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Journalist and poker fanatic Andy Bellin takes readers on a raucous journey into the shut-up-and-deal world of professional poker. From basement games to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, you'll look over his shoulder as he learns to count cards, read a legendary player's body language, hang in there when the chips are down, and take his beatings like a man. Even if you don't know the difference between a flop and a river card, Bellin keeps you in the game with his portraits of the colorful players, dreamers, hustlers, and eccentrics who populate this strange subculture. Along with learning what goes on behind the scenes in illegal poker clubs, you'll get great advice on how to play Texas Hold'em, today's game of choice for big-money players. more...

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Meet Evelyn Ryan, mother of six sons and four daughters, who kept her family afloat during the 'contest era' of the 1950s and 1960s by writing jingles and entering TV, radio, newspaper, and direct-mail contests. Her infectious joy and winning spirit triumphed, providing her humble family with bikes, cars, TVs, jukeboxes, and trips to New York and Switzerland. more...

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One of the most famous anagrams of all time was constructed in the Middle Ages. The unknown author contrived it as a Latin dialogue between Pilate and Jesus. Jesus' answer to Pilate's question 'What is truth?' is phrased as an ingenious anagram of the letters of that very question: Pilate: Quid est veritas? ('What is truth?') Jesus: Est virqui adest. ('It is the man before you'). Danesi argues that the fascination with puzzles throughout the ages suggests something more than that they provide a form of constructive entertainment. They serve, in fact, a deeply imbedded need in people to make sense of things. more...

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Former marshal-turned-rebel Jim Raynor has broken away from the power-crazed Emperor Arcturus Mengsk. Enraged over Mengsk's betrayal of the powerful telepath, Sarah Kerrigan, to the ravenous Zerg, Raynor has lost all faith in his fellow humanity. Yet, in the aftermath of Mengsk's treachery, Raynor is plagued by strange visions of Char -- a deadly, volcanic world haunted by horrifying alien creatures. As the nightmares grow in intensity, Raynor begins to suspect that they may not be figments of his imagination -- but a desperate form of telepathic contact. Convinced that the woman he loves is still alive, Raynor launches a hasty mission to rescue Kerrigan from Char. But deep beneath the planet's smoldering surface, Raynor finds a strange chrysalis...and is forced to watch in horror as a terrible, all-too-familiar entity rises from it. Before him stands a creature of depthless malice and vengeance... Sarah Kerrigan: the Zerg Queen of Blades. more...

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Science and Racket Sports III contains the peer-reviewed papers and keynote addresses presented at the combined Third World Congress of Science and Racket Sports and the Eighth International Table Tennis Federation Sports Science Congress. Speakers at the conference presented cutting edge research in racket sports science along the five key themes of: - Notational Match Analysis - Sports Medicine - Biomechanics - Sports Psychology - Sports Physiology. The collection embraces a broad spectrum of the issues being examined by contemporary sports scientists. more...

Price: $190.00