"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,...

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...

"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...