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Author : Tomas Manuel Martinez
Publisher : Charles C. Thomas Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Gambling Scene written by Tomas Manuel Martinez and published by Charles C. Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 1983 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Kucharski
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465098592
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Perfect Bet written by Adam Kucharski and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An elegant and amusing account" of how gambling has been reshaped by the application of science and revealed the truth behind a lucky bet (Wall Street Journal). For the past 500 years, gamblers-led by mathematicians and scientists-have been trying to figure out how to pull the rug out from under Lady Luck. In The Perfect Bet, mathematician and award-winning writer Adam Kucharski tells the astonishing story of how the experts have succeeded, revolutionizing mathematics and science in the process. The house can seem unbeatable. Kucharski shows us just why it isn't. Even better, he demonstrates how the search for the perfect bet has been crucial for the scientific pursuit of a better world.
Author : David Baldacci
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1538719665
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)
Download or read book A Gambling Man written by David Baldacci and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aloysius Archer, the straight-talking World War II veteran fresh out of prison, returns in this riveting #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from David Baldacci. The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So Archer hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California, where rumor has it there is money to be made if you’re hard-working, lucky, criminal—or all three. Along the way, Archer stops in Reno, where a stroke of fortune delivers him a wad of cash and an eye-popping blood-red 1939 Delahaye convertible—plus a companion for the final leg of the journey, an aspiring actress named Liberty Callahan who is planning to try her luck in Hollywood. But when the two arrive in Bay Town, California, Archer quickly discovers that the hordes of people who flocked there seeking fame and fortune landed in a false paradise that instead caters to their worst addictions and fears. Archer’s first stop is a P.I. office where he is hoping to apprentice with a legendary private eye and former FBI agent named Willie Dash. He lands the job, and immediately finds himself in the thick of a potential scandal: a blackmail case involving a wealthy well-connected politician running for mayor that soon spins into something even more sinister. As bodies begin falling, Archer and Dash must infiltrate the world of brothels, gambling dens, drug operations, and long-hidden secrets, descending into the rotten bones of a corrupt town that is selling itself as the promised land—but might actually be the road to perdition, and Archer’s final resting place.
Author : Catherine Cookson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780552113922
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (139 download)
Download or read book The Gambling Man written by Catherine Cookson and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel from the author of PARSON'S DAUGHTER, HAROLD, DINNER OF HERBS, GOODBYE HAMILTON, BLACK VELVET GOWN, INVISIBLE CORD, WHIP, MOTH, CULTURED HANDMAIDEN, HAMILTON and BILL BAILEY.
Author : Richard McGowan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1573567426
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (735 download)
Download or read book The Gambling Debate written by Richard McGowan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great majority of Americans—more than 80%—say they approve of gambling, even if they themselves don't gamble. Still, deep divisions persist in our attitudes toward the gambling industry. Is it profoundly destructive, preying on human weakness and stripping its victims of their sustenance and dignity? Or is it a vehicle of the American dream—an engine of personal enrichment, enormous public revenue, and economic development? The industry's explosive growth has sharpened the debate, radically altering the gambling landscape and dramatically raising the stakes involved. Author Richard A. McGowan, a respected authority on the public-policy aspects of gambling and other sin industries, reveals the new dynamics of gambling and frames the age-old ethical and practical questions it poses. Whether benefit or bane, gambling today permeates American culture in unprecedented ways. Its newest venues—Native American tribal casinos and the Internet—are drawing in new gamblers in vast numbers and generating spectacular profits. Social, legal, and political controversies inevitably have followed. How should public policymakers approach expanded gambling? As regulator of the gambling industry, government has always been the gatekeeper. Its role and responsibilities remain central to the gambling debate, even while it stands to reap huge windfalls from the very industry it is regulating. Meanwhile, Internet gambling, more or less regulated at home, has found willing government sponsors abroad—removing an ever-larger segment of the industry from U.S. government jurisdiction and recasting the gambling debate. Using this book, citizens can: Learn the ethical and rhetorical framework of the gambling debate. The terms of the arguments advanced by advocates and opponents help explain why the gambling industry has been tolerated or encouraged by public policymakers. Weigh the risks and rewards of government-sanctioned gambling through three actual case studies, from Missouri, Massachusetts, and the Chinese island of Macao—which in 2006 surpassed Las Vegas as the gambling capital of the world. Each situation highlights particular problems and opportunities, and each is presented with discussion questions. Take an informed position: Should sports gambling be legalized? Should U.S. restrictions on Internet gambling be loosened? Should government get out of the gambling business altogether? Find out more about the many facets of the gambling debate by using the study resources provided.
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465589325
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book The Gambler written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039333869X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Liar's Poker written by Michael Lewis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts his experiences on the lucrative Wall Street bond market of the 1980s, where young traders made millions in a very short time, in a humorous account of greed and epic folly.
