The King's (The Cathedral) School

Peterborough

A-Level Textbooks

These A-Level textbooks are required for the courses studied at King's.

Department

Essential Books

ISBN

English 

Paper 1: Year 12

‘A Doll’s House’ by Henrik Ibsen

Selected Poems by Christina Rossetti

‘Twelfth Night’ or ‘Richard III’ by Shakespeare

Coursework Texts:

‘Feminine Gospels’ by Carol Ann Duffy

‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by Tennessee Williams

‘Atonement’ by Ian McEwan

Paper 2: Year 13

‘The Great Gatsby’ by F Scott Fitzgerald

‘The Grapes of Wrath’ by John Steinbeck

 

ISBN: 9781503213807

ISBN: 9780140424690

 

Classics

The Iliad

ISBN: 978-0140444445

The Aeneid

ISBN: 978--0140449327

OCR A-Level Classical Civilisation Components 31 & 34

ISBN: 978-1350020993

OCR A-Level Components 21 & 22

ISBN: 978--1350015111

History

Early Medieval England 871-1107

ISBN: 978--1471836671

Democracy and Dictatorship 1919-63

ISBN: 978-1471839153

Civil Rights in the USA 1865-1992

ISBN: 978-1471867880

Civil Rights in the USA Paterson and Willoughby, Heineman. 

ISBN: 978-0435312664

Biology

A-Level Biology A for OCR

ISBN: 978--0-19-835192-4

Maths

Pure Mathematics Year 1/AS

ISBN: 978--1-292-18339-8

Statistics and Mechanics Year 1/AS

ISBN: 978--1-292-23253-9

Pure Mathematics Year 2

ISBN: 978--1-292-18340-4

Statistics and Mechanics year 2

ISBN: 978--1-4469-4407-3

Further Maths

Pure Mathematics Year 1/AS

ISBN: 978--1-292-18339-8

Statistics and Mechanics Year 1/AS

ISBN: 978--1-292-23253-9

Pure Mathematics Year 2

ISBN: 978--1-292-18340-4

Statistics and Mechanics year 2

ISBN: 978--1-4469-4407-3

Core Pure mathematics Book 1/AS

ISBN: 978--1-292-18333-6

Core Pure Mathematics Book 2

ISBN: 978--1-292-18334-3

Further Mechanics 1

ISBN: 978--1-292-18331-2

Further Statistics 1

ISBN: 978--1-292-18337-4

Drama and Theatre Studies

AQA Drama and Theatre

ISBN: 978--0-19-842697-4

Economics

OCR A-Level Economics Fourth Edition by Peter Smith and Simon Dyer Year 12

ISBN: 978--1-5104-5840-6

Business Studies

Pearson Edexcel A-Level Business by Ian Marcouse, Andrew Hammond and Nigel Watson

ISBN: 978--1-510-45270-1

Physical Education

AQA A-Level PE (Year 1 and Year 2)

 ISBN: 978-1510473300

Geography

OCR A-Level Geography Third Edition

ISBN: 978--1-3983-1257-9

Music

Edexcel AS/A-Level Anthology of Music (ed. Julia Winterson)

ISBN: 978--1-292-11836-9

RS

OCR A-Level Religious Studies: Religion and Ethics

ISBN: 978--1510479951

OCR A-Level Religious Studies: Philosophy of Religion

ISBN: 978--1510479937

OCR A-Level Religious Studies: Developments in Christian Thought

ISBN: 978--1510479968

Physics

Edexcel AS/A-Level Physics 1

ISBN: 978--1-4479-9118-2

Edexcel A-Level Physics 2

ISBN: 978--1-4479-9119-9

Chemistry

AQA Chemistry: A-Level Year 1 and AS (AQA A Level Sciences 2014); Paperback – 16 April 2015 ; by Ted Lister (Author), Janet Renshaw (Author)

ISBN: 978--0198351818

AQA Chemistry: A-Level Year 2 Paperback ; 10 Sept. 2015
by Ted Lister (Author), Janet Renshaw (Author)

