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  • Learn to Write Badly

    How to Succeed in the Social Sciences

    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 ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Laughter and Ridicule

    Towards a Social Critique of Humour

    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 ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • Banal Nationalism

    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 ... Leer más

    $93.99 USD

  • More Examples, Less Theory

    Historical Studies of Writing Psychology

    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 ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • The Hidden Roots of Critical Psychology

    Understanding the Impact of Locke, Shaftesbury and Reid

    `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 ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • The Politics and Rhetoric of Commemoration

    How the Portuguese Parliament Celebrates the 1974 Revolution

    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 ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Politicians Manipulating Statistics

    How They Do It and How to Oppose Them

    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 ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Talking of the Royal Family

    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 ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Rhetoric, Ideology and Social Psychology

    Essays in honour of Michael Billig

    Edición de Charles Antaki, Susan Condor ...
    Series series Explorations in Social Psychology
    Professor Michael Billig is one of the most significant living figures in social psychology. His work spans thirty-five years, and has at times challenged conventional social scientific thinking on a range of key topics. Billig has influenced a wide range of fields including intergroup conflict, social attitudes and ideology, rhetoric, racism, nati ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • Helmuts schlaue Strategie

    Im Internet ist alles billiger // Helmut auf Geschäftsreise

    In unserem alltäglichen Umfeld begegnen uns Menschen, über die wir ein wenig schmunzeln dürfen. So wie über Helmut F. in diesen Geschichten. Er unterliegt dem Zwang, immer sehr schlau wirken zu müssen -sowohl als unschlagbarer Schnäppchenjäger im Internet, wie auch als jemand, der mit seinen klugen Strategien andere Menschen zu beeindrucken sucht. Das Wort Perfekt trüge er allzu gerne als seinen ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Schwarz. Rot. Müll

    Die schmutzigen Deals der deutschen Müllmafia

    Michael Billig deckt die Machenschaften der deutschen Müllmafia auf und schreibt einen wahren Wirtschaftskrimi. Deutschland sieht sich gern als Vorbild in Sachen Müllentsorgung und lässt sich als Recycling-Weltmeister feiern. Doch: So sauber, wie es scheint, ist Deutschland nicht. Eine etablierte Schattenwirtschaft mit unzähligen beteiligten Unternehmen täuscht eine fachgerechte Entsorgung nur vor ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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    Applying the Sociology of Basil Bernstein

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