Author: Arnold S. Kling
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781442201248
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
In Unchecked and Unbalanced, Arnold Kling provides a blueprint for those who are skeptical of political and financial elitism. At the heart of Kling's argument is the growing discrepancy between two phenomena: knowledge is becoming more diffuse, while political power is becoming more concentrated. Kling sees this knowledge/power discrepancy at the heart of the financial crisis of 2008. Financial industry executives and regulatory officials lacked the ability to fathom the complexity of the system that had emerged. And, in response, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, said that they required still more power, including $700 billion to purchase "toxic assets" from banks. Kling warns that increased concentration of power is a problem, not a panacea, for our modern world and suggests reforms designed to curb the growth of government and allow citizens greater control over the allocation of public goods. Published in cooperation with the Hoover Institution
Unchecked and Unbalanced
Author: Arnold S. Kling
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781442201248
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
In Unchecked and Unbalanced, Arnold Kling provides a blueprint for those who are skeptical of political and financial elitism. At the heart of Kling's argument is the growing discrepancy between two phenomena: knowledge is becoming more diffuse, while political power is becoming more concentrated. Kling sees this knowledge/power discrepancy at the heart of the financial crisis of 2008. Financial industry executives and regulatory officials lacked the ability to fathom the complexity of the system that had emerged. And, in response, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, said that they required still more power, including $700 billion to purchase "toxic assets" from banks. Kling warns that increased concentration of power is a problem, not a panacea, for our modern world and suggests reforms designed to curb the growth of government and allow citizens greater control over the allocation of public goods. Published in cooperation with the Hoover Institution
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781442201248
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
In Unchecked and Unbalanced, Arnold Kling provides a blueprint for those who are skeptical of political and financial elitism. At the heart of Kling's argument is the growing discrepancy between two phenomena: knowledge is becoming more diffuse, while political power is becoming more concentrated. Kling sees this knowledge/power discrepancy at the heart of the financial crisis of 2008. Financial industry executives and regulatory officials lacked the ability to fathom the complexity of the system that had emerged. And, in response, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, said that they required still more power, including $700 billion to purchase "toxic assets" from banks. Kling warns that increased concentration of power is a problem, not a panacea, for our modern world and suggests reforms designed to curb the growth of government and allow citizens greater control over the allocation of public goods. Published in cooperation with the Hoover Institution
Deadman's Bluff
Author: James Swain
Publisher: Fawcett
ISBN: 0345475518
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
“In this series about gambling, the main character is a big winner.” –Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Bask in Swain’s Las Vegas without having to set foot in the place and risk being skinned alive.” –The Washington Post Book World A blind poker player named Skip DeMarco is scamming the world’s largest poker tournament in Las Vegas, and cheating-expert Tony Valentine and his son, Gerry, have been hired to find out how. DeMarco is tied to some dangerously desperate characters who will go to extremes–even cold-blooded murder–to ensure that the obnoxious DeMarco wins big. While Gerry flies to Atlantic City to suss out DeMarco’s secret, Valentine stays in Vegas and teams up with an aging grifter named Rufus Steele, who has his own score to settle with DeMarco. On opposite sides of a deadly game, father and son work their way through a colorful landscape of conmen and hitmen. Together, they will have to prove there’s more to any game of chance than meets the eye. Featuring insider tips for catching poker cheats, as well as a glossary of card hustler terms!
Publisher: Fawcett
ISBN: 0345475518
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
“In this series about gambling, the main character is a big winner.” –Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Bask in Swain’s Las Vegas without having to set foot in the place and risk being skinned alive.” –The Washington Post Book World A blind poker player named Skip DeMarco is scamming the world’s largest poker tournament in Las Vegas, and cheating-expert Tony Valentine and his son, Gerry, have been hired to find out how. DeMarco is tied to some dangerously desperate characters who will go to extremes–even cold-blooded murder–to ensure that the obnoxious DeMarco wins big. While Gerry flies to Atlantic City to suss out DeMarco’s secret, Valentine stays in Vegas and teams up with an aging grifter named Rufus Steele, who has his own score to settle with DeMarco. On opposite sides of a deadly game, father and son work their way through a colorful landscape of conmen and hitmen. Together, they will have to prove there’s more to any game of chance than meets the eye. Featuring insider tips for catching poker cheats, as well as a glossary of card hustler terms!
