Addiction by design : machine gambling in Las Vegas /
"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 o...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
2012
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| Summary: | "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 reward."--Publisher description |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 442 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-423) and index |
| ISBN: | 9780691127552 0691127557 9780691160887 0691160880 |