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
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New Releases Tagged "Academic"

I Could Give You the Moon
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Mania (Kings of Grove Academy #1)
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
Raving
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
Orientalism
The Great Gatsby
The Communist Manifesto
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
To Kill a Mockingbird
Romeo and Juliet
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The Prince
Macbeth
Animal Farm
The Odyssey
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
1984
The Republic

I still feel glad to emphasize the duty, the defining characteristic of the pure scientist—probably to be found working in universities—who commit themselves absolutely to specialized goals, to seek the purest manifestation of any possible phenomenon that they are investigating, to create laboratories that are far more controlled than you would ever find in industry, and to ignore any constraints imposed by, as it were, realism. Further down the scale, people who understand and want to exploit r ...more
C.A.R. Hoare

Wisdom is the Application of Knowledge
Dr. Amy Poh Ai Ling

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