Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream. 'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold! And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and di...(展开全部)

Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream. 'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold! And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and di...(展开全部)

Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Addiction by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and...(展开全部)

Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot machines, revamped by ever more compelling digital and video technology, have unseated traditional casino games as the gambling industry’s revenue mainstay. Addiction by Design takes readers into the intrig...(展开全部)

Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Addiction by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and...(展开全部)

Nicolas Darvas, the man who made $2,000,000 in the stock market in his spare time, shows you exactly how he answers the all-important question: "Which stocks are going to make money for me?" In this book, Darvas first portrays the market he knows so intimately - the gambling house with dealers on one side, winners on the other. He also shows how he places the odds in his fav...(展开全部)

Nicolas Darvas, the man who made $2,000,000 in the stock market in his spare time, shows you exactly how he answers the all-important question: "Which stocks are going to make money for me?" In this book, Darvas first portrays the market he knows so intimately - the gambling house with dealers on one side, winners on the other. He also shows how he places the odds in his fav...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A timeless, terrifying tale of one man's obsession to create life -- and the monster that became his legacy. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: ·A concise introduction that gives readers important background information ·A chronology of the author's life and work ·A timeline of significant events that provide...(展开全部)

玛丽·雪莱(Mary Shelley，1797～1851)是英国女作家，英国十九世纪上半期浪漫主义派的著名诗人波西·比希·雪莱(Percy Bysshe Shelley，1792—1822)的第二个妻子。她生于英国伦敦，原名玛丽·戈德温(Mary Godwin)，是英国哲学家、小说家威廉·戈德温(William Godwin，1756一1836)的女儿 她于1814年随同雪莱去欧洲大陆，1816年两人结婚。雪莱夫妇常与英国著名诗人拜伦(Byron)和散文家、诗人利·亨特(Leigh Hunt)交往。《弗兰肯斯坦》一书据说就是按拜伦的建议而写的。此书于1818年完成，是英国文学史上最早的科幻小说之一。这部小说出版后，受到各国评论家的重视。玛丽·雪莱的其他作品有：The Last Man(1826)，Lodore(1835)，Folker(1837)等。...(展开全部)

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