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 qu...(展开全部)

Michael Billig has been Professor of Social Sciences at Loughborough University for more than twenty-five years and has written books on a variety of different subjects. Among his books are Freudian Repression (Cambridge, 2009) and Arguing and Thinking (Cambridge, 1987 and 1996).

玛丽·道格拉斯（Mary Douglas），英国著名人类学家、社会理论家，代表作包括《洁净与危险》《自然象征》《风险的接受：社会科学的视角》等。她也是最早对工业社会风险感兴趣的人类学家之一。她的框架名为“文化理论”，解释了人们为何害怕不同的风险，并将他们的行为与他们所属群体的文化联系起来。

By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy’s most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic, and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, Eco published a little book for his students, in which he offered useful advice on all the steps involved in researching and writing a thesis. Since...(展开全部)

In recent years, the world of animation has expanded far beyond the Saturday morning cartoons that generations of Americans grew up watching. Recent years have seen a boom in animation--hit prime-time television series, blockbuster cutting-edge digitally animated features, conventional animation The expanding market is luring writers who have an eye toward the future and an eag...(展开全部)

Some appreciate fine art; others appreciate fine wines. Stanley Fish appreciates fine sentences. The New York Times columnist and world-class professor has long been an aficionado of language. Like a seasoned sportscaster, Fish marvels at the adeptness of finely crafted sentences and breaks them down into digestible morsels, giving readers an instant play-by-play. In this enter...(展开全部)

Some appreciate fine art; others appreciate fine wines. Stanley Fish appreciates fine sentences. The New York Times columnist and world-class professor has long been an aficionado of language: “I am always on the lookout for sentences that take your breath away, for sentences that make you say, ‘Isn’t that something?’ or ‘What a sentence!’” Like a seasoned sportscaster, Fish ma...(展开全部)

In this lucid and engaging introductory volume on the nature of society, Roger Trigg examines the scientific basis of social science and shows that philosophical presuppositions are a necessary starting point for the study of society.

In this lucid and engaging introductory volume on the nature of society, Roger Trigg examines the scientific basis of social science and shows that philosophical presuppositions are a necessary starting point for the study of society.