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The Order of Learning: Essays on the Contemporary University

Product Description: The Order of Learning considers the problems facing higher education by focusing on main underlying factors: the relationship of higher education to government, academic freedom, and the responsibilities of the academic profession, among others...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Philip G. Altbach and Edward Shils

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9781560002987 | Transaction Pub, April 1, 1997, cover price $50.95 | About this edition: The Order of Learning considers the problems facing higher education by focusing on main underlying factors: the relationship of higher education to government, academic freedom, and the responsibilities of the academic profession, among others.

Universities, Politicians and Bureaucrats: Europe and the United States

By Hans Daalder (editor) and Edward Shils (editor)

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Paperback:

9780521155151 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 25, 2010), cover price $59.99

Tradition

Product Description: Tradition, by esteemed sociologist Edward Shils, was the first book to fully explore the history, significance, and future of tradition as a whole. Intent on questioning the meaning of the antitraditionalist impulse in today's society, Shils argues here that the tendency to distrust and rebel against tradition is at the heart of tradition itself; only through suspicion and defiance does tradition actually move forward...read more

By Edward Shils

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9780226753256 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 1981, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Tradition, by esteemed sociologist Edward Shils, was the first book to fully explore the history, significance, and future of tradition as a whole.

Paperback:

9780226753263 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, August 1, 2006), cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Tradition, by esteemed sociologist Edward Shils, was the first book to fully explore the history, significance, and future of tradition as a whole.

The Calling of Education: The Academic Ethic and Other Essays on Higher Education

Product Description: Throughout his long and prolific career, Edward Shils brought an extraordinary knowledge of academic institutions to discussions about higher education. The Calling of Education features Shils's most illuminating and incisive writing on this topic from the last twenty-five years of his life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Steven Grosby (editor) and Edward Shils

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Hardcover:

9780226753386 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Throughout his long and prolific career, Edward Shils brought an extraordinary knowledge of academic institutions to discussions about higher education.

Paperback:

9780226753393 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $31.00 | About this edition: Throughout his long and prolific career, Edward Shils brought an extraordinary knowledge of academic institutions to discussions about higher education.

The Virtue of Civility: Selected Essays on Liberalism, Tradition, and Civil Society

Product Description: Edward Shils (1910â1995) was one of the leading intellectual defenders of freedom in the twentieth century. Learned in history, politics, literature, economics, theology, and legal history, he taught for many years at the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought and at Peterhouse College, Cambridge...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Steven Grosby (editor) and Edward Shils

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Hardcover:

9780865971479 | Liberty Fund, July 1, 1997, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Edward Shils (1910â1995) was one of the leading intellectual defenders of freedom in the twentieth century.

Paperback:

9780865971486 | Liberty Fund, July 1, 1997, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Modern Political Philosophy

Portraits: A Gallery of Intellectuals

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By Joseph Epstein and Edward Shils

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Hardcover:

9780226753362 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 9, 1997, cover price $92.00

Jews and Christians in a Pluralistic World

By Ernst-Wolfgang Bockenforde and Edward Shils (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780312072681 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 1, 1992, cover price $39.95 | also contains Collins Italian: Stage 1 and Stage 2

Remembering the University of Chicago: Teachers, Scientists, and Scholars

Product Description: To celebrate the intellectual achievement of the University of Chicago on the occasion of its centennial year, Edward Shils invited a group of notable scholars and scientists to reflect upon some of their own teachers and colleagues at the University.

By Edward Shils (editor)

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9780226753355 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 1991, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: To celebrate the intellectual achievement of the University of Chicago on the occasion of its centennial year, Edward Shils invited a group of notable scholars and scientists to reflect upon some of their own teachers and colleagues at the University.

The Academic Ethic

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By Edward Shils

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Hardcover:

9780226753300 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 1984, cover price $14.50

Paperback:

9780226753324 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 1984, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Book by Shils, Edward

Literary Taste, Culture and Mass Communication: Mass Media and Mass Communication

By Peter Davison, Rolf Meyersohn and Edward Shils

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9780859640374 | Reissue edition (Chadwyck-Healy, June 1, 1983), cover price $100.00

The Constitution of Society

A discussion of sociological theory includes examinations of the organization of mass society, the influence of the intellectual community on social structures, and the self-image of society

By Edward Shils

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9780226753270 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 1982, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A discussion of sociological theory includes examinations of the organization of mass society, the influence of the intellectual community on social structures, and the self-image of society

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9780226753294 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 1982, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: A discussion of sociological theory includes examinations of the organization of mass society, the influence of the intellectual community on social structures, and the self-image of society

The Calling of Sociology and Other Essays on the Pursuit of Learning

Product Description: This third volume of the Selected Papers of Edward Shils brings together ten essays, three of which have never been published before and all the others of which have been completely revised and elaborated. They deal with the history of American and European sociology as an intellectual undertaking and as a means to the attainment of practical ends...read more

By Edward Shils

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9780226753232 | Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1, 1980, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: This third volume of the Selected Papers of Edward Shils brings together ten essays, three of which have never been published before and all the others of which have been completely revised and elaborated.

Culture and Mass Culture

By Perter Davison, Rolf Meyersohn (editor) and Edward Shils (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780859640367 | Chadwyck-Healy, March 1, 1978, cover price $85.00

Center and Periphery: Essays in MacRosociology

By Edward Shils

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Hardcover:

9780226753171 | Univ of Chicago Committee on, June 1, 1975, cover price $32.50

The Intellectuals and the Powers, and Other Essays

By Edward Shils

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Hardcover:

9780226753157 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 1, 1972, cover price $27.50

Criteria for Scientific Development: Public Policy and National Goals

Product Description: The space competition is only one of the major concerns of the contributors to this volume. Their investigations cover all the areas of interaction, of conflict and cooperation, between science and the state, science and the economy, science and the popular imagination...read more

By Edward Shils (editor)

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9780262690201 | Mit Pr, September 15, 1969, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The space competition is only one of the major concerns of the contributors to this volume.

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