Author: Hudson InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gambling
Languages : en
Pages :
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Increased Legal Gambling in New York
Author: Hudson InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gambling
Languages : en
Pages :
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Legal Gambling in New York
Author: Fund for the City of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gambling
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Legal Gambling in New York
Author: Joan RansohoffReport to the Governor
Author: New York State Task Force on Casino GamblingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Casinos
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Pathological Gambling
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309065712
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
As states have moved from merely tolerating gambling to running their own games, as communities have increasingly turned to gambling for an economic boost, important questions arise. Has the new age of gambling increased the proportion of pathological or problem gamblers in the U.S. population? Where is the threshold between "social betting" and pathology? Is there a real threat to our families, communities, and the larger society? Pathological Gambling explores America's experience of gambling, examining: The diverse and frequently controversial issues surrounding the definition of pathological gambling. Its co-occurrence with disorders such as alcoholism, drug abuse, and depression. Its social characteristics and economic consequences, both good and bad, for communities. The role of video gaming, Internet gambling, and other technologies in the development of gambling problems. Treatment approaches and their effectiveness, from Gambler's Anonymous to cognitive therapy to pharmacology. This book provides the most up-to-date information available on the prevalence of pathological and problem gambling in the United States, including a look at populations that may have a particular vulnerability to gambling: women, adolescents, and minority populations. Its describes the effects of problem gambling on families, friendships, employment, finances, and propensity to crime. How do pathological gamblers perceive and misperceive randomness and chance? What are the causal pathways to pathological gambling? What do genetics, brain imaging, and other studies tell us about the biology of gambling? Is there a bit of sensation-seeking in all of us? Who needs treatment? What do we know about the effectiveness of different policies for dealing with pathological gambling? The book reviews the available facts and frames the intriguing questions yet to be answered. Pathological Gambling will be the odds-on favorite for anyone interested in gambling in America: policymakers, public officials, economics and social researchers, treatment professionals, and concerned gamblers and their families.
Legal Gambling in New York
Author: Fund for the City of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gambling
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Gambling and the Law
Author: I. Nelson RosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Discussions in this book include taking gambling losses and expenses off your taxes, how to avoid paying gambling debts, what to do if you feel you are cheated, whether a home poker game is legal, what to do if you are arrested, your rights in a casino,can counting cards be legal, how to keep from being blacklisted by casinos, getting a gambling license, reducing taxes if you win big in the lottery and more.
Increased Legal Gambling in New York
Author: Hudson InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gambling
Languages : en
Pages :
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Illegal Gambling in New York
Author: Peter ReuterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book-making (Betting)
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The World According to Fannie Davis
Author: Bridgett M. DavisPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316558710
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
As seen on the Today Show: This true story of an unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and their life in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s and 1970s highlights "the outstanding humanity of black America" (James McBride). In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee, borrowed $100 from her brother to run a numbers racket out of her home. That woman was Fannie Davis, Bridgett M. Davis's mother. Part bookie, part banker, mother, wife, and granddaughter of slaves, Fannie ran her numbers business for thirty-four years, doing what it took to survive in a legitimate business that just happened to be illegal. She created a loving, joyful home, sent her children to the best schools, bought them the best clothes, mothered them to the highest standard, and when the tragedy of urban life struck, soldiered on with her stated belief: "Dying is easy. Living takes guts." A daughter's moving homage to an extraordinary parent, The World According to Fannie Davis is also the suspenseful, unforgettable story about the lengths to which a mother will go to "make a way out of no way" and provide a prosperous life for her family -- and how those sacrifices resonate over time.