1 January 2018

Wider Reading

for

Sixth Form

Use in conjunction with the Library Intranet page

to search for resources available in the QEGS

Library, plus you can see if available through the

Derbyshire Libraries Website https://emlib.ent.sirsidynix.net.uk/client/en_GB/derbyshire/ or visit your local library.

2 January 2018

Going Beyond the Classroom: Super-Curricular Learning

One of the best ways you stand out during your Sixth Form studies is through the amount of independent

study you undertake outside of the classroom. Regardless of your future plans, the ability to extend

yourself and research independently into your interests is an invaluable skill – this will support your

university applications and/or future job applications and interviews. All universities expect more than just

classroom knowledge, which is where super-curricular activities come in; these are academic enrichment

tasks that show you are interested in your studies beyond what is on the school syllabus.

This ‘Wider Reading List’ has been put together to help you develop your interests not only in you chosen

fields of study, but also in the wider world around you.

General resources

iTunes U Free podcasts, video lectures, reading recommendations

A whole range of resources from leading universities (Oxford, Yale)

YouTube Has its own educational channel – EDU

Radio 4 Excellent range of archive material

Recommended – Week in Westminster / Thinking Allowed / A History of the World / In Our Time

TED Watch talks from experts from a variety of fields

MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses – These online courses provide videos, reading lists and activities

– you often don’t need to formally complete the course

FutureLearn – www.futurelearn.com

EdX – www.edx.org

Coursera – www.coursera.org

Websites of Professional organisations e.g. www.rsc.org – Royal Society of Chemistry

www.history.org.uk – The Historical Association

Read newspapers! Some online versions are free

Read more than one to develop your critical skills

3 January 2018

Art and Design

The Library has many research books on artists, pop in to have a look!

Books The Andy Warhol Diaries Edited by Pat Hackett pub by Warner Books The American Leonardo: A Tale of 20th Century Obsession, Art and Money by John Brewer I Was Vermeer: The Forger Who Swindled the Nazis by Frank Wynne The Shock of the New, by Robert Hughes

Magazines/Journals Modern Painters -brilliant monthly magazine devoted to painting, only interviews with painters and exhibition reviews. Crafts Magazine- published every two months by the Crafts Council. For all aspects of the Applied Arts including interviews with Craftspeople, exhibition reviews, competitions to enter, job vacancies etc www.craftscouncil.org.uk The Photographers' Magazine Printmaking Today- pub by Cello Press, four issues per year www.cello.press. All aspects of Printmaking covered with interviews, exhibition reviews, competitions etc

Galleries, exhibition spaces, permanent exhibitions Larger galleries and Museum spaces, all with permanent exhibitions:

The Tate Modern- Modern and Contemporary art

The Tate Britain- British Art

The Victoria and Albert Museum- Applied arts and design from around the world

The Design Museum

The National Portrait Gallery Contemporary Art Galleries with changing exhibitions:

The Nottingham Contemporary http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/

The Tarpey Gallery of fine art (Derby) http://tarpeygallery.com/

The White Cube

The Saatchi Gallery

The Whitechapel Art Gallery

The Crafts Council Gallery

Cork Street Galleries- commercial art galleries on London’s famous Cork Street Useful Websites Student Art Guide www.studentartguide.com Pinterest www.pinterest.com The British Museum www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk Victoria and Albert Museum www.vam.ac.uk Hayward Gallery www.hayward-gallery.org.uk National Gallery www.nationalgallery.org.uk National Portrait Gallery www.npg.org.uk Tate Britain/ Modern www.tate.org.uk Whitechapel Gallery www.whitechapel.org ICA www.ica.org.uk

4 January 2018

Biology Useful Websites AQA Resources - http://www.aqa.org.uk/resources/science/as-and-a-level/biology-7401-7402/teach/textbooks How to read around the subject - http://intobiology.org.uk/how-to-read-around-the-subject/ From the link above a few books-

The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being, Alice Roberts. Alice Roberts combines embryology, genetics, anatomy, evolution and zoology to tell the incredible story of the human body

The Epigenetics Revolution, Nessa Carey. A fascinating introduction to epigenetics. If you enjoy this, follow up with Seed to Seed (see below).

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot. How one woman’s cancer cells changed the medical world forever, and because a multi-million dollar industry.

Bad Science, Ben Goldacre. Looking objectively at popular science reporting.

