The Virgin's Gamble
The Virgin's Gamble

Author: Gina Hollands

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc

Published: 2018-08-27

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1509219404

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With revenge on her mind, twenty-one-year-old Domino Vincent travels to the glamorous five-star Harbor Hotel in Montenegro, determined to beat its playboy owner, Luca Moretti, at his own game. Domino soon realizes the stakes are higher than she ever imagined. Disturbed by events in his past, Luca doesn't take kindly to losing. Nor does he appreciate Domino assassinating his character with her accusations that he took advantage of her sick father two years before. When he suggests a bet she can’t refuse, Domino finds herself playing for so much more than her family’s honor and, in return, getting far more than she ever bargained for. What started out as a gamble turns into a month-long forfeit as her enemy’s captive. Instead of being desperate to escape, she is strangely drawn to the brooding billionaire and his dangerous past.

Online Gambling
Online Gambling

Author: The Cheat Mistress

Publisher: M-Y Books Limited

Published: 2012-08-08

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1907649697

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EZ Guides: Online Gambling provides overviews of the top gambling websites, covering sports betting, poker, casino and bingo. All the biggest and best sites are covered, considering factors such as ease of use, game selection & quality and special offers. If you want to find out which sites you can trust, as well as who has the best casino games or sporting odds, EZ Guides: Online Gambling can help. The book also provides beginner's guides to the top gambling games - Betting odds, Roulette and Texas Hold 'Em Poker. It also covers support articles and details for those affected by gambling problems.

Gambling, Game, and Psyche
Gambling, Game, and Psyche

Author: Bettina Liebowitz Knapp

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780791443835

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"While games of chance and of skill have held universal appeal throughout the ages, here Knapp adds a new dimension by exploring the psyches and the cultures of their players. In each of the book's nine chapters, she examines a different type of gambling as evidenced in Western and Eastern tradition through the literary works of Aleichem, Balzac, Dostoevsky, Hesse, Kawabata, Pascal, Poe, Serao, and Zhang. This scrutiny shows both the diversity and universality of each culture as she takes the literary works out of their individual contexts and relates them to humankind in general. Through an examination of seven different cultures - American, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Russian - she shows the effects of gambling on individuals and groups of players as well as its impact on the family and society."--BOOK JACKET.

Sacrilege and Redemption in Renaissance Florence
Sacrilege and Redemption in Renaissance Florence

Author: William J. Connell

Publisher: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780772720306

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In Florence, in the summer of 1501, a man named Antonio Rinaldeschi was arrested and hanged after throwing horse dung at an outdoor painting of the Virgin Mary. His punishment was severe, even for the times, and the crimes with which he was formally charged, gambling, blasphemy and attempted suicide, did not normally warrant the death penalty. Sacrilege and Redemption in Renaissance Florence unveils a series of newly discovered sources concerning this striking episode. The authors show how the political and religious context of Renaissance Florence resulted both in Rinaldeschi's death sentence and in the creation by the followers of Savonarola of a new religious devotion, in the heart of the city, commemorating the event. -- Amazon.com.

Games, Gods, and Gambling
Games, Gods, and Gambling

Author: Florence Nightingale David

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780486400235

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Episodes from the lives of Galileo, Fermat, Pascal, and others illustrate this fascinating account of the roots of mathematics. Features thought-provoking references to classics, archaeology, biography, poetry. 1962 edition.

The Gambler and the Bug Boy
The Gambler and the Bug Boy

Author: John Christgau

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0803211228

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An account of a dark chapter in American horse racing history documents the scandal that ensued in 1939 and 1940 Los Angeles when notorious L.A. bookmaker Bernard "Big" Mooney threatened young jockeys if they did not fix races, with the unwilling assistance of Albert Siler, a young apprentice rider manipulated by the criminal gambler.

Gambling in America
Gambling in America

Author: United States. Commission on the Review of the National Policy Toward Gambling

Publisher:

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 1430

ISBN-13:

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Drawing the Curtain
Drawing the Curtain

Author: Esther Fernández

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2022-11-01

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1487538936

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Miguel de Cervantes’s experimentation with theatricality is frequently tied to the notion of revelation and disclosure of hidden truths. Drawing the Curtain showcases the elements of theatricality that characterize Cervantes’s prose and analyses the ways in which he uses theatricality in his own literary production. Bringing together the works of well-known scholars, who draw from a variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches, this collection demonstrates how Cervantes exploits revelation and disclosure to create dynamic dramatic moments that surprise and engage observers and readers. Hewing closely to Peter Brook’s notion of the bare or empty stage, Esther Fernández and Adrienne L. Martín argue that Cervantes’s omnipresent concern with theatricality manifests not only in his drama but also in the myriad metatheatrical instances dispersed throughout his prose works. In doing so, Drawing the Curtain sheds light on the ways in which Cervantes forces his readers to engage with themes that are central to his life and works, including love, freedom, truth, confinement, and otherness.

The Virgin Hunt Games, Volume 3
The Virgin Hunt Games, Volume 3

Author: Mel Teshco

Publisher: Entangled: One Handed Reads

Published: 2021-03-15

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1949038386

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EARTH, YEAR 2332 Life isn’t fair. Just ask Violet who mysteriously arrived in a space capsule at an orphanage as a baby. She has one goal—to find her biological parents, and winning the Virgin Hunt Games will ensure her face is plastered on every screener across the universe. Surely, her family will recognize and come for her? If she can only stay away from her Mate, the one man she must elude at all cost to win. But naturally, he’s also the only one she wants to surrender to. Prince Zel Oscar is used to getting what he wants. But accepting a rival’s dare to be a Hunter in the infamous sexploitative Virgin Hunt Games was a terrible and possibly life-altering mistake. But then he meets his Hunted, Violet...delicious perfection wrapped up in a gorgeous package. Too bad she is totally indifferent to his kisses, his exploits, and his lofty title. He’ll do whatever it takes to break down her steely resistance...but will his subjects see him as a hero, or a total degenerate for having kinky sex in front of billions of viewers? In the end he must make an impossible choice—keep her love, or his kingdom? Each book in the Virgin Hunt Games series is STANDALONE: * The Virgin Hunt Games, Volume 1 * The Virgin Hunt Games, Volume 2 * The Virgin Hunt Games, Volume 3 * The Virgin Hunt Games, Volume 4