Subject Reading Suggestions Thread

This is a great idea for a thread and I hope you get lots of replies!

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Excellent thread as usual, @ByronicHero .

Reserving my place for if I think of suggestions over the weekend.

There are probably some threads in the subject forums with reading stuff - I know there is in psychology, for example, but it's always good to add more

Thanks

STEM recommendations would be fantastic. I have reads a bunch of popsci, and have listed a few, but really don't have any interesting suggestions. I will find some university reading lists later though.

These aren't exactly books (because I don't like books for STEM - blogs, research papers, events etc are much more transferable to degree study)

For Chemistry
http://chemnet.rsc.org/home (has a magazine and a bunch of blogs with digestible chemistry news - much better than the tired "reading the new scientist" quote that people put on their applications).
http://www.rsc.org/events/?searchtext=public%20lecture&eventtype=5&isBH=1&isRSC=1&audience=8&pagetitle=177 <= public lectures on Chemistry. They're unfortunately all in London but most universities will have their own public lecture series as well as activities around science week to get involved in)

For Chemical Engineering
http://ichemeblog.org/ <= an outstanding blog that discusses loads of interesting chemeng topics

For Physics
http://physicsworld.com/ <= summary of physics news
http://www.iop.org/events/public/index.html <= public events
http://www.iop.org/events/education/index.html <= educational events
http://www.physics.org/ <= iop pages aimed at school age students

For Biology
https://www.rsb.org.uk/students <= signposting page to resources and competitions and events
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/science-events.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00g9xj0

For science in general:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036f7w2/episodes/player and http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qyyb/broadcasts/2013/06


(oh and for English http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/novels-everyone-should-read-interactive/ is worth a look as is http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/non-fiction-books-everyone-should-read-interactive/ for pretty much any subject)

Aerospace Engineering: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi0u66xifXLAhWFjCwKHVGACOQQFggdMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fiopscience.iop.org%2Farticle%2F10.1088%2F0031-9120%2F38%2F6%2F001%2Fpdf&usg=AFQjCNFFJeHxri3AYVdFi6D1DEKB_S9XWA&sig2=mOJxwQ2NC8wU3_lsaSh2aA

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Classics

The Annuls of Imperial Rome - Tacitus
The Early History of Rome - Livy
The Twelve Caesars - Suetonius
Defence Speeches - Cicero
Metamorphoses - Ovid

Oedipus The King - Sophocles
Oedipus at Colonus - Sophocles
Antigone - Sophocles
Alcestis and other plays - Euripides
Medea and other plays - Euripides
The Metaphysics - Aristotle
The Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
The Aenid - Virgil
The Odyssey - Homer

Early Socratic Dialogues - Plato
Plato - Complete Works - Ed. John M. Cooper

The First Philosophers, The Presocratics and the Sophists - trans. Robin Waterfield
Neoplatonic Philosophy - John Dillon

The Oxford Classical Dictionary

I've correct the few typos I saw I'd recommend Aeschylus' Oresteia as the only extant example of a complete tragic trilogy, Aristophanes' comedies (all eleven are good, but I'd recommend Lysistrata, as it seems to be well-known and has been performed at a number of anti-war rallies, Clouds, since it features Socrates, and Wealth, because it is an example of Aristophanes' later work). I'd also recommend Menander's comedies (particularly Dyscolos the only surviving complete example of New Comedy). Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War and Herodotus' Histories are good fun and great to contrast in style. For Homer, you'll also want to add the Iliad, earlier than the Odyssey and possibly also Martin West's Greek Epic Fragments which will give people a much better sense of what we are missing from epic and which I didn't realise until now is freely available from the internet archive (https://archive.org/details/L497GreekEpicFragmentsVIIVcBC). I'd recommend all of Sophocles' and Euripides' plays, especially Euripides' Cyclops, the only complete example of satyr drama, Aristotle's Poetics, and possibly Apollonius' Argonautica, a later example of Greek epic.

I think that's all I can think of on the Greek side for now, but I shall check what I've got to see if there's anything else that is useful. In terms of Latin, you've got a good smattering of stuff there already. I'd be tempted to add in Catullus' poetry (on the whole very short) and also Horace in general really. Pliny the younger's Epistles make for some interesting reading and I'd add some Senecan philosophy in there. On drama, perhaps Plautus' and Terence's comedies should be included (they're all decent works so I offer no particular suggestions) and also Seneca's tragedies.

General reading, the very short introduction series has good grounding of many of the topics of the ancient world and from there should provide useful bibliography. The Cambridge Companions are also worth perusing as well.

In terms of internet sources, the perseus digital library is a must to have on bookmarks (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/) as is poetry in translation (http://www.poetryintranslation.com/index.html). The Loeb Classical Library is now fully online (subscription required - http://www.loebclassics.com/) and the internet archive can be a great source of translations, though be aware that some may be old and therefore difficult to read compared to more modern translations.

Yes, I mainly just added all of the things I own - and apparently far too quickly if I made a bunch of typos

I will definitely integrate this into the OP and place you among the contributors! Pretty stupid to forget Thucydides

You've been a great help - thanks mate!

I'm very impressed that you owned all of those works really - you clearly appreciate what is the pinacle of culture

Thanks and I try to forget Thucydides as well - his Greek is very difficult, so I only use him in my work where absolutely necessary.

No problem, it was great fun thinking of what is needed. I was going to suggest Lysias and Demosthenes, but Cicero is a far better introduction to ancient rhetoric.

For psychology, there are also these threads (unfortunately not stickied, so not easy to find! I've put them in the psychology PS article):

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1353596 and
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2739866

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