Illegal Use of Video Gambling Machines
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 1226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: New Jersey State Commission of Investigation
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. President's Commission on Organized Crime
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 884
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Published: 1985
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
Author: Jerry Capeci
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2005-01-04
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9781592573059
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers a comprehensive overview of the world's most notorious criminal organization, tracing the history of the Mafia, changes in the ranks and power following the conviction of key members, and their diverse roles in cities across the United States.
Author: Thomas R. Mirkovich
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780810832305
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Overviews the casino industry and its affects on economy and society, and points the way toward print resources and organizations. Lists state information sources, regulatory agencies, and Indian gaming sites by state, related companies and associations, periodicals, and experts in the field, and offers an annotated bibliography of some 900 key references for books, articles, and government publications written from 1985 through 1994. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Natasha Dow Schüll
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-05-11
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 0691160880
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot machines, revamped by ever more compelling digital and video technology, have unseated traditional casino games as the gambling industry's revenue mainstay. Addiction by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and reward. Drawing on fifteen years of field research in Las Vegas, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll shows how the mechanical rhythm of electronic gambling pulls players into a trancelike state they call the "machine zone," in which daily worries, social demands, and even bodily awareness fade away. Once in the zone, gambling addicts play not to win but simply to keep playing, for as long as possible--even at the cost of physical and economic exhaustion. In continuous machine play, gamblers seek to lose themselves while the gambling industry seeks profit. Schüll describes the strategic calculations behind game algorithms and machine ergonomics, casino architecture and "ambience management," player tracking and cash access systems--all designed to meet the market's desire for maximum "time on device." Her account moves from casino floors into gamblers' everyday lives, from gambling industry conventions and Gamblers Anonymous meetings to regulatory debates over whether addiction to gambling machines stems from the consumer, the product, or the interplay between the two. Addiction by Design is a compelling inquiry into the intensifying traffic between people and machines of chance, offering clues to some of the broader anxieties and predicaments of contemporary life. At stake in Schüll's account of the intensifying traffic between people and machines of chance is a blurring of the line between design and experience, profit and loss, control and compulsion.