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"

Endless Anger (Monsters Within, #1)
The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto
What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
The Great Gatsby
Orientalism
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
To Kill a Mockingbird
Romeo and Juliet
The Communist Manifesto
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The Prince
Macbeth
Animal Farm
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
1984
The Odyssey
A Thousand Lives by Julia ScheeresBossypants by Tina FeyA Stolen Life by Jaycee DugardThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanSapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2011
148 books — 11 voters
People Like Us by Dana  MeleTruly, Devious by Maureen JohnsonPrep School Confidential by Kara TaylorPrivate by Kate BrianSeton Girls by Charlene  Thomas
Boarding School Mysteries
132 books — 83 voters

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disability studies
192 books — 46 voters
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Palgrave MacMillan
79 books — 2 voters

The Fractal Geometry of Nature by Benoît B. MandelbrotThe Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. KuhnMolecular Cloning by Joseph SambrookDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-... by American Psychiatric Publis...
Heavily Cited
100 books — 3 voters
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Informative Inspiring and Inimitable
164 books — 159 voters


Walter Brueggemann
In the end, ethical interpretation of the Bible means to think critically about how our practices of textual engagement might help us to become both more human and more humane. We are constantly crafting and recrafting ourselves, and the goal is to do so in such a way that we contribute, even if only incrementally, more to the good in the world than to the bad. We think of the point made by Tim Beal (2011, 184), who notes that the etymological root of the word “religion” is typically taken to be ...more
Walter Brueggemann, An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination

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

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