Student Recommended Readings for Modules of the 2nd Term, NatSci

The information below has been drawn from the current Year 1 students:

STAT 1005, Mathematics and Statistics

A.J.B.Anderson: Interpreting Data. Chapman & Hall, 1988.

F.Daly, D.J.Hand, M.C.Jones, A.D.Lunn & K.J.McConway: Elements of Statis-tics. Addison Wesley, 1995.

D.S.Moore & G.P.McCabe: Introduction to the Practice of Statistics (5th Edition). Freeman, 2005.

S.M. Ross: A First Course in Probability (7th edition). Prentice-Hall, 2005.

R.L. Scheaffer: Introduction to Probability and its Applications (2nd edition).Duxbury, 1995.

BIOC 1005, Genetics

"Essentials of Genetics" by W.S. Klug et al. (7th edition, Pearson 2010)

"An introduction to Genetic Analysis" by A J F Griffiths et al. (6th to 9th edition, Freeman 2004).

"The Language of the Genes" by Steve Jones

"Almost Like A Whale: The Origin Of Species Updated" by Steve Jones

HPSC1003, Philosophy of Science

Textbook: Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998) by Martin Curd and J. A. Cover

Highly recommended: A. F. Chalmers, What Is This Thing Called Science? 3rd ed. (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1999)

HPSC1011, History of Modern Science

Textbook: Bowler, Peter J. and Iwan Rhys Morus (2005), Making Modern Science: a Historical Survey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Agar, Jon (forthcoming, 2011) Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond, Cambridge: Polity Press.

Bayly, C.A. (2004) The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Bowler, Peter J. and John V. Pickstone (eds.) (2009) The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 6, The Modern Biological and Earth Sciences, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Krige, John and Dominique Pestre (eds.) (1997) Science in the Twentieth Century, Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Press.

Nye, Mary Jo (ed.) (2003) The Cambridge History of Science. Volume 5: The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003

Smith, Roger (1997) The Fontana History of the Human Sciences, London: HarperCollins.

PHAS1423, Modern Physics, Astronomy and Cosmology

“Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics”, Serway and Jewett (Thomson).

"Physics for Scientists and Engineers" (2nd Ed), Fishbane, Gasiorowicz and Thornton, Prentice Hall (1996).

"Introductory Astronomy and Astrophysics (4th edition)" Michael Zeilik and Stephen A. Gregory (Thomson Learning, ISBN 0030062284).

"Universe" (7th edition), by Roger A. Freedman & William J. Kaufmann III, may provide useful supplementary reading.

“Medical Physics” by Emily Cook and Adam Gibson. Booklet available online at: www.teachingmedicalphysics.org.uk.

“Physics of Medical Imaging”, Edited by S. Webb, (Adam Hilger: Bristol), 1988. ISBN 0-85274-349-1. Background Reading for the Whole Course

"The New Physics for the 21st Century" (2nd Edition), ed Gordon Fraser,Cambridge University Press

PHAS1245, MATHEMATICAL METHODS I

Mathematical Methods for Physics & Engineering, Riley, Hobson & Bence. C.U.P, 3rd Edition.

PHAS1246, Mathematical Methods II

Methods in the Physical Sciences, by Mary Boas (Wiley).

Mathematical Methods for Physics & Engineering, Riley, Hobson & Bence. C.U.P, 3rd Edition.

PHAS1228, Thermal Physics and the Properties of Matter

“Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics”, Serway and Jewett (Thomson).

C. B. P. Finn, Thermal Physics, 5th Ed., Chapman and Hall.

CHEM 1004/1604/1605, Chemistry Modules

Physical Chemistry

Physical Chemistry, Alberty and Sibley, Wiley.

Physical Chemistry, Atkins, Oxford.

The Elements of Physical Chemistry, Atkins, Oxford.

Atomic Spectra, Softley (Student nominated choice).

Inorganic Chemistry

Chemical Bonding, Winter, OUP Primer. (Student nominated choice)

Inorganic Chemistry, Shriver, Atkins and Langford, OUP, 3rd edition.

Organic Chemistry

Organic Chemistry, Vollhardt and Schore, Freeman, 3rd edition.

Organic Chemistry, McMurry, Brookes/Cole, 5th edition.

Organic Chemistry, Carey, McGraw-Hill, 4th edition.

Organic Chemistry, Clayden, Greeves, Warren and Worthers, OUP, 1st edition.

GEOL 1004, Dynamic Earth

"Our Dynamic Earth" ed. by Nick Rogers"Earth" by Press and Siever"Global Tectonics" by Keary and Vine

"The solid Earth: An introduction to Geophysics" by Mary Fowler

GEOL 1012, Surface Processes

Earth: Portrait of a Planet, Stephen Marshak, 2005: 2nd Edition, WW Norton & Company, New York. pp748,

Understanding Earth, Frank Press & Raymond Siever, 2001: 3rd Edition, WH Freeman and Company, New York. pp 573, ISBN: 0716796171

Sedimentary Geology: An Introduction to Sedimentary Rocks and Stratigraphy, Donald R Prothero & Fred Schwab, 1996: WH Freeman and Company, New York. pp 575, ISBN: 0716727269

Sedimentary Petrology: An Introduction to the Origin of Sedimentary Rocks, Maurice Tucker, 2001, Blackwell Science, 3rd Edition, pp 262, ISBN: 0632029617

Atmosphere, Weather and Climate, R.G. Barry & R.J. Chorley, 2003: Routledge, New York, ISBN: 0415465702

The Atmosphere, an introduction to Meteorology, F.K. Lutgens & E.J. Tarbuck, 2003: Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, ISBN: 0321587332

MPHY 1882, Essential Medical Physics

Introduction to Physics in Modern Medicine, Suzanne Amador Kane, 2 ed. CRC Press, ISBN: 978-1-58488-943-4

The Physics of Medical Imaging, Steve Webb, Taylor & Francis, ISBN: 0-85274-349-1

Psychology for Biologists 6002

There are simply too many books to read but as a start I would suggest:

Psychology, the Science of Mind and Behaviour, by Richard Gross, 6th ed. Hodder Education