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Tradition by Edward Shils
Booksplease Price: £27.62"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... -
The Constitution of Society Edward Shils 9780226753294
Booksplease Price: £36.05Edward Shils's attempt to work out a macrosociological theory which does justice both to the spiritual and intellectual dispositions and powers of the mind and to the reality of the larger society is... -
Portraits: A Gallery of Intellectuals by Edward Shils 9780226753379
Booksplease Price: £30.43Ranging widely across many disciplines, this collection of essays demonstrates a distaste for intellectuals who "run with the intellectual mob", and a deep respect for those who maintain their... -
Cambridge Women: Twelve Portraits by Edward Shils 9780521483445
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.11This is a collection of portraits of twelve outstanding women who lived and worked in Cambridge during the century before women were admitted fully to membership of the University. The subjects... -
The Order of Learning: Essays on the Contemporary University by Edward Shils 9781138537224
Booksplease Price: £98.40The 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... -
The Order of Learning: Essays on the Contemporary University by Edward Shils 9781412851541
Booksplease Price: £34.45The 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... -
Order of Learning: Essays on the Contemporary University by Edward Shils 9781138512832
Booksplease Price: £33.74The 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... -
Ideology and Utopia : an Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge by Edward Shils 9780156439558
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £18.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156439558Author Edward ShilsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner... -
The Calling of Social Thought: Rediscovering the Work of Edward Shils by Christopher Adair-Toteff
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £65.11Edward Shils was a central figure in twentieth century social thought. He held appointments both at Chicago and Cambridge and was a crucial link between British and American intellectual life. This... -
The Torment of Secrecy: The Background and Consequences of American Secruity Policies by Edward Shils 9781566631051
Booksplease Price: £16.21Edward Shils's The Torment of Secrecy is one of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of anticommunism and McCarthyism in the United States. Mr. Shils's "torment" is not only that... -
A Fragment of a Sociological Autobiography: The History of My Pursuit of a Few Ideas by Edward Shils 9781138507180
Booksplease Price: £61.73Edward Shils was one of the giants of sociological theory in the period after World War II. In this autobiography, written three years before his death in 1995 and never before published, Shils... -
Virtue of Civility: Selected Essays on Liberalism, Tradition, & Civil Society by Edward Shils 9780865971486
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £8.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865971486Author Edward ShilsFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher... -
The Calling of Education: 'Academic Ethic' and Other Essays on Higher Education by Edward Shils 9780226753393
Booksplease Price: £28.55Throughout his long career, Edward Shils brought a wide knowledge of academic institutions to discussions about higher education. "The Calling of Education" features Shils's most incisive writing on... -
The Political Theories of Raymond Aron: Freedom, Democracy and National Identity by Christopher Adair-Toteff
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60An illuminating account of Raymond Aron's political philosophy and its enduring relevance todayBook InformationISBN 9781474447089Author Christopher Adair-ToteffFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint... -
Raymond Aron's Philosophy of Political Responsibility: Freedom, Democracy and National Identity by Christopher Adair-Toteff
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.04This book shines a light on Raymond Aron and his work on war and peace, ideological critique, the philosophy of history, international relations and political economy. It discusses Aaron's political... -
A Dream Deferred: How Social Work Education Lost Its Way and What Can be Done by Edward Shils 9781138507166
Booksplease Price: £51.62From its inception in the late nineteenth century, social work has struggled to carry out the complex, sometimes contradictory, functions associated with reducing suffering, enhancing social order,... -
![New ND Original Poems, with Notes, on Creation and Redemption, ... Comprising the History of Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden, and the Footsteps of Jesus. [With Illustrations.] Vol. 1. by Edward Shillito 9781241165062](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/8031930/9067854/9781241165062__22590.1747652371.jpg?c=1 "New ND Original Poems, with Notes, on Creation and Redemption, ... Comprising the History of Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden, and the Footsteps of Jesus. [With Illustrations.] Vol. 1. by Edward Shillito 9781241165062")
New ND Original Poems, with Notes, on Creation and Redemption, ... Comprising the History of Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden, and the Footsteps of Jesus. [With Illustrations.] Vol. 1. by Edward Shillito 9781241165062
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241165062Author Edward ShillitoFormat PaperbackImprint British Library, Historical Print... -
Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction Karl Mannheim 9780415436748
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £53.24First published in 1980. This is Volume II of Mannheim's collected works, translated by Edward Shils and includes recent developments in the author's thinking since 1935 when it was originally... -
Theology and the Enlightenment: A Critical Enquiry into Enlightenment Theology and Its Reception by The Rev. Professor Paul Avis 9780567705655
Booksplease Price: £96.35Challenging the common assumption that the Enlightenment of the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries was an essentially secular, irreligious and atheistic movement, this book critiques this... -
Theology and the Enlightenment: A Critical Enquiry into Enlightenment Theology and Its Reception by The Rev. Professor Paul Avis
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.14Challenging the common assumption that the Enlightenment of the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries was an essentially secular, irreligious and atheistic movement, this book critiques this... -