The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan. A very different approach to science writing, Michael Pollan turns our normal perspective on its head to consider how plants manipulate humans.

Almost Like A Whale, Steve Jones. Using contemporary science to update Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of the Species”.

Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution, Holly Tucker. The dramatic history of blood transfusions, from 17th century France onwards.

Seed to Seed, Nicholas Harberd. A research scientist tells the story of ten years of discovery in his own laboratory. A very valuable insight into contemporary genetics and epigenetics research, and what it means to be a scientist.

Calculus Diaries, Jennifer Ouellette. A non-mathematician finds out how maths can help you tackle anything – even a zombie apocalypse.

Life Ascending, Nick Lane. Where does DNA come from? How did the eye evolve? A reconstruction of evolutionary history through ten of its greatest landmarks.

Genome, Matt Ridley. 23 human chromosomes in 23 chapters.

The Energy of Life, Guy Brown. Introduction to the cutting-edge science of Bioenergetics And a few more –

The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins

The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins

The Double Helix, James Watson

Manwatching, Desmond Morris

Origin of a Species, Charles Darwin

Journals and magazines Biological Sciences Review. This magazine is written specifically for students of A level Biology. It is highly readable and bridges the gap between your text books and scientific journals. The Library has the current copy on show and all back copies, just ask at the desk. New Scientist This is a weekly science magazine that keeps you up to date with what’s new in science. If you wish to become a subscriber, you will have to pay. Nature. This is an international weekly journal of science. http://www.nature.com/

5 January 2018

Websites http://www.ibiblio.org/virtualcell/index.htm – An interactive cell biology site

http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG – A web site showing illustrations of many processes of biotechnology

http://www.uq.oz.au/nanoworld – Visit the world of electron-microscopy

http://www.dnai.org/a/index.html – Explore the genetic code

http://nobelprize.org – Details of the history of the best scientific discoveries

http://nature.com – The site of the scientific journal

http://royalsociety.org – Podcasts, news and interviews with scientists about recent scientific developments

http://www.nhm.ac.uk – The London Natural History Museum’s website with lots of interesting

educational material

http://www.bmj.com – The website of the British Medical Journal

10.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science_and_environment - The BBC news page for Science and the Environment

https://www.rsb.org.uk/students Royal Society of Biology - student site.

https://www.ted.com/topics/biology TED talks Biology homepage.

6 January 2018

Business Studies Books Many books available use the link below and a few ideas to start with! https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/4208/economics/recommended-reading-list-for-economics-students/

How I Made It: 40 Successful Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Made Millions- Rachel Bridge An essential read for anyone that is thinking about starting their own business. Successful Entrepreneurs are interviewed about how the spotted a gap in a market, and developed a USP.

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference- Malcolm Gladwell A very readable and fascinating book, which looks into the reasons products become market leaders.

The Google Story - David A. Vise An interesting investigation into the culture at Google, includes insights into the four-day working week and soft management styles. The questions is; are these the things that made Google the world’s number one search engine?

The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer - Jeffrey Liker Covers Japanese Management Techniques such as Kaizen and TQM.

Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours- Tarun Khanna An investigation into Asia’s two growing economic powers.

Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur - Sir Richard Branson The autobiography of Britain’s most famous entrepreneur.

Sun Tzu - The Art of War for Managers: 50 Strategic Rules Updated for Today's Business – Gerald A Michaelson

Applying the ancient Chinese rules of battle to modern day business.

The Intelligent Investor- Benjamin Graham The classic book on stock market investment, as recommended by Warren Buffet.

No Logo - Naomi Klein Klein investigates the negative side to marketing and globalisation.

House of Cards: How Wall Street's Gamblers Broke Capitalism - William D Cohan Explains the reason behind the continuing global financial crisis, which started in September 2008.

Magazines & journals The Economist Business Review Magazine – Available for reference in the Library and back copies, just ask at the Library desk. Business pages of any news paper

Websites www.tutor2u.net – for articles, course notes and case studies www.bized.co.uk www.businesscasestudies.co.uk Freakonomics Podcast www.bbc.co.uk/news/business The Bottom Line with Evan Davis on Radio 4 TED Talks www.ted.com/talks

7 January 2018

Chemistry 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

Magazine/Journals Scientific American New Scientist The Mole Chemistry Review – reference copy available in the Library with back copies, just ask at the Library desk.

