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Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Condition: New. Provides an introduction to the American gaming landscape. This book summarizes the legal framework supporting the gaming industry and reviews the costs and benefits of casinos by showing how tax base and job growth vary widely with site-specific factors. It offers both regional and sector comparisons of the gaming industry. Num Pages: 344 pages, 13 figures, 42 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCA; KNSP; WDP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454. . 2007. Paperback. . . . .…

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Condition: New. Provides an introduction to the American gaming landscape. This book summarizes the legal framework supporting the gaming industry and reviews the costs and benefits of casinos by showing how tax base and job growth vary widely with site-specific factors. It offers both regional and sector comparisons of the gaming industry. Num Pages: 344 pages, 13 figures, 42 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCA; KNSP; WDP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454. . 2007. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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Condition: New. pp. 160.

Condition: New. pp. 160.

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Condition: New. Examines the effect of changes in public attitudes toward reform in Russia during the Yeltsin era. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJP; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386. . 2003. Hardback. . . . . …

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Hardback. Condition: New. On December 31, 1999, Boris Yeltsin stepped down as president of the Russian Federation, marking the end of an era. While scholars and observers alike continue to debate the degree to which Russia succeeded in establishing democracy or a free market economy, the enormity of the social transformation that occurred during the Yeltsin era is far less disputable. For the social stratification that emerged changed the very face of Russian society.Much criticism has been leveled at the political corruption that marred the Yeltsin era. However, the economic and political reforms enacted under Yeltsin also permitted the opening of new channels of social mobility, particularly in the larger cities. Those who benefited most from the reforms became its strongest supporters, allowing the creation of a nascent middle class. The book's focus on this socioeconomic group is unique, as most analyses of the Yeltsin era largely ignore it.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. Examines the effect of changes in public attitudes toward reform in Russia during the Yeltsin era. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJP; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386. . 2003. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Condition: New. Provides an introduction to the American gaming landscape. This book summarizes the legal framework supporting the gaming industry and reviews the costs and benefits of casinos by showing how tax base and job growth vary widely with site-specific factors. It offers both regional and sector comparisons of the gaming industry. Num Pages: 344 pages, 13 figures, 42 tables. BIC Classification: KCA; KNSP; WDP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 576. . 2007. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . .…

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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 145 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New. Provides an introduction to the American gaming landscape. This book summarizes the legal framework supporting the gaming industry and reviews the costs and benefits of casinos by showing how tax base and job growth vary widely with site-specific factors. It offers both regional and sector comparisons of the gaming industry. Num Pages: 344 pages, 13 figures, 42 tables. BIC Classification: KCA; KNSP; WDP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 576. . 2007. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Gebunden. Condition: New. Provides an introduction to the American gaming landscape. This book summarizes the legal framework supporting the gaming industry and reviews the costs and benefits of casinos by showing how tax base and job growth vary widely with site-specific factors. I.

Hardback. Condition: New. On December 31, 1999, Boris Yeltsin stepped down as president of the Russian Federation, marking the end of an era. While scholars and observers alike continue to debate the degree to which Russia succeeded in establishing democracy or a free market economy, the enormity of the social transformation that occurred during the Yeltsin era is far less disputable. For the social stratification that emerged changed the very face of Russian society.Much criticism has been leveled at the political corruption that marred the Yeltsin era. However, the economic and political reforms enacted under Yeltsin also permitted the opening of new channels of social mobility, particularly in the larger cities. Those who benefited most from the reforms became its strongest supporters, allowing the creation of a nascent middle class. The book's focus on this socioeconomic group is unique, as most analyses of the Yeltsin era largely ignore it.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Provides an introduction to the American gaming landscape. This book summarizes the legal framework supporting the gaming industry and reviews the costs and benefits of casinos by showing how tax base and job growth vary widely with site-specific factors. It offers both regional and sector comparisons of the gaming industry.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Pages 169-252 + 20 pages of nice ads, Features: Lost in a Cave - three men suffer in a newly-discovered cavern in the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky; "Ju-Ju" and its Spell - the notorious city of Benin and the ill-omened "Palace of Blood" where human sacrifice once took place almost daily - article with great photos; The Mountain of Gold - part1 - a trip to Canada; "Tinclad" - a boat constructed of stolen material for a daring prison escape; A Tenderfoot in Canada - part 1 - H.P. Musson ventures across Canada and secures his first job; The "Devil-Leopard" of Poosapally - it killed 30 people; The Uninvited Guest - an Indian Panther tale; The Ming Jar - what happened after a collector purchased a choice example from a temple near Canton; Mazulla and his Sahib - part 2 - an inspiring record from India - with photo of Mazulla and two of his children; In Quest of the "Bearded Boar" - in search of a trophy of this rare species located on an island in the Dutch East Indies; Across North America in a Motor-Boat - conclusion - Triumphant arrival in New York City - article with photos; Tobacco Redeemer (smoking cessation) ad inside back cover. Unmarked. Above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, January (Jan.) 1927, Vol. LVIII, No. 345 - Across North America in a Motor Boat Lost in a Cave - three men suffer in a newly-discovered cavern in the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky; "Ju-Ju" and its S. Illustrated by Leigh, Conrad; Hiley, Francis E.; Robinson, T.H.; Wightman,W.E.; Woodville, Caton; Goss, G.W.; Holloway, Cyril; Prater, Ernest;Soper, G.; Sutcliffe, Norman (illustrator). …

