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Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas

Product Description: 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. 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...read more

By Natasha Dow Schull

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9780691127552 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 12, 2012, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: 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.

Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers

The author describes growing up in an unorthodox family shaped by the world of high-stakes gambling, detailing her brother's rise from homelessness to success as a bookie and the siblings who became top poker players.

By Katy Lederer

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9780609608982 | Crown Pub, August 1, 2003, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The author describes growing up in an unorthodox family shaped by the world of high-stakes gambling, detailing her brother's rise from homelessness to success as a bookie and the siblings who became top poker players.

Paperback:

9781400052769 | Reprint edition (Three Rivers Pr, August 1, 2004), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: The author of Winter Sex describes growing up in an unorthodox family shaped by the exciting and perilous world of high-stakes gambling, detailing her mother's alcoholism, the fancy New England prep school in which her father taught, her brother's rise from homelessness to success as a bookie, and the siblings who became two of the world's top poker players.

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9780307566089 | Crown Pub, February 24, 2010, cover price $13.00

Lay the Favorite, Take the Dog

Product Description: An eye-popping and hilarious joyride through the underworld of sports betting Beth Raymer arrived in Las Vegas in 2001, hoping to land a job as a cocktail waitress at one of the big casinos. In the meantime, she lived in a $17-a-night motel with her dog, Otis, and waited tables at a low-rent Thai restaurant...read more

By Beth Raymer

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9780385526456, titled "Lay the Favorite: A Memoir of Gambling" | 1 edition (Spiegel & Grau, June 22, 2010), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: An eye-popping and hilarious joyride through the underworld of sports betting Beth Raymer arrived in Las Vegas in 2001, hoping to land a job as a cocktail waitress at one of the big casinos.

Winner Takes All: Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, Gary Loveman, and the Race to Own Las Vegas

Product Description: "It's a great drama on the greatest stage. . . . Wynn, Kerkorian, and Loveman represent three opposing business personalities, three styles of achieving success. On the Vegas Strip, they're pitted against one another like gladiators, and we've got front-row seats...read more

By Christina Binkley

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9781401302368 | Hyperion Books, March 4, 2008, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Explores how three business tycoons are having a revolutionary impact on Las Vegas and its surrounding areas, profiling each for their backgrounds, financial prowess, and goals while making predictions about how they are reshaping the city.

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9781401309763 | Reprint edition (Hyperion Books, March 10, 2009), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: "It's a great drama on the greatest stage.

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9781400105892 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, March 1, 2008), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Wall Street Journal columnist Christina Binkley takes an up-close-and-personal look at how Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, and Dr.

9781400155897 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, March 1, 2008), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Wall Street Journal columnist Christina Binkley takes an up-close-and-personal look at how Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, and Dr.

Winner Takes All: Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, Gary Loveman, and the Race to Own Las Vegas, Library Edition

Product Description: Wall Street Journal columnist Christina Binkley takes an up-close-and-personal look at how Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, and Dr. Gary Loveman are building a bigger and better Las Vegas and how their influence is spreading beyond the city's borders.

By Christina Binkley

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9781605149967, titled "Winner Takes All: Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, Gary Loveman, and the Race to Own Las Vegas: Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Findaway World Llc, August 1, 2008), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: Wall Street Journal columnist Christina Binkley takes an up-close-and-personal look at how Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, and Dr.

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9781400135899 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, March 1, 2008), cover price $69.99 | About this edition: Wall Street Journal columnist Christina Binkley takes an up-close-and-personal look at how Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, and Dr.

21 Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.i.t. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions

Recounts the story of how a notorious gang of MIT blackjack savants devised and received backing for a system for winning at the world's most sophisticated casinos, an endeavor that earned them more than three million dollars. Originally published as Bringing Down the House. Reprint. (A Columbia Pictures film, written by Peter Steinfeld & Allan Loeb, directed by Robert Luketic, releasing March 2008, starring Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne, Jim Sturgess, & others) (Current Affairs)

By Ben Mezrich

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9781416561705, titled "21, Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions" | Reprint edition (Pocket Star, February 26, 2008), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Recounts the story of how a notorious gang of MIT blackjack savants devised and received backing for a system for winning at the world's most sophisticated casinos, an endeavor that earned them more than three million dollars.

