Download or read book Is the Girl Worth the Gamble written by James Howell Street and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Easy Way to Stop Gambling written by Allen Carr and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: READ THIS BOOK AND BECOME A HAPPY NONGAMBLER FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE Allen Carr's Easyway is a global phenomenon. It has helped millions of smokers from all over the world, and has also been successfully applied to a wide range of other issues, including drinking, overeating, and overspending. Here the method addresses the fastest growing social problem of modern times: gambling. Allen Carr explains how gamblers fall into the trap and why they keep gambling despite knowing that it's ruining their lives. By explaining the nature of the trap, he removes the desire to gamble and the fears that keep you hooked. Most important of all, you will not feel that you've made a sacrifice, you will not miss gambling, and you will enjoy life to the full without feeling in any way deprived. What people say about Allen Carr's Easyway method: "The Allen Carr program was nothing short of a miracle." Anjelica Huston "It was such a revelation that instantly I was freed from my addiction." Sir Anthony Hopkins "His skill is in removing the psychological dependence." The Sunday Times
Download or read book The World According to Fannie Davis written by Bridgett M. Davis and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen on the Today Show: This true story of an unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and their life in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s and 1970s highlights "the outstanding humanity of black America" (James McBride). In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee, borrowed $100 from her brother to run a numbers racket out of her home. That woman was Fannie Davis, Bridgett M. Davis's mother. Part bookie, part banker, mother, wife, and granddaughter of slaves, Fannie ran her numbers business for thirty-four years, doing what it took to survive in a legitimate business that just happened to be illegal. She created a loving, joyful home, sent her children to the best schools, bought them the best clothes, mothered them to the highest standard, and when the tragedy of urban life struck, soldiered on with her stated belief: "Dying is easy. Living takes guts." A daughter's moving homage to an extraordinary parent, The World According to Fannie Davis is also the suspenseful, unforgettable story about the lengths to which a mother will go to "make a way out of no way" and provide a prosperous life for her family -- and how those sacrifices resonate over time.
Download or read book The Gamble written by Travis Garrison and published by Sudden Change Media. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a book about basketball or sports in general. It is a book about life. Basketball, and other sports provide a lot of good life lessons, but there is a difference between a game that is part of life and life itself. When I made a mistake in a game, I was always able to go back and reflect on what I did wrong, I had video to look at so I could see exactly what happened, what my opponent did, what I did and what I could have done better and hopefully will do better the next time I am faced with a similar situation. Unfortunately, in life, we make decisions that can affect our lives and the lives of other people forever. There is no going back to correct our mistakes, but there is plenty of video replay on social media, in the memories of those we hurt and in our own minds as we try to figure out what went wrong and answer the question: NOW WHAT?There is a lot about basketball in this book, but that is because basketball is how I made a living for most of my adult life. The real subject of this book, however, is how to recover from and avoid making bad decisions, decisions that hurt the people you love and hurt you, your relationships with others and with God. It is a book about love and mercy, but it is also about a very hard and painful journey, my journey and how I finally learned to stop being selfish and to THINK FIRST before making decisions. I hope it will help you learn to THINK FIRST also before you do as much damage to yourself and others as I have done. But it is also a book about hope, because as long as you are breathing, God has a purpose for you in this life.In the end, every decision is a gamble. The question is whether it is a good risk or a bad risk, whether the reward is worth risking the consequences of losing. Going all-in for God, for others, for a noble cause is worth the risk, but how do you know and how do you recover from the times you foolishly and selfishly gambled and lost? That too is why I wrote this book. Whether you have a son or daughter that is a big-time athlete, or you are that athlete yourself, or maybe you are not an athlete at all, but your life is on the edge or already over the edge and you feel hopeless, either way, this book is for you. You are also going to read a lot about being on a journey. Let me be clear. This journey is not a vacation. My own journey has been filled with pain. One reason for writing this book is to spare others some of the pain I have experienced, to encourage people to THINK FIRST before making decisions, to learn the difference between a gamble that is worth it and a gamble that is foolish. But no one can avoid some pain in this journey of life. Some people might judge me, might not like me because of what they have read about me, but this book is not about ME. It is about who I can help by honestly sharing my ups and downs. To do anything less than be totally honest is to be selfish.
Download or read book A Gamble Worth Taking written by Wendy Stone and published by Phaze Books. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced into betrothal to relieve a gambling debt, beautiful Lara is reluctant to fall for Matthew Trent's charms. But as she succumbs to passion, darker otherworldly forces threaten their future. Is it worth risk to anger restless spirits?
Download or read book The Smart Money written by Michael Konik and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting inside look at the lucrative world of professional high-stakes sports betting by a journalist who lived a secret life as a key operative in the world's most successful sports gambling ring. When journalist Michael Konik landed an interview with Rick "Big Daddy" Matthews, the largest bet he'd placed on a sporting event was $200. Konik, an expert blackjack and poker player, was no stranger to Vegas. But Matthews was in a different league: the man was rumored to be the world's smartest sports bettor, the mastermind behind "the Brain Trust," a shadowy group of gamblers known for their expertise in beating the Vegas line. Konik had heard the word on the street -- that Matthews was a snake, a conniver who would do anything to gain an edge. But he was also brilliant, cunning, and charming. And when he asked Konik if he'd like to "make a little money" during the football season, the writer found himself seduced . . . So began Michael Konik's wild ride as an operative of the elite Brain Trust. In The Smart Money, Konik takes readers behind the veil of secrecy shrouding the most successful sports betting operation in America, bypassing the myths and the rumors, going all the way to its innermost sanctum. He reveals how they -- and he -- got rich by beating the Vegas lines and, ultimately, the multimillion-dollar offshore betting circuit. He details the excesses and the betrayals, the horse-trading and the paranoia, that are the perks and perils of a lifestyle in which staking inordinate sums of money on the outcome of a single event -- sometimes as much as $1 million on a football game -- is a normal part of doing business.