ISBN: 978--0198357711

AQA Chemistry: A-Level (AQA A Level Sciences 2014) Paperback ;23 July 2015 by Ted Lister (Author), Janet Renshaw (Author)                  

ISBN: 978--0198351825

Computer Science

A/AS-Level Computer Science for OCR Student Book

ISBN: 978-1108412711

Modern Foreign Languages - French

Mot à Mot

ISBN 978-1-5104-3480-6

AQA French A-Level and AS Grammar & Translation Workbook

ISBN 978-0-19-841553-4

Un Sac De Billes (Year 13)

ISBN 978-2-0191-1024-6

Modern Foreign Languages - German

Wort für Wort (Year 12)

ISBN 978-1-5104-3484-4

AQA German A-Level and AS Grammar & Translation Workbook (Year 12)

ISBN 978-0-19-841554-1

 

 

Der Besuch Der Alten Dame (Year 13)

ISBN 978-0415051408

Textiles

AQA Design and Technology Fashion and Textiles

ISBN 978-1-5104-1349-8  

 

Additional Reading

If you are looking to gain a deeper level of insight into your subjects, a good read of the materials below would be an excellent idea!

 

Biology

Biology Course Materials

OUP OCR Biology A - textbook issued to you by the school

Biozone OCR Biology book – excellent textbook that challenges a little more than the OUP one.

OCR Biology Maths Skills Booklet

OCR Biology Practical Skills Handbook

Biology Additional Reading (1= easy to read, 5=one for the true biology lovers)

The Hidden Life of Trees - Peter Wohlleben (2) – as you’d expect, a book about trees, but it’s very interesting

A Crack in Creation - Jennifer Doudna & Sam Sternberg (3) – excellent book about gene editing

Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life - Peter Godfrey-Smith (2) – book about the evolution of intelligence

The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin (4) - no description necessary

The Double Helix - James Watson (3) - story about the discovery of the structure of DNA

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot (1) - reads like a novel, it’s about the most important cell line in Science

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters - Matt Ridley (3) – introduction to human genetics

The Hot Zone - Richard Preston (1) - slightly scary book about filoviridae

Molecular Biology of the Cell - Alberts (5) - a monster of a textbook about cell Biology. Well-written and extremely detailed but it’s heavy and expensive. Worth investing in a copy if you’re doing something biological at university

Amazing Rare Things - David Attenborough & Susan Owens (1) - book about the use of art in natural history

The Epigenetics Revolution - Nessa Carey (3) - book about epigenetics and disease

Life on the Edge - Jim AlKalili & Johnjo McFadden (3) - book about quantum Biology, really interesting

Biology - Campbell and Reece (4) - big textbook that bridges the gap between A-Level and Degree

Nature v Nurture - Matt Ridley (4)

The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins (2) - link enables read-online copy

 

Biology Videos

Breaking The Mould - BBC Drama on the development of Penicillin by Florey & Chain

The Counter-Current Multiplier in The Kidney

Genetic Sequencing - a great collection of clips

The Stages of Mitosis Video/Animation

Intensive Dairy Farming - Part 1

Intensive Dairy Farming - Part 2 (2016 Update)

The Founder Effect, Genetic Drift & Genetic Bottlenecking


Business Studies

An Introduction to Business

The Entrepreneur’s Book of Checklists: 1000 Tips to Help You Start and Grow Your Business - Robert Ashton

How I Made It: 40 Successful Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Made Millions - Rachel Bridge

Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur - Sir Richard Branson

Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours - Tarun Khanna

Impatient Optimist: Bill Gates in his own words – Bill Gates

Complete A-Z Business Studies Handbook (5th rev Ed) – David Lines, Barry Martin & Ian Marcouse

 

Human Resources

The Google Story - David A. Vise

The Witch Doctors: What Management Gurus Are Saying, Why It Matters and How to

Make Sense of It – John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge

Key Management Ideas: Thinkers that Changed the Management World (3rd Ed) – Stuart Crainer

The World According to Peter Drucker – Jack Beatty & Peter Drucker

Real Leaders for the Real World: Essential Traits Of Successful And Authentic Leaders – John Mclachlan & Karen Meager

