The Enlightened Gambler

Author : Marty Klein
Publisher : Marty Klein Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1627470336

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"THE ENLIGHTENED GAMBLER, The Heart and Spirit of the Risk Taker in All of us" guides the reader through the author's world of gambling, seduced by the never ending excitement in the "land of uncertainty." The book encourages readers to step past the superficial and take a more conscious view of the motivating drive in all of us to take risks. In a lighthearted, sometimes laugh-out-loud, self deprecating style, the author playfully and willingly exposes his own vulnerability to the seductive lure of gambling, but then points out ways to encourage winning attitudes, which he has developed over the years, while defusing old, toxic, loser mentality. You can find my blogs at www.theenlightenedgambler.com. "I wrote this book, first of all, to point out that everybody gambles, but most people don't call what they do gambling. Some of the risks we take in life work out and some don't. Right? Well guess what? I call those risks gambles. I also wrote this book to help you laugh out loud about all the dumb moves I made as a gambler, and maybe, just maybe, after laughing out loud at MY screw-ups, you'll sit back and take a look at your own. I say, if you want to play, you have to pay. One way or another. You either lose your stubborn defiance or you lose your shirt. So which one ya gonna choose?"

Author : James F. Cosgrave
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780415952224

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The Sociology of Risk and Gambling Reader by James F. Cosgrave Pdf

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Thomas M. Kavanagh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Chance in literature
ISBN : UOM:39076001436307

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Enlightenment and the Shadows of Chance by Thomas M. Kavanagh Pdf

While Montesquieu was praising indifference to financial gain, Louis XV regularly presided over dizzying gambling games at Versailles. While Descartes was advancing a strategy for escaping from chance by appealing to the protocols of certainty, clandestine gambling operations in Paris numbered in the hundreds. Despite efforts by the major figures of the French Enlightenment to suppress the period's fascination with chance, high-stakes gambling was an integral part of the social rituals of the most influential groups within the ancien regime. In Enlightenment and the Shadows of Chance, Thomas Kavanagh explores this important paradox to shed light on the genesis, development, and function of the eighteenth-century French novel. First considering the roles of chance and gambling in the epistemological, social, and economic histories of the period, Kavanagh shows that doctrines of chance played a denied yet operative role in important aspects of what the French Enlightenment proclaimed itself to be. He then looks at representations of chance in the novels of Prechac, Prevost, Voltaire, Denon, Crebillon, and Diderot, and shows how they tell two stories: that of a deterministic and ordered universe, and that of a world of fortuitous events determined only by chance. It was the tension and interplay between these two poles, Kavanagh argues, that contributed in an important way to the development of the Enlightenment's ideal of the rational man.

Author : Christopher Chapman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429757877

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Enlightened Planning by Christopher Chapman Pdf

Strategy, risk management and project management are often considered separately by those applying their principles—but at their most effective, all are dependent upon each other for success. Enlightened Planning teaches this holistic perspective and demonstrates how a synthesis of these approaches yields far greater opportunities. A strategic, calculated risk, for example, can be less inherently risky than chronic risk aversion over time. Here, a respected specialist and teacher demonstrates how to become an 'enlightened planner', one that is aware of project, strategy and risk concerns, and their potential interplay. Following the core principle of Keep It Simple Systematically, he shows how organised, systematic thought processes can demystify the complexities of decision-making when considering a huge variety of concerns at once. Supported throughout with real-life cases from the author’s considerable experiences with commercial organisations, it is also supported by a website containing even more cases, learning and teaching materials. This book is essential reading for any practitioner specialising in risk management, project management or strategy; as well as those teachers or participants in executive programmes.

Author : Lorraine Daston
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691248516

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Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, New Edition by Lorraine Daston Pdf

An award-winning history of the Enlightenment quest to devise a mathematical model of rationality What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Enlightenment mathematicians such as Blaise Pascal, Jakob Bernoulli, and Pierre Simon Laplace sought to answer this question, laboring over a theory of rational decision, action, and belief under conditions of uncertainty. Lorraine Daston brings to life their debates and philosophical arguments, charting the development and application of probability theory by some of the greatest thinkers of the age. Now with an incisive new preface, Classical Probability in the Enlightenment traces the emergence of new kind of mathematics designed to turn good sense into a reasonable calculus.

