Ivy Global READING 224
MAGAZINES
National Geographic
New Scientist
Scientific American
SOCIAL SCIENCE
GRADE 9/10
Mark Abley, Spoken Here
Joan Dash, The Longitude Prize
Daniel L Everett, Don’t Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in
the Amazonian
Jungle
E.H. Gombrich, The Story of Art
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow
Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
James Q. Wilson, Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They
Do It
GRADE 11/12
Akhil Reed Amar, America’s Constitution: A Biography
Julian Bell, Mirror of the World: A New History of Art
Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point
George Lakoff, Metaphors We Live By
David McCullough, 1776
James M. McPherson, What They Fought For, 1861-1865
Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined
The Blank State: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Robert B. Putman, Bowling Alone
Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But
Some Don’t
Timothy D. Wilson, Strangers to Ourselves, Discovering the Adaptive
Unconscious
Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States