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Gambling has been a practice central to many cultures throughout history. In Dice, Cards, Wheels , Thomas M. Kavanagh scrutinizes the changing face of the gambler in France over a period of eight centuries, using gambling and its representations in literature as a lens through which to observe French culture. Kavanagh argues that the way people gamble tells us something otherwise unrecognized about the values, conflicts, and cultures that define a period or class. To gamble is to enter a world traced out by the rules and protocols of the game the gambler plays. That world may be an alternative to the established order, but the shape and structure of the game reveal indirectly hidden tensions, fears, and prohibitions. Drawing on literature from the Middle Ages to the present, Kavanagh reconstructs the figure of the gambler and his evolving personae. He examines, among other examples, Bodel's dicing in a twelfth-century tavern for the conversion of the Muslim world; Pascal's post-Reformation redefinition of salvation as the gambler's prize; the aristocratic libertine's celebration of the bluff; and Balzac's, Barbey d'Aurevilly's, and Bourget's nineteenth-century revisions of the gambler. Dice, Cards, Wheels embraces the tremendous breadth of French history and emerges as a broad-ranging study of the different forms of gambling, from the dice games of the Middle Ages to the digital slot machines of the twenty-first century, and what those games tell us about French culture and history.


Thinker. Logical gaming device, which combines the elements of Rubik’s Cube, the 15 puzzle, Dominoes and playing cards Thinker. Logical gaming device, which combines the elements of Rubik’s Cube, the 15 puzzle, Dominoes and playing cards

Автор: Valeriy Zhiglov

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For a long time the games are the entertainment, which is the most demanded for. Both in USA, and in a number of European countries, gaming industry overcame cinema in annual income already several years ago. The annual turnover in gaming industry already exceeded 15 billion dollars, and it still grows every year. I have proposed a logical gaming device, which combines the elements of Rubik’s Cube and the 15 puzzle, and which can be used widely to improve logical thinking abilities in children.


The Cleverdale Mystery: or, The Machine and Its Wheels: A Story of American Life The Cleverdale Mystery: or, The Machine and Its Wheels: A Story of American Life

Автор: Wilkins W. A.

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Бломмоны. Kosmos blommon cards Бломмоны. Kosmos blommon cards

Автор: Терентiй Травнiкъ

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Графические бломмоны Т. Травнiка – это уникальное авторское пособие по гармонизации внутреннего состояния, дающее возможность переключения от бесплодной каждодневной суеты к своему внутреннему миру, побыть наедине с собой, услышать тишину, погрузиться в особые космическо-психические измерения. При регулярном созерцании бломмонов вы всегда будете чувствовать себя будто заново родившимися, отдохнувшими, всемогущими, каждую минуту ощущая себя на гребне жизни и небывалый прилив сил!


The Wheels of Chance The Wheels of Chance

Автор: Герберт Уэллс

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Intelligent Credit Scoring. Building and Implementing Better Credit Risk Scorecards Intelligent Credit Scoring. Building and Implementing Better Credit Risk Scorecards

Автор: Naeem Siddiqi

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A better development and implementation framework for credit risk scorecards Intelligent Credit Scoring presents a business-oriented process for the development and implementation of risk prediction scorecards. The credit scorecard is a powerful tool for measuring the risk of individual borrowers, gauging overall risk exposure and developing analytically driven, risk-adjusted strategies for existing customers. In the past 10 years, hundreds of banks worldwide have brought the process of developing credit scoring models in-house, while ‘credit scores' have become a frequent topic of conversation in many countries where bureau scores are used broadly. In the United States, the ‘FICO' and ‘Vantage' scores continue to be discussed by borrowers hoping to get a better deal from the banks. While knowledge of the statistical processes around building credit scorecards is common, the business context and intelligence that allows you to build better, more robust, and ultimately more intelligent, scorecards is not. As the follow-up to Credit Risk Scorecards, this updated second edition includes new detailed examples, new real-world stories, new diagrams, deeper discussion on topics including WOE curves, the latest trends that expand scorecard functionality and new in-depth analyses in every chapter. Expanded coverage includes new chapters on defining infrastructure for in-house credit scoring, validation, governance, and Big Data. Black box scorecard development by isolated teams has resulted in statistically valid, but operationally unacceptable models at times. This book shows you how various personas in a financial institution can work together to create more intelligent scorecards, to avoid disasters, and facilitate better decision making. Key items discussed include: Following a clear step by step framework for development, implementation, and beyond Lots of real life tips and hints on how to detect and fix data issues How to realise bigger ROI from credit scoring using internal resources Explore new trends and advances to get more out of the scorecard Credit scoring is now a very common tool used by banks, Telcos, and others around the world for loan origination, decisioning, credit limit management, collections management, cross selling, and many other decisions. Intelligent Credit Scoring helps you organise resources, streamline processes, and build more intelligent scorecards that will help achieve better results.