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1000 tulosta hakusanalla S. Gamble

S. 704--the Gambling Impact Study Commission

S. 704--the Gambling Impact Study Commission

Palala Press
2018
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Sucker's Progress: An Informal History of Gambling in America from the Colonies to Canfield

Sucker's Progress: An Informal History of Gambling in America from the Colonies to Canfield

Herbert Asbury

Literary Licensing, LLC
2013
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Sucker's Progress is a comprehensive and engaging account of the history of gambling in America, from the earliest colonial settlements to the height of the Gilded Age. Written by renowned journalist and historian Herbert Asbury, the book offers a fascinating look at the various forms of gambling that have been popular throughout American history, including lotteries, horse racing, cockfighting, and the rise of the modern casino.Asbury's writing is lively and engaging, and he brings to life the colorful characters and larger-than-life personalities that have populated the world of gambling throughout the centuries. From the legendary gambler John Law to the notorious gambler and saloon owner Diamond Jim Brady, Asbury paints a vivid picture of the people who have shaped the gambling industry in America.The book also explores the social and cultural implications of gambling in America, including its impact on politics, economics, and morality. Asbury examines the ways in which gambling has been both celebrated and condemned throughout American history, and he offers a nuanced perspective on the complex relationship between gambling and American society.Overall, Sucker's Progress is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of gambling in America. With its engaging writing style, colorful characters, and insightful analysis, this book is sure to captivate readers from start to finish.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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Oxford Children's Classics: Anne of Green Gables

Oxford Children's Classics: Anne of Green Gables

LM Montgomery

Oxford University Press
2023
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This Oxford Children's Classic features the complete unabridged text, an introduction by Emma Norry, and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities, and more . . . Anne Shirley's arrival on Prince Edward Island is a surprise to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. They'd requested a boy from the orphanage to help out on the farm and have no idea what to do with the chatty and imaginative girl in front of them. She simply cannot stay . . .
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Working with Women's Groups for Problem Gambling

Working with Women's Groups for Problem Gambling

Liz Karter

Routledge
2014
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Why do so many women with gambling addiction relapse?Lifelong recovery requires much more than to just stop gambling. Women’s groups provide long-term benefits and support and have proven to be highly successful in promoting recovery from gambling addiction. By following the story of a real women’s group for problem gambling over the course of a year, Liz Karter explains how, for women, both the cause of and the cure for gambling addiction lies in relationship. Karter shows clearly how learning to face and cope with real life situations and relationships is essential to maintain recovery. She shares the themes which run through each women’s group, such as fear of trusting others, and the guilt, shame and risk associated with being truly seen and heard. Women’s Groups for Problem Gambling shows that with a combination of specialist intervention, women’s group support, courage and compassion, women can learn to stop running from their addiction and instead find joy and support in building relationships and communities. This highly accessible book provides a unique opportunity to gain a very personal insight into the group process, both for therapists and clinicians and for women wishing to better understand their addiction.
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Working with Women's Groups for Problem Gambling

Working with Women's Groups for Problem Gambling

Liz Karter

Routledge
2014
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Why do so many women with gambling addiction relapse?Lifelong recovery requires much more than to just stop gambling. Women’s groups provide long-term benefits and support and have proven to be highly successful in promoting recovery from gambling addiction. By following the story of a real women’s group for problem gambling over the course of a year, Liz Karter explains how, for women, both the cause of and the cure for gambling addiction lies in relationship. Karter shows clearly how learning to face and cope with real life situations and relationships is essential to maintain recovery. She shares the themes which run through each women’s group, such as fear of trusting others, and the guilt, shame and risk associated with being truly seen and heard. Women’s Groups for Problem Gambling shows that with a combination of specialist intervention, women’s group support, courage and compassion, women can learn to stop running from their addiction and instead find joy and support in building relationships and communities. This highly accessible book provides a unique opportunity to gain a very personal insight into the group process, both for therapists and clinicians and for women wishing to better understand their addiction.
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High Stakes: The Rising Cost of America's Gambling Addiction