Relevance Of Liberalism/h by Zbigniew Brzezinski
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This volume is the outgrowth of a conference organized in January 1976 by the Research Institute on International Change. The conference represented an important aspect of the institute's research... -
A Thousand Paper Cuts: Us Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War Anjali Nath 9781478029410
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £67.54In A Thousand Paper Cuts, Anjali Nath considers the paper worlds made and destroyed by US imperialism. From the slogans of anti-Communist Cold Warriors against a spectral "Paper Curtain" to the... -
A Thousand Paper Cuts: Us Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War Anjali Nath 9781478032854
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.68In A Thousand Paper Cuts, Anjali Nath considers the paper worlds made and destroyed by US imperialism. From the slogans of anti-Communist Cold Warriors against a spectral "Paper Curtain" to the... -
Revolt of the Masscult by Chris Lehmann 9780971757578
Booksplease Price: £13.39We live in an age of "popular culture" - another term, to some, for an organic mess of marketing strategies aimed at giving us the illusion of choice. From Oprah Winfrey's Book Club to presidential... -
Max Weber in America by Lawrence A. Scaff 9780691147796
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £40.67Max Weber, widely considered a founder of sociology and the modern social sciences, visited the United States in 1904 with his wife Marianne. The trip was a turning point in Weber's life and it... -
Political Systems: Some Sociological Approaches H WISEMAN 9781032700335
Booksplease Price: £34.45First published in 1966, Political Systems provides an examination of political systems through a sociological approach. This comprehensive survey summarizes the theories of many of the most eminent... -
The University and the City: From Medieval Origins to the Present by Thomas Bender 9780195067750
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £47.26This book contains an innovative and important series of studies of the complex relations of major cities associated with key moments in the history of higher learning in the West. By exploring the... -
Political Systems: Some Sociological Approaches by H WISEMAN 9781032700304
Booksplease Price: £110.36First published in 1966, Political Systems provides an examination of political systems through a sociological approach. This comprehensive survey summarizes the theories of many of the most eminent... -
Essays on the History of British Sociological Research by Martin Bulmer 9780521274845
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.44This book traces the history of British sociology and empirical social research over the last hundred years. Its coverage includes the census of population, the classic poverty surveys of Booth and... -
Essays on the History of British Sociological Research by Martin Bulmer 9780521254779
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £98.84This book traces the history of British sociology and empirical social research over the last hundred years. Its coverage includes the census of population, the classic poverty surveys of Booth and... -
Karl Mannheim and the Crisis of Liberalism: The Secret of These New Times by David Kettler
Booksplease Price: £62.03To reflect on Karl Mannheim is to address fundamental issues of political enlightenment Mannheim's driving determination "was to learn as a sociologist by close observation the secret (even if it is... -
The Early Austrian School of Economics: Money, Value, Capital Christopher Adair-Toteff (University of South Florida, USA) 9781032045511
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.38This book explores the thought of the three 'founding' members of the Austrian School of economics: Carl Menger, Friedrich von Wieser, and Eugen Boehm-Bawerk, considering the overlapping and... -
Brains/Practices/Relativism: Social Theory after Cognitive Science by Stephen Turner 9780226817392
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £78.00Brains/Practices/Relativism presents the first major rethinking of social theory in light of cognitive science. Stephen P. Turner focuses especially on connectionism, which views learning as a... -
Brains/Practices/Relativism: Social Theory after Cognitive Science Stephen Turner 9780226817408
Booksplease Price: £30.43Brains/Practices/Relativism presents the first major rethinking of social theory in light of cognitive science. Stephen P. Turner focuses especially on connectionism, which views learning as a... -
Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society James B. Jacobs 9780226389776
Booksplease Price: £30.43Stateville penitentiary in Illinois has housed some of Chicago's most infamous criminals and was proclaimed to be "the world's toughest prison" by Joseph Ragen, Stateville's powerful warden from 1936... -
Centre: Ideas and Institutions by Liah Greenfeld 9780226306865
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £67.93There are several concepts within the social sciences that refer to the fundamental realities on which the various disciplines focus their attention. The concept of the "center," as defined by Edward... -
Social Theory for Old and New Modernities: Essays on Society and Culture, 1976-2005 by Franco Ferrarotti 9780739115107
Booksplease Price: £51.70Franco Ferrarotti is widely regarded as the founder of postwar Italian sociology. Along with such figures as Leo Strauss, Edward Shils, David Riesman, Robert Merton, and Ralf Dahrendorf, he... -
Social Interaction Systems: Theory and Measurement Robert Bales 9780765808721
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.81Social Interaction Systems is the culmination of a half century of work in the field of social psychology by Robert Freed Bales, a pioneer at the Department of Social Relations at Harvard University... -
The Novel, Who Needs It? by Joseph Epstein 9781641773058
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.84In this brief but highly engaging book Joseph Epstein argues for the primacy of fiction, and specifically of the novel, among all intellectual endeavors that seek to describe the behavior of human... -
The Primordial Modernity of Malay Nationality: Contemporary Identity in Malaysia and Singapore by Humairah Zainal 9781032055848
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Humairah and Kamaludeen examine contemporary Malay national identity in Singapore and Malaysia through the lens of 'primordial modernity', taking on a comparative transnational perspective. How do...