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Gambling has been a practice central to many cultures throughout history. In Dice, Cards, Wheels, Thomas M. Kavanagh scrutinizes the changing face of the gambler in France over a period of eight centuries, using gambling and its representations in literature as a lens through which to observe French culture. Kavanagh argues that the way people gamble tells us something otherwise unrecognized about the values, conflicts, and cultures that define a period or class. To gamble is to enter a world traced out by the rules and protocols of the game the gambler plays. That world may be an alternative to the established order, but the shape and structure of the game reveal indirectly hidden tensions, fears, and prohibitions. Drawing on literature from the Middle Ages to the present, Kavanagh reconstructs the figure of the gambler and his evolving personae. He examines, among other examples, Bodel's dicing in a twelfth-century tavern for the conversion of the Muslim world; Pascal's post-Reformation redefinition of salvation as the gambler's prize; the aristocratic libertine's celebration of the bluff; and Balzac's, Barbey d'Aurevilly's, and Bourget's nineteenth-century revisions of the gambler. Dice, Cards, Wheels embraces the tremendous breadth of French history and emerges as a broad-ranging study of the different forms of gambling, from the dice games of the Middle Ages to the digital slot machines of the twenty-first century, and what those games tell us about French culture and history.
Sociology of literature --- French literature --- History of France --- Gambling in literature. --- Gambling --- History. --- Betting --- Chance, Games of --- Games of chance --- Gaming (Gambling) --- Games --- Casinos --- Wagers --- Cultural Studies. --- Literature.
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Compulsive Behavior --- Gambling --- Jeux de hasard --- Periodicals. --- Psychological aspects --- Aspect psychologique --- Périodiques --- Compulsive Behavior. --- Gambling. --- Joueurs (Jeux de hasard) --- Attitudes --- Psychological aspects. --- Gambling, Pathologic --- Gambling, Pathological --- Pathological Gambling --- Gamblings --- Gamblings, Pathological --- Pathological Gamblings --- Behavior, Compulsive --- Behaviors, Compulsive --- Compulsive Behaviors --- Betting --- Chance, Games of --- Games of chance --- Gaming (Gambling) --- Games --- Casinos --- Wagers
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Why do so many gamblers risk it all when they know the odds of winning are against them? Why do they believe dice are ""hot"" in a winning streak? Why do we expect heads on a coin toss after several flips have turned up tails? What's Luck Got to Do with It? takes a lively and eye-opening look at the mathematics, history, and psychology of gambling to reveal the most widely held misconceptions about luck. It exposes the hazards of feeling lucky, and uses the mathematics of predictable outcomes to show when our chances of winning are actually good. Mathematician Joseph Mazur tra
Gambling --- Chance --- Games of chance (Mathematics) --- Gambling problem (Mathematics) --- Game theory --- Betting --- Chance, Games of --- Games of chance --- Gaming (Gambling) --- Games --- Casinos --- Wagers --- Fortune --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Probabilities --- Social aspects. --- Psychological aspects. --- Social problems --- Operational research. Game theory
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History of civilization --- anno 1700-1799 --- Gambling --- Gambling in literature --- History --- Social aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects --- -Gambling --- -Betting --- Chance, Games of --- Games of chance --- Gaming (Gambling) --- Games --- Casinos --- Wagers --- -History --- -Moral and ethical aspects --- -Social aspects --- -History of civilization --- Betting --- Hazardspel. Ethiek. Frankrijk. 1685-1792. --- Jeu. France. 1685-1792. --- Jeu. Ethique. France. 1685-1792. --- Hazardspel. Frankrijk. 1685-1792. --- Gambling - Social aspects - France - History - 17th century --- Gambling - Moral and ethical aspects - France - History - 17th century --- Gambling - Social aspects - France - History - 18th century --- Gambling - Moral and ethical aspects - France - History - 18th century
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Gambling --- Betting --- Chance, Games of --- Games of chance --- Gaming (Gambling) --- Games --- Casinos --- Wagers --- History --- Social aspects&delete& --- World history --- History of civilization --- Social aspects
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Le présent ouvrage a pour objet de synthétiser les points de vue des représentants des différents acteurs impliqués pour tenter de développer, ensemble, une approche cohérente dans la lutte contre les jeux de hasard illicites.
Criminal law. Criminal procedure --- Belgium --- Internet gambling --- Gambling --- Jeux de hasard sur internet --- Jeux de hasard --- Law and legislation --- Droit --- E-books
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Criminal law. Criminal procedure --- European Union --- Europe 1992 --- Gambling --- Lotteries --- Law and legislation --- Europe 1992. --- -Lotteries --- -Gambling --- -Betting --- Chance, Games of --- Games of chance --- Gaming (Gambling) --- Games --- Casinos --- Wagers --- -Law and legislation --- -Europe 1992 --- Gambling - Law and legislation - European Economic Community countries. --- Lotteries - Law and legislation - European Economic Community countries.
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In November 2005 Tilburg University hosted for the first time an international Colloquium on the European and National Perspectives of the Regulation of Gambling . The results of this exciting day are reflected in this book which brings together a wide range of perspectives from the contemporary debate surrounding the regulation of gambling markets within the context of the European Union. Not only does the book encompass both ends of the spectrum of the current discussion; it also brings together the perspectives of academics, lawyers and operators. The debate on the regulation of gambling has been gathering pace following a series of judgments of the ECJ. In 2006 gambling was excluded from the proposed Services Directive, and the European Commission commenced infringement proceedings against a handful of Member States regarding restrictions on the supply of sports betting services. Given these developments and being one of the very few publications concerned with this topic, this book will serve as a timely and valuable contribution for all those interested in this emerging and at times decisive debate.
Economic law --- Tax law --- European Union --- Gambling --- Jeux de hasard --- Government policy --- Law and legislation --- Politique gouvernementale --- Droit --- 351.762 --- Kansspelenrecht --- 351.762 Kansspelenrecht --- Betting --- Chance, Games of --- Games of chance --- Gaming (Gambling) --- Games --- Casinos --- Wagers --- Gambling - Government policy - European Union countries --- Gambling - Law and legislation - European Union countries
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Social problems --- Gambling --- Compulsive Behavior. --- Gambling. --- Joueurs (Jeux de hasard) --- Jeux de hasard --- Psychological aspects --- Attitudes --- Psychological aspects. --- Health Sciences --- Law --- Social Sciences --- Clinical Medicine --- Crime, Criminology and Law Enforcement --- General and Others
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Sociology of leisure --- General ethics --- Sociology of culture --- Gambling --- -Gamblers --- -174.6 --- Betting --- Chance, Games of --- Games of chance --- Gaming (Gambling) --- Games --- Casinos --- Wagers --- Social aspects --- -Psychology --- Gamblers --- Psychology. --- 174.6 --- Psychology
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