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"

Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
Fundamentals of Being a Good Girl
Sibylline
Mania (Kings of Grove Academy #1)
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
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
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
The Great Gatsby
Orientalism
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Communist Manifesto
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Romeo and Juliet
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
Lord of the Flies
Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Most influential books under 100 pages
251 books — 922 voters
Bad Science by Ben GoldacreAn Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCrackenThe Fires of Vesuvius by Mary BeardTraffic by Tom VanderbiltAudition by Barbara  Walters
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2008
71 books — 8 voters

John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Best History Books
3,786 books — 3,813 voters



Robert Fanney
A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.
Robert Fanney

Amos Oz
If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.
Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

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