Poker Unchecked
Author: Russ Georgiev
Publisher: Booksurge Llc
ISBN: 9781419694257
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Welcome to "Poker Unchecked," the first book written by Russ Georgiev, a World Class Professional poker player who has spent 40+ years in the poker trenches. This book is for all players who want to play better poker but have never found a book that really teaches them how to win. Here is the 'straight talk' you require to becoming a better player. "Poker Unchecked" will show you how to become a winning, and more importantly, a profitable poker player. It gives you the specifics - how you can win today, starting hand requirements, proper betting amounts, how and when to bluff, and exercises to improve your game. It tells you how to Play AK and Heads-up. And you get a little history about poker when it made Gardena, CA the poker capital of the world. Do you want to know if TV is portraying the game accurately? And what about those poker-playing robots the online sites use as props? How do scammers cheat you? Get the answers. Who is Russ Georgiev? He is a high stakes professional who started as "Seattle Russ" and is well known in the Brick & Mortar poker worlds of Europe and the United States. He's been invited to private games from Beverly Hills to Monte Carlo. And he is well versed in online play and your favorite sites. Get his insights in "Poker Unchecked."
Publisher: Booksurge Llc
ISBN: 9781419694257
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Welcome to "Poker Unchecked," the first book written by Russ Georgiev, a World Class Professional poker player who has spent 40+ years in the poker trenches. This book is for all players who want to play better poker but have never found a book that really teaches them how to win. Here is the 'straight talk' you require to becoming a better player. "Poker Unchecked" will show you how to become a winning, and more importantly, a profitable poker player. It gives you the specifics - how you can win today, starting hand requirements, proper betting amounts, how and when to bluff, and exercises to improve your game. It tells you how to Play AK and Heads-up. And you get a little history about poker when it made Gardena, CA the poker capital of the world. Do you want to know if TV is portraying the game accurately? And what about those poker-playing robots the online sites use as props? How do scammers cheat you? Get the answers. Who is Russ Georgiev? He is a high stakes professional who started as "Seattle Russ" and is well known in the Brick & Mortar poker worlds of Europe and the United States. He's been invited to private games from Beverly Hills to Monte Carlo. And he is well versed in online play and your favorite sites. Get his insights in "Poker Unchecked."
Gutshot e-Magazine - July 2020
Author: Amrin Ved
Publisher: Amrin Ved
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
July 2020 edition of India's only real money gaming magazine. To know more visit read.gutshotmagazine.com
Publisher: Amrin Ved
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
July 2020 edition of India's only real money gaming magazine. To know more visit read.gutshotmagazine.com
The Bedford Guide for College Writers with Reader, Research Manual, and Handbook with 2009 MLA and 2010 APA Updates
Author: X. J. Kennedy
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312667728
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1023
Book Description
When it was first published twenty years ago, The Bedford Guide for College Writers brought a lively and innovative new approach to the teaching of writing. Since that time, authors X. J. and Dorothy M. Kennedy have won praise for their friendly tone and their view, apparent on every page of the text, that writing is the "usually surprising, often rewarding art of thinking while working with language." More recently, experienced teacher and writer Marcia F. Muth joined the author team, adding more practical advice to help all students — even those underprepared for college work — become successful academic writers. While retaining the highly praised "Kennedy touch," The Bedford Guide continues to evolve to meet classroom needs. The new edition does even more to build essential academic writing skills, with expanded coverage of audience analysis, source-based writing, argumentation and reasoning, and more.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312667728
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1023
Book Description
When it was first published twenty years ago, The Bedford Guide for College Writers brought a lively and innovative new approach to the teaching of writing. Since that time, authors X. J. and Dorothy M. Kennedy have won praise for their friendly tone and their view, apparent on every page of the text, that writing is the "usually surprising, often rewarding art of thinking while working with language." More recently, experienced teacher and writer Marcia F. Muth joined the author team, adding more practical advice to help all students — even those underprepared for college work — become successful academic writers. While retaining the highly praised "Kennedy touch," The Bedford Guide continues to evolve to meet classroom needs. The new edition does even more to build essential academic writing skills, with expanded coverage of audience analysis, source-based writing, argumentation and reasoning, and more.
Field and Stream
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
What the Night Knows (with bonus novella Darkness Under the Sun)
Author: Dean Koontz
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553907530
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the late summer of a long-ago year, Alton Turner Blackwood brutally murdered four families. His savage spree ended only when he himself was killed by the last survivor of the last family, a fourteen-year-old boy. Half a continent away and two decades later, someone is murdering families again, re-creating in detail Blackwood’s crimes. Homicide detective John Calvino is certain that his own family—his wife and three children—will be targets, just as his parents and sisters were victims on that distant night when he was fourteen and killed their slayer. As a detective, John is a man of reason who deals in cold facts. But an extraordinary experience convinces him that sometimes death is not a one-way journey, that sometimes the dead return. Includes the bonus novella Darkness Under the Sun and an excerpt from Dean Koontz's The City!
