常春藤&牛津剑桥给不同专业学生推荐了什么书单？

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，取决于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？

 

申请 STEM 方向

 

• 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

 

申请 经济学 & 商科 方向

 

• 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

 

申请 哲学 方向

 

 

• 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

 

申请 医学 &生物医学 方向

 

• 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

 

申请 法学 方向

 

• 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

 

申请 社会科学 方向

 

• 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

 

申请 工程 & 物理学 方向

 

• 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

 

申请 数学 & 统计学 方向

 

• A Russian Childhood - S. Kovalevskaya

• The Man Who Loved Only Sumbers - Paul Hoffman

• An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning: Numbers, Sets and Functions

 

申请 化学 方向

 

• 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

 

申请 生物 方向

 

• 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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