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Human Sciences at Wadham College
Introductory Reading 2016-17
The following is a selection of reading which represents different subject areas within Human Sciences.
You are not expected to read everything on this list but do select some titles which interest you most.
Ashcroft, F. M. (2002). Life at the Extremes. University of California Press.
Barash D. P. (2012). Homo Mysterious. Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature. Oxford University Press.
Barley, N. (1983). The Innocent Anthropologist. Penguin.
Campbell, N. et. al. (2014). Biology: A Global Approach [10th edition]. Pearson.
Charlesworth B. & Charlesworth D. (2003). Evolution: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University
Press.
Cuff, E.C, Sharrock, W.W. and Francis, D. W. (2006). Perspectives in Sociology [5th edition]. Routledge.
Dorling, D. (2013). Population 10 Billion. Constable & Robinson.
Eriksen, T.H. (2001). Small Places, Large issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology.
Pluto Press.
Francis, R. C. (2011). Epigenetics. How Environment Shapes our Genes. W.W. Norton & Co.
Giddens, A. & Sutton, P. W. (2013). Sociology [7th edition]. Polity Press.
Guttman, B., Griffiths, A., Suzuki, D, Cullis, T. (2002). Genetics: A Beginner’s Guide. One World
Publications.
Koser, K. (2007). International Migration: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press.
Laland, K. & Brown, G. (2011). Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour
(2nd Edition). Oxford University Press.
Pilgrim, S. & Pretty, J. 2013. Nature and Culture: Rebuilding Lost Connections. London. Routledge
(Earthscan).
Rogers, A. R. (2011). The Evidence for Evolution. University of Chicago Press.
Slack J. S. (2014). Genes: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press.
Spector, T. (2012). Identically Different. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Taylor, J. (2009). Not a chimp. The hunt to find the genes that make us human. Oxford University
Press.
Thompson K. (2010). Do we need pandas? The uncomfortable truth about biodiversity. Green Books.
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