Author : Andrew McGettigan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,70 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781849647656
A critical and deeply informed survey of the brave new world of UK Higher Education emerging from government cuts and market-driven reforms.
Author : David L. Bluder
Publisher : Ice Cube Press
Page : pages
File Size : 31,53 MB
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781948509138
An odd-couple of FBI agents embark on a classified operation into the gambling battlefield which is bleeding into the corrupt empire of athletics. Will the FBI uncover the truth that could shock the nation? A deadly international hunt leads to a fascinating sting in Mexico City before it returns to the sickening web of sports corruption in the United States. THE GREAT GAMBLE is full of suspense and revelation. Uncovering the deceptive and corrupt universe of gambling and sports betting previously hidden from the eyes of fans. Can everyone be had for the right price? A novel that entertains and informs. Everyone has a price when tempation or need makes them alter their decisions. It's the consequences that follow that change lives. Think Indecent Proposal, the apple in the garden.
Author : Gregory Feifer
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061143199
The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a grueling debacle that has striking lessons for the twenty-first century. In The Great Gamble, Gregory Feifer examines the conflict from the perspective of the soldiers on the ground. In gripping detail, he vividly depicts the invasion of a volatile country that no power has ever successfully conquered. A riveting account as seen through the eyes of the men who fought in the war, The Great Gamble tells an unforgettable story full of drama, action, and political intrigue whose relevance in our own time is greater than ever.
Author : Milena Belloni
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520298705
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Tens of thousands of Eritreans make perilous voyages across Africa and the Mediterranean Sea every year. Why do they risk their lives to reach European countries where so many more hardships await them? By visiting family homes in Eritrea and living with refugees in camps and urban peripheries across Ethiopia, Sudan, and Italy, Milena Belloni untangles the reasons behind one of the most under-researched refugee populations today. Balancing encounters with refugees and their families, smugglers, and visa officers, The Big Gamble contributes to ongoing debates about blurred boundaries between forced and voluntary migration, the complications of transnational marriages, the social matrix of smuggling, and the role of family expectations, emotions, and values in migrants’ choices of destinations.
Author : Harry Y. Gamble
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300069181
This fascinating and lively book provides the first comprehensive discussion of the production, circulation, and use of books in early Christianity. It explores the extent of literacy in early Christian communities; the relation in the early church between oral tradition and written materials; the physical form of early Christian books; how books were produced, transcribed, published, duplicated, and disseminated; how Christian libraries were formed; who read the books, in what circumstances, and to what purposes. Harry Y. Gamble interweaves practical and technological dimensions of the production and use of early Christian books with the social and institutional history of the period. Drawing on evidence from papyrology, codicology, textual criticism, and early church history, as well as on knowledge about the bibliographical practices that characterized Jewish and Greco-Roman culture, he offers a new perspective on the role of books in the first five centuries of the early church.
Author : Alicia Barber
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Chronicles the creation and transformation of Reno's reputation from backward railroad town to a nationally known "Sin Central." The author shows how Reno civic leaders, in their never-ending quest for tourist dollars, dramatically altered the economy and physical appearance of the city.
Author : Todd Brewster
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,36 MB
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1451693893
A brilliant, authoritative, and riveting account of the most critical six months in Abraham Lincoln's presidency, when he penned the Emancipation Proclamation and changed the course of the Civil War.
Author : Natasha Dow Schüll
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 32,77 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0691127557
machines stems from the consumer, the product, or the interplay between the two. --
Author : Giles MacDonogh
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 2011-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1459620399
In this masterful narrative, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh chronicles Adolf Hitler's consolidation of power over the course of one year. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was clearly a threat to the entire world.
Author : John Sides
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 2014-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0691163634
A unique "moneyball" look at the 2012 U.S. presidential contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney "Game changer." We heard it so many times during the 2012 U.S. presidential election. But what actually made a difference in the contest—and what was just hype? In this groundbreaking book, John Sides and Lynn Vavreck tell the dramatic story of the election—with a big difference. Using an unusual "moneyball" approach and drawing on extensive quantitative data, they look beyond the anecdote, folklore, and conventional wisdom that often pass for election analysis to separate what was truly important from what was irrelevant. The Gamble combines this data with the best social science research and colorful on-the-ground reporting, providing the most accurate and precise account of the election yet written—and the only book of its kind. In a new preface, the authors reflect on the place of The Gamble in the tradition of presidential election studies, its reception to date, and possible paths for future social science research.