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553907530
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the late summer of a long-ago year, Alton Turner Blackwood brutally murdered four families. His savage spree ended only when he himself was killed by the last survivor of the last family, a fourteen-year-old boy. Half a continent away and two decades later, someone is murdering families again, re-creating in detail Blackwood’s crimes. Homicide detective John Calvino is certain that his own family—his wife and three children—will be targets, just as his parents and sisters were victims on that distant night when he was fourteen and killed their slayer. As a detective, John is a man of reason who deals in cold facts. But an extraordinary experience convinces him that sometimes death is not a one-way journey, that sometimes the dead return. Includes the bonus novella Darkness Under the Sun and an excerpt from Dean Koontz's The City!
On a Roll
Author: David Grant
Publisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780864732668
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This substantial social history explores the culture and significance of gambling. It is well presented, fully illustrated with photographs, cartoons, and memorabilia, and comprehensively end-noted and indexed. The author, a professional historian, has also written 'Out In The Cold', about conscientious objectors.
Publisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780864732668
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This substantial social history explores the culture and significance of gambling. It is well presented, fully illustrated with photographs, cartoons, and memorabilia, and comprehensively end-noted and indexed. The author, a professional historian, has also written 'Out In The Cold', about conscientious objectors.
Appified
Author: Jeremy Wade Morris
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047205404X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Snapchat. WhatsApp. Ashley Madison. Fitbit. Tinder. Periscope. How do we make sense of how apps like these-and thousands of others-have embedded themselves into our daily routines, permeating the background of ordinary life and standing at-the-ready to be used on our smartphones and tablets? When we look at any single app, it's hard to imagine how such a small piece of software could be particularly notable. But if we look at a collection of them, we see a bigger picture that reveals how the quotidian activities apps encompass are far from banal: connecting with friends (and strangers and enemies), sharing memories (and personally identifying information), making art (and trash), navigating spaces (and reshaping places in the process). While the sheer number of apps is overwhelming, as are the range of activities they address, each one offers an opportunity for us to seek out meaning in the mundane. Appified is the first scholarly volume to examine individual apps within the wider historical and cultural context of media and cultural studies scholarship, attuned to issues of politics and power, identity and the everyday.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047205404X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Snapchat. WhatsApp. Ashley Madison. Fitbit. Tinder. Periscope. How do we make sense of how apps like these-and thousands of others-have embedded themselves into our daily routines, permeating the background of ordinary life and standing at-the-ready to be used on our smartphones and tablets? When we look at any single app, it's hard to imagine how such a small piece of software could be particularly notable. But if we look at a collection of them, we see a bigger picture that reveals how the quotidian activities apps encompass are far from banal: connecting with friends (and strangers and enemies), sharing memories (and personally identifying information), making art (and trash), navigating spaces (and reshaping places in the process). While the sheer number of apps is overwhelming, as are the range of activities they address, each one offers an opportunity for us to seek out meaning in the mundane. Appified is the first scholarly volume to examine individual apps within the wider historical and cultural context of media and cultural studies scholarship, attuned to issues of politics and power, identity and the everyday.
As You Were
Author: Kelli Jae Baeli
Publisher: Kelli Jae Baeli
ISBN: 1434825787
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Tru, a performing singer-songwriter, and Brittany, a photographer and artist, shared a beautiful home on Castle Mountain in Colorado, enjoyed horseback riding in the snow-laden hills, and romantic nights in front of the fireplace. But when an average day ends in a tragic accident, Tru must embark upon a quest to regain the life she once had with her lover, while Brittany returns to a life she neither remembers, nor approves of. Complications increase as sinister outsiders take advantage of the precarious situation. Yearning, revelations, and lurking danger pull at the threads of a once-idyllic life. As You Were is a romantic story driven by mystery and suspense. --
Publisher: Kelli Jae Baeli
ISBN: 1434825787
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Tru, a performing singer-songwriter, and Brittany, a photographer and artist, shared a beautiful home on Castle Mountain in Colorado, enjoyed horseback riding in the snow-laden hills, and romantic nights in front of the fireplace. But when an average day ends in a tragic accident, Tru must embark upon a quest to regain the life she once had with her lover, while Brittany returns to a life she neither remembers, nor approves of. Complications increase as sinister outsiders take advantage of the precarious situation. Yearning, revelations, and lurking danger pull at the threads of a once-idyllic life. As You Were is a romantic story driven by mystery and suspense. --