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

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want – Exposing Surveillance Capitalism and Artificial Intelligence Myths in Information Technology Today
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
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
The Prince
Macbeth
Animal Farm
The Odyssey
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
1984
Lord of the Flies
Yes Please by Amy PoehlerAs You Wish by Cary ElwesCan't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz ChastJust Mercy by Bryan StevensonThe Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2014
199 books — 19 voters
John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Best History Books
3,727 books — 3,769 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
The Lady in the Tower by Alison WeirGeorge, Nicholas and Wilhelm by M.J. CarterShadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer WorthBluets by Maggie NelsonFarewell to the East End by Jennifer Worth
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2009
68 books — 11 voters


Hanna  Hasl-Kelchner
Fairness isn’t about charity. It’s smart business.
Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

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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