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"

Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
Fundamentals of Being a Good Girl
Sibylline
Mania (Kings of Grove Academy #1)
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want – Exposing Surveillance Capitalism and Artificial Intelligence Myths in Information Technology Today
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
The Great Gatsby
Orientalism
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Communist Manifesto
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
Animal Farm
1984
The Odyssey
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Lord of the Flies
Yes Please by Amy PoehlerAs You Wish by Cary ElwesCan't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz ChastJust Mercy by Bryan StevensonThe Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2014
199 books — 19 voters
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Palgrave MacMillan
79 books — 2 voters


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

If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating mental illness as a genetically influenced disorder of brain chemistry--has been a smashing success. Freud's ideas, which dominated the history of psychiatry for the past half century, are now vanishing like the last snows of winter. ...more
Edward Shorter, A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac

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