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

The Thoroughbreds (The Academy, #2)
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want
Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Mania (Kings of Grove Academy #1)
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
Raving
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
Orientalism
The Great Gatsby
The Communist Manifesto
To Kill a Mockingbird
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: Moment by Moment
Animal Farm
1984
The Odyssey
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
The Republic
Touching Feeling by Eve Kosofsky SedgwickCruel Optimism by Lauren BerlantAn Archive of Feelings by Ann CvetkovichThe Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara AhmedOrdinary Affects by Kathleen  Stewart
Affect Theory
23 books — 15 voters
Cracking The Rich Code Volume 20 by Diane Merrill WiggintonBad Science by Ben GoldacreDr Daniel Siegel Collection 3 Books Set by Dr Daniel SiegelAn Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCrackenThe Fires of Vesuvius by Mary Beard
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2008
97 books — 18 voters

The Secret History by Donna TarttIf We Were Villains by M.L. RioBlack Chalk by Christopher J. YatesThe Maidens by Alex MichaelidesNinth House by Leigh Bardugo
University Mysteries
92 books — 35 voters
Cracking The Rich Code Volume 20 by Diane Merrill WiggintonDr Daniel Siegel Collection 3 Books Set by Dr Daniel SiegelWicked Plants by Amy  StewartShadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer WorthBluets by Maggie Nelson
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2009
97 books — 21 voters



“ My priority is not about grades. I seek yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom. ”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

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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