Academic

1. The formal definition is that text should consist of arguments and debate, rather than simply present factual knowledge. Non-fiction studies, arguments, views.

2. Many books (mainly fiction) with a school setting have this tag.



See also:
* education
* high school
* school stories
...more

New Releases Tagged "Academic"

Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000
The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want – Exposing Surveillance Capitalism and Artificial Intelligence Myths in Information Technology Today
The Six Loves of James I
Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
The Great Gatsby
Orientalism
To Kill a Mockingbird
Romeo and Juliet
The Communist Manifesto
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The Prince
Macbeth
Animal Farm
1984
The Odyssey
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
The Republic
A Week at the Airport by Alain de BottonGeorge, Nicholas and Wilhelm by M.J. CarterThe Lady in the Tower by Alison WeirWe Two by Gillian GillChanging My Mind by Zadie Smith
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2009
68 books — 12 voters
Books by Larry McMurtryAudition by Barbara  WaltersThe Age of Wonder by Richard  HolmesThe Fires of Vesuvius by Mary BeardA Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2008
71 books — 8 voters

Punk, Fanzines and DIY Cultures in a Global World by Paula Guerra3-D Cinema and Trauma by Dor FadlonWeird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siecle by Emily AlderAmerican Women's Regionalist Fiction by Monika ElbertPoe, “The House of Usher,” and the American Gothic by Dennis R. Perry
Palgrave MacMillan
79 books — 2 voters
Killers of the Flower Moon by David GrannThe Radium Girls by Kate  MooreThe Road to Jonestown by Jeff GuinnIt's All Relative by A.J. JacobsOn Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2017
188 books — 32 voters


Alok   Mishra
Meaningful literary criticism is like penance to please Bhagwan Shiva and ask for wisdom for the world instead of material things for oneself when God appears! Such is the spiritual gravity of deep, reflective engagement with literature.
Alok Mishra

She never knew how Hard it could truly get until She was drowning, just Beneath the surface, Unable to catch even a Breath of air as she Strangled herself, encumbering Herself with Meaningless tasks and studies, burdening Herself with Meaningless thoughts and duties, No matter how much her heart Willed her to rest, Her brain told her to Keep going, and, inevitably, She broke
-L.S.

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