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Steven Gamble
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as…
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Life moves very quickly at times, and we will always be faced with extreme challenges, difficulties, heartaches, and even tragedies. The real key is how we choose to face adversities…
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How Music Empowers argues that empowerment is the key to unlocking the long-standing mystery of how music moves us. Drawing upon cutting-edge research in embodied cognitive science, psychology, and cultural…
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Steven D Malone
Gangsters, Flappers, Jazz, and Murder in the wide open Free State of Galveston, 1926
Who killed Victoria Yeats?
Casino owner, Donny Colleta, wants retribution. Someone has murdered his mistress. The…
Steven A. Riess
Chicago in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was second only to New York as a centre of both thoroughbred racing and off-track gambling. This book shines a light…
Frederick Barthelme,Steven Barthelme
This is a true story of two men, and the world of floating Gulf Coast casinos. Two brothers inherit money only to gamble it away along with their futures.
Stephen H. Schneider
The next 100 years could be a potentially perilous period for climate and life. The global lab is not built of glass, wires, and tubes, but of insects, soils, air…
Steven S. Skiena (Distinguished Teaching Professor, State University of New York, Stony Brook)
A story of using computer simulations and mathematical modeling techniques to predict the outcome of jai-alai matches and bet on them successfully.
This is a book about a gambling system that works. The author tells the story of how he used computer simulations and mathematical modeling techniques to predict the outcome of…
Dale S. Wright (David B. and Mary H. Gamble Professor of Religious Studies and Asian Studies, David B. and Mary H. Gamble Professor of Religious Studies and Asian Studies, Occidental College)
Presents a collection of essays, which argue that Zen Buddism actually has a rich and varied literary heritage. Among the significant texts are hagiographic accounts and recorded sayings of individual…