9781416585640 | Mti edition (Pocket Books, February 26, 2008), cover price $7.99

9781416564195, titled "21 Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions" | Reprint edition (Free Pr, January 29, 2008), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Recounts the story of how a notorious gang of MIT blackjack savants devised and received backing for a system for winning at the world's most sophisticated casinos, an endeavor that earned them more than three million dollars.

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9780743570817, titled "21: Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions" | Mti edition (Simon & Schuster, January 29, 2008), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Real-life all too rarely offers stories that are quite as satisfying as fiction.

Open Road's Best Of Las Vegas

Product Description: Part of a series of guides that takes the hassle and worry out of planning your trip by offering readers a selection of itineraries for one-day, weekend, one-week, and two-week trips, that cater to various tastes and budgets.

By Avery Cardoza (contributor) and Jay Fenster

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9781593600839 | Open Road Pub, December 12, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Part of a series of guides that takes the hassle and worry out of planning your trip by offering readers a selection of itineraries for one-day, weekend, one-week, and two-week trips, that cater to various tastes and budgets.

Busting Vega$: The Mit Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees

By Ben Mezrich

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9780786283798 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 2, 2006), cover price $30.95

Stupidity And Slot Machine Players in Las Vegas

Product Description: Stupidity and Slot Machine Players in Las Vegas is the book that the Las Vegas casinos do not want you to know about. This book exposes the ridiculous, hilarious side of slot machine players seen through the eyes of the slot attendants who wait on them...read more

By David A. Goldberg

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9781424135820 | Publishamerica Inc, April 30, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Stupidity and Slot Machine Players in Las Vegas is the book that the Las Vegas casinos do not want you to know about.

Busting Vegas: The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees

Product Description: Semyon Dukach was known as the darling of Las Vegas. A legend at twenty-one, this cocky hotshot was the biggest high roller to appear in Sin City in decades, a mathematical genius with a system the casinos had never seen before and couldn't stop -- a system that had nothing to do with card counting, wasn't illegal, and was more powerful than anything that had been tried before...read more

By Ben Mezrich

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9780060575113 | William Morrow & Co, October 1, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The true account of an MIT prodigy who mastered a legal gambling process that enabled him to win large stakes in Las Vegas describes the wild rumors that surrounded his casino visits and the violent backlash that nearly cost him his life.

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9780061673528 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, December 1, 2008), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Semyon Dukach was known as the darling of Las Vegas.

Busting Vegas: The Mit Whiz Kid Who Brought Casinos to Their Knees

The true account of an MIT prodigy who mastered a legal gambling process that enabled him to win large stakes in Las Vegas describes the wild rumors that surrounded his casino visits and the violent backlash that nearly cost him his life.

By Ben Mezrich

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9780060823627 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, October 1, 2005), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The true account of an MIT prodigy who mastered a legal gambling process that enabled him to win large stakes in Las Vegas describes the wild rumors that surrounded his casino visits and the violent backlash that nearly cost him his life.

License to Steal: Nevada's Gaming Control System in the Megaresort Age

Product Description: Seven precedent-setting case studies taken from the files of the Nevada Gaming Control Board illustrate vital issues addressed in the first decade of the megaresorts. Murder, the Mob, prostitution, drugs, innovative (but illegal) financial dealings, and the brilliant use of technology for ill-gotten gain, all have been involved in the schemes of unscrupulous casino owners, employees, and gamblers throughout the decades of legal gambling...read more

By Jeff Burbank

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9780874173390 | Univ of Nevada Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Murder, the Mob, prostitution, drugs, innovative (but illegal) financial dealings, and the brilliant use of technology for ill-gotten gain, all have been involved in the schemes of unscrupulous casino owners, employees, and gamblers throughout the decades of legal gambling.