Places of Interest Royal Society of Chemistry - Burlington Arcade, Regents Street London Science Museum, London Museum of the HIstory of Science, Oxford Curie Museum, Paris

Websites Periodic Table of Videos by Martyn Poliakoff www.youtube.com Royal Society of Chemistry www.rsc.org.uk Institution of Chemical Engineers www.icheme.org www.chemguide.co.u

8 January 2018

Computing & ICT

Books Trigger Happy: The inner life of videogames - Stephen Poole. A witty, comprehensive and passionate discourse on the videogame explosion. Essential reading for anyone with an interest in this industry.

Accidental Empires - Robert X Cringely. An insider’s account of the origins and growth of the micro-computing industry from the earliest times to the present day; acerbic and funny in equal measure.

Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (Culture, Media and Identities series). Hall, Stuart

The Matter of Images: Essays on Representation, Dyer, Richard

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.

Media, Gender and Identity: An Introduction. Gauntlett, D

Laura Mulvey, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. Hein, C

Media, Culture and Society: An Introduction. Hodkinson, P

Magazines Wired New Scientist Media Magazine Websites The Guardian Media pages: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/media The Media Wizards Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGXfqzVEZr0XaZLWG3_HniA BBC Media Centre: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre http://www.tnmoc.org/ http://pcpro.com http://www.theregister.co.uk/ YouTube: The Media Insider Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGXfqzVEZr0XaZLWG3_HniA

9 January 2018

Economics

Books

Freakonomics by Levitt & Dubner

Undercover Economist by Tim Harford

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Thaler & Sunstein www.economicshelp.org/blog/4208/economics/recommended-reading-list-for-economics-students/ lists further ideas for books

Useful Websites

Tutor2u Website for articles, course notes and case studies www.tutor2u.net

TED Talks

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business/

Business pages of any news paper

Economics Review – for reference in QEGS library, back copies also available ask at the Library desk.

The Economist

10 January 2018

English Language & Literature

General Books Bill Bryson, Mother Tongue

Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman and Nina Hyams, An Introduction to Language

Sara Thorne, Mastering Advanced English Language

R L Trask, Language the Basics

Crystal, A Little Book of Language

Language and mode

Ursula Clark, An Introduction to Stylistics

David Crystal, Rediscover Grammar (for reference)

USEFUL WEBSITES http://www.aqa.org.uk/ The exam board site. The complete syllabus is downloadable. http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/ Lots of invaluable information on all aspects of your English Language course. www.englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/ Written by Dan Clayton at St Francis Xavier College; provides excellent materials and discussions, plus lots of links to other relevant sites. http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/ Lancaster Uni Language and Linguistics site. Enormous. They have a specific A Level site within this and loads of resources. http://www.geoffbarton.co.uk/ useful site which covers many aspects of AS. http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/ Very good for dialects, phonology.

11 January 2018

English Literature

You will have your set texts to read, but it would be beneficial and enjoyable for you to read around these. You could read more written by the author or written in the same genre. For example, once you have read Enduring Love by Ian McEwan perhaps then read Saturday or On Chesil Beach or Atonement.

Solar, Enduring Love, Saturday by Ian McEwan

Spies by Michael Frayn

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

Outcast by Sadie Jones

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Reader by Bernard Schlink

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh Other Try to read material from the ‘prizes’ e.g. The Man Booker prize or the Orange prize Try to get into reading a broadsheet newspaper weekly Try to read a range of non-fiction writing such as travel writing (Bryson, Palin), autobiography (Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela), biography etc. Reference Books A Dictionary of Literary Terms by Martin Gray Doing English by Robert Eaglestone How to Write Better Essays by Bryan Greetham Oxford concise companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble and Jenny Stringer Pastoral by Terry Gifford The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry The Poet’s Craft by Sandy Brownjohn Magazines/Journals

English Review & E Mag – Current copy in the Library, back copies catalogued on Library page, ask at library desk for edition required.

The Times Literary Supplement – a weekly literary review

12 January 2018

Literary Events These events take place each year and are worth visiting as you are more than likely to meet some famous literary faces!

