约翰•奥布莱恩（John O'Brien, 1960—1994），美国作家。《离开拉斯维加斯》出版于1990年，是他的第一部小说，也是一部自传体小说。1995年，该书改编为电影，令尼古拉斯•凯奇在从影多年后终于登上奥斯卡影帝的宝座。然而，约翰•奥布莱恩却在得知作品售出电影改编权的两周后开枪自杀。他的父亲称，这部小说是他的绝命书。

Leaving Las Vegas, the first novel by John O'Brien, is a disturbing and emotionally wrenching story of a woman who embraces life and a man who rejects it, a powerful tale of hard luck and hard drinking and a relationship of tenderness and destruction. An avowed alcoholic, Ben drinks away his family, friends, and, finally, his job. With deliberate resolve, he burns the remnants ...(展开全部)

约翰•奥布莱恩（John O'Brien, 1960—1994），美国作家。《离开拉斯维加斯》出版于1990年，是他的第一部小说，也是一部自传体小说。1995年，该书改编为电影，令尼古拉斯•凯奇在从影多年后终于登上奥斯卡影帝的宝座。然而，约翰•奥布莱恩却在得知作品售出电影改编权的两周后开枪自杀。他的父亲称，这部小说是他的绝命书。

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)