1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462455903321

Autore

Chambers Kerry <1958->

Titolo

Gambling for profit : lotteries, gaming machines, and casinos in cross-national focus / / Kerry G.E. Chambers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-4426-9008-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Disciplina

306.4/82

Soggetti

Gambling

Gambling - Social aspects

Gambling - Government policy

Gambling - Economic aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. The Emergence of Gambling within a Historically Contingent Framework -- 2. Gambling for Profit in the Welfare Regimes -- 3. Casinos in Australia, Canada, and the United States -- 4. Lotteries and Gaming Machines in Australia, Canada, and the United States -- 5. Historical Contingency in Political-Economic and Sociocultural Contexts -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Over the past forty years, Western governments have increasingly liberalized and deregulated gambling, which is now used to deliver state revenues and commercial profit in many jurisdictions. Gambling for Profit is a cross-national history of the emergence of legal gambling, including lotteries, gaming machines, and casinos.Gambling for Profit is unique among studies of gambling's twentieth-century growth thanks to Kerry G.E. Chambers's strong analytical framework - investigating not only the political aspects of legalization, but also the sociocultural factors that influence popular adoption. Chambers provides a useful chronological examination of the electronic gambling



phenomenon, as well as comparative data on dates of introduction and revenues across twenty-three countries. Gambling for Profit provides a dynamic model to explore the legalization of gambling and stresses the inadequacy of seeking universal explanations for gambling's entrenchment within particular cultures.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459379903321

Titolo

Mind, method, and morality [[electronic resource] ] : essays in honour of Anthony Kenny / / [edited by] John Cottingham and Peter Hacker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-73232-3

9786612732324

0-19-157301-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (408 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KennyAnthony <1931->

CottinghamJohn <1943->

HackerP. M. S (Peter Michael Stephan)

Disciplina

190

Soggetti

Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliography of the works of Anthony Kenny: p. [373]-382.

Nota di contenuto

Aristotle -- Aquinas -- Descartes -- Wittgenstein.

Sommario/riassunto

Sir Anthony Kenny is one of the most distinguished and prolific philosophers of our time. In the wide range and historical breadth of his interests, he has influenced many parts of the philosophical landscape, especially in the philosophy of mind and the theory of human action and responsibility. In contrast to many of his contemporaries, who have played down philosophy's debt to its past, Kenny's work has always been rooted in the great tradition of Western philosophical inquiry.Mind, Method and Morality celebrates Kenny's work by focusing on the four great philosophers to whom Kenny has



give

3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996387068603316

Autore

Fitzherbert Anthony, Sir, <1470-1538.>

Titolo

La novvelle natvra brevivm [[electronic resource] /] / du Iudge tresreuerend Monsieur Anthoine Fitzherbert, denierement reneue & corrigee par laucteur ; auecques vne table parfaicte des choses notables contenues en ycelle, nouuelleme[n]t composee par Guilliaulme Rastall et Iammais par cy deuant imprimee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Londini, : In aedibus Richardi Tottelli., Anno .1553

Descrizione fisica

[1] leaf

Altri autori (Persone)

RastellWilliam <1508?-1565.>

Soggetti

Writs - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Within ornamental border.

Fragment: t.p. only.

Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018