THE GUARDIAN HAY FESTIVAL May/June http://www.hayfestival.com

BBC PROMS LITERARY FESTIVAL July/Sept http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms

HENLEY FESTIVAL July http://www.henley-festival.co.uk

HENLEY LITERARY FESTIVAL Sept/Oct www.henleyliteraryfestival.co.uk/ Libraries QEGS Library of course, Ashbourne/Derbyshire libraries http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure/libraries/search_the_catalogue/ Cinemas: As well as your standard Odeon/Showcase why not try these cinemas which usually show more independent films, plus live streaming from the National Theatre, London. The Quad - http://www.derbyquad.co.uk/whats-on/film.aspx?PageNo=1 Theatres: There is a huge choice of theatres in London why not try a production in one of these more local theatres: Derby Theatre Nottingham Playhouse Nottingham Theatre Royal Nottingham Arts Theatre Useful Websites http://www.guardian.co.uk/books http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/home http://www.themanbookerprize.com/

13 January 2018

Geography Magazines & Journals Geography Review – for reference in QEGS Library, back copies available ask at the desk. Geofactsheets Geofiles National Geographic The Economist

Textbooks and revision guides Edexcel A level Geography Book 1 Third Edition by Cameron Dunn Paperback £25.99

Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 1 and AS Student Book by Bob Digby Paperback £28.50

Edexcel GCE Geography as Level Student Book and eBook (Edexcel Geography A Level 2016) by Viv Pointon Paperback £26.59

Edexcel AS/A-level Geography Student Guide 2: Globalisation; Shaping places

Edexcel AS/A-level Geography Student Guide 1: Tectonic Processes and Hazards; Landscape systems, processes and change (Student Guides)

Edexcel A level Geography Book 2 Third Edition by Cameron Dunn Paperback £25.99

Edexcel GCE Geography Y2 A Level: Student book (Edexcel Geography A Level 2016) by Mr Daniel Mace Paperback £26.78

Geography for Edexcel A Level Year 2 Student Book by Bob Digby Paperback £29.99

Edexcel AS/A-level Geography Workbook 1: Tectonic processes and hazards; Glaciated landscapes and change; Coastal landscapes and change

Edexcel AS/A-level Geography Workbook 2: Globalisation; Regenerating Places; Diverse Places

Geography: An integrated approach by David Waugh (various editions).

Essential Maths Skills for AS/A-Level Geography Book by Helen Harris

Books An Introduction to Physical Geography and the Environment Joseph Holden

Introducing Human Geographies Cloke Crang and Goodwin

Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World (2004) by Richard Heinberg.

Krakatoa Simon Winchester

International Migration: Globalisation’s Last Frontier Johnathan Moses

The Great Thirst – Californians and Water (1992) by Norris Hundley.

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (2008) by Mark Lynas.

The Global casino (4th edition 2008) by Nick Middleton.

The New Rulers of the World (2003) by John Pilger.

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (The Man Booker prize winner in 2008).

The Debt Boomerang (1991) by Susan George. -

Fixing Climate (2008) by Wallace Broeker and Robert Kunzig.

There is no such thing as a natural disaster ( 2006) by Chester Hartman and Gregory D Squires ( about the New Orleans flood).

Richter 10- Taming the Earthquakes (1996) by Arthur Clarke and (late) Mike McQuay.

Volcano – Nature’s Inferno (1997) National geographic.

Climate Wars: The Fight For Survival As The World Overheats by Gwynne Dyer.

Here on Earth by Tim Flannery.

14 January 2018

Keep up to date with the News! Broadsheet newspapers: The Guardian, The Times, Independent, Daily Telegraph BBC News online: www.bbc.co.uk/ BBC The best of the BBC, with the latest news and sport headlines, weather, TV & radio highlights and much more from across the whole of BBC Online Al Jazeera English: www.aljazeera.com/ Al Jazeera: Live News, analysis from the Middle East & worldwide, multimedia & interactives, opinions, documentaries, podcasts, long reads and broadcast schedule.

Podcasts, Films & Documentaries Royal Geographical Society http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Schools/School+Members+Area/Online+lectures/Podcasts/Podcasts.htm TedTalks (wealth of interesting discussion points).

An inconvenient truth

The Flood

The 11th Hour

Blood diamonds

The truth about climate change

Food Inc

Volcano (1997)

Dantes Peak (1997)

Earthquake (1974)

Flood (2007)-

Water First- Reaching the Millennium Development Goals (2008)

State of the Planet – a series made in 2001 and presented by David Attenborough

Human Planet – 8 part BBC documentary series (2011) looking at human species interaction with the natural world

City of God (2002)

Wall. E (2008) Covers themes of Globalisation and brand power.

