Chopsticks And Gambling

Author : Desmond Lam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351528573

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Chopsticks and Gambling by Desmond Lam Pdf

The Chinese are known throughout the world as avid gamblers with a long history of participation in games of chance. Historians have documented wagering on such games as far back as the early Chinese dynasties. Despite measures by ancient Chinese rulers to contain gambling, it proliferated, and Chinese games have evolved and multiplied since then. Desmond Lam provides a unique look into the little-known world of Chinese gambling from historical, cultural, psychological, and social perspectives.Chinese gamblers regularly patronize casinos in the United States, Canada, and Australia. The recent expansion of gambling in East Asia has attracted much global media attention. Macau, the only place in China where casino gambling is now legal, easily surpasses Las Vegas as the world's largest casino gaming market. Each year, Chinese from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan account for almost 90 percent of visitors to Macau.The expansion of the Chinese gambling industry has brought about much harm to Chinese communities, despite all of the development it has also stimulated. This book is the first to examine the beliefs, motivations, attitudes, and behaviors of Chinese gamblers, and will be of interest to students of history and sociology, as well as those studying the history and culture of China.

Author : Andreas Heinz,Nina Romanczuk-Seiferth,Marc N. Potenza
Publisher : Springer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030030605

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Gambling Disorder by Andreas Heinz,Nina Romanczuk-Seiferth,Marc N. Potenza Pdf

This book provides an overview of the state of the art in research on and treatment of gambling disorder. As a behavioral addiction, gambling disorder is of increasing relevance to the field of mental health. Research conducted in the last decade has yielded valuable new insights into the characteristics and etiology of gambling disorder, as well as effective treatment strategies. The different chapters of this book present detailed information on the general concept of addiction as applied to gambling, the clinical characteristics, epidemiology and comorbidities of gambling disorder, as well as typical cognitive distortions found in patients with gambling disorder. In addition, the book includes chapters discussing animal models and the genetic and neurobiological underpinnings of the disorder. Further, it is examining treatment options including pharmacological and psychological intervention methods, as well as innovative new treatment approaches. The book also discusses relevant similarities to and differences with substance-related disorders and other behavioral addictions. Lastly, it examines gambling behavior from a cultural perspective, considers possible prevention strategies and outlines future perspectives in the field.

Author : Chi Chuen Chan,William Wai Lim Li,Amy Sau Lam Chiu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789811334863

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The Psychology of Chinese Gambling by Chi Chuen Chan,William Wai Lim Li,Amy Sau Lam Chiu Pdf

This book critically discusses the psychology of Chinese gambling from a cultural perspective. In particular, it investigates the history of gambling, the prevalence of gambling in China, and the personality of Chinese gamblers and explores how the Chinese culture has contributed to the development of gambling and gambling problems. Further, it examines specific evidence-based treatment for Chinese problem gamblers and provides a therapeutic model that is tailored to their needs and psychology. This book useful for students and academics conducting research on Chinese gamblers and the treatments that work for them.

Author : Pekka Sulkunen,Thomas F. Babor,Jenny Cisneros Ornberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780198817321

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Setting Limits by Pekka Sulkunen,Thomas F. Babor,Jenny Cisneros Ornberg Pdf

Commercial gambling is a recent historical phenomenon. It has developed into a profitable industry that supplies a range of recreational activities to its customers, and is a significant way of collecting money from players to distribute to companies, state budgets, and other beneficiaries. Many of these are civil society organizations, using the money for producing services in sports, culture, social work, and health care. However, gambling can also develop into pathological behaviour. Using a public interest framework, this book discusses the policies that will best serve the public good and minimize individual and collective harms. After describing the historical context of the gambling and the current global burden of the activity, available methods of regulating the industry are evaluated using the available scientific evidence. By analysing the effectiveness of gambling policies and their alignment with the public interest, the epidemiological obstacles to successful regulation are considered in detail. There is good evidence for the effectiveness of restrictions on availability and access, but preventing gambling-related harm is not possible without limiting the overall volume of the activity, and hence the profits for the gambling industry and governments. Taking an international approach, this book delivers a comprehensive review of the epidemiological evidence documenting the harmful effects of gambling on individuals, communities, and societies. Essential reading for policymakers, social and behavioural scientists in gambling research, and public health researchers, Setting Limits examines a global view of an emerging epidemic of gambling problems.

