Chiapelli's Live Poker Strategies


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Learn how to play and win at the game of poker! Chiapelli's Live Poker Strategies, a book written for novice and experienced players alike, features live poker games like Seven Card Stud, Omaha, and Texas Hold'em. Understanding the fundamentals of heavily popularized and celebrity-studded games of poker doesn't have to be an impossible or difficult feat. Written for the average person, this unique book is guaranteed to both entertain and educate any player worldwide. Included are modern, easy-to-follow illustrations on winning poker hands as well as new topics that often go unaddressed such as gaming etiquette, online poker, and poker room environments across the United States. With a no-nonsense approach that is sure to guide beginners and even the most experienced players into success, this book will prove to be the most beneficial one of its kind. Advocating good entertainment and responsible gambling, Chiapelli's Live Poker Strategies book is a must read for people of all ages! Larry Chiapelli is an experienced poker player and owner of a successful floral nursery called Gramma's Gardens in Troy, Michigan. In addition to boosting his family business, Mr. Chiapelli plans to travel more by playing poker across the United States and around the world. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/LarryChiapelli




Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement


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This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement, EuroSPI conference, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, in September 2019. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. They are organized in topical sections: Visionary Papers, SPI and Safety and Security, SPI and Assessments, SPI and Future Qualification & Team Performance, and SPI Manifesto and Culture. The selected workshop papers are also presented and organized in following topical sections: GamifySPI, Digitalisation of Industry, Infrastructure and E-Mobility. -Best Practices in Implementing Traceability. -Good and Bad Practices in Improvement. -Functional Safety and Cybersecurity. -Experiences with Agile and Lean. -Standards and Assessment Models. -Team Skills and Diversity Strategies. -Recent Innovations.




Brazil Imagined


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The first comprehensive cultural history of Brazil to be written in English, Brazil Imagined: 1500 to the Present captures the role of the artistic imaginary in shaping Brazil's national identity. Analyzing representations of Brazil throughout the world, this ambitious survey demonstrates the ways in which life in one of the world's largest nations has been conceived and revised in visual arts, literature, film, and a variety of other media. Beginning with the first explorations of Brazil by the Portuguese, Darlene J. Sadlier incorporates extensive source material, including paintings, historiographies, letters, poetry, novels, architecture, and mass media to trace the nation's shifting sense of its own history. Topics include the oscillating themes of Edenic and cannibal encounters, Dutch representations of Brazil, regal constructs, the literary imaginary, Modernist utopias, "good neighbor" protocols, and filmmakers' revolutionary and dystopian images of Brazil. A magnificent panoramic study of race, imperialism, natural resources, and other themes in the Brazilian experience, this landmark work is a boon to the field.




The Journey of Man


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Around 60,000 years ago, a man—genetically identical to us—lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up as the father of us all? What happened to the descendants of other men who lived at the same time? And why, if modern humans share a single prehistoric ancestor, do we come in so many sizes, shapes, and races? Examining the hidden secrets of human evolution in our genetic code, Spencer Wells reveals how developments in the revolutionary science of population genetics have made it possible to create a family tree for the whole of humanity. Replete with marvelous anecdotes and remarkable information, from the truth about the real Adam and Eve to the way differing racial types emerged, The Journey of Man is an enthralling, epic tour through the history and development of early humankind.







Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New World


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Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New World explores a range of images and texts that shed light on the complexity of the European reception and interpretation of the New World. Jonathan Hart examines Columbus's first representation of the natives and the New World, the representation of him in subsequent ages, the portrayal of America in sexual terms, the cultural intricacies brought into play by a variety of translators and mediators, the tensions between the aesthetic and colonial in Shakespeare's The Tempest , and a discussion of cultural and voice appropriation that examines the colonial in the postcolonial. This book brings the comparative study of the cultural past of the Americas and the Atlantic world into focus as it relates to the present.




The Italian Wars 1494-1559


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The Italian Wars of 1494-1559 had a major impact on the whole of Renaissance Europe. In this important text, Michael Mallett and Christine Shaw place the conflict within the political and economic context of the wars. Emphasising the gap between aims and strategies of the political masters and what their commanders and troops could actually accomplish on the ground, they analyse developments in military tactics and the tactical use of firearms and examine how Italians of all sectors of society reacted to the wars and the inevitable political and social change that they brought about. The history of Renaissance Italy is currently being radically rethought by historians. This book is a major contribution to this re-evaluation, and will be essential reading for all students of Renaissance and military history.




B-26 Marauder at War


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Beskriver det amerikanske bombefly B-26 Marauder og dets operationer under 2. verdenskrig.




Prohibiting State-sanctioned Sports Gambling


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Economics of Prohibition, The


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Examines the failure of Prohibition; discusses how this analysis can be applied to the effects of illegal drugs on today's economy.