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Lawyers' poker : 52 lessons that lawyers can learn from card players
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ISBN: 0199884668 128084552X 0198040245 1429420227 9781429420228 9780195182439 019518243X 0197719791 Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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Introduction Diamonds Lesson 1: Saving BetsLesson 2: Expected ValueLesson 3: Don't GambleLesson 4:Depend on the Rabbit's Foot if You Will, But Remember: It Didn't Work for the Rabbit Lesson 5: Opening HandsLesson 6: Drawing HandsLesson 7: Chasing is for DogsLesson 8: Yardley's Law (and Darrow's Exception)Lesson 9: Losing ItLesson 10: Desperate TimesLesson 11: VolatilityLesson 12: Sunk CostsLesson 13: Stakes MatterClubs Lesson 1: FundamentalismLesson 2: Know Why You are BettingLesson 3: Slow PlayingLesson 4: BluffingLesson 5: Reverse BluffingLesson 6: Semi-BluffingLesson 7: OverplayingLesson 8:


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Poker : the parody of capitalism
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ISBN: 1283334402 9786613334404 0472027999 Year: 2011 Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,

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The cultural meanings of poker and how it mirrors fundamental aspects of capitalism.


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The ethics of poker
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ISBN: 1476627851 9781476627854 1476664617 9781476664613 Year: 2017 Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers

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"The first of its kind, this book explores the moral dimensions of playing poker for money through a detailed discussion of philosophical and applied ethics. Topics include the etiquette of lying, collusion versus "soft play," the problem of players staked by backers. The lessons learned from the study of poker ethics have interesting applications in daily life"--


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Amy Lowell anew : a biography
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ISBN: 1442223944 9781442223943 9781299715059 1299715052 1442223928 9781442223929 9781442223929 Year: 2013 Publisher: Lanham [etc.] Rowman & Littlefield

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Amy Lowell has been extolled as a founding member of the Imagist group, derided as the "demon saleswoman" of poetry, and shunned as a lesbian, cigar-smoking sensationalist. This provocative biography draws on newly discovered material to restore the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet to her full humanity in an era that, at last, is beginning to appreciate the contributions of gays and lesbians to America's heritage.


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Gangsters to governors : the new bosses of gambling in America
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ISBN: 0813584558 9780813584553 0813584566 9780813584560 9780813584546 081358454X Year: 2017 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press,

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Generations ago, gambling in America was an illicit activity, dominated by gangsters like Benny Binion and Bugsy Siegel. Today, forty-eight out of fifty states permit some form of legal gambling, and America's governors sit at the head of the gaming table. But have states become addicted to the revenue gambling can bring? And does the potential of increased revenue lead them to place risky bets on new casinos, lotteries, and online games? In Gangsters to Governors, journalist David Clary investigates the pros and cons of the shift toward state-run gambling. Unearthing the sordid history of America's gaming underground, he demonstrates the problems with prohibiting gambling while revealing how today's governors, all competing for a piece of the action, promise their citizens payouts that are rarely delivered. Clary introduces us to a rogue's gallery of colorful characters, from John "Old Smoke" Morrissey, the Irish-born gangster who built Saratoga into a gambling haven in the nineteenth century, to Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino magnate who has furiously lobbied against online betting. By exploring the controversial histories of legal and illegal gambling in America, he offers a fresh perspective on current controversies, including bans on sports and online betting. Entertaining and thought-provoking, Gangsters to Governors considers the past, present, and future of our gambling nation. Author's website (http://www.davidclaryauthor.com)

The Black American short story in the 20th century : a collection of critical essays
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ISBN: 9060320859 902727262X 1283903377 9789027272621 9781283903370 9789060320853 Year: 1977 Publisher: Amsterdam Gruener

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This volume is a collection of essays on black short stories written between 1998 and 1976. It aims to say something about the black short story as a genre and the development of the racial situation in America as well. The primary aim is to introduce the reader to this long neglected genre of black fiction. In contrast to the black novel, the short story has hardly been given extensive criticism, let alone serious attention. The individual essays of this collection aim at presenting new points of critical orientation in the hope of reviving and fostering further discussions.


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Mark Twain's correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909
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ISBN: 0520905067 9780520905061 9780520014671 0520014677 9780520014671 Year: 1969 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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This collection of correspondence between Clemens and Rogers may be thought of as a continuation of Mark Twain's Letters to His Publishers, 1867-1894, edited by Hamlin Hill. It completes the story begun there of Samuel Clemens's business affairs, especially insofar as they concern dealings with publishers; and it documents Clemens's progress from financial disaster, with the Paige typesetter and Webster & Company, to renewed prosperity under the steady, skillful hand of H. H. Rogers. But Clemens's correspondence with Rogers reveals more than a business relationship. It illuminates a friendship which Clemens came to value above all others, and it suggests a profound change in his patterns of living. He who during the Hartford years had been a devoted family man, content with a discrete circle of intimates, now became again (as he had been during the Nevada and California years) a man among sporting men, enjoying prizefights and professional billiard matches in public, and-in private-long days of poker, gruff jest, and good Scotch whisky aboard Rogers's magnificent yacht.


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Internet and Smartphone Use-Related Addiction Health Problems: Treatment, Education and Research
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This Special Issue presents some of the main emerging research on technological topics of health and education approaches to Internet use-related problems, before and during the beginning of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The objective is to provide an overview to facilitate a comprehensive and practical approach to these new trends to promote research, interventions, education, and prevention. It contains 40 papers, four reviews and thirty-five empirical papers and an editorial introducing everything in a rapid review format. Overall, the empirical ones are of a relational type, associating specific behavioral addictive problems with individual factors, and a few with contextual factors, generally in adult populations. Many have adapted scales to measure these problems, and a few cover experiments and mixed methods studies. The reviews tend to be about the concepts and measures of these problems, intervention options, and prevention. In summary, it seems that these are a global culture trend impacting health and educational domains. Internet use-related addiction problems have emerged in almost all societies, and strategies to cope with them are under development to offer solutions to these contemporary challenges, especially during the pandemic situation that has highlighted the global health problems that we have, and how to holistically tackle them.

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