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Organization Of Academic Work

by Peter M. Blau

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 This book originated in an analysis of government bureaucracies. This text examines the institutions of higher education, which Blau believes are the formal organisations that differ most in objectives and performance from government bureaucracies.
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Universities - American, English, German

by Abraham Flexner

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 Reprint of the Oxford University Press edition of 1930, with a long new introduction by Clark Kerr
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The Organization Of Academic Work

by Peter M. Blau

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 This book originated in an analysis of government bureaucracies. This text examines the institutions of higher education, which Blau believes are the formal organisations that differ most in objectives and performance from government bureaucracies.
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Scientific Elite - Nobel Laureates In The United States

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 Scientific Elite is about Nobel prize winners and the well-defined stratification system in twentieth-century science
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Student Politics In America - A Historical Analysis

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 Students have periodically played an important role in campus political life as well as in societal politics
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The Degradation Of The Academic Dogma

by Egon Friedell e Robert Nisbet

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 This is one of the most important books ever published about the American university
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Student Politics In America - A Historical Analysis

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 Students have periodically played an important role in campus political life as well as in societal politics
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The Academic System In American Society

by Alain Touraine

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 It has been my object in the present work to investigate the problems of ethics in the light of an examination of the facts of moral life. One reason for this procedure is my desire to conduct the reader by the same path that I myself have followed in approaching ethical questions.
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Degradation Of The Academic Dogma

by Egon Friedell e Robert Nisbet

66,24€ + 10% CARD

 This is one of the most important books ever published about the American university
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Investment In Learning - The Individual And Social Value Of American Higher Education

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 The value of higher education has been under attack as seldom before in American history
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Investment In Learning - The Individual And Social Value Of American Higher Education

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 The value of higher education has been under attack as seldom before in American history. We are told of the overeducated American, of the case against college, and of the failure of education to contribute significantly to the reduction of inequality. In this environment, republication of an exceptionally comprehensive and judicious analysis of all that has been learned and not learned about the consequences of American higher education comes at a most appropriate time. Investment in Learning more fully covers the various aspects of this subject than any yet to appear. Howard Bowen is optimistic about higher education, but his viewpoint is based on profound knowledge of both the economic and social aspects of education. Unlike some economists who insist on a strict cost-benefit analysis of expenditures on higher education in relation to outcomes, Bowen argues that the non-monetary benefits are far greater, to the point that individual and social decisions should be made primarily on those broader indicators.Cameron Fincher, in his new opening for the book, notes that "Publication of Howard Bowen''s Investment in Learning was like a break in a long summer drought. . . . It was a comprehensive rebuttal to return-on-investment studies with negativistic findings." And in the foreword to the book, Clark Kerr simply says, "Howard Bowen is better prepared to survey the overall consequences of higher education in the United States than anyone else."
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The Higher Learning In America - A Memorandum On The Conduct Of Universities By Business Men

by Robert Maynard Hutchins

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 Perhaps the pivotal book in the reform of higher education in the United States, Robert M
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Future Of The Humanities - Teaching Art, Religion, Philosophy, Literature And History

by Walter Kaufmann

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 This book locates the humanities in six general fields of study: religion and philosophy, art and music, and literature and history. It offers suggestions for interdisciplinary work around topics such as punishment, and death and dying.
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The Distinctive College - Antioch, Reed, And Swathmore

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 The factors contributing to the greatness of a first-rank liberal arts college are difficult to analyze
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The Academic Man - A Study In The Sociology Of A Profession

by Logan Wilson

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 When it was originally published, The Academic Man was the first full-scale social science-based study on the American academic profession
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Making The Grade - The Academic Side Of College Life

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 Based on three years of detailed anthropological observation, this account of undergraduate culture portrays students' academic relations to faculty and administration as one of subjection
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Academic System In American Society

by Alain Touraine

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 Although the period of student protests of the 1960s and 1970s has long passed, Alain Touraine argues, in this wide-ranging and vigorous essay, that the period's problems remain with us
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Academic Freedom In The Age Of The College

by Richard Hofstadter

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 When this classic volume first appeared, academic freedom was a crucially important issue. It is equally so today. Hofstadter approaches the topic historically, showing how events from various historical epochs expose the degree of freedom in academic institutions. The volume exemplifies Richard Hofstader''s qualities as a historian as well as his characteristic narrative ability. Hofstadter first describes the medieval university and how its political independence evolved from its status as a corporate body, establishing a precedent for intellectual freedom that has been a measuring rod ever since. He shows how all intellectual discourse became polarized with the onset of the Reformation. The gradual spread of the Moderate Enlightenment in the colonies led to a major advance for intellectual freedom. But with the beginning of the nineteenth century the rise of denominationalism in both new and established colleges reversed the progress, and the secularization of learning became engulfed by a tidal wave of intensifying piety. Roger L. Geiger''s extensive new introduction evaluates Hofstadter''s career as a historian and political theorist, his interest in academic freedom, and the continuing significance of Academic Freedom in the Age of the College. While most works about higher education treat the subject only as an agent of social economic mobility, Academic Freedom in the Age of the College is an enduring counterweight to such histories as it examines a more pressing issue: the fact that colleges and universities, at their best, should foster ideas at the frontiers of knowledge and understanding. This classic text will be invaluable to educators, university administrators, sociologist, and historians.
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Future Of The Humanities - Teaching Art, Religion, Philosophy, Literature And History

by Walter Kaufmann

66,24€ + 10% CARD

 This book locates the humanities in six general fields of study: religion and philosophy, art and music, and literature and history. It offers suggestions for interdisciplinary work around topics such as punishment, and death and dying.
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Making The Grade - The Academic Side Of College Life

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 Based on three years of detailed anthropological observation, this account of undergraduate culture portrays students' academic relations to faculty and administration as one of subjection
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Academic Man - A Study In The Sociology Of A Profession

by Logan Wilson

63,59€ + 10% CARD

 When it was originally published, The Academic Man was the first full-scale social science-based study on the American academic profession
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Distinctive College - Antioch, Reed, And Swathmore

66,24€ + 10% CARD

 The factors contributing to the greatness of a first-rank liberal arts college are difficult to analyze
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Higher Learning In America - A Memorandum On The Conduct Of Universities By Business Men

by Robert Maynard Hutchins

63,59€ + 10% CARD

 Perhaps the pivotal book in the reform of higher education in the United States, Robert M
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Universities - American, English, German

by Abraham Flexner

64,88€ + 10% CARD

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 Reprint of the Oxford University Press edition of 1930, with a long new introduction by Clark Kerr
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