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常春藤&牛津剑桥给不同专业学生推荐了什么书单？暑假必读！

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？这个暑假读起来吧！

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

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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