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Your search for: ((gambling OR gamblers OR gambler))


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Books on: (gambling OR gamblers OR gambler)

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    Gambler's Wife: The Life of Malinda Jenkins
    Book by Jesse Lilienthal, Paula Mitchell Marks; University of Nebraska Press, 1998
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    Collections: History, Entire Library

    Malinda Jenkins was born in 1848, the daughter of a subsistence farmer in Kentucky. Showing spunk early, she pridefully refused to attend school without the right textbooks and escaped as soon as possible from a large family that had "too much religion" and too little else. With her third husband ...
     
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    Jokers Wild: Legalized Gambling in the Twenty-First Century
    Book by Thomas Barker, Marjie Britz; Praeger, 2000
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    A history and analysis of gambling in the United States from bingo to state lotteries to Indian gaming and the rise of Las Vegas, this book reveals how we have become a nation of gamblers and what the future holds for the gambling industry. From the colonial era to the present, Americans have ...
     
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    Gambling and the Public Interest
    Book by Peter Collins; Praeger, 2003
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    ...people who are problem gamblers; therefore gambling should be made illegal...certain types of professional gamblers are really gambling. The first-rate poker...against the ma- jority of gamblers, for whom gambling is a harmless pastime...
     
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    State Lotteries and Legalized Gambling: Painless Revenue or Painful Mirage
    Book by Richard McGowan; Quorum Books, 1994
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    Lotteries and state-sponsored gambling is big business. This is the first study that evaluates the business strategies of state lotteries on two fronts. First, it examines which of the lottery strategies produces the most consistent source of revenue for the state. Second, it analyzes possible ...
     
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    Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler
    Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Kentish; Oxford University Press, 1991
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    Collections: Literature, Entire Library

    One of the most profound and disturbing works of nineteenth-century literature, Notes from the Underground is a probing and speculative work, often regarded as a forerunner to the Existentialist movement. The Gambler explores the compulsive nature of gambling, one of Dostoevsky's own vices and a ...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: (gambling OR gamblers OR gambler)

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