Download or read book Sports Betting For Dummies written by Swain Scheps and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sports gambling book you can bet on Sports betting combines America's national pastime (sports) with its national passion (gambling). In the U.S., more than a third of the population bets on at least one sporting event every year. With the recent lifting of the federal ban on sports gambling, states are pushing legislation to take advantage of the new potential source of revenue. The best sports betting books are data driven, statistically honest, and offer ways to take action. Sports Betting For Dummies will cover the basics, as well as delving into more nuanced topics. You’ll find all the need-to-know information on types of bets, statistics, handicapping fundamentals, and more. Betting on football, basketball, baseball, and other sports Betting on special events, such as the Superbowl or the Olympics Money management Betting on the internet With handy tips, tricks, and tools, Sports Betting For Dummies shows you how to place the right bet at the right time—to get the right payoff.

Download or read book Hang Tough written by Lorelei James and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the new Blacktop Cowboys® novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Wrapped and Strapped, one woman learns that when it comes to cowboys, looks can be deceiving... When Tobin Hale stepped in to stop Garnet Evans’s son from railroading her out of her own home, he knew moving in with his favorite Mud Lily could be seen as strange. But nothing prepared him for the arrival of Garnet’s fiery, beautiful granddaughter, Jade—or her assumption that he’s up to no good... While Tobin might be the hottest man Jade Evans has ever seen, his physical attributes won’t distract her from protecting her grandma from his sweet-talking ways. But the stubborn cowboy digs in his boot heels and refuses to leave. Stuck in close quarters together, Jade learns Tobin is the real deal—a hardworking, fiercely loyal man and she’s the one in danger of losing her heart. And just when he was prepared to leave Muddy Gap behind, Tobin may have found the kind of woman worth sticking around for...

Download or read book Beat Binary Options written by Drew Kasch and published by Andrew Kasch. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to become a winning trader using fixed-odds binary options, including five specific (and timeless) strategies. The popularity of this unique derivative has recently exploded, with dozens of online brokers now competing for your trading dollar. This creates an attractive environment for small-stakes financial market players. Drew Kasch is an expert in probability games that are played for money, including trading stocks and options. His books will arm you with knowledge and tactics that will give you the best chance for success at your chosen area of risk taking. Fixed-odds binary options are one of his favorite tools, and they’ll very likely soon be one of yours as well. The first thing Kasch does is show you what you’re up against. He’ll actually try to talk you out of this hobby by showing you why 90% of traders in this market fail, and, in particular, how the binary options brokers make so much money from them. If you’re stubborn enough not be dissuaded, you will then be taught how to beat this particular probability game by adopting the proper mindset and developing indispensable risk/reward analysis skills. So armed, the five core strategies will then be rolled out, which span all different time frames including an intraday system. Finally, the author will show you how to run your binary options trading as a business and use it to springboard yourself into wealth and trading success in all different markets. The reader will come away from this work with a clear roadmap for becoming a successful trader for life, starting with a tiny amount of capital today.

Download or read book Basic Statistics for Social Research written by Robert A. Hanneman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A core statistics text that emphasizes logical inquiry, not math Basic Statistics for Social Research teaches core general statistical concepts and methods that all social science majors must master to understand (and do) social research. Its use of mathematics and theory are deliberately limited, as the authors focus on the use of concepts and tools of statistics in the analysis of social science data, rather than on the mathematical and computational aspects. Research questions and applications are taken from a wide variety of subfields in sociology, and each chapter is organized around one or more general ideas that are explained at its beginning and then applied in increasing detail in the body of the text. Each chapter contains instructive features to aid students in understanding and mastering the various statistical approaches presented in the book, including: Learning objectives Check quizzes after many sections and an answer key at the end of the chapter Summary Key terms End-of-chapter exercises SPSS exercises (in select chapters) Ancillary materials for both the student and the instructor are available and include a test bank for instructors and downloadable video tutorials for students.

