Wider Reading and Discovery Lists for A-Level Helping you fulfil your academic potential These lists will give you a broader understanding of your chosen subjects, compliment your core reading and enable your academic success. Whatever you study, you should be developing your reading, comprehension and critical thinking skills. However in depth subject knowledge can’t only be found in books, journals or periodicals. Discover more by visiting museums, galleries, theatres and academic institutions, stimulating your imagination and enhancing your core studies. 1 Contents Art – page 3 Biology – pages 3 and 4 Business Studies – page 4 Chemistry – pages 4 and 5 Computer Science – page 5 Design and Technology – page 5 Drama – pages 6 and 7 Economics – pages 7, 8 and 9 English Literature – pages 10 and 11 French – page 11 Geography – page 12 History – page 13 Law – page 14 Maths and Further maths – page 14 Media Studies – pages 14 and 15 Philosophy and Ethics – page 15 Physical Education – page 16 Physics –page 16 Psychology – page 17 Spanish – pages 17 and 18 Sociology – page 18 Other places for curious minds – page 19 2 Art Texts to read Story of Art by Ernst Gombrich History of Beauty by Umberto Eco Shock of the New by Robert Hughes Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon The Art Book by Phaidon Press Ltd. The Art Forger by Barbara A. Shapiro Ways of Seeing by John Berger Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Art and Made History (in That Order) by Betty Edwards by Bridget Quinn Seven Days in The Art World by Sarah Thornton Places to discover Barbican Art Gallery London Gallery West National Portrait Gallery Serpentine Gallery West London Art Factory Somerset House Westbank Art & Music Brent Artists Resource The Tate Modern Tate Britain Royal Academy of Arts Whitechapel Gallery Saatchi Gallery Biology Texts to read The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel The Epigenetics Revolution by Nessa Dennett Carey Genome by Matt Ridley On the Origin of Species by Charles What a Fish Knows by Jonathan Darwin Balcombe The Third Chimpanzee by Jared The Structure of Evolutionary Theory Diamond by Stephen Jay Gould 3 Places to discover The Science Museum London Museums of Health and The Natural History Museum Medicine The Anatomy Museum The Hunterian Museum Grant Museum of Zoology Other resources New Scientist Magazine BBC Focus Magazine Discover Magazine Business Studies Texts to read The Lean Startup by Eric Ries Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill Growing a Business by Paul Hawken The Startup Playbook by David S. How Google Works by Eric Schmidt Kidder and Jonathan Rosenberg The Google Story by David A. Vise, Mark Malseed Places to discover London Chamber of Commerce & Industry Chemistry Texts to read The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean The Periodic Kingdom by Peter Atkins Periodic Tales by Hugh Aldersey- The Joy of Chemistry: The Amazing Williams Science of Familiar Things by Cathy The Elements by Theodore Gray Cobb and Monty L. Fetterolf The Elements of Murder: A History of Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks Poison by John Emsley 4 Places to discover The Science Museum The Fleming Museum @ Imperial The Royal Institution College The Faraday Museum The Royal Society of Chemistry Computer Science Texts to read The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Kidder Science of Human Decisions by Brian Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Christian and Tom Griffiths Revolution by Steven Levy Places to discover The National Museum of Computing The Science Museum Design and Technology Texts to read Materials for Design by Chris Lefferi Design of the 20th Century by Prototyping and model making for Charlotte Fiell Product Design By Bjarki Harlgrimsson Sketching and Drawing for product Design: The Definitive Visual History Designers(portfolio skills) by Kevin 50 Designers you should know by Henry Claudia Hellman Places to discover The Science Museum The Design Museum The V&A Museum 5 Drama Books about Acting ● The Actor and the Target by ● Building A Character by Constantin Declan Donnellan Stanislavski ● An Actor Prepares by Constantin ● Creating A Role by Constantin Stanislavski Stanislavski Set texts and wider reading ANTIGONE ● Antigone by Sophocles ● Rebel Women: Staging Ancient ● A Guide to Greek Theatre and Greek Drama Today edited by John Drama by Kenneth McLeish Dillon and Stephen Wilmer ● Greek Theatre Performance: An Introduction by David Wiles OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD ● Our Country’s Good by Timberlake ● Letters to George by Max Stafford- Wertenbaker Clark ● The Theatre of Timberlake ● Actioning - and How to Do It by Wertenbaker by Sophie Bush Nick Moseley ● Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good by Max Stafford- Clark and Maeve McKeown