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If he's had a touch of larceny in him, he could have been the number one card sharp of ail time. Instead the author of these fabulous memoirs, born to a mother who considered gambling "the devils tool" put his extraordinary gifts to far different purposes. He has used his incredible gambling sense, his miraculously dexterous fingers (as a magician he vied with Houdini) his brilliant mathematical mind, and his fascination with carnival and gamb...

Here is the new, up-to-the-minute, expanded and modernized edition of the world famous card player's guide known and used by millions of players for over twenty-fife years.Containing new material and more card games than ever before published in a single volume - answering every question for beginner as well as expert - this has become the prime authority on card games.All the official rules are brought up to date to reflect the changes that h...

Designed for a one-year graduate course, this text provides the student with a thorough working knowledge of quantum mechanics. The book formulates quantum mechanics in terms of transformation theory, which permits the student to go immediately to the representation best suited to the particular problem at hand. Among the many outstanding features are an unusually complete treatment of scattering, including inelastic scattering, extensive use ...

In the late 1860s in the fictional town of Salt Licks, Texas, young Travis Coates has been working to take care of his family ranch with his mother and younger brother, Arliss, while his father goes off on a cattle drive. When a "dingy yellow" dog comes for an unasked stay with the family, Travis reluctantly takes in the dog, which they name Old Yeller. The name has a double meaning: The fur color yellow pronounced as "yeller" and the fact tha...

Science, Technology, and Economic Progress in the Middle Ages by Brian Stock, The Transmission of Greek and Arabic Learning to the West, by David C. Lindberg, The Philosophical Setting of Medieval Science by William A. Wallace, O. P., The Institutional Setting: The Universities by Pearle Kibre and Nancy G. Siraisi, Mathematics by Michael S. Mahoney, The Science of Weights by Joseph E. Brown, The Science of Motion by John E. Murdoch and Edith D...

Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which book paper spontaneously catches fire and burns. It is a futuristic novel describing a time when the government has ordered that all books be burned.This may seem to be ridiculous and could never be happening, but it is starting to happen in real life now, today.Now we have a president who accuses everything in the press of being "fa...

We at the Holden-Day division of Ishi Press are authorized to reprint this edition of this famous work because we are the original publishers of the works of Carl Sagan. We have also published:Intelligent Life in the UniverseWe Are Not Alone : The Search for Intelligent Life on Other Worlds. andThe Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective ISBN 9784871871648We have also published "From the Black Hole to the Infinite Universe" 97848718...

Namath is known for boldly guaranteeing a Jets' victory over Don Shula's NFL Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III (1969), then making good on his prediction with a 16-7 upset.Already a celebrity, he was now established not only as a sports icon but a pop culture icon.Joe Namath, like many aging celebrities, makes his living advertising products on TV. He advertises Medicare Coverage Helpline, a product for Medicare recipients.

Math Theory of Chess. S-version. Parts 4, 5

Edward Lasker revised this book by adding ten games played by the World's Leading Grandmasters, including games from the World Championship matches and the AVRO tournament in the Netherlands.Included are deeply annotated games by Alekhine, Capablanca, Emanuel Lasker, Euwe, Botwinnik, Fine, Reshevsky. Nimzovitch, Kashdan, Horowitz and Marshall played mostly from 1937 to 1940. There are also chess problems including mates in two composed by the ...

All great crimes depend for their successful execution upon a combination of circumstances and originality. Arthur Virgilio Alves Reis had a great project: To gain control of the Bank of Portugal. He was in the right circumstances: He was a businessman. He knew how to prepare official documents and he had useful friends. And he had originality: It was a once-only crime - no one had tried it before and nobody was likely to get away with it agai...

This is a carefully researched by Gore Vidal and contains useful information about American History. It is really a history book, that fills in the gaps of our knowledge with what he imagined could have and probably did happen. Aaron Burr (1756-1836), was a hero of the American Revolution, served as vice-president under Thomas Jefferson, took the life of Alexander Hamilton in a duel and was tried for treason when Jefferson accused him of plott...

This is the first book by Adelle Davis and is the book that made her famous. Time magazine best put it in 1972, calling her "the high priestess of a new nutrition religion."As you will see, the book makes some unusual recommendations. It contends that almost any disease can be prevented by proper diet.Adelle Davis radiated assurance of that by abiding by her precepts - as she herself did - that would ward off or cure most personal illnesses. M...

The term Physiology, or the science of the functions of the body, has come to include Anatomy, or the science of its structure, and Hygiene, or the laws of health, the one being essential to the proper understanding of physiology, and the other being its practical application to life. The three are intimately blended, and in treating of the different subjects the author has drawn no line of distinction where nature has made none. This work is ...

Adelle Davis is an incredibly famous and popular author whose name and whose books have reached the household word status. Her recommendations are followed by millions. She is the leading spokesperson for the organic foods movement. She is known for popularizing the phrase "You Are What You Eat".She also contributed to, as well as benefited from, the rise of a nutritional and health food movement that began in the 1950s, which focused on subje...

This is a study based on observation rather than mathematical theory in which an attempt is made to discover facts and relationships that give evidence about the course of solar evolution. The author's principle conclusions are that the earth and other territorial planets were formed at much lower temperatures than has generally been supposed, and that a more uniform distribution of iron throughout the silicate phases of the Earth existed in t...

Atlantis is or was a place described as containing an ideal and advanced society. It was first described by the famous Greek philosopher Plato in 360 BC (Before Christ). Antediluvian is of or relating to the period before the flood of Noah as described in the Bible. Nobody knows if Plato was describing a real place or if he was simply describing an ideal but imaginary place.According to Plato, Atlantis was an island destroyed 11, 600 years ago...

How did a nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn wind up running Wall Street swindles for the Mafia, hobnobbing with the big names of show business making and spending fortunes in a week--then turning informer for the U.S. Government and losing everything, including his own name and identity?It happened to Micheal Hellerman. the bright, well-educated son of a respected New York Banker. At age twenty-two , Mike was the whiz-kid of Wall Street, handling ...

The plot here is a Chinese-American man has two sons. One follows the Chinese traditions. The other is thoroughly Americanized. The father claims the right to decide which woman his sons will marry.The book runs in the opposite direction as the movie. While the movie follows two Chinese girls seeking to marry the right man, in the book it is the two sons of Master Wang who must find a suitable girl to marry.Flower Drum Song was also a musical ...

During the Korean War, the Soviets and Chinese capture a U.S. Army platoon and take it to Manchuria in communist China. Three days later, Staff Sergeant Raymond Shaw and Captain Bennett Marco manage to return to UN lines. Sergeant Raymond Shaw, brainwashed secretly and then freed with the rest of his patrol after capture in Korea comes home an unwitting hero and Congressional Medal of Honor Winner to be idolized by America. Only the Communists...