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Global gambling : cultural perspectives on gambling organizations / edited by Sytze F. Kingma.

Contributor(s): Series: Routledge advances in criminology ; 8.Publication details: New York ; London : Routledge, 2010.Description: vi, 248 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415996778 (hbk.)
  • 0415996775 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.482 GLO 2010
Contents:
A question of money? : the founding of two Finnish gambling monopolies / Riitta Matilainen -- Into the zone : innovating in the Australian poker machine industry / Richard Woolley and Charles Livingstone -- Gambling with development : comparing casino legalization in South Africa with Indian gambling in California / Jeffrey J. Sallaz -- Ethnography in a casino : social dynamics at blackjack tables / Richard A. Marksbury -- Making friends, making money : Macau's traditional VIP casino system / Wuyi Wang and Peter Zabielskis -- Dutch casino space : the spatial construction of gambling pleasure / Sytze F. Kingma -- "You could become a millionaire" : truth, deception, and imagination in gambling advertising / Per Binde -- Balancing rules : gambling consumption at home / Anita Borch -- Subjects in a state : cultural economies of gambling / Fiona Nicoll.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A question of money? : the founding of two Finnish gambling monopolies / Riitta Matilainen -- Into the zone : innovating in the Australian poker machine industry / Richard Woolley and Charles Livingstone -- Gambling with development : comparing casino legalization in South Africa with Indian gambling in California / Jeffrey J. Sallaz -- Ethnography in a casino : social dynamics at blackjack tables / Richard A. Marksbury -- Making friends, making money : Macau's traditional VIP casino system / Wuyi Wang and Peter Zabielskis -- Dutch casino space : the spatial construction of gambling pleasure / Sytze F. Kingma -- "You could become a millionaire" : truth, deception, and imagination in gambling advertising / Per Binde -- Balancing rules : gambling consumption at home / Anita Borch -- Subjects in a state : cultural economies of gambling / Fiona Nicoll.