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Monte Carlo and Las Vegas have become synonymous with casino
gambling. Both destinations featured it as part of a broad variety
of leisure and consumption opportunities that normalized games of
chance and created emotional atmospheres that supported the
hedonistic aspects of gambling. Urban spaces and architecture were
carefully designed to enable a rapid growth of the casino industry
and produce experiences on previous unimaginable scale. Feeling
Lucky, is a “making of story,†about cities which acquired a
strange and captivating allure of mystery around them. It is more
than a mere descriptive account, however. Combining urban history,
the history of consumption, and sociological approaches it presents
a compelling comparative history of Monte Carlo and the Las Vegas
Strip between the 1860s and 1970s. Paul Franke takes the reader on
a journey from arriving at the cities, through the carefully
planned urban environments and into the famous casinos. The
analysis follows the paths contemporary gamblers would have taken,
right to the gambling tables and to the shifting gambling practices
across a century. Franke shows that casino entrepreneurs succeeded
in producing and selling gambling experiences by controlling
spaces, adapt leisure practices and appeal to specific markets.
Gamblers on the other hand  regarded Monte Carlo and Las
Vegas as places to engage in games of chance that would allow them
to preserve their political, cultural, and moral identities.
This volume is an introductory textbook to K-theory, both algebraic
and topological, and to various current research topics within the
field, including Kasparov's bivariant K-theory, the Baum-Connes
conjecture, the comparison between algebraic and topological
K-theory of topological algebras, the K-theory of schemes, and the
theory of dg-categories.
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Royal Pains: Series One (DVD)
James P. Anderson, Jill Flint, Dieter Riesle, Paulo Costanzo, Campbell Scott, …
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R250
Discovery Miles 2 500
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All 12 episodes from the first series of the American medical
comedy drama series starring Mark Feuerstein as Hank, the hottest
new 'concierge doctor' in the Hamptons. Episodes are: 'Pilot',
'There Will Be Food', 'Strategic Planning', 'TB Or Not TB', 'No Man
Is an Island', 'If I Were a Sick Man', 'Crazy Love', 'The
Honeymoon's Over', 'It's Like Jamais Vu All Over Again', 'Am I
Blue?', 'Nobody's Perfect' and 'Wonderland'.
All 13 episodes from the fifth series of the American medical
comedy drama starring Mark Feuerstein as Hank, the hottest new
'concierge doctor' in the Hamptons. The episodes are: 'Hankwatch',
'Blythe Spirits', 'Lawson Translation', 'Pregnant Paws', 'Vertigo',
'Can of Worms', 'Chock Full O' Nuts', 'Hammertime', 'Pins and
Needles', 'Game of Phones', 'Open Invitation', 'A Trismus Story'
and 'Bones to Pick'.
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My Lifestyle
Paul Frank Adams; Dick Bell Mbe
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R233
Discovery Miles 2 330
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This international encyclopedia documents and surveys, for the
first time, the entire complex of translation as well as the
operations and phenomena associated with it. Structured along
systematic, historical and geographic lines, it offers a
comprehensive and critical account of the current state of
knowledge and of international research. The Encyclopedia (1)
offers an overview of the different types and branches of
translation studies; (2) covers translation phenomena - including
the entire range of interlingual, intralingual, and intersemiotic
transfer and transformation - in their social, material,
linguistic, intellectual, and cultural diversity from diachronic,
synchronic, and systematic perspectives, (3) documents and
elucidates the most important results of the study of translation
to the present day, as well as the current debates, taking into
account theoretical assumptions and methodological implications;
(4) identifies, where possible, lacunae in existing research,
listing priorities and desiderata for further research. The
languages of publication are German, English, and French.
This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE
is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general
linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific
languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have
developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold
forms of communicative action and interaction. For "classic"
linguistics there appears to be a need for a review of the state of
the art which will provide a reference base for the rapid advances
in research undertaken from a variety of theoretical standpoints,
while in the more recent branches of communication science the
handbooks will give researchers both an overview and orientation.
To attain these objectives, the series aims for a standard
comparable to that of the leading handbooks in other disciplines,
and to this end strives for comprehensiveness, theoretical
explicitness, reliable documentation of data and findings, and
up-to-date methodology. The editors, both of the series and of the
individual volumes, and the individual contributors, are committed
to this aim. The language of publication is English. The main aim
of the series is to provide an appropriate account of the state of
the art in the various areas of linguistics and communication
science covered by each of the various handbooks; however no
inflexible pre-set limits will is imposed on the scope of each
volume. The series is open-ended, and can thus take account of
further developments in the field. This conception, coupled with
the necessity of allowing adequate time for each volume to be
prepared with the necessary care, means that there is no set
time-table for the publication of the whole series. Each volume is
a self-contained work, complete in itself. The order in which the
handbooks are published does not imply any rank ordering, but is
determined by the way in which the series is organized; the editors
of the whole series enlist a competent editor for each individual
volume. Once the principal editor for a volume has been found, he
or she then has a completely free hand in the choice of co-editors
and contributors. The editors plan each volume independently of the
others, being governed only by general formal principles. The
series editors only intervene where questions of delineation
between individual volumes are concerned. It is felt that this
(modus operandi) is best suited to achieving the objectives of the
series, namely to give a competent account of the present state of
knowledge and of the perception of the problems in the area covered
by each volume. To discuss your handbook idea or submit a proposal,
please contact Birgit Sievert.
Dieses Praxishandbuch unterstutzt Praktiker im Steuerrecht und
Steuerverfahrensrecht dabei, den steuerrechtlichen Rechtsschutz
kompetent und erfolgreich zu bestreiten oder zu gewahren. Sowohl
der Steuerrechtsweg vom Einspruch bis zum Prozess als auch die
relevanten Klagearten bis zum Revisionsverfahren werden umfassend
dargestellt. Auch die wichtigsten steuerlichen und
verfahrensrechtlichen Regelungen aus AO und FGO sowie die
wesentlichen Entscheidungen und tragende Rechtssatze werden
erlautert. Der haufige Wechsel zwischen Lehrbuch, Gesetz und
Rechtsprechungssammlung kann dadurch vermieden werden. Das Buch
bietet einen schnellen und fundierten Einstieg und zeigt
Handlungsoptionen auf. In einem abschliessenden Kapitel gibt der
fruhere Finanzrichter Wolf-Dieter Butz prozesstaktische Hinweise
sowohl fur Berufseinsteiger als auch fur erfahrene Berufstrager.
Erganzende Musterformulierungen machen das Buch besonders
praxisnah.
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