Simon Reeve (presenter) - Various BBC documentaries covering both physical and human geographical themes.

http://www.s-cool.co.uk/a-level/geography

15 January 2018

History Websites www.thehistorychannel.co.uk www.unionhistory.info/generalstrike www.bbc.co.uk/history www.activehistory.co.uk http://www.history.org.uk/resources/student_page_1868.html

Magazines/journals History Review – available in QEGS Library, for back copies ask at the library desk. History Today – current copies available in QEGS Library

Books - Russia 1917-91: from Lenin to Yeltsin Communist Russia Under Lenin and Stalin – Terry Fiehn

Joseph Stalin : From Revolutionary To Despot – John Laver

Lenin – Michael Rawcliffe

Modern European History, 1871-1975 : A Documentary... – David Welch

Reaction And Revolution: Russia 1894-1924 – Michael Lynch

Russia 1855-1964 – Derrick Murphy

Russia 1855-1991: From Tsars to Commissars – Peter Oxley

Russia And The Ussr 1905-1956 – Nigel Kelly

Russia And The Ussr 1905-1991 – Philip Ingram

Russia Under Stalin – Michael Gibson

Stalin And Krushchev: The Ussr 1924-64 – Michael Lynch

The Stalin File – Martin Maccauley

Stalin`S Russia 1924-39 – Tamara Pimlott The Making of Modern Russia – Lionel Kochan

Novels One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn The Master And Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

Websites Russian History - http://www.alexanderpalace.org/ History File - Soviet Communism And The Cold War - Bolshevik Russia http://webplayer.clickview.com.au/?p=4_CD

Mao’s China, 1949-76 Access to History: Mao's China 1936-97 Third Edition – Michael Lynch

AQA History AS Unit 2: The Impact of Chairman... – Robert Whitfield

A Bitter Revolution. China's Struggle With The... – Rana Mitter

China Since 1949 – Simon Williams

The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs... - Zhisui Li

Politics at Mao’s Court – Frederick Teiwes

Mao’s War Against Nature – Judith Shapiro

Mao’s Great Famine - Frank Dikötter

16 January 2018

Novels Wild Swans – Jung Chang

Books - Lancastrians, Yorkists and Henry VII, 1399-1509 Lancastrians to Tudors: England 1450-1509 – Andrew Pickering

Heinemann Advanced History: The Wars of the Roses... – Colin Pendrill

The Wars of the Roses and Henry VII: Britain 1450-1509 – Roger Turvey

Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England – Thomas Penn

Henry VII: The Maligned Tudor King – Terry Breverton

The Wars of the Roses – Anthony Cheetham

Access to History: Henry VII third edition – Roger Turvey

Novels Bloodline - Conn Iggulden

Stormbird – Conn Iggulden

Trinity - Conn Iggulden

17 January 2018

Maths Wider reading list This selection has been made based on recommendations from many sources including the teaching staff in our own Mathematics Department and from a range of university reading lists. We strongly recommend you also look at the Cambridge reading list for Mathematics as it is really well chosen and annotated.( http://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/undergrad/admissions/readinglist.pdf ) To reiterate their advice do not be intimidated by these books, remember that any reading you do on the subject will be useful. Clegg, A. (2003) A brief history of infinity (also by Clegg, Infinity: the quest to think the unthinkable) Courant, R. Robbins, H. and Stewart, S. (1996) What is mathematics? Devlin, K. (2004) The millennium problems: the seven greatest, unsolved mathematical problems of our time. Dunham, W. (1991) Journey through genius: the greatest theorems of mathematics. Du Sautoy, M. (2003) The music of the primes : why an unsolved problem in mathematics matters. Enzensberger, H. (2008) The number devil (very accessible, fun read). Frankel, L. (1997) Numbers: the universal language (very engaging and accessible read). Gower, T. (2002) Mathematics: a very short introduction Gray, J. (2000) The Hilbert challenge: a perspective on 20th century mathematics. Hodges, A. (1992) Alan Turing: the enigma Hoffman, P. (1999) The man who loved only numbers: the story of Paul Erdos and the search for mathematical truth. Korner, T. (1996) The pleasures of counting. McLeish, J. (1991) Story of numbers. Singh, S. (2001) The cracking code book: how to make it, break it, hack it, crack it (or any other titles by Simon Singh). Stephenson, G. (1973) Mathematical methods for science students. Wilson, R. (2008) Lewis Carroll in Numberland. Zaslavsky, C. (1999) Africa counts: number and pattern in African cultures.

