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Product Description: Originally published in 1982, this is a collection of studies by representatives of countries in western Europe, writing about important legislation affecting universities and showing trends of government control over higher education...read more
By Hans Daalder (editor) and Edward Shils (editor)
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9780521155151 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 25, 2010), cover price $37.99 | About this edition: Originally published in 1982, this is a collection of studies by representatives of countries in western Europe, writing about important legislation affecting universities and showing trends of government control over higher education.

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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
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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.

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9780226753263 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, August 1, 2006), 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.

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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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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.

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9780226753393 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Throughout his long and prolific career, Edward Shils brought an extraordinary knowledge of academic institutions to discussions about higher education.

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Product Description: Edward Shils (1910–1995) 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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9780865971479 | Liberty Fund, July 1, 1997, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Edward Shils (1910–1995) was one of the leading intellectual defenders of freedom in the twentieth century.

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

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Product Description: In these vivid portraits of prominent twentieth-century intellectuals, Edward Shils couples the sensitivity of a biographer with the profound knowledge of a highly respected scholar. Ranging as widely across various disciplines as Shils himself did, the essays gathered here share a distaste for faddists who "run with the intellectual mob" and a deep respect for intellectuals who maintain their integrity under great pressure...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780226753362 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 9, 1997, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: In these vivid portraits of prominent twentieth-century intellectuals, Edward Shils couples the sensitivity of a biographer with the profound knowledge of a highly respected scholar.

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9781560002987 | Transaction Pub, April 1, 1997, cover price $44.95

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9780312072681 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 1, 1992, cover price $39.95

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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.

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

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9780226753324 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 1984, cover price $10.00

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

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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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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 $35.00 | 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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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
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9780226753232 | Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1, 1980, cover price $55.00 | 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.

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By Perter Davison, Rolf Meyersohn (editor) and Edward Shils (editor)
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9780859640367 | Chadwyck-Healy, March 1, 1978, cover price $85.00

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

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

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By Edward Shils (editor)
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9780262690201 | Mit Pr, September 15, 1969, cover price $30.00

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