You bet your life :: the burdens of gambling /

We are a nation of gamblers: pari-mutuel wagering at horse tracks; blackjack in Las Vegas; the NCAA basketball office pool; even day trading on the internet. Gambling is both our national pastime and our predominant cultural metaphor -- play the field; beat the odds; take a chance on love. Yet gambl...

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1. Verfasser: Isaacs, Neil D., 1931-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, ©2001.
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Zusammenfassung:We are a nation of gamblers: pari-mutuel wagering at horse tracks; blackjack in Las Vegas; the NCAA basketball office pool; even day trading on the internet. Gambling is both our national pastime and our predominant cultural metaphor -- play the field; beat the odds; take a chance on love. Yet gambling poses serious risks to individuals and to society as a whole. Neil Isaacs -- sports historian, licensed clinical social worker, English professor, and a gambler himself for more than fifty years -- seeks to shatter the myths interfering with our understanding of gambling addiction, its causes, an.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (274 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-267) index.
ISBN:0813170982
9780813170985
9780813157771
0813157773

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