Websites https://www.khanacademy.org/ https://archive.org/details/TheNumberDevil http://mathsbank.co.uk/ www.mymaths.co.uk

18 January 2018

Modern Foreign Languages

French Websites www.tv5.org

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 roundup of the world news in French with interactive activities pitched at a range of levels to test understanding.

www.zut.org.uk

Free after 4pm and at weekends- range of year 12 and 13 listening, reading, grammar and vocab resources on a variety of topics

www.bonjourdefrance.com

Interactive grammar, vocab, listening, reading and cultural activities Watch French TV online:

www.france2.fr

www.france3.fr Read French newspapers online:

www.lemonde.fr

www.lexpress.fr

http://www.journauxfrancais.net A site with links to all the online French national and regional newspapers

http://www.institut-francais.org.uk Listen to the French radio station aimed at French speakers living in and around London either

online on via digital radio.

19 January 2018

German Look at national websites for newspapers like Die Welt, Das Bild, Die Zeit, Der Tagesspiegel, etc. Pick out interesting news items or articles and go through them, looking up new vocabulary. Watch any German films you can. Even your local Blockbusters store has some films in German. This is fantastic listening practice, particularly as we don’t usually have time to watch a whole film at school. If necessary put the English subtitles on, but if you do, try and watch it a second time without them. Make it fun and set up a DVD with popcorn evening with the other people in your class. Talk about the film afterwards, then come and tell me about it. Read any books about Germany that you can find, even if they are in English. The more you know, the easier it will be to come up with ideas in an oral, and understand reading and listening texts in an exam. Also read literature in German. Use google.de as your search engine instead of google.co.uk. Watch online TV in German. Go to: http://www.dw.de/deutsch-lernen/nachrichten/s-8030 http://www.dw.de/ http://www.ard.de/ http://www.tagesschau.de/

Spanish Read national websites for newspapers like ABC, El Mundo, El País, La Vanguardia, Cambio 16 and Muy Interesante. You can even download their Apps. Pick out interesting news items or articles and go through them, looking up new vocabulary. Watch any Spanish films you can. Almódovar films in Spanish are particularly popular. This is fantastic listening practice. Read any books about Spain that you can find, even if they are in English. Books like Dave Boling’s Guernica and Victoria Hislop’s The Return give you an insight into Spain at the time of the Civil War. Ian Gibson’s Fire in the Blood: The New Spain has an enormous amount of information on Spain over the last century up to modern times. The more you know, the easier it will be to come up with ideas in an oral, and understand reading and listening texts in an exam. Also read literature in Spanish – especially South American writers like García Marquéz and Vargas Llosa. Try works by Antonio Gala, Arturo Perez Reverte and Alberto Vazquez Figueroa who are contemporary writers from Spain. Use Youtube.com at home to watch clips in Spanish on topics we are studying in class. You can watch Easter processions, see fiestas like La Tomatina, carnival or San Fermín, listen to Spanish singers like Joaquin Sabina or Ana Belen or watch clips on the environment in Spanish. Use google.es as your search engine instead of google.co.uk. Have a go and set you phone language to Spanish! There are lots of Spanish language courses in Spain for foreign language learners. Maybe sign up to one?

20 January 2018

Watch online TV in Spanish. Go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/tv/ www.newsinslowspanish.com www.antena3.com www.rtve.es There are many websites offering practice in the Spanish language. Try:- http://cvc.cervantes.es (for the Instituto de Cervantes) http://spanishrevision.co.uk (go to the A level index) http://lightbulblanguages.co.uk (go to Resources and A’level) www.conjugemos.com – excellent for practising conjugating verbs. www.languagesonline.org.uk

21 January 2018

Physics Books Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman – Richard Feynman

Quantum – A Guide for the Perplexd – Jim Al-Khalili

The Elegant Universe – Brian Greene

Back of the Envelope Physics – Schwartz

The New World of Mr Tompkins – Gamow and Stannard

Einstein for Beginners – Schwartz and McGuiness

Quantum for Beginners – McEvoy and Zarate

Hawking for Beginners – McEvoy and Zarate

Six Easy Pieces: Fundamentals of Physics Explained – Richard Feynam

Why Does E=mc2 ? (and Why Should We Care?) – Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw

The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen – Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw

