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1) 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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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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We have summarized here the essential of this book by the author.BEYOND EPISTEMOLOGY: CONTINGENCY, IRONY AND CONVERSATION1. INTRODUCTIONFor modern epistemology, to know is to represent internally and exactly what is outside the mind. This means that the human mind is like a mirror and that there is an external reality independent of us. This idea that our beliefs are copies of external reality is known as REPRESENTATIONISM.Representationism presents...
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"A definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema--the freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genre--from a distinctive voice in film history and criticism"--
"In 1971, two films grabbed the movie business, shook it up, and launched a genre that would help define the decade. Melvin Van Peebles's Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, an independently produced film about a male sex worker who beats up cops and gets away, and Gordon Parks's...
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226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"For a long time, Lucy Sante felt unsure of her place. Born in Belgium, the only child of conservative working-class Catholic parents who transplanted their little family to the United States, she felt at home only when she moved to New York City in the early 1970s and found her people among a band of fellow bohemians. Some would die young, to drugs and AIDS, and some would become jarringly famous. Sante flirted with both fates, on her way to building...
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