Author : Lily Graison
Publisher : Lily Graison
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Gambler written by Lily Graison and published by Lily Graison. This book was released on 2012-04-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emmaline Hunt only had one thing she could call her own. A piece of land that held a secret not even her drunken stepfather knew about. When he gambles it away in a high stakes poker game, Emmaline does the only thing she can. She tries to steal the land deed back. Tristan Avery has seen his share of bloodshed while sitting at a gaming table and knows its time to lay low when he wins a wad of cash and a piece of land. Especially after his opponent ends up dead at his feet. High tailing it out of town is his only option but things take a drastic turn when he finds a woman in his hotel room trying to rob him blind. The botched robbery attempt is only the start of his troubles when Tristan finds his new land occupied by the same girl who tried to rob him. When he realizes he’s left her homeless, and killed her stepfather, his conscience forces him to do the right thing. Taking her to his hometown and setting her up with a new life will make up for all he’s taken from her. But Emmaline has other plans. She wants her land, and Tristan’s money, and she’ll do whatever it takes to get them. All she has to do is convince him she’s there to stay, outwit him, find a way back home and not let a single soul know she has a gold mine bursting at the seems with untapped wealth.
Author : James Cosgrave
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136747672
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book The Sociology of Risk and Gambling Reader written by James Cosgrave and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-06-23 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader contributes to the sociology of gambling, and offers a variety of sociological approaches, ranging from classical sociological analyses of gambling to contemporary sociological approaches to risk.
Author : John Holmwood
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349253375
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Constructing the New Consumer Society written by John Holmwood and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-05-13 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the coming of the 'a new consumerism' in the affluent societies marks a distinct phase of modernity. Limits of production no longer confine consumption to what is necessary or instrumental. Demands for increasing production no longer shape ideology and culture as they did previously. Important contemporary themes of morality, the body, citizenship and inequality are here placed in a new theoretical light. The book provides examples of new codes of happiness in consuming products, culture and entertainment. Issues of nutrition, consumer policy, environmental risk and health are discussed in the light of these new codes.
Author : Mark R. Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501347268
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Casino, Card and Betting Game Reader written by Mark R. Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casino games and traditional card games have rich and idiosyncratic histories, complex subcultures and player practices, and facilitate the flow of billions of dollars each year through casinos and card rooms, and between professional players and amateurs. They have nevertheless been overlooked by game scholars due to the negative ethical weight of “gambling” – with such games pathologized and labelled as deviance or mental illness, few look beyond to unpick the games, their players, and their communities. The Casino, Card and Betting Game Reader offers 25 chapters studying the communities playing these games, the distinctive cultures and practices that have emerged around them, their activities and beliefs and interpersonal relationships, and how these games influence – both positively and negatively – the lives and careers of millions of game players around the world. It is the first of a new series of edited collections, Play Beyond the Computer, dedicated to exploring the play of games beyond computers and games consoles.
Author : Terry K. Sanderlin
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468594303
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)
Download or read book The Last American Rebel in Cuba written by Terry K. Sanderlin and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his four-year hitch in the marines was up in 1957, Richard Sanderlin met another Norfolk, Virginia native, Frank Sturgis, Marine Corps veteran, Army Intelligence Officer, and future Watergate burglar. Richard, and Frank relocated to Miami, Florida where they ran an arms and munition smuggling operation into Cuba, bound for the rebels of Fidel Castro. During the summer of 1958, Richard Sanderlin traveled to the Sierra Maestra Mountains in Oriente Province Cuba, where he trained the rebels of Fidel, and Raul Castro, in military strategy, tactics, weapon handling, and hand to hand fighting. After completing the training of Raul Castros Second Front, Richard led a guerrilla band into ten combat operations against the Batista army. This is the story an idealistic young warrior who fought against the tyranny of dictatorship only to be betrayed by a communist conspiracy led by Fidel Castro.
Author : Sally Gainsbury
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134918984
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Exploring Internet Gambling written by Sally Gainsbury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internet gambling has emerged as the most radical change to gambling in recent years. Interactive gambling opportunities using computers and wireless devices have transformed the ways in which players engage in gambling. The technological advances that have allowed gambling to expand across physical borders and beyond venues has had a profound impact on gambling policy, regulation, research, treatment and prevention strategies. This book provides a compilation of current research findings by prominent international researchers, including the incidence of Internet gambling, how online gambling is used, sub-groups of online gamblers, and the difference between Internet and non-Internet gamblers in the general population and among treatment-seekers. This book is highly relevant for researchers, students, regulators, policy makers, gambling industry operators, treatment providers and community groups interested in research findings relevant to online gambling. It was originally published as a special issue of International Gambling Studies.
Author : Bob Erens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135479445
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Gambling and Problem Gambling in Britain written by Bob Erens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a rapid increase in the availability of many forms of gambling, there has been little serious study in the literature of the likely effects. This book seeks to fill that gap by reviewing what is known about gambling in Britain and studying work on the nature, prevalence and possible causes of problem gambling. Drawing on the history and recent British studies on the subject, Gambling and Problem Gambling in Britain gives an in-depth theoretical and practical viewpoint of this subject. Areas covered include: * gambling in Britain since Victorian times * expansion of gambling in the late twentieth century * what we now know about problem gambling and its treatment * a consideration of the future of gambling in Britain. This book will be invaluable for professionals, trainees and academics in the areas of counselling, primary care, probation and social work.