How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog – Chad Orsal

In Search or Schrodinger’s Cat – John Gribbin

Particle Physics: A Short Introduction – Frank Close

Chaos: making a new science – James Gleick

Farewell to Reality: How Fairytale Physics Betrays the Search for Scientific Truth – Jim Baggott

A short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

Why don’t penguins’ feet freeze? – NewScientist

The Grand Design – Stephen Hawkin and Leonard Mlodinow

Newton – Peter Ackroyd

The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen – Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw Magazines/journals Physics Review – for reference in QEGS Library, back copies available ask at the Library desk. Physics World Scientific American New Scientist

Places of Interest-London

Science Museum

Imperial war museum

The planetarium

Greenwich observatory Websites www.iop.org www.sixtysymbols.com www.physicsworld.com http://home.web.cern.ch/topics/large-hadron-collider

22 January 2018

Psychology So you would like to explore Psychology further!

Here are some suggestions of books that you may find interesting.

Factual Books (Specific to Psychology)

Lauren Slater Opening Skinner’s Box

‘Geoff Rolls Classic case studies in Psychology’

Stuart Sutherland ‘Rationality’

Stuart Sutherland ‘Breakdown: A personal crisis and medical dilemma’

Oliver Sacks T’he man who mistook his wife for a hat’

Chris Sizemore ‘I’m Eve’

Matt Jarvis ‘Sport Psychology’

Putwain and Sammons ‘Psychology and Crime’

Paul Britton ‘The Jigsaw Man’

Sandra Aamodt & Sam Wang ‘Welcome to Your Brain’

Judith Rapoport ‘The boy who couldn’t stop washing’

Robert Akeret ‘The man who loved a polar bear & other psychotherapist’s tales’

John Grisham ‘Innocent Man’

Colin Wilson and Donald Seaman ‘The Serial Killers: A Study in the Psychology of

Violence

Classic AS and A2 Psychology text books to explore:

The Complete Companions: Psychology AS - The Complete Companion for AQA 'A'(Textbook) by Mike Cardwell

and Cara Flanagan

Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology by Hugh Coolican

The Complete Companions: A2 Student Book (2nd Edition) AQA A by Mike Cardwell and Cara Flanagan

Psychology - Psychology AS for AQA A by Mike Cardwell, Liz Clark and Claire Meldrum

AQA Psychology A AS: Student's Book (Aqa As Level) by Jane Willson, Rosie McGinley, Julia Willerton and Simon

Green

A Dictionary of Psychology (Oxford Paperback Reference) by Andrew Colman

AQA Psychology A A2: Student's Book by James Bailey, Simon Green, Julia

Willerton and Jane Willson Psychology - Psychology for A2 Level for AQA (A) by Mike Cardwell, Liz Clark and

Claire Meldrum

Introducing Psychology: A Graphic Guide to Your Mind and Behaviour (Introducing...)by Nigel Benson

Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour by Richard Gross

Psychology: AND MyPsychLab by Dr G. Neil Martin, Neil R. Carlson and William Buskist

Non-Fiction Psychology Books

50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know (50 Ideas) by Adrian Furnham

50 Psychology Classics: Who We Are, How We Think, What We Do by Tom Butler-Bowdon

Fiction Psychology Related Books

Ken Kesey ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest’

Mark Haddon ‘The Curious Incident off the dog in the night’

Harper Lee ‘To kill a mockingbird’

Lionel Shriver ‘We need to talk about Kevin’

Bryony Gordon ‘Mad Girl’

Sylvia Plath ‘The Bell Jar’

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Films with Psychology links:

‘A beautiful mind’ (2001) – useful for schizophrenia

‘Mockingbird don’t sing’ (2001) – useful for privation

‘Adaptation’ (2002) – Personality disorder

‘Amelie’ (2001) - Schizotypal Personality Disorder

‘Analyze this’ (1999) – Depression

‘As good as it gets’ (1997) – OCD

‘The Breakfast Club’ (1985) – Abnormality, Conformity

‘Girl Interrupted’ (1999) –Abnormality

‘The Quiet Room’ (1996) – Attachment

Ted Talks

The psychology of evil, Philip Zimbardo https://youtu.be/OsFEV35tWsg

Relationships - ‘What You Don’t Know About Marriage’ https://youtu.be/Y8u42OjH0ss

The riddle of experience vs. memory, Daniel Kahneman https://youtu.be/XgRlrBl-7Yg