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Poachers - An amusing story of a chase after a wounded African elephant; The Mystery of the "Mary Clyne" - A chief officer's story of a weird and nerve-trying affair that happened on board a tramp steamer; Housekeeping in the Wilds of Bechuanaland - Vivian France explains how she set up her home a month's ox-cart journey from civilization - with nice photos ; Following the Frontier Trail - Part II - The continued adventures of Edith Ammons Kohl in Wyoming; Our Caribou Hunt - How four young Newfoundlanders went into the interior one winter to shoot caribou, and what happened to them; Pekin [Peking / Beijing] to London - Mostly By Car - Part II - A most adventurous 15,000 miles, with nautical detours around civil war in China, and floods in Siam and Burma - with nice photos; A Fool Afoot in France - Part I - The amusing narrative of a decidedly unathletic 46-year-old Londoner who decided to tramp from the French coast to Lourdes; The Black Trackers of Australia - follow-up to "The Great Boulder Murder Case" which appeared in the prior issue; Photo of sheep being used as pack animals on the way from Tibet to the Rampur Fair; A Chinese Night's Entertainment - A lively interlude in the peaceful routine of life at a mission-station in a remote Chinese town; Buddy Assheton's Return - A tragic story from Western Canada, as told by a member of the Mounted Police; My Room-Mate - The amusing story of what happened one night at a hotel in a Queensland township; The Unmasking of Gola Singh - A member of the Indian police goes bad, creating the need for a delicate investigation; A "Creeper" in Ceylon - Part I - C.V. Warren travels to a tea estate in Ceylon and describes his experiences and the general routine of the tea-planter's life, with photos. 84 pages plus 12 pages of great ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Wightman, W.E.; Hiley, Francis E.; Goss, G.W.; Cleaver, Reginald; Holloway, Cyril; Thompson, Kenneth; Sherie, E.F.; Prater, Ernest; Vedder, S.H. (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: America's Murder Gangs Unmasked - A striking revelation of the forces at work behind the "murder-gangs," or organized criminal syndicates, of New York, Chicago, and other large American cities; My Menagerie - Photo-illustrated article about D. Maule and his odd experiences with his collection of animals, acquired in the wilds of Rhodesia; "Square-Pegs" - Part III of a story which should be studied by everyone considering settling in Canada - in this case a London family purchases a prairie farm; The Crowing Cock - How two Buddhist priests unmasked a cunning thief by a clever piece of 'divination'; on the outskirts of Colombo, Ceylon; Room Forty-Nine - A dangerous experience for an Englishman in Mexico; "Kruger's" Day Out - A bold, bad baboon is unfastened by mischievous troopers in South Africa; Hunting the "Moonshiners" - Interesting stories from the officers tasked with suppressing the flow of illegal liquor in the Prohibition-era United States - with photos; Photo of communal bakery in Brittany; "Tiger" - After 11 years in Malaya William Hodge saw his first live tiger; Two Girls on the Frontier - Part I - Two city-bred sisters take up homesteading in South Dakota - with photos; Nik's Homecoming - Life and death in a remote Albanian village last August is described, with photos, by Lieut-Colonel P.T. Etherton; Mart Dayton's Grizzly - It took him a year but he finally took revenge on the bear that killed his young partner in the remote MacGregor country in British Columbia; The Bridge-Builders - Two men knowing nothing of the business take on a contract to build a bridge across an obscure river in the wilds of Africa; Fire-Walkers of Mauritius - A Photo-illustrated account of an extraordinary ceremony; In Quest of Gold - Part II - Two young Americans in search of buried treasure are forced to turn around by the dreaded Yaqui Indians. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Sutcliffe, Norman; Goss, G.W.; gale, W.G.; Sindall, A.W.; Moorsom, F.G.; tresilian, S.; Wood, Stanley L.; Brock, R.H.; Carruthers, G.P.; Saunderson, E.J.; Prater, Ernest; Cleaver, Reginald (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Ning Wo Pays His Debt - The Chinese servant of a Chief of Police in a Malay state settles a score with an enemy who killed his brother; My Sea-Trip - Peter Carden's amusing experience as a 'horseman' aboard a cargo-steamer; Photo of a Mariamma goddess in India, used to ward off epidemics; Photo and brief write-up of a marine fruit market in Bangkok, the "Venice of the East"; Passages With Pachyderms - exciting encounters with these great beasts, as told by Captain C. Lestock Reid; Dead Man's Treasure - A consulting engineer for the Cyclops M. and M. Company of Montida USA makes strange discoveries on a prospecting trip; Through Spain in Disguise - Part III - A continuation of the adventures and misadventures of Count and Countess Malmignati who travelled through Spain disguised as wandering