 

Marketing

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Malcolm Gladwell

No Logo - Naomi Klein

Principles of Marketing (12th Ed) – Philip Kotler & Gary Armstrong

Authentic Selling: How to boost your sales performance by being yourself – Guy Anastaze

 

Finance

The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham

House of Cards: How Wall Street's Gamblers Broke Capitalism - William D Cohan

Financial Accounting for Dummies – Steven Collins & Maire Loughran

 

Operations

The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer - Jeffrey Liker

 

Strategy

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


Chemistry

Maths Skills for A-Level Chemistry - Dan McGowan

Head Start to A-Level Chemistry - CGP 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

Bad Science - Ben Goldacre

Why Chemical Reactions Happen - James Keeler & Peter Wothers

Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History- Penny Le Couteir & Jay Burreson

Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvellous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World - Mark Miodownik

Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World – Simon Garfield


Classics

Greek Religion – Walter Burkert (available from Classics department)

Greek Tragedy in Action – Oliver Taplin

A Handbook of Classical Drama – Philip Whaley Harsh (available in the Classics department)

World of Athens – JACT (available in the Classics department)

The Aeneid

The Odyssey (copies available from Classics department)

Roman Vergil – W.F. Jackson Knight (available from the Classics department)

Virgil’s Aeneid – Kenneth Quinn (available from the Classics department)

The Iliad

Heroes of Greece and Troy – Roger Lancelyn Green (available in the Classics department)


Economics

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism - Ha-Joon Chang

Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance - Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna

The Undercover Economist – Tim Harford

The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run or Ruin an Economy – Tim Harford

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Steven D. Levitt

SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance - Steven D. Levitt

Everlasting Light Bulbs: How Economics Illuminates the World - John Kay

The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life - Stephen E. Landsburg

Free Lunch – 2012 Edition - David Smith

The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do & Why It Matters - Diane Coyle

Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them - And They Shape Us - Sharman and Fishman

Ten Great Economists - Philip Thornton

The Box - How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Marc Levinson

Economics: The User’s Guide - Ha-Joon Chang

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon - Brad Stone

The Great Escape - Professor Angus Deaton

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics - Richard Thaler

The Upstarts: How Uber and Airbnb are changing the world - Brad Stone

What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets - Professor Michael Sandel

Who Gets What - And Why: Understand the Choices You Have, Improve the Choices You Make - Al Roth


English

The British Library – research contexts of set texts – a range of clips, academic articles and contemporary texts.

Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) – information about recent and historic productions; interviews with actors and directors

The National Theatre – as above

The Victorian Web – a range of 19th century texts, and modern analysis, on a range of topics. Useful for context.


French

Building Vocabulary and Comprehension skills:

Mot à Mot : Paul Humberstone Vocabulary lists based on A-Level French topic - check that you get hold of a relatively up-to-date version as it has been around for many years.

www.tv5.org

Click on ‘langue française’ followed by ‘apprendre le français’ - wide range of interactive materials to develop vocabulary and grammar

Click on ‘langue française’ followed by ‘7 jours sur la planète’- a video clip with a weekly round-up of the world news in French with interactive activities pitched at a range of levels to test understanding

www.zut.org.uk

www.bonjourdefrance.com

www.france2.fr

www.france3.fr

Read French newspapers online:

www.lemonde.fr

www.lexpress.fr

www.journauxfrancais.net

A site with links to all the online French national and regional newspapers

www.institut-francais.org.uk

Visit the French Institute in London - look at the website for details of specific courses, films, exhibitions etc. on offer

www.franceinlondon.com

A guide to French cultural events taking place in London

www.frenchradiolondon.com

Wider reading

Any of the books below will be a perfect starting point to help you to while away your holidays (unless you are on holiday in France, of course, in which case you won’t stand out at all).

