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Please see the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic's .

Please see the Department of Archaeology .

• Calvino, Italo. Invisible Cities. Vintage, 1997. 
• Escobar, Arturo. Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds. Duke University Press, 2018.
• Kostof, Spiro. A History of Architecture, Settings and Rituals, Oxford University Press, 1995.
• Tonkiss, Fran. Cities by Design: The Social Life of Urban Form. Polity, 2014.
• Sharr, Adam. Modern Architecture: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018

Please see the following Departments for their suggested reading pages:

Please see the Faculty of Classics' .

Charles Petzold (2000) Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software Microsoft Press

David Harel Algorithmics Addison Wesley

Students are encouraged to remain confident in A level (or equivalent) material, particularly the Maths background, and also to code as much as they can, if possible.

Please see the Department of Design's suggested reading page.

• Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
• Misbehaving by Richard Thaler
• This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff
• The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data by David Spiegelhalter

Bartlett, S., & Burton, D., eds. (2016). Introduction to Education Studies. 5th ed. Los Angeles: SAGE.

Bennett, A., & Royle, N. (2016). An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory. 6th ed. New York: Routledge.

Jarvis, P., & Watts, M., eds. (2012). The Routledge International Handbook of Learning. New York: Routledge.

Noddings, N. (2016). Philosophy of Education. 4th ed. New York: Routledge.

Please see the Department of Engineering's .

• Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, trans. Barry Windeatt, for Oxford World’s Classics (Oxford, 1998)
• Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, trans. David Wright with intro. by Christopher Cannon, for Oxford World’s Classics (Oxford, 2011).
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, trans. Simon Armitage (Norton, 2009)
• Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript, ed. Helen Cooper, Oxford World’s Classics (Oxford, 1998, repr. 2008).
• J.A. Burrow, Medieval Writers and their Work, (Oxford, 1982)
• David Wallace, ed. The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature (Cambridge, 2002)

• Alley, Richard (ed.) (2014)
• Criado Perez, Caroline (2019) Invisible Women
• Hulme, Mike (2009)
• Oppenheimer, Clive (2011)

These items are intended as introductions to thinking about history as a craft and a discipline. There is very little compulsory reading in the Cambridge History course; we very much encourage students to pursue their own particular interests through their reading and to dip into new topics that seem appealing. All reading is helpful reading.

• Ulinka Rublack (ed.), A Concise Companion to History (Oxford, 2011).
• Carolyn Steedman, Dust (Manchester, 2001).
• Ludmilla Jordanova, History in Practice (London, 2000 - or any subsequent edition).
• '' podcast, BBC

• John Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction
• Richard Whatmore, The History of Political Thought: A Very Short Introduction
• Kenneth Minogue, Politics: A Very Short Introduction
• David Miller, Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

Ways of Seeing / John Berger. London: Penguin Books, 1972.

The Story of Art Without Men / Katy Hessel. London: Hutchinson Heinemann, 2022.

The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft / Anne Friedberg. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009.

Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance / Erwin Panofsky. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1972

Please see the Faculty of Human, Social and Political Sciences' .

See the page on on the Land Economy website.

Please see these  made by students at the Faculty of Law. 

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Please see the Faculty of Mathematics' suggested .

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See the following summer preparation recommendations from the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages:

• Nicholas Cook, Music: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd edn (Oxford, 2021)
• Richard Taruskin and Christopher Gibbs, The Oxford History of Western Music: College Edition
• J. P. E. Harper-Scott and Jim Samson (eds), An Introduction to Music Studies (Cambridge 2009)
• Philip V. Bohlman, World Music: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2002)

See the  for the
Natural Sciences Tripos.

Please see the Faculty of Philosophy's suggested reading list.

• Making up the mind Frith, C. 2007 (Blackwell)
• Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind Magnun, Gazzagina, Ivry
• A framework for consciousness Francis Crick and Christof Koch

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