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
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
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot by John CallahanTwirling Naked in the Streets and No One Noticed by Jeannie Davide-RiveraCrip Theory by Robert McRuerIllness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan SontagExile and Pride by Eli Clare
disability studies
192 books — 46 voters

How to Hack Back Your Mind by Ramzi NajjarHow to Hack Back Your Mind by Ramzi NajjarLeading Hybrid and Remote Teams by Gleb TsipurskyThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoThe Ultimate Human Secrets by Ramzi Najjar
Informative Inspiring and Inimitable
166 books — 156 voters
I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiQuiet by Susan CainBrain on Fire by Susannah CahalanTrick or Treat by Lisa MortonWild by Cheryl Strayed
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2012
181 books — 14 voters


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

Scott McCloud
All the things we experience in life can be separated into two realms, the realm of the concept and the realm of the senses.
Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

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