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Dice, cards, wheels : a different history of French culture
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ISBN: 0812238605 0812202457 Year: 2005 Publisher: Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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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.


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Journal of gambling studies.
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ISSN: 15733602 10505350 Year: 1990 Publisher: New York, U.S.A. : [New York] : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Springer US


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What's luck got to do with it?
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ISBN: 1282607499 9786612607493 1400834457 9781400834457 0691138907 9780691138909 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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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


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La roue de la fortune : les jeux de hasard de l'Antiquité à nos jours
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ISBN: 2262007322 9782262007324 Year: 1991 Publisher: Paris Perrin

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La lutte contre les paris illicites en ligne
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ISBN: 9782807932500 Year: 2022 Publisher: Bruxelles : Larcier,

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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.


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Gambling in the single market : a study of the current legal and market situation
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ISBN: 928262899X 9282629007 9282629015 9789282628997 9789282629000 9789282629017 Year: 1991 Volume: vol *456

The regulation of gambling : European and national perspectives
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ISBN: 9004154590 9789004154599 9786611457730 1281457736 9047411331 9789047411338 Year: 2007 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff,

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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.


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Journal of gambling studies.
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ISSN: 10505350 15733602 Year: 1990 Publisher: New York, U.S.A. : [New York] : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Springer US


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Gokkende mensen : een sociaal-wetenschappelijke monografie
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ISBN: 900151250X Year: 1988 Publisher: 's-Gravenhage Wolters-Noordhoff

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