This book presents a reinterpretation of Freud to show how language can be expressive and repressive.

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 ...

" Leiber and Stoller are perhaps the most celebrated (Rock'n'Roll Jews) along with Phil Spector, but there have been others who have contributed greatly. Michael Billig ...

A humorous, clearly written scholarly analysis of what is going wrong with the way that social scientists write.