美国学生高强度阅读,大家早有耳闻,同样普通家庭,美国学生的阅读量却是中国学生的6倍。要知道,一名美国高中学生既有 Required reading(必读书目,每门课2-8本,取决于不同的课程),还有 Leisure reading(业余阅读,取决这位学生自己的兴趣和对自身的要求)要求。
在大学申请时,学校也经常问申请者最喜欢/值得分享的几本书籍是什么,或者最近阅读的书名,你所阅读的书单能反映出个人激情、主动性,也能展现出自己的学术兴趣。常春藤、牛津剑桥给不同专业学生推荐了哪些不同书单?这个暑假读起来吧
§ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - R Skloot
§ Other Minds - P Godfrey-Smith
§ Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body - AM Leroi
§ The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets - S Singh
§ Fermat's Last Theorem - S Singh
§ The Man Who Knew Infinity - R Kanigel
§ Hidden Unity in Nature's Law - JC Taylor
§ The Cosmic Onion - F Close
§ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
§ Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman - Richard Feynman
§ Computational Fairy Tales - Jeremy Kubica
§ Out of Their Minds - D Shasha and Cathy Lazere
§ 23 Things They Don't Teach You about Capitalism - Ha-Joon Chang
§ Predictably Irrational - D Ariely
§ Nudge - C Susstein and R Thaler
§ The White Man's Burden - W Easterly
§ The Bottom Billion - P Collier
§ The End of Alchemy - M King
§ Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
§ Nudge - Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler
§ Freakonomics - Dubner and Levitt
§ Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
§ Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World - Anand Giridharadas
§ End This Depression Now!
§ This Changes Everything Capitalism vs the Climate
§ Monetary Policy and International Capital Flows
§ The Finance Curse - Nicholas Shaxson
§ Nine Crises: Fifty Years of Covering the British Economy from Devaluation to Brexit
§ Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life
§ Introduction to Political Philosophy - R Wolff
§ Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong - JL Mackie
§ Utilitarianism: For and Against - JC Smart
§ On Liberty - JS Mill
§ Think by Simon Blackburn
§ The Rise of Consciousness - Oliver Sacks. Or literally any other book by Oliver Sacks.
§ To Float in the Space Between - Terrance Hayes
§ Problems of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell
§ The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
§ An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; A Treatise of Human Nature - David Hume
§ Meditations - Descartes
§ Existentialism is a Humanism - Sartre
§ The Republic - Plato
§ The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
§ The Female Persuasion - Meg Wolitzer
§ Bluets - Maggie Nelson
§ Behold, America: The Entangled History of America First and the American Dream - Sarah Churchwell
§ Concepts of Consciousness - Ned Block
§ Being Mortal - A Gawunde
§ This is Going to Hurt - A Kay
§ When Breath Becomes Air - P Kalanithi
§ Unnatural Causes - R Shepherd
§ The Medici Effect -Frans Johansson
§ Life at the Extremes - F Ashcroft
§ The Man who mistook his Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
§ The Rise of Consciousness - Oliver Sacks
§ Landmarks in the Law - A Denning
§ The Discipline of Law - A Denning
§ Five Ideas to Fight For - A Lester
§ Invitation to Law - AW Simpson
§ Whiteness as Property - C Harris
§ Eve was Framed - H Kennedy
§ Letters to a Law Student - Nicholas J. McBride
§ The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court - Jeffrey Toobin
§ Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism - Mahmood Mamdani
§ AI Superpowers – Kai-Fu Lee
§ The Everything Store – Brad Stone
§ Originals: How Non-Conformists Move The World - Adam Grant
§ American Like Me - America Ferrera
§ On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
§ The Welfare of Nations
§ The Great Transformation
§ How Do Wings Work? - Holger Babinsky
§ Structures – or Why Things Don't Fall Down - J.E. Gordon
§ The Gecko's Foot: How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature's Book - Peter Forbes
§ Feynman Lectures on Physics
§ A Russian Childhood - S. Kovalevskaya
§ The Man Who Loved Only Sumbers - Paul Hoffman
§ An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning: Numbers, Sets and Functions
§ The elements of murder - John Emsley
§ The fats of life (sic) by Pond - Caroline M.
§ Elegant Solutions : Ten bBautiful Experiments in Chemistry - Philip Ball
§ The science of chocolate - S. T. Beckett
§ Oxygen: The Molecule that Changed the World - N Lane
§ The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan
§ Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion - Year History of the Human Body - Neil Shubin
§ A Natural History of the Senses - Diane Ackerman
§ What it is like to be a Bat - Thomas Nagel
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