Amélie Nothomb - Hygiène de l’assassin

René Goscinny - Le Petit Nicolas

Fred Vargas - Coule la Seine

Jacques Prévert - Paroles

Katherine Pancol - Les Yeux jaunes des crocodiles

Joseph Joffo – Un sac de Billes


Geography

Geography Review - Copies available in the Library

GeoFactsheets – many different titles covering a wide range of both physical and human geography available on the student shared area.

Contemporary Case Studies Series including:

  • Natural Hazards and Disasters
  • Cities and Urbanisation
  • Population and Migration
  • Superpowers

Environmental Change – Andrew Goudie

  • Advanced Topic Master Series including:
  • Glaciation and Periglaciation
  • Rivers

Additional/Oxbridge Reading:

Pan’s Travail J Donald Hughes— an interesting read about how the Greeks and Romans brought many animals to the edge of extinction

Silent Spring - Rachel Carson the book that started the environmental movement, with the discovery of the link between DDT and Bird deaths

Climate Change - A very short introduction

Flotsametrics and the Floating World - Ebbesymeyer and Sciglianoa - how one man’s obsession with runaway sneakers and rubber ducks revolutionised ocean science

Banker to the Poor - The Story of the Grameen Bank - Muhammad Yunus an alternative way of funding the world out of poverty - Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Economics

Some Lives - a GP’s EastEnd - David Wiggery - the clash of cultures between Docklands and the people living in the East End of London

The Revenge of Gaia - James Lovelock

Turbulence - Giles Fowden - a fictional account of the strategy for forecasting the Weather for D-Day.

Global Warming - a very short introduction - Mark Maslin - great pocket size guide to climate change

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail - Bill Bryson

London - Peter Ackroyd - an amazing insight into the history of London

Thames - Peter Ackroyd - journey along the river from source to mouth and learn some amazing details about the history and the geography of this lovely river

Touching the Void (Film Link) - Joe Simpson (Book) - a mountain climbing classic

An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore - a great book that goes with a great film


German

AQA German A-Level Textbook (Year 1 and Year 2 books) – OUP (provided by the department)

AQA German A-Level and AS Grammar & Translation Workbook - OUP (provided by the department)

Modern Languages Study Guides: Der Besuch der alten Dame, Friedrich Dürrenmatt Literature Study Guide – Paul Elliot published by Hodder Education.

Useful to buy your own copy of for the course:

Wort für Wort Sixth Edition: GermanVocabulary for AQA A-Level – Paul Stocker. Vocabulary lists based on German topics.

Der Besuch der alten Dame by Friedrich Durrenmatt published by Taylor & Francis Ltd, Routledge, series Twentieth Century Texts, ISBN-13: 9780415051408

The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, translated 1962 by Jonathan Cape Ltd. ISBN9780224009140

Additional reading/language practice for Year 11 plus:

Fiction

Zonenkinder by Jana Hensel (2004) – After the Wallin English translation, but it is fairly short with approachable German.

Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee (At the Shorter End of Sonnenallee) by Thomas Brussig

Current and Cultural Affairs

Deutsch Welle – DW Themen – global news in German with story links to videos and audio

Deutsch Welle – Deutsch Lernen – home to "Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten" a daily audio news at a slower speed with transcript, Deutschtrainer feature and many links to other learner websites.

Thisislanguage.com – hundreds of authentic videos with interactive activities to complete, and some good grammar videos for revision prior to A Level

Goethe on Demand – lots of German films to stream on Vimeo (may be paywalled)

ARD Mediathek – Geman films and TV streaming site (a bit like BBC iPlayer)

Goethe Institut A-Level Site – Topic links for the A-Level. Start with Family Life and do some reading and watching around this topic.

Step into German – lots of cultural learning and fun to be had on this website; German songs with lyrics, podcasts about current music and cinema, and a short film of the month to watch (with English subtitles) – put the website language into English, if you need help.

A Top 10 of German Magazines – with descriptions to help you choose which may be best for you. Simply click on the links and find something to read that interests you.


Grammar

German Grammar exercises – stick to the exercises on the page this opens to and the Grammar topics listed on the left of the page for further information and exercises.

English Grammar for Students of German 6th ed. (O&H Study Guides) (German) – available on Amazon. Set text for German university courses, useful for beginners alike.

