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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New Releases Tagged "Academic"

Katabasis
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The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues
Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
The Japanese Myths: A Guide to Gods, Heroes and Spirits
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
The Great Gatsby
Orientalism
To Kill a Mockingbird
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
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
1984
The Odyssey
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Unbroken by Laura HillenbrandThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Skloot RebeccaHow I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike    BrownDreaming in Chinese by Deborah FallowsThe Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2010
55 books — 11 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

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
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanPoecabulary by Francis DiClementeThe Right Stuff by Tom WolfeThe Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff
Non-Fiction Published in Decade: 1970s
215 books — 18 voters

Beyond the Frame by Angela Y. DavisWomen, Race & Class by Angela Y. DavisSight Unseen by Martin A. BergerWoman's Legacy by Bettina ApthekerMexicans in California by Ramón A. Gutiérrez
Race, Women, Culture - UCSC
18 books — 1 voter
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


Walter Brueggemann
In the end, ethical interpretation of the Bible means to think critically about how our practices of textual engagement might help us to become both more human and more humane. We are constantly crafting and recrafting ourselves, and the goal is to do so in such a way that we contribute, even if only incrementally, more to the good in the world than to the bad. We think of the point made by Tim Beal (2011, 184), who notes that the etymological root of the word “religion” is typically taken to be ...more
Walter Brueggemann, An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination

Wisdom is the Application of Knowledge
Dr. Amy Poh Ai Ling

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