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"

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
Hating You (Blackthorn Elite #1)
Pandemic 1918: The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
Un féminisme décolonial
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
Disunited Nations: Succeeding in a World Where No One Gets Along
Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
Orientalism
The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird
Romeo and Juliet
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
The Communist Manifesto
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Lord of the Flies
The Prince
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
The Odyssey
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Animal Farm
Hamlet
Of Mice and Men
Don't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa LayneCommon Sense Ain’t So Common by Scott  NelsonMad Love by Lynessa LayneTo the Survivors by Robert Uttaro
For college students
23 books — 18 voters
John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Best History Books
3,129 books — 3,423 voters

The Steps by Andrew    WatsonThe Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Trigger by Tim ButcherDogshit Saved My Life by Karl WigginsBuck by M.K. Asante
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 2010s
237 books — 83 voters
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


Jonathan Crary
“ The denial of sleep is the violent dispossession of self by external force, the calculated shattering of an individual. ”
― Jonathan Crary, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

Robert Fanney
“ A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite. ”
― Robert Fanney

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The Custer Conspiracy
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