Download or read book Casino Craps written by Frank Scoblete and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive craps book ever written, this is the book that gives readers everything needed to get a real, verifiable edge at the game of craps. The authors, two of the greatest living dice controllers, share, in words and pictures, their secret Golden Touch technique and give the edge needed to beat the house. Readers will learn several keys to winner craps, including how the game is really played, how to develop a Golden Touch controlled throw, which are the best and worst bets and "buy" bets, how to reduce the hit of the house edge by using the five count, how to push the casino to give a better game than advertised, how to set the dice to reduce or increase the appearance of different numbers, and how to judge what a real edge means.

Download or read book Do the Math written by John K. White and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2013 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at the numbers of daily living, particularly in light of current economic troubles, where modern economic practices, mathematical concepts, and everyday moral dilemmas are discussed.

Download or read book Shifts written by Wayne Hammer and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The High Probability Options Trader Winning Strategies to Take You to the Next Level written by Marcel Link and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete guide to building the mindset, knowledge, and skills of a professional options trader. If you’re a day trader or a sophisticated individual investor, you can move to the next level trading options as a full-time gig—and make a profit! Professional options trader Marcel Link argues that the most successful traders are the ones who treat trading like a business. It’s how he turned trading into a full-time job, and he shares all his secrets with you. In The High Probability Options Trader, Link explains how to take advantage of online tools, offers a thorough but easy-to-understand explanation of option Greeks, and provides many effective strategies, including selling options and spreads with high volatility, making time decay work in your favor, using different time spreads, staying delta neutral, and using butterflies and condors. He explains how to trade during earnings, how to use technical analyses to time trades, and how to manage risk. Specific topics include: Learning to understand and take full advantage of a broker’s platform What options are and how they’re best used Methods for valuing options Choosing underlying stocks, indexes, ETFs, and futures to trade Using options to protect your portfolio from market turns Managing your options portfolio Reading marketing conditions to make the right investing decisions Placing orders and timing trades Developing and implanting risk-management strategies Option trading has seen a tremendous surge in popularity in recent years, with volume records being broken consistently, yet many newer traders don’t trade options correctly. Apply the lessons in The High Probability Options Trader to learn how to build a lucrative career in this rapidly expanding market.

Download or read book Baseball s All Time Best Sluggers written by Michael J. Schell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over baseball history, which park has been the best for run scoring? (1) Which player would lose the most home runs after adjustments for ballpark effect? (2) Which player claims four of the top five places for best individual seasons ever played, based on all-around offensive performance? (3) (See answers, below). These are only three of the intriguing questions Michael Schell addresses in Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers, a lively examination of the game of baseball using the most sophisticated statistical tools available. The book provides an in-depth evaluation of every major offensive event in baseball history, and identifies the players with the 100 best seasons and most productive careers. For the first time ever, ballpark effects across baseball history are presented for doubles, triples, right- and left-handed home-run hitting, and strikeouts. The book culminates with a ranking of the game's best all-around batters. Using a brisk conversational style, Schell brings to the plate the two most important credentials essential to producing a book of this kind: an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball and a professional background in statistics. Building on the traditions of renowned baseball historians Pete Palmer and Bill James, he has analyzed the most important factors impacting the sport, including the relative difficulty of hitting in different ballparks, the length of hitters' careers, the talent pool from which players are drawn, player aging, and changes in the game that have raised or lowered major-league batting averages. Schell's book finally levels the playing field, giving new credit to hitters who played in adverse conditions, and downgrading others who faced fewer obstacles. It also provides rankings based on players' positions. For example, Derek Jeter ranks 295th out of 1,140 on the best batters list, but jumps to 103rd in the position-adjusted list, reflecting his offensive prowess among shortstops. Replete with dozens of never-before reported stories and statistics, Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers will forever shape the way baseball fans view the greatest heroes of America's national pastime. Answers: 1. Coors Field 2. Mel Ott 3. Barry Bonds, 2001–2004 seasons

