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"

Endless Anger (Monsters Within, #1)
The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto
What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
The Great Gatsby
Orientalism
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
To Kill a Mockingbird
Romeo and Juliet
The Communist Manifesto
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The Prince
Macbeth
Animal Farm
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
1984
The Odyssey
Don't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa LayneMad Love by Lynessa LayneTo the Survivors by Robert UttaroHard Times by Charles Dickens
For college students
24 books — 16 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Holocaust Industry by Norman G. FinkelsteinThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonPlanting the Trees of Kenya by Claire A. Nivola
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 2000s
260 books — 27 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Most influential books under 100 pages
250 books — 926 voters
Killers of the Flower Moon by David GrannThe Radium Girls by Kate  MooreIt's All Relative by A.J. JacobsThe Road to Jonestown by Jeff GuinnOn Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2017
188 books — 31 voters


I'll go all out, ace every test No doubt, outdo all the rest Don't pout or settle for second best So I won't stop, and won't lose my cool Don't flop 'cause Harvard's no fool And who'll love me If I'm not the top of my school ...more
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Emily Dickinson
Dove tu sei, quella è casa.
Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

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