Helen Fisher, ‘Why we love, why we cheat’ https://www.ted.com/talks/helen_fisher_tells_us_why_we_love_cheat

Dan Ariely ‘Are we in control of our own decisions?’

https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_asks_are_we_in_control_of_our_own_decisions

Journals and Magazines

Don’t forget about the ‘Psychology Review’ which is in the LRC and offers a collection of new and useful

Psychology web-sites which are worth a look!

http://www.bps.org.uk

http://kspope.com

http://www.nimh.nih.gov

http://www.aqa.org

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html (Neuroscience for Kids)

http://psychcentral.com

www.alleydog.com/

www.psychology.org/

http://www.psychologytoday.com

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Religious Studies Journals RE Review – reference copies in QEGS Library, back copies available ask at the Library desk. Look for newspaper articles on ethical issues.

Websites www.bbc.co.uk/religion www.iep.utm.edu (Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy) www.philosophypages.com Ted Talks

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Sociology Wider Reading List So you would like to explore Sociology further! Here are some suggestions of books that you may find interesting.

Factual Books (Specific to Sociology)

Classic Year 1 and Year 2 Sociology text books to explore:

Sociology Themes and Perspective – Haralambos and Holborn

Sociology AQA A-Level Year 1 Student Book – Chapman, Holborn, Moore and Aiken

Sociology AQA A-Level Year 2 Student Book - Chapman, Holborn, Moore and Aiken

AQA A-Level Sociology 1 – Bown, Poutney and Maric

AQA A-Level Sociology 2 – Bown, Poutney and Maric

AQA A-Level Sociology My Revision Notes – Poutney

CGP A-Level Sociology Complete Revision and Practice

Non-Fiction Sociology BooksReasons To Be Cheerful – Mark Steel

Belching Out The Devil – Mark Thomas

How To Be A Woman – Caitlin Moran

God Collar – Marcus Brigstocke

Fiction Sociology Related Books

1984 – George Orwell

Animal Farm – George Orwell

The Trial – Franz Kafka

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins

The Bonfire Of The Vanities – Tom Wolfe

American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis

Nineteen Minutes – Jodie Picoult

Podcasts The Guilty Feminist

Women of the Hour - Lena Dunham

Radiolab - not all of these will be relevant. However, episodes like Eye in the Sky covers surveillance, and there have been episodes on human trafficking etc.

Freakonomics - again, not all of these will be relevant. But, 'Did China eat America's jobs?' covers globalisation, 'Why are we still using cash?' is relevant to crime, there was an episode on racial profiling of restaurant staff...

TED talks - Again, it's a case of searching topic by topic but, Glenny did one on transnational organised crime.

Journals and Magazines Sociology Review – QEGS Library, back copies available, ask at the Library desk. Websites Sociology web-sites which are worth a look! Ø S-cool http://www.s-cool.co.uk/a-level/sociology - this has an A Level sociology section Slideshare - often has presentations that are useful, BUT you have to search topic by topic

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Sport & Physical Education Books

Bevis,P & Murray,M. AQA AS Physical Education (2008) Nelson Thornes.

Roscoe D, Davis B, Roscoe J. AS Revise PE for AQA (2010) Jan Roscoe Publications

Bizley, K. AQA Physical Education (2009) Nelson Thornes.

Clegg, C. Exercise Physiology And Functional Anatomy (1995) Feltham Press

Walder, P. Mechanics And Sport Performance (1998) Feltham Press (1998)

Burrows, S. Byrne, M. Young, S. AQA AS Physical Education Student Revision Guide (2008) Philip

Allan Updates

Wiggins-James, N. James, R. Thompson, G. AS PE for AQA (2005) Heinemann Also

Sports rule books and coaching guides

Sports Biographies/Autobiographies

Journals

Journal of Sports Sciences

Journal of Sport & Social Issues All sports magazines will offer a view on performing, coaching, science, current issues or history of sport(s). They are therefore valuable wider reading material National newspapers. The sports pages report global events and the biggest issues TV

Sky sports news

Live sport – watch local, national and global events.

Sports biographies and ‘day in the life of’ programs give an excellent insight into the world of the

elite athlete Websites

www.mypeexam.com

www.sportengland.org

www.brianmac.co.uk

NGB websites e.g. The FA www.thefa.com, The RFU www.rfu.com etc. Live sport Active involvement in a sports club or team is essential. Go to live sports fixtures and events – This is fun and may help your grades!