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
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
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
The Six Loves of James I
Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
The Only Study Guide You'll Ever Need: Simple tips, tricks and techniques to help you ace your studies and pass your exams!
The Great Gatsby
Orientalism
To Kill a Mockingbird
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
The Communist Manifesto
Romeo and Juliet
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Macbeth
The Prince
Animal Farm
The Odyssey
1984
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
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

Rosemary by Kate Clifford LarsonHow To Be a Tudor by Ruth GoodmanSPQR by Mary BeardThe Witches by Stacy SchiffThe Arab of the Future 2 by Riad Sattouf
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2015
179 books — 17 voters
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanPoecabulary by Francis DiClementeAlive by Piers Paul ReadThe Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1970s
249 books — 19 voters

Touching Feeling by Eve Kosofsky SedgwickAn Archive of Feelings by Ann CvetkovichCruel Optimism by Lauren BerlantThe Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara AhmedOrdinary Affects by Kathleen  Stewart
Affect Theory
22 books — 13 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
251 books — 922 voters


Amos Oz
If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.
Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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