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Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) - explorer, linguist, and anthropologist - was one of the most fascinating figures of the Victorian era. In 1866, while serving as British consul in Brazil, he presented four lectures on the highlights of his travels in Arabia and Africa. This title presents these lectures.

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This coffee-table art book is one-of-a-kind. From hundreds of portrayals created over centuries by celebrated artists, such as Cezanne, Picasso, Munch, Leger, de la Tour, Remington, and Neiman, the best 120 were chosen to appear in this provocative visual documentation of the evolution of gambling. Much more than a compilation of subject-specific art, this book offers a scholarly look at the history of gaming. Each image is accompanied by a fa...

From the first turn of the card to getting out of a foreign country with a suitcase full of cash, this book covers different things from basic strategy to counting cards, from maximising potential going solo to playing on a blackjack team.

Outstanding selection of writings from the world's only regular poker column in a daily newspaper. These columns traverse the universe of poker, from the various venues to famous moments, from advice on playing the games to snapshots of the great names of poker.

Castle Frazer is a 27-year-old gambler and "steering man". Rich Stillman is an 11-year-old poolshark. The two meet in Kentucky in the early 1940s and, under Castle's tutelage, little Rich quickly graduates from pool to poker (and later, money gin games), for which he has an exceptional aptitude. Castle guides Rich, and his team of kid card players, into games with police, priests, moonshiners, high rollers, even the mob. As Rich evolves from a...

Mike Weatherford resurrects the mystique of Las Vegas Golden Age -- the '60s-cool of history and legend-and introduces Sin City s hipster legacy to new generations of Vegasphiles. Meet '50s and '60s lounge greats the Treniers, the Mary Kaye Trio, and Louis Prima and Keely Smith, comedy legends Joe E Lewis, Shecky Greene, and Don Rickles, and Vegas "babes" Vampira, Lili St Cyr, Ann-Margret, and Tempest Storm. Weatherford also covers nearly ever...

When Barry Meadow decided to take two months off from his everyday life to play blackjack in every Nevada casino, he had no idea what he would find. Leaving behind his business, his fiancée, and his son, he set out on the road with a suitcase, a tape recorder, and $8, 000 on the trip of a lifetime. He ran into cowboys and Indians, suffered the Stardust curse, split 10s in Winnemucca, and learned more about real-world gambling than anyone shoul...

What really goes on ... inside the mysterious VIP Room? Find out first-hand, as career stripper Lacey Lane unlocks the doors to the secret sanctums at the center of the action in gentlemen's clubs across America. Confessions of a Stripper puts you in the middle of the VIP Room, where freaks, fetishists, scammers, and even normal guys match wits with the dancers. Here, outlandish fantasies are bought and sold, and almost nothing is beyond the r...

Is casino management an art? It is for the best casino managers! This title argues against excessive card-counter and shuffle-tracker countermeasures in favour of hand production to increase profits, and concludes that rhythmic dice rollers are not the threat they are made out to be.

Video Poker for the Intelligent Beginner is a how-to-win blueprint for players seeking the fast track to the upper levels of this beatable game. They'll master the techniques for finding and identifying the highest-returning games. Then learn how to generate, understand, and implement the computer-perfect strategies that yield the ultimate goal: monetary profit! In addition, Video Poker for the Intelligent Beginner imparts Dancer's professiona...

Curable in most men, prostate cancer is often preventable. This book tells you what you need to know about preventing, controlling, and curing this disease.

Songs of Innocence and of Experience are Blake's most familiar poems. A few examples, such as "The Tyger" and "The Chimney Sweeper, " frequently appear in anthologies of English literature, in which the poems are often printed without Blake's evocative engravings. But Blake made collections of his Songs, first the Innocence group alone in 1789, and then Experience in 1794, combining the two in that year to make up a single volume.

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