Arab beggars, singing and dancing for a living; Zaki and Zomo - The Dog and Pony who both lost their lives while serving Captain J.F.J. Fitzpatrick in battle against the Germans; On Foot Through South America - G.C. Thompson and his two young sons travlled all over South America in search of work for four years; The Tale of the Toheroa - The curious shellfish found only in New Zealand - with photos; On the Trail of the "Thirstland Trekkers" - Part I - Colonel Deneys Reitz describes his exploration of mysterious terra incognita in what was formerly known as German South-West Africa - with many interesting photos; Timothy Murphy's "Donkey" - Great story about a logging donkey-engine at Calfton's logging outfit on Myrtle Island on the British Columbia Coast; The Mine Under the Creek - A brush with death when a mine floods in the Gulf country of Australia; The Chrissie C. Thomey's" Last Voyage - A gallant old Arctic schooner is lost through a most unlikely mischance - with photo; The Big Voyage of the Little "Shanghai" - Part V - The amazing voyage of several young men from Shanghai to Copenhagen - article with nice photos. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Holloway, Cyril; Illingworth, L.G.; Goss, G.W.; Leigh, Conrad; Cleaver, Reginald; Prater, Ernest; Potts, Leonard; Vedder, S.H.; Soper, G.; York, W.G. (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Pages 422-504 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: Ten Months Overdue - a stirring account of the luckless voyage of the Liverpool ship Denbigh Castle, which finally reached her point nearly a year overdue; Hunting the Tapir; Imam Baksh's Escape - a murder story from India; Sanna's Eagle - the strange fate that befell a South African lammarfanger, or lamb-eating eagle, which attacked a little Boer girl and caused her death; The Death Circle - two men wander in a Canadian prairie blizzard - one finds shelter, the other dies; In Quest of Gold - gold-seekers from San Francisco on their way to the land of the Yaqui Indians are forced to turn back; Levenson's Ordeal - Albert S. Levenson, a prominent California merchant, goes missing for five days while on a mountain holiday; Life in a Land of Death (part II) - adventures among the head-hunters and other picturesque inhabitants of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea - article with great photos; The Way of the East - a curious story from Vancouver's Chinatown; The Mitimoni Man-Eaters - two white men get involved with African native witchcraft, resulting in their responsibility for fatalities caused by two man-eating lions; "Square Pegs" (part II) - This absorbing tale will teach prospective immigrants more about Canadian prairie life than stacks of guide-books and official pamphlets; Wind - a tale told at the Roscoe Hotel in Campbell River, B.C. which explained why a man dreaded wind; The Yellow Box - a missing box sets a whole West Africa colony seething; The Smallest Park in the World. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Back cover loose but present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. York, W.G.; Goss, G.W.; Prater, Ernest; Peddie, Tom; Tennant, Dudley; Cleaver, Reginald; Inns, Kenneth; Holloway, Cyril; Tresilian; Gale, W.G.; Soper, G.; Sindall, A.W. (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 84 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: An Elephant-Hunt in Canada - a six-week hunt results when seven valuable elephants escaped from a circus and took to the British Columbia woods - article with photos; A Fugitive in Thirstland - A former German officer who became a adventurer is South Africa is continually chased by the police; Trekking in Unknown Abyssinia - great photo-illustrated article; The Friendly Mosquito - how a mosquito saved the life of T.A. Shields; Our Salvage Job - a plucky attempt to salvage the crippled vessel Stiklestadt; The Decree of the Wild - a grim tale of the Canadian Far North, 1,200 miles north of Edmonton; "The White Man's Great War-Game" (part III) - amongst the savages of the Sura, Angas, and other primitive tribes of Northern Nigeria, Geoffrey Barkas produced a film founded upon the history of British Administration - article with great photos; Gulbaz Khan's Revenge - the story of a long-delayed vengeance for a trifling action that had far-reaching consequences; Where Everybody Plays "Cat's Cradle" - photo-illustrated article on the people of the Pelews (Pelew Islands); Fur-Getting in Australia - Australian men make a good living hunting rabbits and foxes for their furs; The Partnership That Went Wrong - four U.S. Army soldiers pool their savings to run a sawmill; What Happened to Wilson - struggle for life with an enraged tiger in the heart of a big city; Through France with "Sylvabelle" (part II) - Mr. Leslie Richardson's yachting voyage from Brittany to the Riviera; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Wood, Stanley L.; Prater, Ernest;; Piffard, H.; Wigfull, W.E.; Vedder, S.H.; Sindall, A.; Goss, G.W.; Soper, G. (illustrator).…