Good Bye Lenin! is a 2003 German tragicomedy film, directed by Wolfgang Becker.

Lola rennt (Run Lola Run) is a 1998 German thriller film. The film was written and directed by Tom Tykwer, and stars Franka Potente as Lola and Moritz Bleibtreu as Manni.

Sonnenallee (Sun Avenue or Sun Alley) is a 1999 comedy film about life in East Berlin in the late 1970s. The movie was directed by Leander Haußmann.

Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) is a 2006 German drama film, marking the feature film debut of filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.

Der ganz grosse Traum Directed by Sebastian Grobler. With Daniel Brühl; An English teacher brings soccer from England to Germany in the late 19th Century by teaching it to his class.


History

(The Economy of Society)

Overy, R. J. The Nazi Economic Recovery 1932–1938. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Overy, Richard J. War and Economy in the Third Reich. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.

Koch, H. W. Hitler Youth: Origins and Development, 1922–1945. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1996.

Bessel, Richard. Life in the Third Reich. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987

Mason, Timothy W., and Jane Caplan. Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

 

(Opposition/Popular Support)

Gellately, Robert. Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Geyer, Michael & John Boyer,(eds). Resistance Against the Third Reich, 1933-1990. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

McDonough, Frank. Opposition and Resistance in Nazi Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Peukert, Detlev. Inside Nazi Germany: Conformity, Opposition and Racism in Everyday Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

Snyder, Louis L. Hitler's German Enemies. New York: Berkley Books, 1992.

 

(Documentary Readers)

Noakes, Jeremy. Documents on Nazism, 1919-1945. New York: Viking Press, 1975.

Snyder, Louis L. Hitler's Third Reich: A Documentary History. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1981

 

(Nazi Germany)

Evans, Richard J. The Coming of the Third Reich. New York: Penguin, 2005. ISBN 978-0141009759

Evans, Richard J. The Third Reich in Power. New York: Penguin, 2006. ISBN 978-0141009766

Evans, Richard J. The Third Reich at War: 1939–1945. New York: Penguin, 2010. ISBN 978-0141015484

Fischer, Conan. The Rise of the Nazis. Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 1995.

Bracher, Karl Dietrich. The German Dictatorship; The Origins, Structure, and Effects of National Socialism; New York, Praeger 1970

Gregor, Neil, ed. Nazism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Mommsen, Hans. The Third Reich between Vision and Reality: New Perspectives on German History, 1918–1945. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2003.

Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960

Broszat, Martin. Hitler and the Collapse of Weimar Germany. London: Berg Publishers, 1987

Bullock, Alan. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny. New York: Harper & Row, 1964.

Fest, Joachim C. Hitler. Orlando, FL.: Mariner Books, 2002.

Geary, Dick. Hitler and Nazism. Lancaster Pamphlets. London: Routledge, 1993.

Kershaw, Ian. The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich., 1987.

Kershaw, Ian. Hitler: 1889–1936: Hubris. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999.leading scholarly history

Kershaw, Ian. Hitler, 1936–1945: Nemesis. New York; London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.leading scholarly history

Kershaw, Ian. Hitler: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008.

Fest, Joachim C. The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970

Bessel, Richard. Nazism and War. New York: Modern Library, 2006.


Mathematics

Maths Skills for A-Level Chemistry - Emma Poole & Dan McGowan

Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematic Curiosities - Ian Stewart

Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematic Curiosities - Ian Stewart

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon

As Easy as Pi - Jamie Buchan

Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes and the Tower of Hanoi - Mark Gardner

Alex’s Adventures in Numberland - Alex Bellos

Finding Moonshine; a mathematical journey through symmetry - Marcus de Sautoy

How to Think Like a Mathematician - Keven Houston


Music

AQA AS and A-Level Music Study Guide (Richard Knight and Richard Bristow) Rhinegold Education ISBN 978-1-78558-155-7

AQA AS and A-Level Music Listening Tests Rhinegold Education ISBN 978-1-78558-156-4

