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Casanova's Lottery

Author : Stephen M. Stigler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226820793
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Casanova's Lottery written by Stephen M. Stigler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1994, historian Stephen Stigler placed a mail-order purchase for a rare bit of ephemera from a French bookstore: a lottery Almanac from 1834. It contained the winning numbers for the entire span of the French Loterie from 1758 onward, including details on prizes actually awarded-difficult data to come by-as well as hand-written notes by an early owner. Stigler was fascinated with what he saw about how the Loterie was carried out, who bought tickets, and what size bets they placed, and so in the decades that followed he amassed booklets, legal documents, advertising bills, notices, contracts, and tickets. His own collection and extensive additional research helped him piece together the Loterie's remarkable inner workings, as well as its implications for how we understand the history of risk more broadly. In the 1750s at the urging of famed philandering adventurer Giocomo Casanova (who had recently escaped from a Venetian prison by means of a sharpened iron, an accomplice, a rope of bed sheets, and a stolen gondola), the French state began to embrace risk in its approach to the Loterie. The prize amounts varied depending on the number of tickets bought, and the amount of the bet was determined by each individual bettor. The state could lose money on any individual lot but was statistically guaranteed it would come out on top in the long run. Stigler follows the Loterie from its curious inception to a 1776 expansion, to its interruption during the French Revolution (but only with the Terror of 1793), to its renewal in 1797 and further expansion, and finally to its suppression in 1836, examining throughout the wider question of how members of the public came to trust in new financial technologies and believe in their value"--

Casanova

Author : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476716498
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Casanova written by Laurence Bergreen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The remarkable story of Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), an impoverished abandoned boy who became the notorious libertine, famous writer, and correspondent with figures such as Voltaire, Louis XV, and Catherine the Great in decadent 18th-century Europe."--Provided by publisher.

Casanova's Life and Times

Author : David John Thompson
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399052098
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Casanova's Life and Times written by David John Thompson and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is both the life of Giacomo Casanova and a chronicle of eighteenth-century Europe. Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was born the son of a moderately poor acting family at a time when the stage carried enormous social stigma. Yet in his own lifetime he achieved celebrity across Europe, rubbing shoulders with numerous of the eighteenth century's greatest men and women, from Frederick the Great to Catherine the Great, from Voltaire to Albrecht von Haller, from Pope Benedict XIV to Pope Clement XIII. It was a fame that had little to do with his romantic exploits. This was to come later, following upon the posthumous publication of his magnificent History of My Life. An adventurer and a man of learning, his was an extraordinary life whose story was intertwined with the story of eighteenth-century Europe. To try to understand this fascinating character we need also to try to understand the period in which he lived. This is the aim of Casanova's Life and Times.

Casanova's Women

Author : Judith Summers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596911220
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Casanova's Women written by Judith Summers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive profile of the eighteenth-century Venetian adventurer Giacomo Casanova, whose name has become a synonym for seduction, looks at history's most famous lover from a female perspective, throwing light on a dangerous and beguiling man, as seen through the eyes of the women who loved him.

Notes and Queries

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Notes and Queries: a Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Notes and Queries: a Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Author : Jesse Molesworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521191084
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel written by Jesse Molesworth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the relationship between realism, probability and chance in eighteenth-century fiction.

Dice, Cards, Wheels

Author : Thomas M. Kavanagh
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812202457
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Dice, Cards, Wheels written by Thomas M. Kavanagh and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gambling has been a practice central to many cultures throughout history. In Dice, Cards, Wheels, Thomas M. Kavanagh scrutinizes the changing face of the gambler in France over a period of eight centuries, using gambling and its representations in literature as a lens through which to observe French culture. Kavanagh argues that the way people gamble tells us something otherwise unrecognized about the values, conflicts, and cultures that define a period or class. To gamble is to enter a world traced out by the rules and protocols of the game the gambler plays. That world may be an alternative to the established order, but the shape and structure of the game reveal indirectly hidden tensions, fears, and prohibitions. Drawing on literature from the Middle Ages to the present, Kavanagh reconstructs the figure of the gambler and his evolving personae. He examines, among other examples, Bodel's dicing in a twelfth-century tavern for the conversion of the Muslim world; Pascal's post-Reformation redefinition of salvation as the gambler's prize; the aristocratic libertine's celebration of the bluff; and Balzac's, Barbey d'Aurevilly's, and Bourget's nineteenth-century revisions of the gambler. Dice, Cards, Wheels embraces the tremendous breadth of French history and emerges as a broad-ranging study of the different forms of gambling, from the dice games of the Middle Ages to the digital slot machines of the twenty-first century, and what those games tell us about French culture and history.

