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
Rosemary by Kate Clifford LarsonHow To Be a Tudor by Ruth GoodmanSPQR by Mary BeardThe Witches by Stacy SchiffThe Arab of the Future 2 by Riad Sattouf
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2015
180 books — 18 voters
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

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
51 books — 28 voters
Bad Science by Ben GoldacreAn Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCrackenThe Fires of Vesuvius by Mary BeardTraffic by Tom VanderbiltAudition by Barbara  Walters
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2008
71 books — 8 voters


If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating mental illness as a genetically influenced disorder of brain chemistry--has been a smashing success. Freud's ideas, which dominated the history of psychiatry for the past half century, are now vanishing like the last snows of winter. ...more
Edward Shorter, A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac

My priority is not about grades. I seek yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.
Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

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