Download or read book Commonsense Handicapping written by Dick Mitchell and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Self Handicapping written by Raymond L. Higgins and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of self-handicapping can be legitimately anchored in a vari ety of intellectual contexts, some old and some newer. As this volume reminds us, Alfred Adler was perhaps the first to articulate the signifi cance of various self-defeating claims and gestures for protecting the self concept. Thus the apparent paradox of "defeat" in the interests of "pro tection. " More recently (but still more than 30 years ago), Heider's "naive psychology" added attributional rhetoric to the description of self-defeat ing strategies. While predominantly cognitive in its thrust, the attribu tional approach incorporated several motivational influences-especially those involving egocentric concerns. Heider hardly violated our common sense when he suggested that people are inclined to attribute their performances in a self-serving manner: the good things I caused; the bad things were forced upon me. The notion of self-handicapping strategies, proposed by Berglas and myself a little more than a decade ago, capitalized on these homely truths while adding a particular proactive twist. We not only make ex cuses for our blunders; we plan our engagements and our situational choices so that self-protective excuses are unnecessary. In doing so, we use our attributional understanding to arrange things so that flawed and failing performances will not be interpreted in ways that threaten our self-esteem.

Download or read book Commonsense Betting written by Dick Mitchell and published by William Morrow & Company. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a strategy for successful horse race wagering that is based on choosing good horses, making intelligent bets, and keeping accurate records

Download or read book Handicapping 101 written by Brad Free and published by Daily Racing Form Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics is an annual forum for new work in normative ethical theory. Leading philosophers present original contributions to our understanding of a wide range of moral issues and positions, from analysis of competing approaches to normative ethics (including moral realism, constructivism, and expressivism) to questions of how we should act and live well. OSNE will be an essential resource for scholars and students working in moral philosophy.

Download or read book Horseplayers written by Ted McClelland and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fun and witty exposé of horse racing in America goes behind the scenes at the track, providing a serious gambler's-eye view of the action. Ted McClelland spent a year at tracks and off-track betting facilities in Chicago and across the country, profiling the people who make a career of gambling on horses. This account follows his personal journey of what it means to be a horseplayer as he gambles with his book advance using various betting and handicapping strategies along the way. A colourful cast of characters is introduced, including the intensely disciplined Scott McMannis, "The Professor," a one-time college instructor who now teaches a course in handicapping, and Mary Schoenfeldt, a former nun and gifted handicapper who donates all of her winnings to charity. This moving account of wins, losses, and personal turmoil provides a realistic look at gamblers, gambling, and life at the track.

Download or read book A Handicapper s Guide to the Kentucky Derby written by Liam Durbin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-01-21 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handicapping reference guide for the Kentucky Derby, by Liam Durbin, public handicapper for the Chicago Tribune and LA Times

Download or read book Common Sense written by Lisa Holderman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology examines the constructions of intelligence and intellectuality in popular television and the socio-cultural implications of those constructions. It considers the complexity of popular television images, the influences of these images as they both verify and vilify intelligence, and explores a range of representations of intelligence on television by looking at a variety of TV genres and through a variety of theoretical perspectives and methods. Topics range from broad explorations of patterned representations on television to examinations of particular genres, including science-fiction and reality programming, to in-depth analyses of specific programs such as The Simpsons, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Six Feet Under. This book is grounded in the assumption that knowledge and intelligence are currency in the economics of power and that, given that the proliferation of certain images and the relative absence of others in fictional, reality, and fact-based media play an important role in social-order maintenance, a critical examination of how intelligence is demonstrated, portrayed, and evaluated in the public sphere is crucial.

Download or read book Winning Thoroughbred Strategies written by Dick Mitchell and published by William Morrow & Company. This book was released on 1989 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing winning strategies for the horse player as an investor, Mitchell's book demonstrates why money management is a needed accessory at the track and on Wall Street.

Download or read book Investing at the Racetrack written by William L. Scott and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1986-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Overlay Overlay written by Bill Heller and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heller shows a bottom line mentality: he wants you to be a better handicapper than you now are, regardless of your level of betting sophistication.

Download or read book Extreme Pace Handicapping If You Doodle They Will Come written by Randy Giles and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best payoffs I've had at the track were generated by extreme pace aberrations. Those nice payoffs didn't come from pedestrians. I'm talking about thieves and carpetbaggers, opportunists who were ordinary but found themselves in extraordinary situations - the right place, the right time. When I started playing the extreme pace way, it made such a difference that I dedicated my handicapping life to it. Extreme Pace Handicapping will show you what made the difference and why. It's simple, really. I like to call it pace picture doodling. If you doodle it, they will come: The Thief, The Clever Thief, The Loner, and the Carpetbagger. Includes one FREE month of the PACEAPPRAISER PPs. Here's how: Buy the book. Go to the author's website (see About the Author at the end of the book for website address). Send a copy of your Amazon receipt along with your first and last name. You will receive your login information by return email.

