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  • Losing Big

    America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling

    by Jonathan D. Cohen ...
    Inside America’s preventable sports-gambling debacleIn 2018, the United States Supreme Court opened the floodgates for states to legalize betting on sports. Eager for revenue, almost forty states have done so. The result is the explosive growth of an industry dominated by companies like FanDuel and DraftKings. One out of every five American adults gambled on sports in 2023, amounting to $121 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • All In

    The Spread of Gambling in Twentieth-Century United States

    Edited by Jonathan D Cohen, David G. Schwartz ...
    Series Book 1 - Gambling Studies Series
    Gambling, the risky enterprise of chance, is one of America’s favorite pastimes. Office March Madness brackets, a day at the race track, a friendly wager, the random ridiculous Super Bowl prop bet, bingo night, or the latest media frenzy over the Powerball jackpot—all emphasize the ubiquity of this major economic force and cultural phenomenon. Approximately 70 percent of Americans regularly engage ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Long Walk Home

    Reflections on Bruce Springsteen

    by Natalie Adler, Eric Alterman, Regina Barreca, Nancy Bishop, Dermot Bolger, Peter Ames Carlin, Jefferson Cowie, Jim Cullen, Joel Dinerstein, Gillian G. Gaar, Martyn Joseph, Deepa Iyer, Greil Marcus, Louis Masur, Paul Muldoon, Lauren Onkey, Richard Russo, A. O. Scott, Colleen Sheehy, Wesley Stace, Frank Stefanko, Irwin Streight, Wayne Swan, David L. Ulin, Elijah Wald, Daniel Wolff, Kenneth Womack ...
    Bruce Springsteen might be the quintessential American rock musician but his songs have resonated with fans from all walks of life and from all over the world. This unique collection features reflections from a diverse array of writers who explain what Springsteen means to them and describe how they have been moved, shaped, and challenged by his music.Contributors to Long Walk Home include ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • For a Dollar and a Dream

    State Lotteries in Modern America

    by Jonathan D. Cohen ...
    This first comprehensive history of America's lottery obsession explores the spread of state lotteries and how players and policymakers alike got hooked on wishful dreams of an elusive jackpot. Every week, one in eight Americans place a bet on the dream of a life-changing lottery jackpot. Americans spend more on lottery tickets annually than on video streaming services, concert tickets, books, ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Scientific Approaches to Consciousness

    Edited by Jonathan D. Cohen, Jonathan W. Schooler ...
    Series series Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series
    There are many ways to approach the understanding of consciousness. Questions about these ways have occupied philosophers and metaphysicians for centuries. During the early growth of cognitive science the problem of consciousness remained taboo, but an increasing number of studies have either implicitly or explicitly begun to bear on its nature. These have been inspired by a number of different ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Losing Big

    America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling

    by Jonathan D. Cohen ...
    Narrated by George Newbern ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 25 min

    Inside America’s preventable sports-gambling debacleIn 2018, the United States Supreme Court opened the floodgates for states to legalize betting on sports. Eager for revenue, almost forty states have done so. The result is the explosive growth of an industry dominated by companies like FanDuel and DraftKings. One out of every five American adults gambled on sports in 2023, amounting to $121 ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    For a Dollar and a Dream

    State Lotteries in Modern America

    by Jonathan D. Cohen ...
    Narrated by Tom Lennon ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 11 min

    Every week, one in eight Americans place a bet on the dream of a life-changing lottery jackpot. Americans spend more on lottery tickets annually than on video streaming services, concert tickets, books, and movie tickets combined.The story of lotteries in the United States may seem straightforward: tickets are bought predominately by poor people driven by the wishful belief that they will overcome ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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