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"

I Could Give You the Moon
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want
Mania (Kings of Grove Academy #1)
Raving
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
The Great Gatsby
Orientalism
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
Animal Farm
1984
The Odyssey
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
The Republic
A Patient's Point of View by Matthew    BlakeKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannThe Radium Girls by Kate  MooreThe Road to Jonestown by Jeff GuinnIt's All Relative by A.J. Jacobs
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2017
194 books — 51 voters
Unbroken by Laura HillenbrandCracking The Rich Code Volume 20 by Diane Merrill WiggintonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Skloot RebeccaHow I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike    BrownThe New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2010
59 books — 19 voters

Nonverbal Reactions to Wound Malodor by Gloria BakerTHE IMPLICATION OF USING USING TALISMAN AMONG MUSLIM YOUTH IN... by Musah Ahmed TijaniThe Theory of Special Connectivity by Prashant ChauhanThe Hunter and the Hunted by Maria Francisca RebochoViolent Computer Games by Richard Sagasag
OmniScriptum
85 books — 1 voter


Abhijit Naskar
I have an uncompromising principle against the use of AI in literature.
Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

Philip Pullman
It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It's impossible, and if it isn't impossible, it's irrelevant, and if it isn't either of those things, it's embarrassing. ...more
Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

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