Gambling is big business. Each year billions of dollars are spent on gambling in all forms. Hustlers take the lion's share of this money... possibly some of it is your money. At least 100,000 decks of marked cards and an equal number of loaded dice and accessory equipment are manufactured in the U.S. every year by companies who claim these products are merely for "entertainment purposes" or for use by magicians only. Don't you believe it. In reality, most of the people who buy these marked cards are "mechanics", not legitimate, professional magicians. Mechanics earn their livelihood by skillfully manipulating a crooked deck of cards to their own advantage. Are you sure your card playing or dice rolling "friends" aren't playing magician tricks on you? Here's how you can protect yourself against cardsharps and loaded dice rollers... learn how to spot almost every kind of known gaff.

How to detect crooked gambling: Marked cards and loaded dice

García, Frank

Arco Pub. Co.

Offers synopses, episode guides, cast lists, and production credits, as well as lists of award winners, losers, and unsold pilots

Science Fiction Television Series: Episode Guides, Histories, and Casts and Credits for 62 Prime Time Shows, 1959 Through 1989

Humor & Entertainment

Phillips, Mark

Television

McFarland Publishing

This is a detailed examination, from creation to cancellation, of 58 science fiction television series produced between 1990 and 2004, from the popular The X-Files to the many worlds of Star Trek (from The Next Generation onward), as well as Andromeda, Babylon 5, Firefly, Quantum Leap, Stargate Atlantis and SG-I, among others. A chapter on each series includes essential production information; a history of the series; critical commentary; and amusing, often provocative interviews with more than 150 of the creators, actors, writers and directors. The book also offers updates on each series' regular cast members, along with several photographs and a complete bibliography.

Science Fiction Television Series, 1990-2004: Histories, Casts and Credits for 58 Shows

McFarland

Whether rocketing to other worlds or galloping through time, science fiction television has often featured the best of the medium. The genre's broad appeal allows youngsters to enjoy fantastic premises and far out stories, while offering adults a sublime way to view the human experience in a dramatic perspective.
 From Alien Nation to World of Giants, this reference work provides comprehensive episode guides and cast and production credits for 62 science fiction series that were aired from 1959 through 1989. For each episode, a brief synopsis is given, along with the writer and director of the show and the guest cast. Using extensive research and interviews with writers, directors, actors, stuntmen and many of the show's creators, an essay about each of the shows is also provided, covering such issues as its genesis and its network and syndication histories.

Science Fiction Television Series: Episode Guides, Histories, and Casts and Credits for 62 Prime-Time Shows, 1959 through 1989

Reference

Offers synopses, episode guides, cast lists, and production credits, as well as lists of award winners, losers, and unsold pilots

Science Fiction Television Series: Episode Guides, Histories, and Casts and Credits for 62 Primetime Shows, 1959 Through 1989

Movies

This entry refers to a replacement volume of a two-volume set. Volume 2 includes photographs, television entries, appendices, bibliography and index. The complete set can be obtained under ISBN 0-7864-2835-X.

This is a detailed examination of 58 science fiction television series produced between 1990 and 2004, from the popular The X-Files to the many worlds of Star Trek (The Next Generation onward), as well as Andromeda, Babylon 5, Firefly, Quantum Leap, Stargate Atlantis and SG-I, among others. A chapter on each series includes essential production information; a history of the series; critical commentary; and amusing, often provocative interviews with overall more than 150 of the creators, actors, writers and directors. The book also offers updates on each series' regular cast members, along with several photographs and a bibliography. Fully indexed.

McFarland Company

In today's culture, raising godly kids is harder--and more important--than ever. In this innovative new book, pastors Frank and Mary Garcia team up with their adult children to offer you powerful, practical keys to grow your family God's way.As Mary and Frank share parenting tips, advice, encouragement, and how-tos, Sarah and Sal share their own insights on how these same lessons shaped and impacted them. Engaging, profound, and humorous, this real-world guide covers a range of important topics, such as discipline, sibling rivalry, family time, your child's identity and gifting, generational strongholds, and more. You'll dig deep into the rich soil of God's Word, going past surface solutions to discover the root issues of difficult behaviors and parenting problems--and how you can become the godly role model and support your kids' need to shape future generations.

Raising Families the Jesus Way: Biblical Insights for Godly Parenting and Shaping Future Generations

Parenting & Relationships

Garcia, Sarah

Garcia, Sal

Mary Garcia

Parenting

Chosen Books

This book and time are what a Letter to his daughter Lauryn morphed into. Before shifting to an advocate for sobriety and helping those requesting help, the world of sinful ways and darkness would have to introduce themselves. As a youngster, his mother was strict and wanted to prove to the doubters in her family that her son would be the trophy grandson. Unfortunately, it didn't work out that way. He would grow to become an Addict /Alcoholic, trail-mixing his substances and partying in excess. Later, through redemption, he saw an opportunity to write his debut book, Refurbished Soul, in an effort to convey to his daughters who their daddy was, and what he would become for them, himself and others.

REFURBISHED SOUL: Once led by substances, now a Survivor with substance

Religion & Spirituality

Emotionink

Clicas: Gender, Sexuality, and Struggle in Latina/o/x Gang Literature and Film (Latinx: The Future Is Now)

How Latina/o/x gang literature and film represent women and gay gang members' challenges to gendered, sexual, racial, and class oppression. Clicas examines Latina/o/x literature and film by and/or about gay and women gang members. Through close readings of literature and film, Frank García reimagines the typical narratives describing gang membership and culture, amplifying and complicating critical gang studies in the social sciences and humanities and looking at gangs across racial, ethnic, and national identities. Analyzing how the autobiographical poetry of Ana Castillo presents gang fashion, culture, and violence to the outside world, the effects of women performing female masculinity in the novel Locas, and gay gang members' experiences of community in the documentary Homeboy, García complicates the dialogue regarding hypermasculine gang cultures. He shows how they are accessible not only to straight men but also to women and gay men who can appropriate them in complicated ways, which can be harming and also, at times, emancipating. Reading gang members as (de)colonial agents who contest the power relations, inequalities, oppressions, and hierarchies of the United States, Clicas considers how women and gay gang members resist materially and psychologically within a milieu shaped by the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and class.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

University of Texas Press

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How to detect crooked gambling: Marked cards and loaded dice

Science Fiction Television Series: Episode Guides, Histories, and Casts and Credits for 62 Prime Time Shows, 1959 Through 1989

Science Fiction Television Series, 1990-2004: Histories, Casts and Credits for 58 Shows

Science Fiction Television Series: Episode Guides, Histories, and Casts and Credits for 62 Prime-Time Shows, 1959 through 1989

Science Fiction Television Series: Episode Guides, Histories, and Casts and Credits for 62 Primetime Shows, 1959 Through 1989

Science Fiction Television Series: Episode Guides, Histories, and Casts and Credits for 62 Primetime Shows, 1959 Through 1989

Science Fiction Television Series, 1990-2004: Histories, Casts and Credits for 58 Shows

Raising Families the Jesus Way: Biblical Insights for Godly Parenting and Shaping Future Generations

REFURBISHED SOUL: Once led by substances, now a Survivor with substance

Clicas: Gender, Sexuality, and Struggle in Latina/o/x Gang Literature and Film (Latinx: The Future Is Now)