Books about Theatre Style ● Modern Drama in Theory and Practice Vol.1: Realism and Naturalism ● Modern Drama in Theory and Practice Vol.3: Expressionism and Epic Theatre Books about Theatre Practitioners ● The Complete Brecht Toolkit by ● Theatre in Practice by Nick O'Brien Stephen Unwin ● Stanislavski in Practice: Exercises for ● The Complete Stanislavsky Toolkit by Students by Nick O'Brien Bella Merlin Books about Devising ● Through the Body by Dymphna Callery 6 ● The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising by Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett ● Impro: Improvisation by Keith Johnstone Online Resources ● Devising Theatre by David Farmer - https://dramaresource.com/devising-theatre/ ● Digital Theatre Plus - https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education ○ Some excellent guides on Antigone and Our Country’s Good ○ Introductions to Stanislavski and Brecht ○ Guides to Devising Places to discover ● National Theatre - Entry Pass ○ Entry Pass is a free membership scheme for anyone aged 16 – 25. ● Victoria and Albert Museum -Theatre & Performance: Rooms 103 - 106b ● LIFT Festival - https://www.liftfestival.com/ ○ LIFT HAS DONE MORE TO INFLUENCE THE GROWTH AND ADVENTURE OF ENGLISH THEATRE THAN ANY OTHER ORGANISATION WE HAVE. Sir Mark Rylance, LIFT Patron ● Camden Fringe - https://www.camdenfringe.com/ ○ Performing arts festival which takes place in Camden during August. Economics Texts to read 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Almighty Dollar (Dharshini David) – Capitalism (Ha-Joon Chang) – follows the journey of a single $ to challenges conventional thinking show how the global economy works Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of and Rewards of Our New Renaissance: the Intangible Economy (Haskel and (Ian Goldin & Chris Kutarna) Westlake) Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built Capitalism: 50 Ideas You Really Need (Duncan Clark) – The rise of the to Know (Jonathan Portes) – compact Chinese corporate giant and excellent reference material 7 Choice Factory (Richard Shotton) – a Limits of the Market: The Pendulum story of 25 behavioural biases that Between Government and the Market influence what we buy (Paul De Grauwe) Doughnut Economics (Kate Raworth) – Misbehaving: The Making of challenges much of orthodox thinking Behavioural Economics (Richard in the subject Thaler) – a truly superb biography Plundered Planet: How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature: (Professor Drunkard’s Walk (Leonard Mlodinow) Paul Collier) – development classic – a brilliant history of Maths with lots Poor Economics: Rethinking Ways to of relevant applications Fight Global Poverty (Banerjee & Economics for the Common Good Duflo) – development economics (Jean Tirole) – applied micro from a Positive Linking – Networks and recent Nobel prize winner Nudges (Paul Ormerod) – good GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History introduction to network economics (Professor Diane Coyle) – really good Rise and Fall of Nations: Ten Rules of on the GDP / well-being debate Change in the Post-Crisis World (Richir Grave New World: (Stephen King) – Sharma) Former head of Econ at HSBC looks at Risk Savvy - How to make good the fracturing global economy decisions (Gerd Gigerenzer) – the Great Economists: How Their Ideas world of heuristics and risk Can Help Us Today (Linda Yueh) – management perspectives on contemporary issues Ten Great Economists (Philip Growth Delusion: The Wealth and Thornton) – biographical background, Well-Being of Nations (David Pilling) – well worth a read antidote to gospel of GDP The Box - How the Shipping Container Inequality (Anthony Atkinson) – a Made the World Smaller and the superb book on one of the defining World Economy Bigger, (Levinson) economic/political issues of the age The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and Inner Lives of Markets: How People the Age of Amazon (Brad Stone) – a Shape Them—And They Shape Us great business page turner (Sharman and Fishman) 8 What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (Michael Sandel) – The Great Divide (Professor Joseph Pure PPE bliss Stiglitz) – one of the classic critiques of Who Gets What - And Why: globalisation Understand the Choices You Have; The Great Escape (Professor Angus Improve the Choices You Make (Al Deaton) – a broad sweep of economic Roth) history and poverty reduction Why Information Grows: The The Undoing Project: (Michael Lewis) Evolution of Order, from Atoms to – Tracks the birth of behavioural Economies (Cesar Hidalgo) – economics, Kahneman and Tversky challenging Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow: World of Three Zeroes (Muhammad (Professor Daniel Kahneman) – the Yunus) – new book from founder of classic Kahneman epic on psychology the Grameen Bank” Upstarts: How