Author : Joseph W. Ciarrocchi
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080490824
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Counseling Problem Gamblers written by Joseph W. Ciarrocchi and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2001-10-05 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, legal wagering has expanded rapidly in North America. In 1998 alone, people lost 50 billion dollars in legal betting and it is estimated that illegal wagering is twice that amount. A recent government report, based on the broadest population survey, concludes that the lifetime and pathological gamblers in the U.S. range between 4 and 10 million persons and is growing. If we include the families affected by problem gambling then the potential impact is indeed prodigious. Virtually no community in the U.S. and Canada is left untouched by entertainment or problem gambling. Treating problem gambling has evolved from a small group of practitioners in the 1980's working in specialty impatient units into an international enterprise that affects the caseload of many mental health professionals. Owing to its quiet origins, problem gambling treatment strategies are not well known throughout the clinical community. Consequently the average clinician is him/herself "learning as they go." This approach does not benefit either client or therapist. As the book's first chapter makes clear, problem gambling differs significantly from substance abuse, its nearest clinical relative. Not attending to these differences leads to poor results and clinical failure. This book is the one essential tool needed by clinicians treating or likely to treat problem gambling. Written by a clinician with wide experience, it is intended for the general clinician treating or likely to treat problem gambling desiring a comprehensive, yet user-friendly guide. Assessment and treatment of problem gambling and those affected by it is discussed Includes diagnostic instruments developed by the author An integrative approach is taken with a special focus on cultural concerns and clinical applications for women and minorities Integration of spirituality in treatment is covered
Author : William De Paola
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468547798
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)
Download or read book The Legacies of Darkness written by William De Paola and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the 1st Series of THE LEGACIES OF DARKNESSEnjoy Four Unique stories that will Thrill you with their own Special Twist of Fate The stories are widely developed with a character and setting in mind that one can easily relate to, a storyline that is exciting and thrilling and a book that keeps you interested on what's going on next, not easily forecast the ending it is why these Legacies of Darkness stories are attention grabbing as well as unique reads,,, each book will captivate all enthusiast! The variety of stories are ALL unique like in this 1st book"Diablo in the darkness story", a purgatory for 4 soul less persons - one of them is a molesting priest, another a suicide bomber - when they die as in the suicide bomber who thinks he is going to heaven to get his many beautiful virgin wives but awakening and finding something very evil waiting for him in a hell like setting or a molesting priest he has not god waiting with open arms but an underworld and a hot black box burning his body many times to cleanse his misguided soul, all affected by their past before they can go anywhere - but all stories especially like in the Diablo in the Darkness has a special twist revealing an interesting ending making it a very insightful read. Enjoy the stories they are unique thrillers, they are attention grabbing and insightful readings there is always something waiting for some-one's destiny and that is why I write about The Legacies of Darkness! Attention grabbing, each story is guaranteed to keep you turning the page until you reach the heart pounding conclusion. Each story has a unique set of characters whose lives and destiny are determined by the choices they made. ***Potential film - Hollywood has accepted story 1 "Grand Island Palace Casino" and is in the works on getting things going - if Hollywood likes it - so will you!*** The Ending A Mob Boss on the run and his beautiful mistress to follow, two lives intertwined in a story of love and deadly betrayal as the Boss finds himself in unfamiliar territory as not in control of the situation and now finding out his mistress has a special other also as they hide out in a house he was never to supposed to see... Diablo in the Darkness No one is exempt from a Purgatory! The story of four criminals, a Serial Killer,,, Suicide Bomber,,, Prison Gang leader,,, and a Pedophile Priest whose souls experience the horror of their crimes against the innocent and the choice they are given. What will they feel as they choose in the end in the thrilling conclusion! STORY I: GRAND ISLAND PALACE CASINO A Texas Holdem Tournament like no other - Play your cards right on Grand Island Palace Casino or the last hand dealt may be your last! 15 Players play the 5 day tournament and losing at their tables is not an option - once they lose they find themselves on a all night survive the night hunted by a special creature set out to find them,,,with the only way back into the mansion is when the sun comes up! Who will survive till the final table to play "The Man," take the money and hopefully get safely off the island? STORY II: ANNA'S EMPOWERED LEGACY Action and good Suspense Thriller as Bill plays the lead role in story 1 and now in story 2, a former CIA and special operations who again fights for his life against a unique group of deadly and unstoppable fighting force as some the past characters from the Island comes back with a new twist of fate and the beginning of a new deadly legacy... * "Some of the proceeds from the book are going for a K-9 organization used for helping special causes.
Author : T. Dolin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023038966X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies written by T. Dolin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-04-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than thirty years, books and essays on Thomas Hardy have been at the forefront of developments in academic literary studies. This collection brings together exciting new readings of Hardy's work by established and emerging critics which also reflect on continuities and changes in contemporary literary studies. Covering a wide range of topics and approaches, Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies shows how Hardy's writing continues to provoke its readers to re-examine important issues in literary criticism and critical and cultural theory. Contributors include Terry Eagleton and J. Hillis Miller.