Leonhard Euler

Author : Robert E. Bradley
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080471293
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Leonhard Euler written by Robert E. Bradley and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2007 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of one of the Enlightenment’s most important mathematicians and scientists, Leonhard Euler. This volume is a collection of 24 essays by some of the world’s best Eulerian scholars from seven different countries about Euler, his life and his work. Some of the essays are historical, including much previously unknown information about Euler’s life, his activities in the St. Petersburg Academy, the influence of the Russian Princess Dashkova, and Euler’s philosophy. Others describe his influence on the subsequent growth of European mathematics and physics in the 19th century. Still others give technical details of Euler’s innovations in probability, number theory, geometry, analysis, astronomy, mechanics and other fields of mathematics and science. - Over 20 essays by some of the best historians of mathematics and science, including Ronald Calinger, Peter Hoffmann, Curtis Wilson, Kim Plofker, Victor Katz, Ruediger Thiele, David Richeson, Robin Wilson, Ivor Grattan-Guinness and Karin Reich- New details of Euler's life in two essays, one by Ronald Calinger and one he co-authored with Elena Polyakhova- New information on Euler's work in differential geometry, series, mechanics, and other important topics including his influence in the early 19th century

Casanova's Escape from the Leads

Author : Giacomo Casanova
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Casanova's Escape from the Leads written by Giacomo Casanova and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Casanova

Author : James Rives Childs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Casanova written by James Rives Childs and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Casanova

Author : Ian Kelly
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440642516
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Casanova written by Ian Kelly and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Casanova, noted author Ian Kelly traces the life of Giacomo Casanova, a man whose very name is synonymous with sensuality, seduction and sexual prowess. But Casanova was more than just a great lover. A businessman, diplomat, spy, and philosopher, he authored more than twenty books, including a translation of The Iliad. Confidant to many infamous characters—including Madame de Pompadour, Voltaire, and Catherine the Great—Casanova was undoubtedly charismatic. But how exactly did he seduce himself into infamy? In this richly drawn portrait, Casanova emerges as very much a product of eighteenth-century Venice. He reveled in its commedia del arte and Kelly posits that his successes as both a libertine and a libertarian grew from his careful study of its artifice and illusion. Food, travel, sex: Casanova’s great passions are timeless ones and Kelly brings to life in full flavor the grandeur of his exploits. He also articulates the fascinating personal philosophy that inspired Casanova’s quest to bed all manner of women. A riveting look at the life of the most legendary lover of all time, this is destined to become the definitive biography of Giacomo Casanova.

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

Author : Giacomo Casanova
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt written by Giacomo Casanova and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, the Prince of Adventurers

Author : Giacomo Casanova
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, the Prince of Adventurers written by Giacomo Casanova and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Prince of Adventurers and the Most Indomitable of Lovers

Author : Giacomo Casanova
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Prince of Adventurers and the Most Indomitable of Lovers written by Giacomo Casanova and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Principles of Taxation in the United States

Author : Fabio Ambrosio
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429777256
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Principles of Taxation in the United States written by Fabio Ambrosio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taxation is a discipline that does not receive sufficient academic attention. It is typically viewed as a subset of law, accounting, public policy, economics, or finance. In this respect, most academic efforts in the field of taxation are shadowed by a mother discipline. There is currently an unprecedented need to approach tax pedagogy in a way that is independent of another discipline. This book caters to that real and unmet need in tax pedagogy. One of the book’s advantages is that it is not tied to a specific tax year and does not coddle the reader with volumes of time-sensitive information. In this book the tax year is never the focus, as the center stage is reserved for teaching the principles and skills necessary to independently find answers. The reader will learn to appreciate the complexity of the American tax system and will be endowed with the contextual understanding necessary to formulate educated opinions about how taxes work and, most importantly, why. Contrary to common belief, taxation in the United States has remained fairly stable for the last 100 years. This book uses the federal individual income tax as a vehicle to unveil the mechanics that make up the American tax system. This book is essential reading for students taking a first course in taxation, at the undergraduate or graduate level, as part of programs in accounting, law, public administration, or business at large.

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete

Author : Giacomo Casanova
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2787 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete written by Giacomo Casanova and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 2787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compandium of memoirs of the famous Italian adventurer and writer Giacomo Casanova, 'The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete' was first published in the year 1894. This volume includes his memoirs that were written between 1725-1798.