Geography at Leicester

Suggested reading

If you’d like to expand your awareness of Geography, take a look at our reading suggestions. (Don’t worry, it’s not compulsory!)

BSc Geography

  • Bullard: Dumping in Dixie. Race, Class and Environmental Quality
  • kollektiv orangotango+: This is not an atlas: A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies
  • Lewis and Maslin: The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene
  • Lees, Shin and Lopez-Morales: Planetary Gentrification
  • Vince: Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made
  • Woodward: The Ice Age: A Very Short Introduction
  • Zalasiewicz: The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks

BSc Environmental Science

  • Lewis and Maslin: The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene
  • Nield: Supercontinent: Ten billion years in the life of our planet
  • Winchester: The map that changed the world: the tale of William Smith and the birth of a science
  • Woodward: The Ice Age: A Very Short Introduction
  • Zalasiewicz and Williams: The Goldilocks planet: the 4-billion-year story of Earth's climate

BA Geography

  • Bullard: Dumping in Dixie. Race, Class and Environmental Quality
  • Caglar and Glick-Schiller: Migrants and city-making
  • Graham, Kichen, Mattern and Shaw: How to run a city like Amazon and other fables
  • kollektiv orangotango+: This is not an atlas: A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies
  • Lees, Shin and Lopez-Morales: Planetary Gentrification
  • Lewis, Maslin: The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene
  • Patel and Moore: A history of the world in 7 cheap things.

BA Human Geography

  • Bullard: Dumping in Dixie. Race, Class and Environmental Quality
  • Caglar and Glick-Schiller: Migrants and city-making
  • Graham, Kichen, Mattern and Shaw: How to run a city like Amazon and other fables
  • kollektiv orangotango+: This is not an atlas: A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies
  • Lees, Shin and Lopez-Morales: Planetary Gentrification
  • Woodcock: Working the phones: Control and resistance in call centres
  • Wolford: This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil

BSc Physical Geography and Geology

  • Brusatte: The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World
  • Nield: Supercontinent: Ten billion years in the life of our planet
  • Winchester: The map that changed the world: the tale of William Smith and the birth of a science
  • Woodward: The Ice Age: A Very Short Introduction
  • Zalasiewicz: The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks
  • Zalasiewicz and Williams: The Goldilocks planet: the 4-billion-year story of Earth's climate

 

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