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"

I Could Give You the Moon
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
Mania (Kings of Grove Academy #1)
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want
Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World
Raving
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
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
The Odyssey
1984
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
The Republic

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

Dale C. Allison Jr.
Too many live with the false promise that their faith will deliver them from doubt and conveniently supply all the answers to all their questions.
Dale C. Allison Jr., The Resurrection of Jesus: Apologetics, Polemics, History

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