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
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
The Six Loves of James I
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World
Raving
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
The Great Gatsby
Orientalism
To Kill a Mockingbird
Romeo and Juliet
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
The Communist Manifesto
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

Peter Gay
While it may be hard to live with generalizations, it is inconceivable to live without them.
Peter Gay, Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle Class Culture, 1815-1914

Judith Rich Harris
Fortunately, the metamorphosis came too late to permit me to go back to graduate school. And thus I escaped indoctrination. Whatever I learned about developmental psychology and social psychology, I learned on my own. I was an outsider looking in, and that has made all the difference. I did not buy into the assumptions of the academic establishment. I was not indebted to their granting agencies. And, once I had given up writing textbooks, I was not required to perpetuate the status quo by teachi ...more
Judith Rich Harris, The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do

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