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Problem gambling is a perennial issue frequently reported in the
media. This book is a comprehensive and up-to-date resource on
problem gambling research. It describes the state of the art of the
subject and presents the latest developments such as computer
modelling of gambling behaviour and risk profiles of gambling
products.
Hoping to deter the Union navy from aggressive action on southern
waterways during the Civil War, the Confederacy led the way in
developing torpedoes, a term that in the nineteenth century
referred to contact mines floating on or just below the water's
service. With this book, two little-known but important manuscripts
related to these valuable weapons become available for the first
time. General Gabriel J. Rains, director of the Confederate Torpedo
Bureau, penned his Torpedo Book as a manual for the fabrication and
use of land mines and offensive and defensive water mines. With 21
scale drawings, Notes Explaining Rebel Torpedoes and Ordnance by
Captain Peter S. Michie documents from the Federal perspective the
construction and use of these infernal machines. A detailed
accounting, by the editor, of the vessels sunk or damaged by
Confederate torpedoes and numerous photographs of existing
specimens from museums and private collections complete this
significant compilation.
David Schiller's study of the Jewish music of Bloch, Schoenberg, and Bernstein reveals how, in the mid-twentieth century, the problem of assimilation was acutely felt as the unfinished business of European Jewry, at a time when American Jewry was creating its own distinctive culture (albeit with European roots). He shows how the business of 'assimilating Jewish music' is as much a process audiences themselves engage in when they listen to Jewish music as it is something critics and musicologists do when they write about it. He reveals how this process of assimilation is performed by the music itself - that Jewish music assimilates into the Western tradition of art music when it appears in the form of concert genres like the oratorio, cantata, and symphony. This incisive study sheds new light on an important aspect of the cultural and aesthetic achievements of these seminal Jewish composers.
Problem gambling is a perennial issue frequently reported in the
media. This book is a comprehensive and up-to-date resource on
problem gambling research. It describes the state of the art of the
subject and presents the latest developments such as computer
modelling of gambling behaviour and risk profiles of gambling
products.
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