Author : Harold L. Vogel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Business enterprises
ISBN : 9783030633516

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Travel Industry Economics by Harold L. Vogel Pdf

"In this book Harold L. Vogel comprehensively and holistically examines the business economics and investment aspects of major components of the travel industry, including airlines, hotels, casinos, amusement and theme parks, cruise lines, and tourism. The book is designed as an economics-grounded text that uniquely integrates reviews of each sector's history with economics, accounting, and financial aspects and analysis. As such, it provides a concise, up-to-date reference guide for financial analysts, economists, industry executives, legislators and regulators, advertisers, and journalists interested in the economics, financing, and marketing of travel and tourism-related goods and services. The fourth edition of this well-established text updates, refreshes, and significantly broadens the coverage of tourism economics. It includes new sections on travel law and applications of big data and artificial intelligence technologies as well as additional material on demographic spending patterns, the online travel agency business, the pandemic's effects and affects on industry finances, expanded coverage of the cruise line industry, and information on the damage to tourist destinations caused by excessive pollution and traffic."--

Author : Desmond Lam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Gambling
ISBN : 0987329006

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The World of Chinese Gambling by Desmond Lam Pdf

Author : Chi Chuen Chan,William Wai Lim Li,Eugene Chung Ip Leung
Publisher : Springer
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789811010682

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Problem Gambling in Hong Kong and Macao by Chi Chuen Chan,William Wai Lim Li,Eugene Chung Ip Leung Pdf

This book critically examines the psychology of gambling in Hong Kong and Macao. Covering the history of gambling and its development in the two jurisdictions, it highlights the prevalence and status quo of problem gambling, the theoretical perspectives on the etiology of gambling disorder, and the treatment of problem gambling. The book also introduces a personality and pathways development model of Chinese problem gamblers and concludes with outlooks on the future of gambling in Hong Kong and Macao.

Author : David T. Courtwright
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674737372

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The Age of Addiction by David T. Courtwright Pdf

We live in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and shopping to binge eating and opioid abuse. What can we do to resist temptations that insidiously and deliberately rewire our brains? Nothing, David Courtwright says, unless we understand the global enterprises whose “limbic capitalism” creates and caters to our bad habits.

Author : Stefan Al
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780874177084

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Macau and the Casino Complex by Stefan Al Pdf

Special Award of the Jury Winner — 2018 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards In only a decade, Macau has exploded from a sleepy backwater to the world’s casino capital. It was bound to happen. Macau, a former Portuguese colony that became a special administrative region within the People’s Republic of China in 1999, was the only place in China where gambling was legal. With a consumer base of 1.3 billion mainland Chinese deprived of casino gambling, and the world’s largest growing consumer class, international corporations rushed in to enter the games. As a result, the casino influx has permanently transformed the Macau peninsula: its ocean reclaimed, hillside excavated, roads congested, air polluted, and glimmering hotel towers tossed into the skyline, dwarfing the 19th century church towers. Essays by a number of experts give a deeper insight on topics ranging from the myth of the Chinese gambler, the role of feng shui in casino design, the city’s struggle with heritage conservation, the politics of land reclamation, and the effect of the casino industry on the public realm. Drawings and photographs in vivid color visualize Macau’s patchwork of distinct urban enclaves: from downtown casinos, their neon-blasting storefronts eclipsing adjacent homes and schools, to the palatial complexes along a new highway, a Las Vegas-style strip. They also reveal how developers go to great lengths to impress the gambler with gimmicks such as fluorescent lighting, botanic gardens, feng shui dragon statues, cast members’ costumes, Chinese art imitations, and crystal chandelier-decked elevators. It is a book that helps readers grasp the complex process of the development of the casino industry and its overall impact on the social and architectural fabric of the first and last colonial enclave in China.