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9780874176247 | Univ of Nevada Pr, August 24, 2005, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Seven precedent-setting case studies taken from the files of the Nevada Gaming Control Board illustrate vital issues addressed in the first decade of the megaresorts.

Sharks in the Desert: The Founding Fathers and Current Klings of Las Vegas

The Las Vegas Review-Journal writer traces the origins of the gambling racket, from mafia vice to big corporate dollars, exploring the changes in the gambling industry over the past two decades.

By John L. Smith

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9781569802748 | Barricade Books Inc, August 30, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: By now, everyone knows the story of the mob's involvement in Las Vegas's growth from quiet desert town to 'Sin City.

Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.i.t. Students Who Took Vegas

By Ben Mezrich

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9781417665631 | Turtleback Books, September 1, 2003, cover price $25.75 | About this edition: Recounts the story of how a notorious gang of MIT blackjack savants devised and received backing for a system for winning at the world's most sophisticated casinos, an endeavor that earned them more than three million dollars.

Burning the Tables in Las Vegas: Keys to Success in Blackjack and in Life

Product Description: In the mid-1970s, Ian Andersen wrote Turning the Tables on Las Vegas, the classic book on casino comportment. As the first book to broach the all-important consideration of how to get away with getting the money, Turning was the book that launched a thousand blackjack careers...read more

By Ian Andersen

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9780929712840 | 2 edition (Huntington Pr, January 1, 2003), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: In the mid-1970s, Ian Andersen wrote Turning the Tables on Las Vegas, the classic book on casino comportment.

9780929712833 | Huntington Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: In the mid-1970s, Ian Andersen wrote Turning the Tables on Las Vegas, the classic book on casino comportment.

Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six Mit Students Who Took Vegas for Millions

Product Description: THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER -- NOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 21 The long-running New York Times bestseller that has become a cultural phenomenon, Bringing Down the House is an action-filled caper carried out by the unlikeliest of cons -- supersmart geeks...read more

By Ben Mezrich

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9780786252572 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 1, 2003), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Real-life all too rarely offers stories that are quite as satisfying as fiction.

9780743225700 | Free Pr, September 17, 2002, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Recounts the story of how a notorious gang of MIT blackjack savants devised and received backing for a system for winning at the world's most sophisticated casinos, an endeavor that earned them more than three million dollars.

Paperback:

9780743266208, titled "Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions" | Free Pr, June 1, 2004, cover price $7.99

9780743249997, titled "Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions" | Reprint edition (Free Pr, September 9, 2003), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Recounts the story of how a notorious gang of MIT blackjack savants devised and received backing for a system for winning at the world's most sophisticated casinos, an endeavor that earned them more than three million dollars.

Miscellaneous:

9780743250849, titled "Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.i.t. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions" | Free Pr, December 2, 2002, cover price $11.99

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780743526548, titled "Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions" | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster, December 31, 2009), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER -- NOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 21 The long-running New York Times bestseller that has become a cultural phenomenon, Bringing Down the House is an action-filled caper carried out by the unlikeliest of cons -- supersmart geeks.

Ask Barney: An Insider's Guide to Las Vegas

Product Description: Welcome to Las Vegas -- the city of lights, the land of dreams, the entertainment capital of the world, the place where time stands still. It's the last true frontier town in the Old West, only you're not drawing against the fastest gun in the territory. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David P. Tarino (editor) and Barney Vinson

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9781566251815 | Bonus Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Welcome to Las Vegas -- the city of lights, the land of dreams, the entertainment capital of the world, the place where time stands still.

Biggest Game in Town

Product Description: Called "the best book ever written on poker" by players and critics alike, The Biggest Game in Town is a sought-after classic thats finally available in print again. Acclaimed author A. Alvarez delves into the seedy, obsessive world of high-stakes Vegas poker, where "the next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing...read more

By A. Alvarez

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9780811834346, titled "The Biggest Game in Town" | Chronicle Books Llc, March 1, 2002, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Called "the best book ever written on poker" by players and critics alike, The Biggest Game in Town is a sought-after classic thats finally available in print again.