Download or read book The House Advantage written by Jeffrey Ma and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of the notorious MIT Team depicted in Ben Mezrich's now classic Bringing Down the House, Jeff Ma used math and statistics to master the game of blackjack and reap handsome rewards at casinos. Years later, Ma has inspired not only a bestselling novel and hit movie, but has also started three different companies—the latest of which, Citizen Sports, is an innovative marriage of sports, betting, and digital technology—and launched a successful corporate speaking career. The House Advantage reveals Ma's cutting-edge mathematical insights into the world of statistics and makes them applicable to a wide business audience. He argues that numbers are the key to analyzing nearly everything in the world of business, from how to spot and profit from global market inefficiencies to having multiple backup plans in anticipation of every probability. Ma's stories and business lessons are as intriguing as they are universally applicable.

Download or read book Temporary Economic Crises written by Shahzavar Karimzadi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In traditional theory of economic crisis, and in all its manifestations, there is no fundamental difference between economic disorder and economic crisis: the two types of economic turmoil are both considered temporary states. This book is a methodical study of deep-seated causes of economic crises. The aim of the book is to explain the key difference between economic disorder and economic crisis. Its key argument is that economic disorder is a permanent condition, whereas economic crises are a series of transitory periods. Economic crises, unlike economic disorders, are acute and frenzied volatilities that are unpredictable and short-lived. Humans cannot survive in a condition of perpetual economic crises but can only accommodate life under unremitting economic disorders. The book also explores the root cause of economic crisis. Unlike the received wisdom in economics, this book looks at the root cause of such hysterical economic turbulences as a result of an innate propensity of human fallibility. The final section of this book looks at the ramifications of this alternative perspective on macroeconomic policy formation and implementation. This book is a major contribution to the literature on economic disorder and crises and will be of great interest to readers of economic theory, philosophy of economics, and the history of economic thought.

Download or read book The Gini Methodology written by Shlomo Yitzhaki and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gini's mean difference (GMD) was first introduced by Corrado Gini in 1912 as an alternative measure of variability. GMD and the parameters which are derived from it (such as the Gini coefficient or the concentration ratio) have been in use in the area of income distribution for almost a century. In practice, the use of GMD as a measure of variability is justified whenever the investigator is not ready to impose, without questioning, the convenient world of normality. This makes the GMD of critical importance in the complex research of statisticians, economists, econometricians, and policy makers. This book focuses on imitating analyses that are based on variance by replacing variance with the GMD and its variants. In this way, the text showcases how almost everything that can be done with the variance as a measure of variability, can be replicated by using Gini. Beyond this, there are marked benefits to utilizing Gini as opposed to other methods. One of the advantages of using Gini methodology is that it provides a unified system that enables the user to learn about various aspects of the underlying distribution. It also provides a systematic method and a unified terminology. Using Gini methodology can reduce the risk of imposing assumptions that are not supported by the data on the model. With these benefits in mind the text uses the covariance-based approach, though applications to other approaches are mentioned as well.

Download or read book written by Donald Schmidt and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paradigm of Creation Spirituality offers a fresh approach to our spiritual journeys. In "Emerging Word," Donald Schmidt provides both an introduction to Creation Spirituality for those who may not be familiar with it, as well as a quick history of lectionary use in the Christian tradition and an overview of the church year. He then sets out scripture readings for each Sunday and major festival day of the year, based on the four paths of Creation Spirituality as outlined by Matthew Fox and others. Brief commentary for each set of readings provides rationale for the choice, and further invitation to see the world, the church, the Bible, and life in a new way. Whether you are familiar with Creation Spirituality, or simply curious about some of the emerging paradigms being explored in the church today, "Emerging Word" will challenge you. Less than a statement, "Emerging Word" is more an invitation to wonder, to contemplate, and to explore the story that the church has told, is telling, and can tell, as it seeks to be relevant in today's world. What is our faith story? Where is it taking us? Where can it take us? Those are the questions "Emerging Word" places before us.

