Reading Skills for Academic Study
Strategies for reading
Exercises
Use the strategies on the following texts:
Anthropology
The economic process in primitive societies
The early education of Manus children
Moral standards and social organization
Production in primitive societies
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Evolution and natural selection.
Banting and the discovery of insulin
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Electricity helps Chemistry: Electro-plating
Economics
Productivity as a guide to wages
The failure of the classical theory of commercial policy
Education
The personal qualities of a teacher
The beginnings of scientific and technical education
Supposed mental faculties and their training
Britain and Japan: Two roads to higher education
What types of students do you have to teach?
Spoon-fed feel lost at the cutting edge
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History
The nature, object and purpose of history
The expansion of Western civilization
The trial and execution of Charles I
Language
English in the fifteenth century
From word symbol to phoneme symbol
Scientific words: Their structure and meaning.
Law
The legal character of international law
Mathematics
On different degrees of smallness
Philosophy
Definition and some of its difficulties
The subject matter of philosophy
Physics
The origin of the sun and the planets.
Can life exist on the planets?
The theory of continuous creation.
Marconi and the invention of radio
The quantum theory of radiation
The development of electricity
Politics
The declaration of independence
Psychology
Learning to live with the computer
Distance regulation in animals
An observation and an explanation
Adaptive control of reading rate
Sociology
Rational and irrational elements in contemporary society
Social life in a provincial university
Changes in English social life after 1918
Scientific method in the social sciences
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Blowing hot and cold on British windmills
Direct uses of solar radiation
The development of electricity
Twentieth Century Discovery
Discovery of insecticides and pesticides
The Artificial World Around Us
What is happening to the steel age?
The English we Use for Science
SCIENCE: ITS NATURE AND IMPORTANCE
1 What Science Is by Maurice Goldsmith
2 Science and the World’s Problems by Professor M. S. Thacker
3 Planning for Science and Technology by Professor P. M. S. Blackett
4 The Prospects of Pure Science by Sir John Cockcroft
MATTER
5 Elements and Atoms by Maurice Goldsmith
LIFE ON EARTH
6 The Past Life of the Earth by Dr Errol I. White
7 The Use of Carbon by Plants by Professor H. K. Porter and Dr H. Jones
8 Food, Growth and Time by Professor R. A. McCance
SPACE
9 The Evolution of the Universe by Patrick Moore
10 The Scientific Exploration of Space by Sir Harrie Massey
11 Physiological Problems of Space Flight by Squadron Leader Peter Howard
12 The Radio Telescope by Sir Bernard Lovell
13 Lunar Explorers by Harold Spencer Jones
14 Exploding Stars (from Discovery)
MATHEMATICS
15 The New World of Mathematics by George A. W. Boehm
CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
16 Chemistry by John Read
17 The Discovery of Oxygen by Maurice Goldsmith
18 Crystal Analysis by Sir William Bragg
19 Heat and Energy by Professor E. N. da C. Andrade
ATOMIC SCIENCE
20 The Jubilee of the Atomic Nucleus by Sir Charles Darwin
21 How a Nuclear Power Station Works by Sir John Cockcroft
22 Effects of Radiation (from The Lancet)
POWER, FUEL, WATER AND BUILDING MATERIALS
23 Fuel and Power for the Development of India by Nigel Calder
24 Harnessing Underground Heat (from Discovery)
25 The Search for Water beneath the Deserts by Dr Frank Dixey
26 Nigeria: Features and Resources by I. 0. Oladapo
ENGINEERING
27 The Aswan High Dam by Dr Hassan Zaky
28 Bridge, Tube or Tunnel (from Engineering)
29 Making Steels of Very High Strengths by Arthur Kenneford
30 Reducing Fatigue in Metals used for Aeroplanes (from New Scientist)
31 Wear of a Shaft in its Bearings by Sir Henry R. Ricardo
NOISE
32 The Control of Noise by Dr B. Wheeler Robinson
TELEVISION
33 Technical Problems in Television (from New Scientist)
34 Colour Television by G. F. Newell
SURVIVAL, HEALTH AND MEDICINE
35 The New Birth of Medicine by Sir Clifford Allbutt
36 The Survival Game by Martin Wells
37 Over-Population by Dr A. S. Parkes
38 Coronary Heart Disease by Michael Oliver
39 Malaria Eradication in Africa by Dr L. J. Bruce-Chwatt
40 Death on the Road (from The Lancet)
41 Surgery of Road Accidents (from The Lancet)
42 Artificial Respiration by Professor R. C. Browne
43 Drinking Water (from The Lancet)
44 How much Sleep do we Need? by R. T. Wilkinson
45 Animals and Pain by Lord Brain
IN SEARCH OF FOOD
46 The Cultivation of the Indus Valley by Dr Roger Revelle
47 The Transformation of Japanese Agriculture (from New Scientist)
48 Modern Views of Fish Migration by Dr P. A. Orkin
49 Forecasting the Weather (from Discovery)
WHERE IS SCIENCE LEADING US?
50 Where is Science Leading Us? by Sir Julian Huxley
EPILOGUE
The Training of Professionals by A. N. Whitehead