9780948353024 | Reprint edition (Oldcastle Books Ltd, December 1, 1991), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Al Alvarez touched down in Las Vegas one hot day in 1981, a dedicated amateur poker player but a stranger to the town and its crazy ways.

9780395383513, titled "The Biggest Game in Town" | Reprint edition (Horizon Book Promotions, April 1, 1985), cover price $2.98 | About this edition: Al Alvarez touched down in Las Vegas one hot day in 1981, a dedicated amateur poker player but a stranger to the town and its crazy ways.

I Did It: My Life After Megabucks

Product Description: This is the true story of one person's life (mine) after winning the World's Record Megabucks Slot Jackpot of nearly 12 million dollars in Las Vegas in 1996. It is in story form, but it historically describes life after five years of winning the "Big One...read more

By John Tippin and Lance Tominaga

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9780971168213 | I Did It Llc, June 1, 2001, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: This is the true story of one person's life (mine) after winning the World's Record Megabucks Slot Jackpot of nearly 12 million dollars in Las Vegas in 1996.

Super Casino: Inside the "New" Las Vegas

The author of Family of Spies and Circumstantial Evidence journeys behind the glitz and glamour to reveal the secret world of modern Las Vegas, the behind-the-scenes operations of the major casinos, and the men and women who make it the city one of the entertainment capitals of the world. Reprint.

By Pete Earley

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9780553095029 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, January 1, 2000, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The author journeys behind the glitz and glamour to reveal the secret world of modern Las Vegas, the behind-the-scenes operations of the major casinos, and the men and women who make the city one of the entertainment capitals of the world

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9780553573497 | Bantam Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: The author journeys behind the glitz and glamour to reveal the secret world of modern Las Vegas, the behind-the-scenes operations of the major casinos, and the men and women who make the city one of the entertainment capitals of the world.

The Players: The Men Who Made Las Vegas

Product Description: Used book in very good condition (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jack Sheehan (editor)

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9780874173062 | Univ of Nevada Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Used book in very good condition

Casino Secrets

Product Description: Learn how to play every popular game in the casino, making the best bets and avoiding the worst. The author's treatment of the games is easy, perfect for beginners as well as experienced players who'll enjoy a whimsical take on their favorite casino pastimes.

By David P. Tarino and Barney Vinson

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9780929712024 | Huntington Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Learn how to play every popular game in the casino, making the best bets and avoiding the worst.

High Stakes: Inside the New Las Vegas

An exploration of a revitalized gaming business reveals how Las Vegas changed from a neon world of nonstop gambling, gangsters, sex, and adult entertainment to a clean, attractive, family-oriented resort town. 15,000 first printing.

By Gary Provost

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9780525936503 | Truman Talley Books, June 1, 1994, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: An exploration of a revitalized gaming business reveals how Las Vegas changed from a neon world of nonstop gambling, gangsters, sex, and adult entertainment to a clean, attractive, family-oriented resort town

Welcome to the Pleasuredome: Inside Las Vegas

Briefly traces the history of Las Vegas, describes the people who work and gamble there, and looks at the casinos and how they are run

By David Spanier

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9780874172133 | Univ of Nevada Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Briefly traces the history of Las Vegas, describes the people who work and gamble there, and looks at the casinos and how they are run

Superbookie: Inside Las Vegas Sports Gambling

The Director of Race and Sports Operations at the Las Vegas Hilton offers an insider's look at the sports gaming industry, and describes changing public attitudes towards the morality of sports wagering

By Art Manteris

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9780809244300 | Contemporary Books, October 1, 1991, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The Director of Race and Sports Operations at the Las Vegas Hilton offers an insider's look at the sports gaming industry, and describes changing public attitudes towards the morality of sports wagering

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9780809238453 | Reissue edition (Contemporary Books, August 1, 1992), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The Director of Race and Sports Operations at the Las Vegas Hilton offers an insider's look at the sports gaming industry, and describes changing public attitudes towards the morality of sports wagering

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