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October 26, 2005

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Commercial Gambling

OPTIONAL: Ch. 5: Commercial Gambling as a Social Institution, pp. 143-190 FROM: Abt, V., Smith, J. F., & Christiansen, E. M. (1985). The Business of Risk: Commercial Gambling in Mainstream America. In. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.
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The Players

Case Study: Conley, Kevin. (2005, July 11). The Players. Annals of Enterprise. The New Yorker.
http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/050711fa_fact1

Gambling as Play