A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) by Collins, Anthony, 1676-1729

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Life's Little Ironies A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters by Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928

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Life's Little Ironies A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters by Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928

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Contemporary athletics & ancient Greek ideals by Dombrowski, Daniel A.

Table of Contents: “…The ancient background -- Weiss and the pursuit of bodily excellence -- Huizinga and the homo ludens hypothesis -- Feezell, moderation, and irony -- The process of becoming virtuous.…”
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The philosophy of improvisation by Peters, Gary, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the sense of a beginning -- Scrap yard challenge : junkyard wars -- Freedom, origination, and irony -- Mimesis and cruelty -- Improvisation, origination, and re-novation -- Conclusion : improvisation, thinking, writing.…”
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That on case by Ahmad Zakimi Dr. 1976-

Muslim family law in sub-Saharan Africa colonial legacies and post-colonial challenges

Table of Contents: “…Hirsch -- Muslim family law in South Africa: paradoxes and ironies / Ebrahim Moosa…”

Sporting sounds relationships between sport and music /

Table of Contents: “…Schwab -- Ludus Tonalis : sport and musical modernisms, 1910-1938 / Anthony Bateman -- War, remembrance, and sport : "Abide with me" and the FA Cup final in the 1920s / Jeffrey Hill -- "Friday night and the gates are low" : popular music and its relationship(s) to sport / Mike McGuinness -- Supporter rock in Sweden : locality, resistance and irony at play / Dan Porsfelt -- Ubh fhal, how I miss you with your heather scented air : music, locality and the Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland / Mike Cronin -- "This thing goes beyond the boundary" : cricket, calypso, the Caribbean and their heroes / Claire Westall -- Bouts of kiwi loyalty : musical frames and televised sport / Malcolm MacLean.…”
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Civil society and postwar Pacific Basin reconciliation wounds, scars and healing /œcedited by Yasuko Claremont

Table of Contents: “…A continuous desire for reconciliation and peace / by Yasuko Claremont - From enemy to friend / by Donald Keene -- Tracing "victimizer consciousness" : the emergence and development of war guilt and responsibility in postwar Japan / by Takashi Yoshida -- The girl, the flower, and the constitution in 1945 (and 2015) / by Tomoko Aoyama -- "Reconciliation" in postwar history : the need for resolution resulting from Japan's colonial period / by Aiko Utsumi -- Peace in our region : prisoners of war and Australia's relationship with Japan, 1945-1960 / by Christina Twomey -- Listening for the sound of history : Lung Ying-tai's Big River, Big Sea and its vision for reconciliation in Taiwan and China / by Conrad Bauer -- The valorization of the atomic bomb : blast power over the after-effects of radiation / by Yuko Shibata -- Experience and hope : the nuclear issue and Asia through the life of the novelist Hayashi Kyoko, by Teru Shimamura -- Civil resistance in Japan in response to political domination / by Yasuko Claremont -- Oda Makoto and grassroots citizenship movements' Beheiren / by Roman Rosenbaum -- Civil society, remembering and un-remembering : two faces of grassroots action in Japan / by Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- War memories represented in theatre : the one day of the year, the floating world, the spirits play and black diggers / by Keiji Sawada -- Unsettling nostalgia through irony : cinematic war memory and gender / by Katsuhiko Suganuma, Rio Otomo, and Barbara Hartley -- Inoue Hisashi and the Tokyo Trials Trilogy / by Masahito Takayashiki…”

Language and power a resource book for students / by Simpson, Paul, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: key topics in the study of language and power -- Language and power -- The discourse of institutions and organizations -- Power and talk -- Language and gender -- Language and race -- Humour, language and power -- Language and the law -- Language and advertising -- Language in the new capitalism -- Language and politics -- Development: approaches to the study of language and power -- Critical linguistics and critical discourse analysis -- Registers of discourse -- Studying spoken discourse -- Gender and power: using the transitivity model -- The representation of social actors -- The discourse of humour and irony -- Developments in forensic discourse analysis -- Advertising discourse: methods for analysis -- Language and new capitalism: developments -- Studying political discourse: developments -- Exploration: analysing language and power -- Beginning analysis -- Exploring register and ideology -- Power and resistance in spoken discourse -- Analysing gender -- A workshop on the representation of social actors -- Analysing humour and power -- Exploring forensic texts -- Analysing advertisements -- Analysing the language of new capitalism -- Analysing political discourse -- Extension: readings in language and power -- Critical linguistics / Roger Fowler and Gunther Kress -- Bureaucracy and social control / Srikant Sarangi and Stefaan Slembrouck -- Power and resistance in police interviews / Kate Haworth -- Masculinity and men's magazines / Bethan Benwell -- Discourse and the denial of racism / Teun van Dijk -- Humour and hatred / Michael Billig -- Forensic linguistics / Malcolm Coulthard -- Language style and lifestyle (David Machin and Theo van Leeuwen) -- Language in the global service economy / Deborah Cameron -- Critical metaphor analysis / Jonathan Charteris-Black -- Web strand -- Evaluation and re-evaluation: stuyding language and power -- Language and power: extending the analysis -- Practising corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis -- Speaking sincerely / Martin Montgomery.…”
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Islamisation and its opponents in Java a political, social, cultural and religious history, c. 1930 to the present by Ricklefs, M. C. (Merle Calvin)

Table of Contents: “…I TROUBLED PATH TO DEEPER ISLAMISATION, TO C. 1998--ch. 1 Islamisation in Java to c. 1930--3Creating the Mystic Synthesis--Polarising Javanese society--ch. 2 Under colonial rule:Javanese society and Islam in the 1930--Social parameters: The census of 1930--impact of the Great Depression--Javanese life and culture in kraton and countrysid--Islam in Java: Reform, local traditions and mysticism--Abangan and santri--Polarised on the precipice--ch. 3 War and Revolution, 1942--: The hardening of boundaries--Japanese occupation--Revolution--Abangan-santri violence-- ch. 4 first freedom experiment: Aliran politics and Communist opposition to Islamisation, 1950--santri-abangan balance--Aliran in politics and culture, and the elections of 1955-7--violent conflicts of 1963-6--ch. 5 totalitarian experiment (I): Kebatinan, Christian and government competition and the end of aliran politics 1966-80s --Soeharto's spirituality--Abangan folk arts and cults in the early New Order-- Kebatian under the early New Order--Christianisation and other conversions away from Islam--Government competition--death of aliran politics and Islamisation from below--Modernists' laments at national level--Grass-roots purification movements in Surakarta in the 1970s--Modernist-led Islamisation--Deepening Islamisation by the early 1980s--Early New Order ironies-- New Order as an historicist state--ch. 6 totalitarian experiment (II): Grass-roots Islamisation and advancing Islamism, c. 1980s-98--changing, Islamising society--Regime demands for ideological conformity--Reconciliation between NU and the New Order regime--arts under the later New Order Revivalism, Islamism and the later Soeharto region--Java Islamised?…”

Migrating to Australia good meh??? by Soong, Ken, Soong, Michael

The people's victory how Malaysians saved their country by Kee, Thuan Chye