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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To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
The Six Loves of James I
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
Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
Raving
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
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
1984
The Odyssey
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
The Republic
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
Killers of the Flower Moon by David GrannThe Radium Girls by Kate  MooreThe Road to Jonestown by Jeff GuinnIt's All Relative by A.J. JacobsOn Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2017
189 books — 33 voters

Ace by Angela  ChenBisexual and Pansexual Identities by Nikki HayfieldBisexual Politics by Naomi TuckerPansexuality by Karen MorgaineBi by Shiri Eisner
Queer Relationships and Sexuality
12 books — 1 voter
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanPoecabulary by Francis DiClementeAlive by Piers Paul ReadThe Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1970s
249 books — 19 voters


Amos Oz
If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.
Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

R.M. Engelhardt
One of the more interesting things you'll notice in the entire history of poetry & poets, art & artists is those useless untalented individuals that call themselves " experts" or " critics" . The sad fact is that throughout that same history people actually were gullible and listened to them and bought their books or paintings. We no longer live in the age where poets were mass- read or rockstars but even now, in the 21st century we unfortunately must still deal with these ridiculous fops who me ...more
R.M. Engelhardt , WHERE THERE IS NO VISION POEMS 2020 R.M. ENGELHARDT

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