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

“ Wisdom is the Application of Knowledge ”
― Dr. Amy Poh Ai Ling

Kazuo Ishiguro
“ Why did you have to prove a thing like that, Miss Emily? Did someone think we didn’t have souls?” (Ch.22 p.201) ”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

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