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
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New Releases Tagged "Academic"

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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Mania (Kings of Grove Academy #1)
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
Raving
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI (Volume 4) (Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed)
Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
Orientalism
The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Communist Manifesto
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
Animal Farm
1984
The Odyssey
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
The Republic
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Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2014
200 books — 20 voters
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Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 2000s
277 books — 30 voters

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Informative Inspiring and Inimitable
171 books — 162 voters
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For college students
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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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