Booklist
Introductory books for those interested in Materials Science or Materials, Economics and Management degree programmes at Oxford.
Newer books
The New Science of Strong Materials or Why You Don’t Fall Through the Floor, J.E. Gordon, Princeton University Press, Revised Edition (2008) ISBN-13 978 0691125480
Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour, P. Ball, Penguin Books (2002) ISBN: 0-140-29662-X
Made to Measure: New Materials for the 21st Century, P. Ball, Princeton University Press (1997) ISBN: 0-691-02733-1
Where Stuff Comes From, H. Molotch, Routledge (2003) ISBN 0-415-94400-7
The Material World, R. Cotterill, Cambridge University Press (2008) ISBN: 978-0-521-45147-5
Materials for Engineering, J.W. Martin,Woodhead Publishing for Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (2006) ISBN: 9781845691578
Older books
(The examples in these books are not recent but the books still give a sense of certain key aspects of Materials Science)
Stuff: the materials the world is made of, I Amato, Basic Books (1997) ISBN 0-465-08328-5
Tomorrow's Materials, K.E. Easterling, Institute of Materials (1990) Available from: Institute of Materials, 1 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5DB. ISBN: 0-901462-83-7
Materials & their Uses, W. Bolton, Butterworth-Heinemann (1996) (covers Materials modules for A-level Physics and A-level Design & Technology) ISBN: 07506-2726-3
Structures - or why things don't fall down, J.E. Gordon, Pelican (1991) ISBN 0140136282
Economics
(This book is recommended for a foretaste of economics)
Economics, by D. Begg, S. Fischer and R. Dornbusch, 8th Edition, McGraw-Hill (2005) ISBN 00 77107756
Websites
We also recommend you search online “websites for information about materials science” where you will find a wealth of continually updated information relating to all aspects of Materials Science
Check out www.iom3.org , www.materials.ac.uk , and www.whystudymaterials.ac.uk.
