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Hooked: Inside the murky world of Australia's gambling industry
ISBN: 9781761170256 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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102,81 |
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The Gambling Debate
ISBN: 9780313340680 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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... The great majority of Americans--more than 80%--say they approve of gambling, even if they themselves don't gamble. Still, deep divisions persist i... |
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232,00 |
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Discrete Gambling and Stochastic Games
ISBN: 9780387946283 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The theory of probability began in the seventeenth century with attempts to calculate the odds of winning in certain games of chance. However, it was not until the middle of the twentieth century that mathematicians de- veloped general techniques for maximizing the chances of beating a casino or winning against an intelligent opponent. These methods of finding op- timal strategies for a player are at the heart of the modern theories of stochastic control and stochastic games. There are numerous applications to engineering and the social sciences, but the liveliest intuition still comes from...
The theory of probability began in the seventeenth century with attempts to calculate the odds of winning in certain games of chance. However, it was ...
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402,53 |
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The Age of Chance : Gambling in Western Culture
ISBN: 9780415179973 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the Apophoreta of Imperial Rome to the ersatz grandeur of Las Vegas, from ritual divination to weekly lottery fever, individuals have pitted themselves against the chaotic forces of Fate. The Age of Reason promised to bring such forces within our control, but as we look around us, it appears that life has never been more uncertain: risk, speculation and flux are our constant companions. We have entered the Age of Chance. Characteristic of this age is the increasing popularity of gambling throughout western society. Gerda Reith examines its enduring appeal, exploring its complex relation...
From the Apophoreta of Imperial Rome to the ersatz grandeur of Las Vegas, from ritual divination to weekly lottery fever, individuals have pitted them...
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710,17 |
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The Age of Chance: Gambling in Western Culture
ISBN: 9780415263092 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fascinating and extensive study, enlivened by interviews with British and American gamblers, will be enthralling reading not just for those interested in the cultural and social implications of gambling - researchers in sociology, cultural studies and the history of ideas - but for anyone interested in how we create meaning in an increasingly insecure world.
This fascinating and extensive study, enlivened by interviews with British and American gamblers, will be enthralling reading not just for those inter...
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352,59 |
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Card Sharps and Bucket Shops: Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America
ISBN: 9780415923576 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Engaging topics in American cultural, social and business history, this text provides details of gambling in industrializing America. It investigates the relationship between gambling and other ways of making profit, such as speculation and land investment in the 19th century, and explores the moral and cultural implications of this relationship.
Engaging topics in American cultural, social and business history, this text provides details of gambling in industrializing America. It investigates ...
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195,86 |
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The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time
ISBN: 9780446694971 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. - One of the author's sources for this book is a member of the illustrious and mysterious "Corporation" of top-10 poker players who pool their money to play for millions--revealing for the first time the secrets of their games, strategies, and partnership. - Books about gambling sell extremely well, as evidenced by the success of Bringing Down the House (Free Press, 2002), which has 320,000 hardcover and trade paperback copies in print combined, and Positively Fifth Street (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), which has sold more than 80,000 hardcover copies. - With celebrity poker tournaments...
- One of the author's sources for this book is a member of the illustrious and mysterious "Corporation" of top-10 poker players who pool their money t...
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106,77 |
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The Gaming Industry: Introduction and Perspectives
ISBN: 9780471129271 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An authoritative introduction to the world of professional gaming and casino management, from the authorities on the subject, the faculty of the UNLV International Gaming Institute: Vincent H. Eade, Director David J. Christianson, Dean William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration
Contributing faculty members: Frank D. Borsenik Leslie E. Cummings Robert J. Martin John T. Bowen Bernhardt Fried Andrew Nazarechuk Pearl Brewer Zheng Gu John M. Stefanelli Anthony N. Cabot Jim Kilby This is the book for anyone interested in pursuing or advancing a career in the gaming... An authoritative introduction to the world of professional gaming and casino management, from the authorities on the subject, the faculty of the UNLV ...
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458,57 |
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Best Possible Odds: Contemporary Treatment Strategies for Gambling Disorders
ISBN: 9780471189695 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An estimated 3-5% of all individuals who gamble will become compulsive gamblers. This "invisible addiction" can be financially and emotionally devastating to both the gambler and his/her family. This timely clinical manual explains why gambling is on the rise and the factors which distinguish recreational and compulsive gamblers. Mental health professionals will learn how to assess and treat compulsive gamblers using a variety of interventions: behavior therapy, inpatient treatment, family therapy, and 12-step programs.
An estimated 3-5% of all individuals who gamble will become compulsive gamblers. This "invisible addiction" can be financially and emotionally devasta...
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474,04 |
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Calculated Bets: Computers, Gambling, and Mathematical Modeling to Win
ISBN: 9780521009621 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Calculated Bets describes a gambling system that works. Steven Skiena, a jai-alai enthusiast and computer scientist, documents how he used computer simulations and modeling techniques to predict the outcome of jai-alai matches and increased his initial stake by 544% in one year. Skiena demonstrates how his jai-alai system functions like a stock trading system, and includes examples of how gambling and mathematics interact in program trading systems, how mathematical models are used in political polling, and what the future holds for Internet gambling. With humor and enthusiasm, Skiena...
