Sixth Form
Reading List
2015 -16
Arabic
‫ج بران خ ل يل ج بران‬
‫ج بران خ ل يل ج بران‬
‫ال نائ مة األم يرة‬
‫س لمى‬
‫غ ب ية ب نت‬
‫حرة هوامش‬
365 ‫ح كاي ة‬
‫وجول يت روم يو‬
‫ال ب ندق ية ت اجر‬
‫أن طون يو‬
‫وك ل يوب ترا‬/‫ش ك س ب ير‬
‫ال مدي نة وف أر ال قري ة ف أر‬
‫طحن دون ج عج عة‬
‫ون صرى ال ط رول ة س ِس‬
‫رر‬
‫وال حمار‬
‫ أن ت يجون ا‬/ ‫أن وي جان‬
‫ دم ية ب يت‬- ‫إب سن ه نري ل ـ‬
‫ول ي لة ل ي لة أل ف‬
‫ ع ب ير رواي ات‬- ‫ت داب ير‬
‫ال قدر‬
Jubran Khalil Jubran series
Jubran Khalil Jubran series ‘Translated’
The Sleepy Princess
Salma
Stupid Girl 9-90 years
Free margins
365 story
Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare
Antony & Cleopatra by Shakespeare
City mouse & Village Mouse
Fanfare without Grinding
Childhood & Nasry and the Donkey
Antegona
Doll's House / Henry Ibsen
One Thousand Night and Night
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
…isms, Understanding Art
Andrew Graham-Nixon
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 (3 rd 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 Boal
The Theatre of the Opressed by Augusto Boal
The Complete Stanislavski Toolkit by Bella Merlin
An 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 Bigsby
The 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 Bernieres
Bleak House – or any other novel by Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment by F Dosteoevsky
Rebecca, Jamaica Inn by D Du Maurier
American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary by G Flaubert
Lord of the Flies, Darkness Visible, Rites of Passage by William Golding
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 by J Heller
Portrait of a Lady, What Maisie Knew by Henry James
Ulysses, Dubliners (short stories) by James Joyce
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, The Rainbow by DH Lawrence
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Death of a Salesman, View From A Bridge, All My Sons, by Arthur Miller
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
1984 by George Orwell
The Bell Jar, Letters Home by Sylvia Plath
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Any play by William Shakespeare
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The First Circle, A Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovitch by A Solzhenitysn,
Firat Love by Ivan Turgenev
The 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 Duras
Antigone by Jean Anouilh
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Molière
Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier
Thérèse Desqueyroux by François Mauriac
La Guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu by Jean Giraudoux
Au nom du fils by Hervé Bazin
Un sac de Billes by Joseph Joffo
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
La Princesse de Clèves - anonymous
L’Assommoir by Emile Zola
A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust
L’Etranger by Albert Camus
La Peste by Albert Camus
Le Petit Prince by Saint-Exupery
Les 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 Magazines
Reading a range of tabloid and broadsheets from the UK.
Empire Magazine
Total 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.
Obedience
Read the following article and watch the film clips, then answer the questions
below:
http://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html
1.
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 isolation
Read 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.htm
Write 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 Testimony
Read 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 Experiment
Have 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:
Aim
Method
Results
Conclusion
http://psychology.about.com/library/Psychology_Experiments/bl-memoryexperiment.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 StreetSmart 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