Download or read book Introduction to Statistics and Econometrics written by Takeshi Amemiya and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comic Amy Schumer performs a stand-up set in San Francisco devoted to various aspects of her sex life and her feelings about her own body. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
Download or read book Collective Action written by Russell Hardin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public choice, an important subdiscipline in the field of political theory, seeks to understand how people and societies make decisions affecting their collective lives. Relying heavily on theoretical models of decision making, public choice postulates that people act in their individual interests in making collective decisions. As it happens, however, reality does not mirror theory, and people often act contrary to what the principal public choice models suggest. In this book, Russell Hardin looks beyond the models to find out why people choose to act together in situations that the models find quite hopeless. He uses three constructs of modern political economy--public goods, the Prisoner's Dilemma, and game theory--to test public choice theories against real world examples of collective action. These include movements important in American society in the past few decades--civil rights, the Vietnam War, women's rights, and environmental concerns. This classic work on public choice will be of interest to theoreticians and graduate students in the fields of public choice, political economy, or political theory--and to those in other disciplines who are concerned with the problem of collective action in social contexts.
Download or read book Geoengineering written by Gernot Wagner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-09-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stabilizing the world’s climates means cutting carbon dioxide pollution. There’s no way around it. But what if that’s not enough? What if it’s too difficult to accomplish in the time allotted or, worse, what if it’s so late in the game that even cutting carbon emissions to zero, tomorrow, wouldn’t do? Enter solar geoengineering. The principle is simple: attempt to cool Earth by reflecting more sunlight back into space. The primary mechanism, shooting particles into the upper atmosphere, implies more pollution, not less. If that doesn’t sound scary, it should. There are lots of risks, unknowns, and unknowables. In Geoengineering: The Gamble, climate economist Gernot Wagner provides a balanced take on the possible benefits and all-too-real risks, especially the so-called “moral hazard” that researching or even just discussing (solar) geoengineering would undermine the push to cut carbon emissions in the first place. Despite those risks, he argues, solar geoengineering may only be a matter of time. Not if, but when. As the founding executive director of Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program, Wagner explores scenarios of a geoengineered future, offering an inside-view of the research already under way and the actions the world must take to guide it in a productive direction.
Download or read book Accounting written by Paul D. Kimmel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 1472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this fourth edition, accountants will acquire a practical set of tools and the confidence they need to use them effectively in making business decisions. It better reflects a more conceptual and decision-making approach to the material. The authors follow a "macro- to micro-" strategy by starting with a discussion of real financial statements first, rather than starting with the Accounting Cycle. The objective is to establish how a financial statement communicates the financing, investing, and operating activities of a business to users of accounting information. This motivates accountants by grounding the discussion in the real world, showing them the relevance of the topics covered to their careers.
Download or read book The Gamble written by Xavier Neal and published by Xavier Neal. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author Xavier Neal comes a Friends-to-Lovers standalone romance with a wicked twist... 3 friends. 2 players. 1 bet. When Luca Larson makes an expensive wager, guaranteeing the bedding of his only real female friend, he's expecting the situation to go as smoothly as sleeping with any other woman would. It doesn't take long before he realizes his usual plays won't work. She knows them too well. She knows him too well. If Luca wants to win, he'll have to do things he's never done before. Friendships will be challenged. Hearts will be broken. Lives will be inevitably changed. But one question will remain. Was it all worth the gamble?
Download or read book Introduction to Probability written by John E. Freund and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featured topics include permutations and factorials, probabilities and odds, frequency interpretation, mathematical expectation, decision making, postulates of probability, rule of elimination, much more. Exercises with some solutions. Summary. 1973 edition.
Download or read book Gus Hornsby s Gamble written by Larry LaTourette and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1870s, Gus Hornsby spread the game of American football around the world like an evangelist and helped establish it in the U.S. heartland. Hornsby seemed destined for greatness as a journalist, inventor, explorer and entrepreneur. His arrogance, greed and an intractable gambling addiction, however, drove him to criminality and cast him into obscurity. But this public ruin led to his greatest accomplishment in prison: personal redemption. Surprisingly, Hornsby's meteoric rise and fall intersected with towering influencers of the time, including the women and men who would pioneer the "first-wave" feminist movement in the United States. This book explores their unexpected connections and interweaves their stories--along with details of the first American football game in the Midwest--to reveal elements of a pivotal moment in American history, both in feminism and sports. More than a biography of a person, it is a story about America--brash, imaginative and seemingly limitless in resources and creativity, but overly self-assured and wildly reckless.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1981-06-15 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Download or read book CIO written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Gamble Worth Taking written by and published by Phaze Books. This book was released on with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financial Trading and Investing written by John L. Teall and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references and index.