High Stakes: The Rising Cost of America's Gambling Addiction

Sam Skolnik

BEACON PRESS
2015
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What the explosive growth of legalized gambling means socially, politically, and economically for America. Forty years ago, casinos were legal in just one state. Today, legalized gambling has morphed into a $119 billion industry established in all but two states. As elected officials are urging voters to expand gambling's reach, the industry's supporters and their impassioned detractors are squaring off in prolonged state-by-state battles. Millions of Americans are being asked to decide: are the benefits worth the costs? With a blend of investigative journalism and poignant narratives of gambling addiction, award-winning journalist Sam Skolnik provides an in-depth exploration of the consequences of this national phenomenon. In High Stakes, we meet politicians eager to promote legalized gambling as an economic cure-all, scientists wrestling with the meaning of gambling addiction, and players so caught up in the chase that they've lost their livelihoods and their minds.
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Nevada's Golden Age of Gambling

Nevada's Golden Age of Gambling

Al W Moe

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2012
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Over 70 Vintage Photos of Las Vegas, Reno and Lake Tahoe in this Edition Before "Bugsy" Siegel" opened the Flamingo casino and created the Las Vegas Strip, the Mob was hard at work stealing Downtown casinos like the Las Vegas Club and the El Cortez from their original owners. Reno casino owners resorted to arson and murder to keep their money flowing, and they had Lake Tahoe casinos in their pocket too Nevada's Golden Age of Gambling is a photo-rich history of the casinos from 1931 to 1981. All about the building of empires from Reno and Lake Tahoe to Las Vegas and a dozen other Nevada casino towns.Stories detail how the casinos were built, who the major gaming pioneers were, and how they managed to build Nevada from a agriculture and mining based economy into the greatest gaming empire in the world.Chapters include the history of casinos and their founders from Bill Harrah and "Pappy" Smith, to Moe Dalitz, "Bugsy" Siegel, and dozens of others.
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Salem Witchcraft and Hawthorne's "House of the Seven Gables"

Salem Witchcraft and Hawthorne's "House of the Seven Gables"

Enders A Robinson

Heritage Books
2013
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This book offers a detailed and highly readable account of the Salem witchcraft affair of 1692. Its publication coincides with the tercentenary observance of the events that form one of the grimmest chapters in colonial American history. The book has three parts. Part One, "Salem Witchcraft History," provides background information on the Puritan settlement of New England and documents the circumstances which led to the witch hunt of 1692. It identifies the conspirators who accused innocent people by working in collusion with the Puritan old guard authority. It then gives an account of the Andover phase of the witch hunt, with emphasis on the almost forgotten story of the fifty townspeople who were imprisoned for witchcraft in 1692. Nathaniel Hawthorne was a descendant of John Hathorne, one of the most zealous of the Salem witch hunters. Part Two, "The House of the Seven Gables," briefly examines Hawthorne's treatment of the witchcraft events in which his ancestor had played such a central role. It reveals the historical identity of several characters in Hawthorne's novel, including the real-life counterpart of the fictional Matthew Maule, the executed wizard. Part Three, "Salem Witchcraft Genealogy," gives biographies of the accusers and the accused during the latter phase of the Salem witchcraft affair. Genealogical inter-connections are shown that help to explain why certain family groups were targeted for witchcraft accusation. Several hundred people are mentioned in the genealogies, involving many families of the time.
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Children's Classics: Anne of Green Gables (Children's Easy Classics)

Children's Classics: Anne of Green Gables (Children's Easy Classics)

Sweet Cherry Publishing
2024
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When Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert want to hire an orphaned boy to help on their farm at Green Gables, they get Anne – a red-haired, freckle-faced and incredibly feisty girl. Although Anne sometimes likes to imagine that her hair is brown and that her name is Cordelia, she can’t quite picture having to be a boy full time! And what’s worse, now that she has seen Green Gables, she also can’t imagine ever leaving! Anne soon settles in to life at Avonlea but as it turns out, the real question is, are the people of Avonlea ready for Anne…? About The Easy Classics Children's Collection: A collection of ten of the most well-loved and timeless children’s stories. Fondly repackaged, adapted and illustrated to be enjoyed by readers 7+. Whether you are young or old, these stories are filled with adventure and fun! Follow Dorothy into the magical land of Oz or experience the excitement and danger of the jungle with Mowgli the man-cub; or perhaps you prefer to kick back and relax with Ratty and Mole enjoying the peace of the riverbank.
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High Stakes: The Rising Cost of America's Gambling Addiction

