalil Jubran seriesجبران خليل جبران Jubran Khalil Jubran series ‘Translated’

النائمة األميرة The Sleepy Princessسلمى Salma

غبية بنت Stupid Girl 9-90 yearsحرة هوامش Free margins

حكاية 365 365 storyوجوليت روميو Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeareالبندقية تاجر The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare

شكسبير/وكليوبترا أنطونيو Antony & Cleopatra by Shakespeareالمدينة وفأر القرية فأر City mouse & Village Mouse

طحن دون جعجعة Fanfare without Grindingونصرى الطفولة ِسفُر

والحمار Childhood & Nasry and the Donkeyأنوي جان / أنتيجونا Antegona

إبسن هنري لـ - دمية بيت Doll's House / Henry Ibsenوليلة ليلة ألف One Thousand Night and Night

القدر تدابير - عبير روايات Abeer's stories -Faith's issues

Art

The 20th Century Art Book Phaidon

The Photo Book Phaidon

The Art Book Phaidon

The Fashion Book Phaidon

Art Today Phaidon

The Story of Modern Art Phaidon

Art: the definitive guide Andrew Graham-Nixon

…isms, Understanding Art Stephen Little

Biology

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

The Double Helix by James Watson

The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sachs

The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins

A short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

Life on Earth series (DVD) by David Attenborough

Inside the Human Body (DVD) BBC

Edexcel AS Biology Revision Guide by Skinner, Winrow-Campbell & Dunkerton

AS - Level Biology (Edexcel) Complete Revision & Practice

Edexcel Biology for AS by Clegg

Business Studies and Economics

Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Hartford, Abacus

Key Management Ideas: Thinkers that Changed the Management World (3rd Ed) by Prentice Hall

The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life by Avinash K. Dixit, Barry J. Nalebuff, W. W. Norton & Company

The Witch Doctors: What Management Gurus Are Saying, Why It Matters and How to Make Sense of It; Business Review Magazine

Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester, Penguin

Open World: The Truth about Globalisation by P Legrain, Abacus

Development Economics by Bamford, C, Grant, S and Nixson, F, Heinemann

Chemistry

AS Level CGP Revision Guide

Chemistry for You by Lawrie Ryan

AS Chemistry by Graham and Hill

Chemical Storylines – Salters Advanced Chemistry

A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson

Computer Science

Learn Python the Hard Way-Zed Shaw

A2 AQA Computing—Kevin Bond, Sylvia Langfield

OCR Computing A Level-Chris Leadbetter, Agneau Belanyek, George Rouse

Drama

Games for Actors and Non-Actors by Augusto BoalThe Theatre of the Opressed by Augusto Boal

The Complete Stanislavski Toolkit by Bella MerlinAn Actor's work on a Role by Konstantin Stanislavski

Modern Drama in Theory and Practice 3 Expressionism and Epic Theatre-J L by Styan (Reference Bertold Brecht)

The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre

Essential Guide to Stage Management Lighting and Sound by Scott Palmer

The Mask Handbook by Toby Wilsher

Complicite Rehearsal Notes by Complicite

Theatrical Design and Production by J M Gillette

Theory

Modern American Drama by C W BigsbyThe Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin

As many plays as you can and want but none by Edward Albee before Unit 1

English Language

‘The English Language’ and ‘Rediscover Grammar’ by David Crystal

‘Grammar, Structure and Style’ Shirley Russell

‘Eats Shoots and Leaves’ by Lynn Truss

‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘The Haunting of Sylvia Plath’ by Jacqueline Rose

‘The Bell Jar’ or ‘Letters Home’ by Sylvia Plath

‘Othello’ by Shakespeare

English Literature

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by L De BernieresBleak House – or any other novel by Charles Dickens

Crime and Punishment by F DosteoevskyRebecca, Jamaica Inn by D Du MaurierAmerican Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis

The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night by F Scott FitzgeraldMadame Bovary by G Flaubert

Lord of the Flies, Darkness Visible, Rites of Passage by William GoldingFar from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Catch 22 by J HellerPortrait of a Lady, What Maisie Knew by Henry James

Ulysses, Dubliners (short stories) by James JoyceThe Trial by Franz Kafka

Lady Chatterley’s Lover, The Rainbow by DH LawrenceTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Death of a Salesman, View From A Bridge, All My Sons, by Arthur MillerThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

1984 by George OrwellThe Bell Jar, Letters Home by Sylvia Plath

The Catcher in the Rye by JD SalingerAny play by William Shakespeare

Frankenstein by Mary ShelleyThe First Circle, A Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovitch by A Solzhenitysn,

Firat Love by Ivan TurgenevThe Years, The Voyage Out, Orlando, Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Wolfe

Germinal, Thérèse Raquin by Emile Zola

See English Dept for a more detailed Reading List

French

Un Barrage Contre le Pacifique by Marguerite DurasAntigone by Jean Anouilh

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by MolièreLe Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier

Thérèse Desqueyroux by François MauriacLa Guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu by Jean Giraudoux

Au nom du fils by Hervé BazinUn sac de Billes by Joseph Joffo

Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertLes Miserables by Victor Hugo

La Princesse de Clèves - anonymousL’Assommoir by Emile Zola

A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel ProustL’Etranger by Albert CamusLa Peste by Albert Camus

Le Petit Prince by Saint-ExuperyLes Mains Sales by Jean-Paul Sartre

Les Justes by Albert Camus

Geography

Population 10 Billion By Danny Dorling

Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future by Ian Goldin, Geoffrey Cameron and Meera Balarajan

