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Acknowledgments -- Preface: Lyrics: Molly and Tenbrooks -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Volume 1 -- Section 1: General Topics -- Cards, playing -- Cash transaction reports and money laundering -- Casino -- Casino employees -- Casino nights (Las Vegas nights) -- Cheating schemes -- Chips, gambling -- Cockfighting -- Commission on the review of National policy toward gambling (1974-1976) -- Credit and debts -- Crime and gambling -- Cruise ships -- Demographic categories of players -- Dog racing -- Economic impacts of gambling -- Economics and gambling -- European casinos and American casinos compared -- Federal lottery laws -- Federal wire act of 1961 -- Gambler's book club -- Gamblers' motivations: why do they gamble? -- Gambling devices acts (the Johnson act and amendments) -- Gambling on the high seas, the laws of -- Gambling systems -- Gaming institutes: research and political -- Horse racing -- Insurance and gambling -- Internet gambling (including Unlawful internet gambling enforcement act of 2006) -- Interstate horse racing act of 1978 -- Kefauver committee -- Knapp commission (1970-1972) -- McClellan committee -- National gambling impact study commission (1997-1999) -- Native American gaming: contemporary -- Native American gaming: data -- Native American gaming: traditional -- Organized crime control act of 1970 -- Political culture and Nevada: reassessing the theory -- Positive case for gambling: one person's view -- President's commission on law enforcement and administration of justice -- President's commission on organized crime -- Problem gambling -- Professional and amateur sports protection act of 1992 -- Racino -- Religion and gambling -- Sex and gambling in Nevada -- Sports betting -- Stock market -- Taxes, gambling -- Travel act of 1961 -- Wagering paraphernalia act of 1961 -- Section 2: Games -- Baccara, Chemin de Fer, and baccarate-type games -- Bingo -- Blackjack -- Craps and other dice games -- Faro -- House-banked games -- Jai Alai -- Keno -- Lotteries -- Pai Gow and games with dominos -- Pari-mutuel and wagering systems -- Player-banked games -- Poker -- Red dog -- Roulette, wheels of fortune, and other wheel games -- Slot machines and machine gambling -- Trente et Quarante (30 and 40) -- Two up -- Section 3: Biographies Of Leading Figures In Gambling -- Adelson, Sheldon -- Benazet, Jacques, and Edward Benazet -- Bennet, Bill and Bill Pennington -- Bennet, William J -- Binion, Benny, and Jack Binion -- Blanc, Francois, and Louis Blanc -- Boyd, Sam and William Boyd -- Canfield, Richard -- Cardano, Garolamo, and Blaise Pascal -- Chun Rak-Won -- Comstock, Anthony -- Coolidge, Cassius Marcellus, and those "poker playing dogs" -- Dalitz, Morris -- Dandolos, Nick -- Davis, John -- Eadington, William R -- Fahrenkopf, Frank Jr -- Gates, John W -- Gaughan, Jackie, and Michael Gaughan -- Grey, Thomas A -- Harrah, William F -- Ho, Stanley -- Hoffa, Jimmy -- Hughes, Howard -- Jones, "Canada Bill" -- Kennedy, Robert F -- Kerkorian, Kirk -- Kerzner, Sol -- Lansky, Meyer -- Laughlin, Don, and Laughlin, Nevada -- Maloof, George -- Morrissey, Jack -- Moss, Johnny -- Pendleton, Edward -- Rose, I Nelson -- Rothstein, Arnold -- Sawyer, Grant -- Siegel, Benjamin -- Thompson, "Titanic" (Alvin Clarence Thomas) -- Trump, Donald John -- Wallner, Leo -- Wynn, Stephen Alan -- Ziemba, William T -- Index -- |
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Volume 2: Section 4: Venues And Places -- Africa -- East Africa -- North Africa -- South Africa -- West Africa -- Asia -- China (including Hong Kond, and Macau) -- Indian subcontinent (including Bhutan, Goa, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Sikkim) -- Japan and Pachinko parlors -- Korea -- Philippines -- Southeast Asia -- Australia Pacific region (including New Zealand, Tinian, and Guam) -- Canada -- Alberta -- Atlantic lottery corporation -- British Columbia -- Manitoba -- New Brunswick -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Nova Scotia -- Ontario -- Prince Edward Island -- Quebec -- Saskatchewan -- Western Canada lottery corporation -- Yukon Territory -- Caribbean and Atlantic -- Aruba -- Bahamas -- Caribbean Island casinos -- Cuba -- Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti) -- Puerto Rico -- Virgin Islands -- Europe -- Austria and casinos Austria international -- Baltic counties (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia) -- Belgium -- Central European countries -- Croatia and the former Yugoslav states -- France -- Germany -- Gibraltar -- Greece -- Ireland and the Irish sweepstakes -- Italy -- Luxembourg -- Monaco -- Netherlands -- Portugal -- Russian and the former Soviet Republics -- Scandinavian countries (Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark) -- Slovenia -- Spain and "El Gordo" -- Switzerland and the Swiss social concept -- United Kingdom-- Latin America -- Argentia -- Bolivia -- Brazil -- Central America -- Chile -- Colombia -- Ecuador -- Mexico -- Paraguay -- Peru -- Uruguay -- Venezuela and Suriname -- Middle East and Asia Minor (including Israel, Lebanon, and Turkey) -- United States -- Alabama -- Alaska -- Arizona -- Arkansas -- California -- Colorado -- Connecticut -- Delaware -- District of Columbia -- Florida -- Georgia -- Hawaii -- Idaho -- Illinois -- Indiana -- Iowa --Kansas -- Kentucky -- Louisiana -- Louisiana lottery company -- Maine -- Maryland -- Massachusetts -- Michigan -- Minnesota -- Mississippi -- Missouri -- Montana -- Nebraska -- Nevada -- Boulder City, Nevada: nongambling oasis -- Las Vegas -- Reno -- New Hampshire -- New Jersey and Atlantic City -- New Mexico -- New York -- North Carolina -- North Dakota -- Ohio -- Oklahoma -- Oregon -- Pennsylvania -- Rhode Island -- South Carolina -- South Dakota -- Tennessee -- Texas -- Utah -- Vermont -- Virginia -- Washington -- West Virginia -- Wisconsin -- Wyoming -- Section 5: Annotated Bibliography -- Section 6: Leading Law Cases On Gambling -- Section 7: Glossary Of Gambling Terms -- Section 8: Selected Essays On Gambling -- Best gamblers in the world -- Family that gambles together -- Sovereignty checklist for gambling -- Supermarket casinos -- Casinos without crime: is it possible? -- Word-of-mouth advertising: the win win game in Las Vegas -- Will Nevada become another Detroit? probably not -- Las Vegas brand-a case study of mismarketing -- Machismo and the Latin American casino -- There's a reason we only look forward in Las Vegas -- If gambling entrepreneurs took their product to the Food and Drug administration -- It's this simple: casino taxes stifle development -- Theft is a social cost-bigger than we may have thought -- Comorbidity and the costs of compulsive gambling -- Random thought of a lucky Las Vegas resident -- Another random thought -- Thematic index -- Index l-1 -- About the author -- About the contributors. |