AQA A-Level Music Revision Guide (Richard Knight and Richard Bristow) Rhinegold Education ISBN 978-1-78558-158-8


Physical Education

Link to HMB's A-Level reading list

Sport & PE: A complete Guide to A-Level Study - Hartigan, Wesson, James & Thompson (2005)

AS PE for AQA - James, Thompson & James (2005)


Physics

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

About Time, Einstein's Unfinished Revolution - Paul Davies

Astrophysics - Christopher Bishop

Black Holes and the Universe - Igor Novikov

Cartoon Guide to Physics - Larry Gonick & Art Huffman

Cartoon History of The Universe - Larry Gonick & Art Huffman

Einstein for Beginners - Schwartz & McGuinness


Psychology

Richard P Bentall (2010) Doctoring the Mind: Why psychiatric treatments fail.

John Duncan (2010) How intelligence happens.

Malcolm Gladwell (2005) Blink - the power of thinking without thinking

(He’s not a psychologist, but he writes very knowledgably about psychology).

Daniel Gilbert (2007) Stumbling on Happiness.

Ben Goldacre (2009) Bad Science.
(Not a Psychologist, but a journalist who’s also a medical doctor. Good for basic research methods background and evaluation of research evidence).

Judith Harris (2009) The Nurture Assumption.

Daniel Kahneman (2012) Thinking, Fast and Slow.
(A psychologist, who won the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences)

Lilienfeld, S.O., Lynn, S.J., Ruscio, J. & Beverstein, B.L. (2009) 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions About Human Behavior.

Steven Pinker (2008) The Stuff of Thought: Language As a Window Into Human Nature

Steven Pinker (2003) The language instinct: the new science of language and mind.

Vilayanur Ramachandran (2012) The tell-tale brain.

Vasudevi Reddy 92010) How infants know minds.

Stuart Sutherland (2007) Irrationality (Founding Professor of Experimental Psychology at Sussex)

Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson (2008) Mistakes were made (but not by me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions and Hurtful Acts.

Human Relationships (2001) David Moxon (an A-level topic)

Memory (2000) David Moxon (an AS topic)


Religious Studies

Messer, Neil. SCM Studyguide Christian Ethics. SCM Press, 2006. ISBN 0-334-02995-3

McGrath, Alister E. Christian Theology: An Introduction. Wiley-Blackwell; 5th Revised edition, 2010. ISBN 978-1444335149

McGrath, Alister E. The Christian Theology Reader. Wiley-Blackwell; 4th Revised edition, 2011. ISBN 978-0470654842

Hick, J. The Myth of God Incarnate. SCM Press London, 2012. ISBN 978-0334010654

The Catechism of the Catholic Church

Plato’s Republic

Augustine The City of God

Mackie, J. The Miracle of Theism. Oxford University Press, 1983. ISBN 978-0198246824

Otto, R. The Idea of the Holy. Martino Fine Books, 2010. ISBN 978-1578988617

Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion. Hendrickson Publishers Inc; Rev. Ed edition, 2007. ISBN 978-1598561685

James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures 9, 10, 16, 17 and 20 CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. ISBN 978-1539007326

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. Letters and Papers from Prison and The Cost of Discipleship


Textiles

FIBRES and FABRICS

Textiles at the Cutting Edge - Lesley Cresswell

Textile Innovation - Ros Hibbert

Fabric for Fashion The Swatch Book - Clive Hallett and Amanda Johnston

Fabric for fashion A comprehensive guide to natural fibres - Clive Hallett and Amanda Johnston

Clothing Technology - H Eberle

Technology of textile Properties - Marjorie A Taylor

Textiles Properties and behaviour in clothing use - Miller

 

FASHION HISTORY

Fashionpedia: The Visual Dictionary of Fashion Design

Fashion: The Ultimate Book of Costume and Style

Vogue Twentieth Century Fashion - Linda Watson

Textiles and Fashion - Jenny Udale


Non-Exam Assessments

Fashion Drawing - John Hopkins

Research and Design - Simon Seivewright

Developing a Collection - Colin Renfrew and Elinor Renfrew

Construction - Anette Fischer