Author : Thomas L. Hankins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1985-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521286190

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Science and the Enlightenment by Thomas L. Hankins Pdf

This book is a general history of eighteenth-century developments in physical and life sciences.

Author : T. Williams,K. Samset
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137274618

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Project Governance by T. Williams,K. Samset Pdf

Provides essential insight into what it takes to turn an initial idea into a project with successful outcome in the long term. Fills a gap in current literature on project management and is thoroughly grounded in the latest research in this field.

Author : Charles CALDWELL
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017930391

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An Address on the Vice of Gambling, etc by Charles CALDWELL Pdf

Author : Michel Delon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1512 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135959982

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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment by Michel Delon Pdf

This acclaimed translation of Michel Delon's Dictionnaire Europen des Lumires contains more than 350 signed entries covering the art, economics, science, history, philosophy, and religion of the Enlightenment. Delon's team of more than 200 experts from around the world offers a unique perspective on the period, providing offering not only factual information but also critical opinions that give the reader a deeper level of understanding. An international team of translators, editors, and advisers, under the auspices of the French Ministry of Culture, has brought this collection of scholarship to the English-speaking world for the first time.

Author : Ritchie Robertson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780241004838

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The Enlightenment by Ritchie Robertson Pdf

'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have' Literary Review The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead of modern values such as human rights, religious toleration, freedom of thought, scientific thought as an exemplary form of reasoning, and rationality and evidence-based argument. Others accuse the Enlightenment of putting forward a scientific rationality which ignores the complexity and variety of human beings, propagates shallow atheism, and aims to subjugate nature to so-called technical progress. Answering the question 'what is Enlightenment?' Kant famously urged men and women above all to 'have the courage to use your own understanding'. Robertson shows how the thinkers of the Enlightenment did just that, seeking a rounded understanding of humanity in which reason was balanced with emotion and sensibility. His book goes behind the controversies about the Enlightenment to return to its original texts and to show that above all it sought to increase human happiness in this world by promoting scientific inquiry and reasoned argument. His book overturns many received opinions - for example, that enlightenment necessarily implied hostility to religion (though it did challenge the authority traditionally assumed by the Churches). It is a master-class in 'big picture' history, about one of the foundational epochs of modern times.

Author : Jim Orford
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1583919228

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Gambling and Problem Gambling in Britain by Jim Orford Pdf

This book fills a gap by reviewing what is known about gambling in Britain and studying work on the nature, prevalence and possible causes of problem gambling.

Author : John R Fanchi
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781800610569

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Reason, Faith, And Purpose: The Ultimate Gamble by John R Fanchi Pdf

Reason, Faith, and Purpose: The Ultimate Gamble is a guide for believers and inquiring skeptics. This book summarizes the scientific view of the origins of the universe and life and analyzes the question of the existence of god from philosophical, religious, and scientific perspectives.The material is presented in two parts. Part I presents the secular, scientific view of the origin and evolution of the physical universe and life. Part II introduces other perspectives that are representative of ideas historically prevalent around the world. The material in Reason, Faith, and Purpose is designed to provide insight into the choice each of us must make in this life: the ultimate gamble.

Author : Thomas M. Kavanagh
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780812233797

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Esthetics of the Moment by Thomas M. Kavanagh Pdf

Examining a wide array of literary and artistic culture, Kavanagh (French, U. of California-Berkeley) argues that Enlightenment culture and its tensions, contradictions, and achievements flow from a subversive attention to the present as present, freed from the weight of past and future. Abundant b

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : UCR:31210024919266

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S. 704--the Gambling Impact Study Commission by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Mormons
ISBN : HARVARD:32044100171891

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Improvement Era by Anonim Pdf