Download or read book The Inside Track written by Alan Potts and published by Aesculus Press Ltd. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inside Track describes the methods Alan used to generate over $50,000 profit from his betting during 1997. The author has studied many American texts and explains how he has mixed their ideas with his own 30 years experience of British racing and betting. There are no systems, no rules and no guarantees in this book, yet anybody who likes to bet on horse racing is sure to find material here that will challenge accepted beliefs and persuade them to think in new ways about their betting. In his first book, Alan explained that to make a living it was necessary to bet Against The Crowd. This book expands on that and takes the reader inside the mind of one of the most successful professional punters operating in the country. There are separate sections covering Flat racing and Jumping, and also detailed discussions of All-weather racing and the growing world of spread betting.

Download or read book Exploring Pedigree written by Mike Helm and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This best selling title giveshorseplayers the tools to intelligently evaluatedebut runners in maiden races, as well as younghorses stretching out, switching to the turf ortrying an off- track for the first time. Over 50races are analyzed in such a way that thepedigree factor is integrated with speed andpace analysis, trainer angles and toteboardaction. Praised by Tom Ainslie, Mark Cramer,Howard Sarton, Dave Litfin and many others asthe definitive text on pedigree handicapping.

Download or read book The Handicap Principle written by Amotz Zahavi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Darwin, animal behavior has intrigued and perplexed human observers. The elaborate mating rituals, lavish decorative displays, complex songs, calls, dances and many other forms of animal signaling raise fascinating questions. To what degree can animals communicate within their own species and even between species? What evolutionary purpose do such communications serve? Perhaps most importantly, what can animal signaling tell us about our own non-verbal forms of communication? In The Handicap Principle, Amotz and Ashivag Zahavi offer a unifying theory that brilliantly explains many previously baffling aspects of animal signaling and holds up a mirror in which ordinary human behaviors take on surprising new significance. The wide-ranging implications of the Zahavis' new theory make it arguably the most important advance in animal behavior in decades. Based on 20 years of painstaking observation, the Handicap Principle illuminates an astonishing variety of signaling behaviors in animals ranging from ants and ameba to peacocks and gazelles. Essentially, the theory asserts that for animal signals to be effective they must be reliable, and to be reliable they must impose a cost, or handicap, on the signaler. When a gazelle sights a wolf, for instance, and jumps high into the air several times before fleeing, it is signaling, in a reliable way, that it is in tip-top condition, easily able to outrun the wolf. (A human parallel occurs in children's games of tag, where faster children will often taunt their pursuer before running). By momentarily handicapping itself--expending precious time and energy in this display--the gazelle underscores the truthfulness of its signal. Such signaling, the authors suggest, serves the interests of both predator and prey, sparing each the exhaustion of a pointless chase. Similarly, the enormous cost a peacock incurs by carrying its elaborate and weighty tail-feathers, which interfere with food gathering, reliably communicates its value as a mate able to provide for its offspring. Perhaps the book's most important application of the Handicap Principle is to the evolutionary enigma of animal altruism. The authors convincingly demonstrate that when an animal acts altruistically, it handicaps itself--assumes a risk or endures a sacrifice--not primarily to benefit its kin or social group but to increase its own prestige within the group and thus signal its status as a partner or rival. Finally, the Zahavis' show how many forms of non-verbal communication among humans can also be explained by the Handicap Principle. Indeed, the authors suggest that non-verbal signals--tones of voice, facial expressions, body postures--are quite often more reliable indicators of our intentions than is language. Elegantly written, exhaustively researched, and consistently enlivened by equal measures of insight and example, The Handicap Principle illuminates virtually every kind of animal communication. It not only allows us to hear what animals are saying to each other--and to understand why they are saying it--but also to see the enormously important role non-verbal behavior plays in human communication.

Download or read book Efficiency of Racetrack Betting Markets written by Donald B. Hausch and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2008 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprint of one of the classic volumes on racetrack efficiency, this book is the only one in its field that deals with the racetrack betting market in-depth, containing all the important historical papers on racetrack efficiency. As evidenced by the collection of articles, the understanding of racetrack betting is clearly drawn from, and has correspondingly returned something to, all the fields of psychology, economics, finance, statistics, mathematics and management science.

Download or read book Trainer Angles written by Dean Keppler and published by Daily Racing Form. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trainer Angles: Maximizing Profits using Formulator and Advanced Trainer Stats is an indispensable guide to finding profitable trainer maneuvers. The reader learns how to decipher what trainer patterns produce the most profits by analyzing trainer/jockey combinations, success after claiming a horse, distance and surface changes, first time starters, and movements up and down class.

Download or read book Ducy written by David Sklansky and published by Two Plus Two Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author "has helped hundreds of thousands of gamblers to make better decisions. His ideas can also improve your decisions about much more important issues such as choosing a career, running a business, supervising subordinates, making major purchases, investing your money, and educating your children"--Page 1