Calculated Bets describes a gambling system that works. Steven Skiena, a jai-alai enthusiast and computer scientist, documents how he used computer si...
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136,17 |
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Gambling in America: Costs and Benefits
ISBN: 9780521830133 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The public decision-making process governing the issue of casino gambling tends to lead to wrong outcomes, and the studies typically provided to justify the phenomenon are conceptually flawed. Seeking to describe what true economic development is, this study establishes the framework for a valid cost-benefit analysis to assess whether it actually occurs and its methods can be applied to the casino industry in America. Accounting for a wide range of economic and social factors, Earl Grinols concludes that the social costs of casino gambling considerably outweigh their social benefits.
The public decision-making process governing the issue of casino gambling tends to lead to wrong outcomes, and the studies typically provided to justi...
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307,90 |
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Gambling as an Addictive Behaviour: Impaired Control, Harm Minimisation, Treatment and Prevention
ISBN: 9780521847018 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting the latest conclusions about the psychological processes leading to impaired self-control, this book challenges the current harm-prevention policy of "responsible gambling." The authors present the most recent and evolving research into gambling, demonstrating the psychological variables that govern the erosion or maintenance of self-control over gambling behavior. These studies provide an empirical basis for a model of impaired control of gambling. Impaired control, in its broadest sense, is considered to be the defining psychological construct of all the addictive behaviors and...
Presenting the latest conclusions about the psychological processes leading to impaired self-control, this book challenges the current harm-prevention...
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516,69 |
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It Was Never a Gamble: The Life and Times of an Early 1900's Hustler
ISBN: 9780595099221 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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115,42 |
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Texas Hold'em On The Net: How to Maximize Your Winnings
ISBN: 9780595357901 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Texas Hold'em on the Net: How to Maximize Your Winnings" gives you an in-depth look at today's most popular game. From initial registry to playing for a living, enclosed is everything you will need to access, evaluate and dominate your competition. Included are tried and true moneymaking techniques as well as how to avoid potential pitfalls and cold streaks. David 'Maximum Dave" Bradshaw has worked his way through online tournaments to compile your road map to Internet poker success. 'Maximum Dave" has been dominating online poker rooms for over 2 years and is embarking on his World Series...
"Texas Hold'em on the Net: How to Maximize Your Winnings" gives you an in-depth look at today's most popular game. From initial registry to playing fo...
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42,20 |
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On Bidding
ISBN: 9780671664633 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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100,00 |
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The Luck Business: The Devastating Consequences and Broken Promises of America's Gambling Explosion
ISBN: 9780684831824 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ely to become Exhibit No. 1".--Ken Armstrong, Chicago Tribune.
ely to become Exhibit No. 1".--Ken Armstrong, Chicago Tribune.
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76,88 |
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Indian Casino
ISBN: 9780759609495 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A casino manager fights discrimination, regulations and ever-changing state policies during his career.
A casino manager fights discrimination, regulations and ever-changing state policies during his career.
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67,07 |
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Pathological Gambling
ISBN: 9780791445228 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although pathological gambling has been a field of study and treatment for over forty years, its story has remained unwritten. That is until now. Brian Castellani is the first to write a book on its history and its medicalization. Although pathological gambling has been a field of study and treatment for over forty years, its story has remained unwritten. That is until now. Brian Castellani is the first to write a book on its history and its medicalization.
Although pathological gambling has been a field of study and treatment for over forty years, its story has remained unwritten. That is until now. Bria...
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131,47 |
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Indian Gaming: Tribal Sovereignty and American Politics
ISBN: 9780806132600 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Indian Gaming examines the conflicts over American Indian tribes' gambling operations, focusing on tribes in New Mexico and Oklahoma. It places recent events in other states -- notably California and Minnesota -- within the perspective of historic Indian policy, states' rights arguments, and federalism. One of the results of these conflicts and arguments has been the development of a new strata of inter-governmental relations to the benefit of tribal autonomy which is fast approaching status equaling states' sovereignty within the United States federal system.
Dale Mason demonstrates how,... Indian Gaming examines the conflicts over American Indian tribes' gambling operations, focusing on tribes in New Mexico and Oklahoma. It places recent...
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97,90 |
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Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture
ISBN: 9780812238600 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dice, Cards, Wheels A Different History of French Culture Thomas M. Kavanagh "With his connoisseur's knowledge (and manifest love) of the rules, and ruses, of games and the culture that they shape, Kavanagh makes a convincing case that gambling ought to be considered not a moral failing or individual pathology but a conspicuous, and uncommonly revelatory, practice that sets the social scene that it dramatizes."--Journal of Modern History Gambling has been a practice central to many cultures throughout history. In Dice, Cards, Wheels, Thomas M. Kavanagh scrutinizes the changing...
Dice, Cards, Wheels A Different History of French Culture Thomas M. Kavanagh "With his connoisseur's knowledge (and manifest love) of the rules, and r...
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284,07 |
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