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Raw Data Is an Oxymoron
We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta- denotes a quadrillion, or a thousand trillion). Data collection is constant and even insidious, with every click and every "like" stored somewhere for something. This book reminds us that data is anything but "raw, " that we shouldn't think of data as a natural resource but as a cultural one that needs to be generated, protected, and interpreted. The book's essays describe eight episodes in the history of data from the predigital to the digital. Together they address such issues as the ways that different kinds of data and different domains of inquiry are mutual...
Time Management Is an Oxymoron
Managing effectively is a learned skill. But many people have never learned the proper techniques for handling paper, e-mail and the telephone effectively.More than ever, today's managers and employees need to be better organized in order to succeed in the workplace. They must be able to manage multiple tasks and get more work done in less time.This book Can help!Time Management is an Oxymoron, just released by Leathers Publishing, was written by paper handling, e-mail and telephone management expert Maynard Rolston. Rolston has developed and conducted workshops with a proven track record for generating change by teaching people how to get more done in less time.This book will help managers and employees alike learn to implement the author's 5-step paper handling process, in addition to better managing themselves.If you implement the ideas presented in this book, you Will get more work done in fewer hours, with less stress, forever!
Seriously Funny, and Other Oxymorons
'Brilliant! Will make a perfect Xmas stocking filler' Bronya Ralley 'Delightful. This dip-in-anywhere book put a smile on my face from the first page . . . for everyone who likes a good chuckle' Ruth Milligan As we all know, the oxymoron is one of the great beauties of the English language. It has been defined as 'a figure of speech that juxtaposes elements that appear to be contradictory'. Famous examples would include 'bitter-sweet', 'open secret' and 'compassionate Conservatism'. Seriously Funny, and Other Oxymorons brings together a great many examples of the oxymoron genre, amusingly illustrated by Paul Thomas. The book is arranged according to various categories ranging from Popular Culture to Political Principles and Business Ethics, all covered in Simon Brett's inimitably witty style. Anyone with an 'unbiased opinion' will quickly grasp that Seriously Funny makes a 'devilishly nice' book.
Understanding Tropes
The series «Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture» presents a forum for linguistic research on the interrelationship between language and culture. The series is interdisciplinary in nature and consists of monographs and collections of papers. The main purpose of the editors is to initiate a dialogue between linguistic science and neighboring disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, semiotics, literary studies, and intercultural communication.
Efficiently Inefficient
Efficiently Inefficient describes the key trading strategies used by hedge funds and demystifies the secret world of active investing. Leading financial economist Lasse Heje Pedersen combines the latest research with real-world examples and interviews with top hedge fund managers to show how certain trading strategies make money - and why they sometimes don't. -- from back cover.
The Poetics of Mind
In this bold new work, Ray Gibbs demonstrates that human cognition is deeply poetic and that figurative imagination constitutes the way we understand ourselves and the world in which we live.
Oxymoron and Pleonasm
The book contains twelve interviews focusing on the problem of critical and projective approach to architectural thinking and design discussed by leading American theorists, historians and practitioners of architecture.
Oxymoron
Life is a collection of problems waiting to be faced and solved. Living a fulfilling life can only be achieved through the recognition that the joy comes from the battles not the conquests.Our emotions are always entangled in a web matrix of mixed feelings and sensational paradox. The human mind will never exist in a continuous quantum state of consistence, sometimes we are happy and other times we are sad.Oxymoron offers a collection of short scripts by the author that addresses the different states of the mind as well as encouraging messages on how to face the reality of our not so black and white world we live in.
Paradoxical Thinking
Taking advantage of contradictory elements in oneself and one's situation can lead to better performance all around. In this guide, the authors present a five-step process for using paradoxes to find solutions to a wide range of problems. Includes case studies showing how real people have used paradoxical thinking to solve real problems.
Oxymoronica
ox-y-mor-on-i-ca (OK-see-mor-ON-uh-kuh) noun: Any variety of self-contradictory statements or observations that on the surface appear false or illogical, but at a deeper level are profoundly true. For more than a decade Dr. Mardy Grothe has delighted readers with this collection of 1,500 of the most provocative quotations of all time. From ancient thinkers and great writers to modern social observers, Oxymoronica celebrates the power and beauty of paradoxical thinking. In this new and updated edition, Dr. Mardy has added 130 classic and unforgettable turns of phrase, bringing the joy of oxymoronica to new audiences. Exploring all facets of life, the wise and witty observations in this book are sure to inspire readers, writers, and language lovers everywhere.