No Logo by Naomi Klein

Six Degrees: Our future on a hotter planet by Mark Lynas

Waking the Giant: How a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes by Bill McGuire

History

A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes

Lenin: A Biography by Robert Service

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore

What is to be done? By VI Lenin

Gandhi, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Gandhi

Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India by Lawrence James

Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson

Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire by Alex Von Tunzelmann

What is History? By E.H. Carr

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

ICT

Edexcel GCE in Applied ICT AS by Trevor Heathcote and Steve Farrell

Edexcel GCE in Applied ICT A2 by Trevor Heathcote and Steve Farrell

Bill Gates (Up Close) by Marc Aronson

Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired--and Secretive--Company Really Works by Adam Lashinsky

Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson

The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook by Ben Mezrich

Mathematics

Fermat’s Last Theorem by Simon Singh (Fourth Estate)

The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy (Harper-Collins, 2003)

Advanced Problems in Mathematics by S.T.C. Siklos (1996 and 2003)

From Here to Infinity by Ian Stewart (OUP, 1996)

Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos (Bloomsbury, 2011)

Media Studies

Media Studies AS – The Essential Introduction for AQA (2008) by Philip Rayner and Peter Wall Routledge

AQA Media Studies: AS (2008) by Julia Burton and Elspeth Stevenson Nelson Thornes

An Introduction To Theories of Popular Culture (2004) by Dominic Strinati Routledge

The Media & Body Image (2006) by Maggie Wykes & Barries Gunter Sage

AS and A2 Media Studies: Study Guide (2005) by Jacquie Bennett Revision Express

AS Media Studies: The Essential Revision Guide for AQA by Jo Barker and Peter Wall Routledge

Newspapers and MagazinesReading a range of tabloid and broadsheets from the UK.

Empire MagazineTotal Film Magazine

Music

A Student’s Guide to Harmony and Counterpoint by H Benham

Listening Tests for Students by H Benham and A Wightman

A2 Music Listening Tests, Second Edition

Dictionary of Music in Sound by D Bowman and J Jenkins

The Composer’s Handbook by B Cole

The Pop Composer’s Handbook by B Cole

History of Western Music by Grout (Chapters on the Late 18th century, Beethoven & Early Romantics)

The Cambridge Music Guide by Sadie & Latham

The Concise Oxford History of Music by Abraham

PE

Advanced Physical Education and Sport by Honeybourne and Hill.

Physical Education and the Study of Sport by Davis, Roscoe, Roscoe & Bull.

Sport and PE, a Complete Guide to Advanced Study by Messor, Wiggins and Thompson,

Advanced PE for Edexcel by Galligan et al.

Revise for Advanced PE for Edexcel by Barry, Crawford, Hill, Roberts & Spence.

Philosophy

The Philosophy Book by Will Buckingham, Peter J. King, Douglas Burnham and Marcus Weeks

50 Philosophy Ideas (You Really Need to Know) by Ben Dupré

Philosophy: Key Themes Baggini, Dr Julian

A Little History of Philosophy Warburton, Nigel

Psychology

1. ObedienceRead the following article and watch the film clips, then answer the questions below:http://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html1. Write a short summary of the experiment and its results.2. Milgram conducted his study in 1963. Do you think the results would be different if the experiment was conducted today? Explain your thinking.3. What type of people did Milgram say we are likely to obey?4. Why do you think Milgram conducted several variations of the experiment? What was he trying to show?

2. Children raised in isolationRead the article about Genie. There are also several You Tube clips of her story that you may want to watch.http://psychology.about.com/od/historyofpsychology/a/genie.htmWrite ten questions that you would want to ask Genie if you were invited to become a member of the research team working with her.

3. Eyewitness TestimonyRead the BBC article. What does it tell us about the nature of human memory?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4177082.stm

4. Memory ExperimentHave a go at the memory experiment. Then try out one of the other experiments on 2 or 3 people. Write up your experiment under the following headings:AimMethodResultsConclusion

http://psychology.about.com/library/Psychology_Experiments/bl-memory-experiment.htm

Physics

Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You by Marcus Chown

Six Easy Pieces: Fundamentals of Physics Explained by Richard Feynman

Why Does E=mc2?: (and Why Should We Care?) by Brian Cox and Jeff Foreshaw

Product Design

The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life) by John Maeda

Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden and Jill Butler.

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart.

It’s Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want to Be: The World’s Best Selling Book by Paul Arden

What They Don’t Teach You At Harvard Business School: Notes From A Street-Smart Executive by Mark H. McCormack.

Design Secrets: Products 1 and 2: 50 Real-Life Product Design Projects Uncovered by Lynn Haller and Cheryl Dangel Cullen, and edited by

Industrial Designers Society of America.

Process: 50 Product Designs from Concept to Manufacture by Jennifer Hudson.

Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals by Rob Thompson.

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus

27) Architecture: Form, Space, & Order by Francis D. K. Ching.

Spanish

PERIODICOS:

Deberías visitar la sección de español en la biblioteca al menos una vez a la semana y consultar las últimas ediciones de:

El País: www.elpais.com

El Sol:

Hola: www.hola.com

NOVELAS Y OTROS:

Almodóvar on Almodóvar by Pedro Almodovar

Como agua para chocolate by Laura Esquivel

La Casa de Bernarda Alba by Frederico Lorca

El Lazarillo de Tormes by Anonimo

El aquimista bu Paulo Coelho

Cuentos by Eva Luna