Tag: Gambling

Free Download Andrea Eugenio Cavanna, "Psychology of Gambling: New Research "
English | ISBN: 1621005038 | 2012 | 210 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Generally considered a social and/or recreational activity, in some cases gambling can become an addictive behavior. Pathological gambling is classified by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) as an impulse control disorder, characterized by failure to resist the impulse to gamble despite severe and devastating personal, family, or vocational consequences. The lifetime prevalence of pathological gambling in the adult population of North America has been estimated to be over 1%. Pathological gambling can also be associated with significantly specific behavioral problems and neuropsychiatric conditions, mainly affecting dopaminergic reward pathways. This book provides a 360-degree overview on the current psychological models for gambling behaviors, informed by both neurobiological and clinical observations.

Free Download Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son
by Lionel Barber
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0241582725 | 416 Pages | True ePUB | 2.1 MB

Free Download From Luck to Logic – Profiting From Gambling Promotions
Published 9/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Language: English | Duration: 4h 17m | Size: 3.92 GB
Your Step-by-Step Guide to Turning Promos Into Profits

Free Download Mark Hunacek, "Quantitative Literacy Through Games and Gambling "
English | ISBN: 1032633921 | 2024 | 108 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book was developed to address a need. Quantitative Literacy courses have been established in the mathematics curriculum for decades now. The students in these courses typically dislike and fear mathematics, and the result is often a class populated by many students who are unmotivated and uninterested in the material.

Free Download A Theory of Insurance and Gambling: Replacing Risk Preferences with Quid pro Quo by John A. Nyman
English | February 1, 2024 | ISBN: 019768792X | True EPUB/PDF | 272 pages | 4.35/12.6 MB
In 1948, Milton Friedman and L. J. Savage suggested that risk preferences explain the demand for insurance and gambling-a theory that is still almost universally accepted by economists today. If you were to ask almost any economist why people purchase insurance, they would say it is because most people are "risk averse," or equivalently, "prefer certainty of losses." If asked to explain why people gamble, they would say it is because some people are "risk seekers."

Free Download A Theory of Insurance and Gambling: Replacing Risk Preferences with Quid pro Quo by John A. Nyman
English | February 1, 2024 | ISBN: 019768792X | True EPUB/PDF | 272 pages | 4.35/12.6 MB
In 1948, Milton Friedman and L. J. Savage suggested that risk preferences explain the demand for insurance and gambling-a theory that is still almost universally accepted by economists today. If you were to ask almost any economist why people purchase insurance, they would say it is because most people are "risk averse," or equivalently, "prefer certainty of losses." If asked to explain why people gamble, they would say it is because some people are "risk seekers."

Free Download Gambling Problems in Youth: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives By Durand F. Jacobs (auth.), Jeffrey L. Derevensky, Rina Gupta (eds.)
2005 | 263 Pages | ISBN: 0306485850 | PDF | 5 MB
Howard J. Shaffer, Ph. D. More than 20 years ago, I first noted that young people in North America were growing up in a context of legalized gambling for their entire lifetime. By the 1980s, for young people, gambling had become an average and expectable part of the social landscape. Amid legal opportunities to gamble in all but two of the United States and with illicit opportunities to gamble in every state, gambling is now ubiquitous in America. With few social sa- tions to limit a young person’s interest in gambling-like their adult co- terparts-young people now gamble in larger numbers and for seemingly higher stakes. Gradually, gambling-related problems became more visible for young people and the culture slowly but increasingly took notice. By the late 1990s, every sector of American and Canadian society had started to c- sider the effects of legalized gambling on youth. For different reasons, r- resentatives of the gambling and health care industries led the movement to prevent youthful gambling and reconcile existing problems whenever p- sible. Scientists also recognized that there was much to be learned by stu- ing young gamblers. Toward the end of the 20th century, there was a rapid increase in gambling research focusing on developmental issues; half of what is known about gambling emerged during the 1990s. This volume represents an important event in the continuing growth of a field.

Free Download The Gambling Century: Commercial Gaming in Britain from Restoration to Regency (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQ1427Y2 | 2024 | 10 hours and 45 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 296 MB
Author: John Eglin
Narrator: Dan Calley
Gambling captures as nothing else the drama of the "long eighteenth century" between the age of religious wars and the age of revolutions. The society that was confronted with games of chance pursued as commercial ventures also came to grips with unprecedented social mobility, floated by new wealth from new sources created fortunes from trade in sugar, cotton, ivory, silk, tea, or enslaved human beings. Likewise, play for money was prominent in the public imagination as money itself, deployed through an ever expanding and ever more sophisticated range of mechanisms, increasingly invaded public awareness, as when prospective spouses in period fiction were rated in terms of annual income as if they were municipal bonds. Similarly, the archetypal figure of the gambler captured the imagination of the public in fiction, media, and politics. At the same time, new interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-encouraged and bankrolled by those in power-fostered a new and unprecedented appreciation for mathematical probability and its applications, opening the possibility that games of chance might be pursued as a profitable commercial venture. The Gambling Century focuses like no previous work on those who enabled, facilitated, and profited from gambling, as well as on efforts to regulate or outlaw it.

Free Download Stefan Dercon, Michael Langan (Narrator), "Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose"
English | ASIN: B0CPQYXDVS | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~12:10:00 | 328 MB
In the last thirty years, the developing world has undergone tremendous changes. Overall, poverty has fallen, people live longer and healthier lives, and economies have been transformed. And yet many countries have simply missed the boat. Why have some countries prospered, while others have failed?
Stefan Dercon argues that the answer lies not in a specific set of policies, but rather in a key "development bargain," whereby a country’s elites shift from protecting their own positions to gambling on a growth-based future. Despite the imperfections of such bargains, China is among the most striking recent success stories, along with Indonesia, and more unlikely places, such as Bangladesh, Ghana, and Ethiopia. Gambling on Development is about these winning efforts, in contrast to countries stuck in elite bargains leading nowhere.

Free Download Richard W. Munchkin, "Gambling Wizards: Conversations with the World’s Greatest Gamblers"
English | 2003 | pages: 322 | ISBN: 0929712056 | PDF | 1,6 mb
Can you imagine betting a million dollars on a football game or winning seven million on a single horse race? Can you even fathom what it would be like to be the resident backgammon player at the Playboy Mansion or to win the World Series of Poker – twice? How would you react if a gun-wielding casino owner demanded back the money that you won playing blackjack in his casino?