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"

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
Ace by Angela  ChenBisexual and Pansexual Identities by Nikki HayfieldBisexual Politics by Naomi TuckerPansexuality by Karen MorgaineBi by Shiri Eisner
Queer Relationships and Sexuality
12 books — 1 voter
Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Holocaust Industry by Norman G. FinkelsteinColumbine by Dave CullenA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 2000s
274 books — 28 voters

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
252 books — 922 voters
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OmniScriptum
85 books — 1 voter


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
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