High Stakes: The Rising Cost of America's Gambling Addiction

Sam Skolnik

BEACON PRESS
2011
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What the explosive growth of legalized gambling means socially, politically, and economically for America. Forty years ago, casinos were legal in just one state. Today, legalized gambling has morphed into a $119 billion industry established in all but two states. As elected officials are urging voters to expand gambling's reach, the industry's supporters and their impassioned detractors are squaring off in prolonged state-by-state battles. Millions of Americans are being asked to decide: are the benefits worth the costs? With a blend of investigative journalism and poignant narratives of gambling addiction, award-winning journalist Sam Skolnik provides an in-depth exploration of the consequences of this national phenomenon. In High Stakes, we meet politicians eager to promote legalized gambling as an economic cure-all, scientists wrestling with the meaning of gambling addiction, and players so caught up in the chase that they've lost their livelihoods and their minds.
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Ibsen's Hedda Gabler

Ibsen's Hedda Gabler

Oxford University Press Inc
2018
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Since its publication in 1890, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler has been a recurring point of fascination for readers, theater audiences, and artists alike. Newly married, yet utterly bored, the character of Hedda Gabler evokes reflection on beauty, love, passion, death, nihilism, identity, and a host of other topics of an existential nature. It is no surprise that Ibsen's work has gained the attention of philosophically-minded readers from Nietzsche, Lou Andreas-Salomé, and Freud, to Adorno, Cavell, and beyond. Once staged at avant-garde theaters in Paris, London, and Berlin, Ibsen is now a global phenomenon. The enigmatic character of Hedda Gabler remains intriguing to ever-new generations of actors, audiences, and readers. Hedda Gabler occupies a privileged place in the history of European drama and as a work of literature, and, as this volume demonstrates, invites profound and worthwhile philosophical questions. Through ten newly commissioned chapters, written by leading voices in the fields of drama studies, European philosophy, Scandinavian studies, and comparative literature, this volume brings out the philosophical resonances of Hedda Gabler in particular and Ibsen's drama more broadly.
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Ibsen's Hedda Gabler

Ibsen's Hedda Gabler

Oxford University Press Inc
2018
nidottu
Since its publication in 1890, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler has been a recurring point of fascination for readers, theater audiences, and artists alike. Newly married, yet utterly bored, the character of Hedda Gabler evokes reflection on beauty, love, passion, death, nihilism, identity, and a host of other topics of an existential nature. It is no surprise that Ibsen's work has gained the attention of philosophically-minded readers from Nietzsche, Lou Andreas-Salomé, and Freud, to Adorno, Cavell, and beyond. Once staged at avant-garde theaters in Paris, London, and Berlin, Ibsen is now a global phenomenon. The enigmatic character of Hedda Gabler remains intriguing to ever-new generations of actors, audiences, and readers. Hedda Gabler occupies a privileged place in the history of European drama and as a work of literature, and, as this volume demonstrates, invites profound and worthwhile philosophical questions. Through ten newly commissioned chapters, written by leading voices in the fields of drama studies, European philosophy, Scandinavian studies, and comparative literature, this volume brings out the philosophical resonances of Hedda Gabler in particular and Ibsen's drama more broadly.
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Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler

Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler

Routledge
2003
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Since Hedda Gabler exploded on to European and American stages in the 1890s, the play and its title character have troubled and transfixed audiences, performers and critics the world over. In this sourcebook, Christopher Innes balances essential reprinted texts with clear, incisive commentary to:*set the play within the contexts of Norwegian nationalism, the women's movement and the cultural movement of Naturalism *examine and emphasize the links between the performance and criticism of the play, from 1890 to the present *offer the ideal guide to key passages in the play, showing how a knowledge of the play's contexts, performance history and critical fortunes can give rise to exciting new readings of the text *prepare readers for further study of the play, with suggestions for reading on specific issues of interest. No student should be without this guide as they enter the fascinating world of Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen and Naturalist theater.
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