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5) Credit Irony
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"Credit Irony: The Untold Story of Debt, Control, and Socioeconomic Impact of Scores" delves into the intricacies of credit scoring and wealth management, challenging common assumptions. It explores historical roots and paradoxes, revealing how debt can ironically inflate credit scores but lead to financial traps. With case studies, it exposes societal variations in credit impacts. The book scrutinizes credit reporting agencies, algorithm transparency,...
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A biography of two troublesome words.
Irony and sarcasm are two of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood words in our conversational lexicon. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, psycholinguist Roger Kreuz offers an enlightening and concise overview of the life and times of these two terms, mapping their evolution from Greek philosophy and Roman rhetoric to modern literary criticism to emojis.
Kreuz describes eight...
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Jon Winokur defines and classifies irony and contrasts it with coincidence and cynicism, and other oft-confused concepts that many think are ironic.
He looks at the different forms irony can take, from an irony deficiency to visual irony to an understatement, using photographs and relate-able examples from pop culture.
"Irony in Action" looks at irony in language, both verbal and visual, while "Bastions of Irony" and "Masters of Irony" look at institutions...
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Irony (as used here) is a rhetorical and literary device for revealing, "what is hidden behind what is seen." It thus offers the reader a superior understanding by means of the distinction between reality and its shadow. The book provides a history of different definitions of irony, from Aristophanes to Booth; discusses the constitutive formal elements of irony and the functions of irony; then studies particular aspects of the Matthean Passion Narrative...
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The last three years have been a nightmare for DS Steven Potter, but things can always get worse, as he is about to discover. He is called to Madeley Forest, a spot with a very bloody history. What he discovers there means that things take a very personal twist. Is this Steven's final case?
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111 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 14 x 20 cm
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"An extraordinary -- and strikingly illustrated -- reflection on the meaning of war from one of our greatest living writers. The battleship Yamato, of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was the most powerful warship of World War II and represented the climax, as it were, of the Japanese warrior traditions of the samurai -- the ideals of honor, discipline, and self-sacrifice that had immemorially ennobled the Japanese national consciousness. Stoically poised...
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