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"

Bodies of Magic
Winterveil
Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
Ordinary Notes
Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation
Orientalism
The Great Gatsby
The Communist Manifesto
Gender Trouble. Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
To Kill a Mockingbird
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
The Odyssey
Animal Farm
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
1984
The Republic
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine PatersonAcid by Emma PassCoyote's Daughter by Corie J. WeaverGenetically Altered by Tracie MoltonCompany Town by Madeline Ashby
YA sci fi books for book reports
22 books — 4 voters
I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiQuiet by Susan CainCracking The Rich Code Volume 20 by Diane Merrill WiggintonCreating Abundance & Living Generously by Anne DenysDr Daniel Siegel Collection 3 Books Set by Dr Daniel Siegel
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2012
215 books — 30 voters

Crip Theory by Robert McRuerDon't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot by John CallahanTwirling Naked in the Streets and No One Noticed by Jeannie Davide-RiveraFeminist, Queer, Crip by Alison KaferIllness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
disability studies
201 books — 52 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

A Patient's Point of View by Matthew    BlakeKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannThe Radium Girls by Kate  MooreReconceptualizing Disability in Education by Luigi IannacciThe Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2017
234 books — 65 voters
John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Best History Books
4,173 books — 4,823 voters


“ Todos estamos hoy integrados en la cultura de masas, incluidos los críticos apocalípticos que la consideran la antítesis de la cultura .Nadie está al margen de la música pop, la manera en la que nos relacionemos con ella puede cambiar, y de hecho cambia, de unos a otros, pero es imposible no relacionarnos con ella ”
― Juan Carlos Fernández Serrato, Hacia una teoría del pop

Judith Rich Harris
“ Someone who thinks up a new theory is the last person who should be trusted with the job of testing it. A new theory should be tested by independent researchers who aren’t cronies of the theorist and who don’t have an axe to grind. It’s division of labor again: proposing theories and doing research to test them are jobs that should be carried out by different entities. “A good theory should go in advance of the evidence,” the evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller said in a recent interview ...more ”
― Judith Rich Harris, No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality

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