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  • Learn to Write Badly

    How to Succeed in the Social Sciences

    by Michael Billig ...
    Modern academia is increasingly competitive yet the writing style of social scientists is routinely poor and continues to deteriorate. Are social science postgraduates being taught to write poorly? What conditions adversely affect the way they write? And which linguistic features contribute towards this bad writing? Michael Billig's witty and entertaining book analyses these questions in a quest ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Banal Nationalism

    by Michael Billig ...
    Michael Billig presents a major challenge to orthodox conceptions of nationalism in this elegantly written book. While traditional theorizing has tended to the focus on extreme expressions of nationalism, the author turns his attention to the everyday, less visible forms which are neither exotic or remote, he describes as `banal nationalism′.The author asks why people do not forget their national ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Politicians Manipulating Statistics

    How They Do It and How to Oppose Them

    by Michael Billig, Cristina Marinho ...
    Highly original and insightful, Billig and Marinho's book investigates how politicians misuse official statistics. Setting this problem in its historical context – and offering vivid case studies of Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and Gérald Darmanin – the authors demonstrate that the manipulation of statistics involves the misuse of words as well as the misuse of numbers. Most importantly, the ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Laughter and Ridicule

    Towards a Social Critique of Humour

    by Michael Billig ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    `From Thomas Hobbes′ fear of the power of laughter to the compulsory, packaged "fun" of the contemporary mass media, Billig takes the reader on a stimulating tour of the strange world of humour. Both a significant work of scholarship and a novel contribution to the understanding of the humourous, this is a seriously engaging book′ - David Inglis, University of AberdeenThis delightful book tackles ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • More Examples, Less Theory

    Historical Studies of Writing Psychology

    by Michael Billig ...
    In his new book, Michael Billig uses psychology's past to argue that nowadays, when we write about the mind, we should use more examples and less theory. He provides a series of historical studies, analysing how key psychological writers used examples. Billig offers new insights about famous analysts of the mind, such as Locke, James, Freud, Tajfel and Lewin. He also champions unfairly forgotten ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • The Politics and Rhetoric of Commemoration

    How the Portuguese Parliament Celebrates the 1974 Revolution

    by Professor Michael Billig, Dr Cristina Marinho ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies
    In recent years there has been much interest in collective memory and commemoration. It is often assumed that when nations celebrate a historic day, they put aside the divisions of the present to recall the past in a spirit of unity. As Billig and Marinho show, this does not apply to the Portuguese parliament's annual celebration of 25 April 1974, the day when the dictatorship, established by ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • The Hidden Roots of Critical Psychology

    Understanding the Impact of Locke, Shaftesbury and Reid

    by Michael Billig ...
    `Billig′s is a fascinating work of brilliant scholarship. It is written in an elegant style, spiced with humour, and gives one the feeling that it was a labour of love. It can be recommended without reservation′ - Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology`This is a quite extraordinary and original book. Billig has managed seamlessly to interweave History of Philosophy, History of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Talking of the Royal Family

    by Prof Michael Billig, Michael Billig ...
    To talk about royalty is to talk of many things: privilege, equality, nationality, morality, family life, parenting, divorce, the media and more. Important themes and issues flow through the seemingly trivial everyday chatter about royalty.Now with a new preface, Talking of the Royal Family was the first serious full-length study of royalty to emerge from this rhetorical perspective and remains ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    by Thomas Duddy ...
    The first complete introduction to the subject ever published, A History of Irish Thought presents an inclusive survey of Irish thought and the history of Irish ideas against the backdrop of current political and social change in Ireland.Clearly written and engaging, the survey introduces an array of philosophers, polemicists, ideologists, satirists, scientists, poets and political and social ... Read more

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  • Radical Uncertainty

    Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers

    by John Kay, Mervyn King ...
    Much economic advice is bogus quantification, warn two leading experts in this essential book, now with a preface on COVID-19. Invented numbers offer a false sense of security; we need instead robust narratives that give us the confidence to manage uncertainty.“An elegant and careful guide to thinking about personal and social economics, especially in a time of uncertainty. The timing is ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Humour

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Noël Carroll ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Humour has been discovered in every known human culture and thinkers have discussed it for over two thousand years. Humour can serve many functions; it can be used to relieve stress, to promote goodwill among strangers, to dissipate tension within a fractious group, to display intelligence, and some have even claimed that it improves health and fights sickness. In this Very Short Introduction Noel ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Western Philosophy

    by Matt McGinniss ...
    For some people philosophy is everything. For others it's nothing. It's a subject that solves problems, causes arguments and even brings war. But what is philosophy, and who are the famous men and women who have changed our world with their ideas?In this eBook, you will find simple biographies and basic explanations of the ideas of twenty of the most important western philosophers. It can be read ... Read more

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