Download or read book Betting on Love written by Alexis Abbott and published by Pathforgers Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lovers to enemies. Enemies to lovers. When Hadley walks into the casino with a pile of chips, a smirk on her beautiful lips, and a swivel to those perfectly curved hips, I start questioning if I've been playing my hand all wrong. She almost walks out with a cool million. One woman, able to swindle the whole mafia. She's too cool for this world. I can't let her walk out of my life anymore than my boss will let the money leave the casino. A night of wild passion awakens me to what I've been missing in my life. They don't call me Dom for nothing. But we're playing on two different sides of the table, and the way she glares daggers my way is irresistible. For the last ten years, I've been living under the Mafia's thumb. Smart enough to catch a cheat, and ruthless enough to bloody some knuckles, my way to being a made man is almost certain. Except, in the Mafia, nothing is certain until it's a done deal. And when I find out she's the next target to disappear? All bets are off. She's going to be mine. I dare them to try to stop me. Betting on Love is a standalone romantic suspense with lots of steam, and a very hot Alpha Dom. Who doesn't love a lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers romance? No cheating, no cliffies. Search Terms: romantic suspense, mafia romance, alpha male romance, bad boy romance, alpha male, dark romance, bdsm romance, antihero romance, enemies to lovers romance, forbidden romance

Download or read book Her Road Home written by Laura Drake and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No white picket fences for her! It's not in Samantha Crozier's DNA to ignore the call of the open road. The wind in her hair and the pavement beneath her bike are all Sam needs. Until she crashes into Widow's Grove and the arms of Nick Pinelli, that is. Nick is gorgeous, and pure temptation-temptation Sam is determined to avoid. But with her motorcycle totaled, she's here for a while. So she comes up with a plan to renovate an abandoned house. Once that's done, she's gone. However, the plan quickly backfires. She can't find any resistance to Nick's charm. Worse, for the first time, the house she's working on is beginning to feel like a home. Her home. And she knows that's all because of Nick.

Download or read book Sand Talk written by Tyson Yunkaporta and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability—and offers a new template for living. As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied to the natural and spiritual world. In considering how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation, he raises important questions. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently? In this thoughtful, culturally rich, mind-expanding book, he provides answers. Yunkaporta’s writing process begins with images. Honoring indigenous traditions, he makes carvings of what he wants to say, channeling his thoughts through symbols and diagrams rather than words. He yarns with people, looking for ways to connect images and stories with place and relationship to create a coherent world view, and he uses sand talk, the Aboriginal custom of drawing images on the ground to convey knowledge. In Sand Talk, he provides a new model for our everyday lives. Rich in ideas and inspiration, it explains how lines and symbols and shapes can help us make sense of the world. It’s about how we learn and how we remember. It’s about talking to everyone and listening carefully. It’s about finding different ways to look at things. Most of all it’s about a very special way of thinking, of learning to see from a native perspective, one that is spiritually and physically tied to the earth around us, and how it can save our world. Sand Talk include 22 black-and-white illustrations that add depth to the text.

Download or read book The Lantern written by Callie McFarlane and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite that we all experience and have to live with the effects of unfairness and injustice as well as random incidents, the difference in outcome can be startling if consistently impelled by one indestructible force: love. It is through love that all of us as “ordinary people” can accomplish “extraordinary things.” The Lantern focuses on some representational lives of women throughout some of the eras of humankind’s past, rooted in historical record. These ordinary women (and many more like them who remain unheralded) accomplished extraordinary things in their lives. I celebrate them! Love never dies. We die. What survives of us is love: the love that emboldens us to choose, respond, and act, making the ordinary into the extraordinary in thought, word, and deed. Love is a lantern casting its light into the dark corners of our existence. With each act of love, the lantern burns brighter and brighter; and the lantern burns bright; and the lantern burns . . . with the unfolding of time into forever.