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If you're a working woman looking for guidance on how to collaborate successfully with other women, here is your unofficial guide. In Women at Work: Successful Tips for Working Together, author Rebecca Cassidy shares the lessons she's learned from her mentors, other notable women, and her own experiences working in female dominated workplaces. Her hypothesis is simple: The rules for success when working in a primarily female environment are ...

Domestication has often seemed a matter of the distant past, a series of distinct events involving humans and other species that took place long ago.

Gambling is everywhere, on our TVs and phones, on billboards on our streets, and emblazoned across the chests of idolised sports stars. Why has gambling suddenly expanded? How was it transformed from a criminal activity to a respectable business run by multinational corporations listed on international stock markets? And who are the winners and losers created by this transformation?Vicious Games is based on field research with the people who p...

Gambling is everywhere, on our TVs and phones, on billboards on our streets, and emblazoned across the chests of idolised sports stars. Why has gambling suddenly expanded? How was it transformed from a criminal activity to a respectable business run by multinational corporations listed on international stock markets? And who are the winners and losers created by this transformation? Vicious Games is based on field research with the people who ...

This text will provoke a discussion about the future of horseracing and is written in an accessible and scholarly style.

This text will provoke a discussion about the future of horseracing and is written in an accessible and scholarly style.

Domestication has often seemed a matter of the distant past, a series of distinct events involving humans and other species that took place long ago. Today, as genetic manipulation continues to break new barriers in scientific and medical research, we appear to be entering an age of biological control. Are we also writing a new chapter in the history of domestication? "Where the Wild Things Are Now" explores the relevance of domestication for ...

The world of Thoroughbred racing is glamorous, secretive, dangerous, and seductive--the sport of kings and the poor man's obsession. While the spectacle of racing stirs the imagination, it belies the ruthless business that lies beneath.This engaging original study demystifies this complex world by comparing centers of excellence in Britain and North America. Drawing from intensive field work in Suffolk's Newmarket and Kentucky's Lexington, Reb...

Introduction Part One: Between Methods 1. Gambling Autobiography 2. Gambling Labour 3. Gambling and Fiction 4. Numbers, Suites, Trumps and Jokers Part Two: Between Worlds: New Gambling Spaces 5. Backgammon and Casinos in Cyprus 6. Card Playing in Papua New Guinea 7. Delhi Bookmakers 8. New Markets for Gambling in Slovenia Part Three: Between the State and the Player 9. Lotteries in Israel 10. `Ahead of the Witches¿: South African Lotteries 11....

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. This book seeks to demonstrate that researchers should look beyond the existing disciplinary territory and the dominant paradigm of `problem gambling¿ in order to follow changes across territorial, political, technical, regulatory and conceptual boundaries. It dra...

Behind the scenes' description of British flat racing based on Cassidy's experiences working in Newmarket.

Behind the scenes' description of British flat racing based on Cassidy's experiences working in Newmarket.