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

The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
Raving
Mania (Kings of Grove Academy #1)
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want
Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
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
1984
The Odyssey
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
The Republic
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
200 books — 48 voters
The Secret History by Donna TarttIf We Were Villains by M.L. RioBlack Chalk by Christopher J. YatesThe Maidens by Alex MichaelidesNinth House by Leigh Bardugo
University Mysteries
56 books — 35 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
285 books — 977 voters
Rosemary by Kate Clifford LarsonDownton Abbey by Jessica FellowesCracking The Rich Code Volume 20 by Diane Merrill WiggintonHow To Be a Tudor by Ruth GoodmanThe Wright Brothers by David McCullough
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2015
209 books — 31 voters



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

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

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