Author : Tom McDonald
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781910634677

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Social Media in Rural China by Tom McDonald Pdf

China’s distinctive social media platforms have gained notable popularity among the nation’s vast number of internet users, but has China’s countryside been ‘left behind’ in this communication revolution? Tom McDonald spent 15 months living in a small rural Chinese community researching how the residents use social media in their daily lives. His ethnographic findings suggest that, far from being left behind, many rural Chinese people have already integrated social media into their everyday experience.Throughout his ground-breaking study, McDonald argues that social media allows rural people to extend and transform their social relationships by deepening already existing connections with friends known through their school, work or village, while also experimenting with completely new forms of relationships through online interactions with strangers, particularly when looking for love and romance. By juxtaposing these seemingly opposed relations, rural social media users are able to use these technologies to understand, capitalise on and challenge the notions of morality that underlie rural life.

Author : Kan DianShiChiGuaZi
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647597146

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Live Stream: Wild Upgrading by Kan DianShiChiGuaZi Pdf

If teleportation wasn't for the sake of posturing, then it would be meaningless ...If defeating a Peak Elder, peerless heaven's pride level expert would be a sin, I would already be full of evil ...If getting the Ice Goddess, the silly loli, and the sexy princess falling in love with me at first sight is my fault, I was really wrong ...If he were to kill them, he would annihilate their entire clan. If he were to pretend to be unrivalled in the world, if they were to offend him, he would make their beauty intoxicated!

Author : Edward Lumsdaine,Monika Lumsdaine
Publisher : Kharis Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1637461666

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Chopstick and Chocolate by Edward Lumsdaine,Monika Lumsdaine Pdf

This is a memoir about a marriage that bridged time, distance, and the serious cultural differences of a young biracial couple. Having met through an incredible set of circumstances - going back to their parents in the 1930s and living through the years of World War II - Edward and Monika want their children and grandchildren to know their love story, lest they forget their origins during this century's wild cultural changes. Above all, it is a story of God acting behind the happenings in their lives, as they learned to understand and trust His love, faithfulness, and the process of recovery from gambling addiction.

Author : Ajith Abraham,Aswani Kumar Cherukuri,Ana Maria Madureira,Azah Kamilah Muda
Publisher : Springer
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319606187

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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2016) by Ajith Abraham,Aswani Kumar Cherukuri,Ana Maria Madureira,Azah Kamilah Muda Pdf

This volume presents 70 carefully selected papers from a major joint event: the 8th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2016) and the 8th International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN 2016). SoCPaR–CASoN 2016, which was organized by the Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA and Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), India and held at the VIT on December 19–21, 2016. It brings together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to share their experiences and exchange new ideas on all interdisciplinary areas of soft computing and pattern recognition, as well as intelligent methods applied to social networks. This book is a valuable resource for practicing engineers/scientists and researchers working in the field of soft computing, pattern recognition and social networks.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Casinos
ISBN : CORNELL:31924108116256

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Casino City's Global Gaming Almanac by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dale Mayer
Publisher : Valley Publishing Ltd.
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781773363677

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Nabbed in the Nasturtiums by Dale Mayer Pdf

Riches to rags … Chaos might be slowing … Only a new murder occurs … Sending her off the trail again … It’s been a tough few weeks since Robin and Mathew, Doreen’s ex-lawyer and her ex-husband, slid back into her life. Okay, so maybe Robin isn’t here any longer to cause torment, but Mathew is. And he’s not planning to leave Doreen alone anytime soon, although thankfully he’s gone back home for a while. Trying to recuperate looks doubtful for Doreen, when a local gardener is kidnapped, while picking nasturtiums for dinner. The case heats up when the missing man’s niece appears on Doreen’s doorstep, looking for help, including asking Doreen to accompany her to the police station. Not at all sure what’s going on, but willing to help someone in need—particularly after having been a suspect herself—Doreen tags along, looking to do her good deed for the day. But no good deed goes unpunished, and, when Mathew calls, Doreen gets more than she bargained for, including all the usual suspects: love, jealousy, and … greed. It takes everything from her feathered and furred critter team to keep her safe, as she digs to the bottom of yet another crazy case … cozy mystery; riches to rags; clean romance; animal mystery; cat and dog; mystery; Female sleuth; back yard mystery; Mystery; Animals; Parrots; Birds; Fun; amateur sleuths; mysteries with dogs; mysteries with Cats; Clean and wholesome;