Sculpture and its Reproductions (Reaktion Books

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This collection of essays is the first of its kind to focus on issues concerning sculpture and reproduction, and to explore their theoretical and practical consequences. What does it mean for a sculpture to be reproduced? Does it diminish or add to the authenticity and authority of the original?Ranging from the Ancient to the Modern world, and investigating the function of artistic reproduction in cultures as diverse as the Catholic Spain of the Golden Age and the avant-garde of early twentieth century Germany, these essays significantly add to our understanding of a number of major sculptors, including Michelangelo, Rodin and Brancusi.With essays by Ed Allington, Malcolm Baker, Anthony Hughes, Neil McWilliam, Miranda Marvin, Alexandra Parigoris, Martin Postle, Erich Ranfft and Marjorie Trusted.

The hanging Marsyas and its copies: Roman innovations in a Hellenistic sculptural tradition (Archaeologica)

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The hanging Marsyas and its copies: Roman innovations in a Hellenistic sculptural tradition (Archaeologica)
Anne Weis
Manufacturer: G. Bretschneider
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ASIN: 8876890726

The art of the Vatican;: Being a brief history of the palace, and an account of the principal art treasures within its walls, ([The art galleries of Europe])

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The art of the Vatican;: Being a brief history of the palace, and an account of the principal art treasures within its walls, ([The art galleries of Europe])
Mary Knight Potter
Manufacturer: L.C. Page & company
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ASIN: B0008CCR24

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1902. Illustrated. Contents: The Vatican Palace; Chapel of Nicholas V; The Borgia Apartments; The Sistine Chapel; The Stanze of Raphael; Raphael's Loggie; Raphael's Tapestries; The Sculpture Galleries; and The Pinacoteca. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

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This book is for serious photographers who want to turn their avocation into a money making venture. How can I make money with my photography is the first question every serious amateur asks me, said author and veteran photographer Scott Bourne. Or they want to see their name in lights by getting their photo published. This book shows them how.

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Wasn't what I thought it would be. My fault........2006-02-25

I was thinking this would be a book about places to sell your photography like post cards and bookmarkers or stuff like that. I guess I just didn't look it over enough. It is pretty much just basic stuff about how to run a business in photography. Some I thought were a little simple, like it says you should have a seperate phone for your business. Also, you should tell family members to not use that phone for anything other than business. That would be true of any business be it photography or selling comic books. Some of it is good business practices that many would not think of but I think you could get a book on operating a home business or small business from the library and learn most of this stuff. It is not an expensive book so I'm not going to complain much. I would suggest though that a person that is going to do photography work might think of staying with one or two areas and get books on those. For example, wedding photography and stock photography and learn how to make it in those areas. Go ahead and buy it, if you don't like it you are not out much.

Simple and Effective.......2005-04-03

This book does just one thing for a person hoping to derive income from the sale of photographs. It tells you how to sell photographs.

It doesn't tell you anything about equipment, or picture taking, or processing, or even how to run a photography business. It doesn't even take a comprehensive approach to marketing. Instead it provides useful tips on marketing photography, period. Moreover, Bourne doesn't just limit himself to one market, like stock photography. He covers all the markets and if one secret isn't applicable to you, the next one may be right up your alley.

Calling it "88 Secrets" is a misnomer, because many of the ideas contained are simple common sense that someone interested in selling pictures could figure out for him or herself. Secondly, there are far more than 88 secrets because many of sections called secrets contain more than one idea for marketing.

The reader will sometimes say, I knew that, sometimes say, I should have known that, and sometimes say, I never thought of that. But if you read the book and you follow some of the tips, you will increase sales of your pictures. Although the book is quite short, it's also inexpensive and the person willing to follow Bourne's advice will soon amortize the cost of the book. It probably won't put you in direct competition with Art Wolfe, but it will increase your photographic income if you have the will power to follow the tips.

For example, the author discusses a traditional subject, query letters to editors to whom one hopes to sell pictures. He tells you what has to go into a letter if you want to get the editor's attention. He even provides a sample letter.

In the very next paragraph, Bourne discusses something relatively new, e-books and how to go about publishing them. He even suggests software that will ease the work, and even how to structure an e-book. He says photography e-books are most popular if they take a how-to, travel, or adventure approach. "It will be easier to sell an e-book that features pictures of Yellowstone National Park if it is written as a travelogue rather than an attractive Yellowstone picture book."

I've read a few books on marketing pictures and sometimes find reasonable marketing advice buried in the verbiage. Often it's aimed at just one market. Here it's simple and effective. All one has to do is read a secret and follow it. And of course, take a reasonably good picture.

No longer a secret.......2005-02-13

Making money from photography is everyones dream but a tough goal in reality. This book has helped me define my goals for marketing my photography. As an amateur turning pro this book has been a life saver. Bourne clearly and concisely outlines a variety of methods to market your work. The beauty of the book lies in it's set up. You can pick and choose what you want to use and attack each new obstacle one step at a time. I highly recommend 88 Secrets to anyone interested in turning their dream into a profitable business.

One more secret!.......2004-12-15

Here is one more secret. This book is worth way more than its list price.

Anyone, from novice to seasoned pro, interested in earning money making pictures needs this book. I am a serious amateur photographer. I plan to turn my photography into a lucrative hobby when I retire in several years. Thanks to 88 Secrets I will not have to waste time testing what will work. Scott Bourne gives the reader of his book a proven track record to follow.

Buy this book. You will find it invaluable when you put Scott Bourne's recommendations into action.

Essential reading for anyone wanting to market their photos........2004-11-29

Scott Bourne is an outstanding teacher and successful marketer. The book exemplifies this by being well organized, very readable and packed with valuable information for any photographer wanting to market and sell photographs.

The three divisions of the book are well thought out. As I considered marketing my photos the section on "general secrets" was very helpful. The last two sections provide valuable information on who to contact for sales and all the issues that need to be considered to complete a successful business transaction.

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Golf carts of the Third Reich!.......2007-08-11

This is McCall's fourth book and I own them all, having been a fan of his work since he first began appearing in NATIONAL LAMPOON more than thirty years ago. His art is satire of a particularly sly sort, taking things to unreasonable extremes -- planes that are too huge or too heavy to fly, but which helped win the war, etc -- and his style combines realism with absurdities of scale. He's not above being political, either, as "Mr. Bush Has a Dream" will show. McCall produces grins rather than wild laughter, but that's okay with me. He's the reason the word "wacky" was invented.

McCall Is A National Treasure-- But Which Nation?.......2006-04-14

I've been reading and looking at and laughing at McCall's stuff for something like 35 years, from his early 70s material in Playboy and The National Lampoon right up to last week's squib in The New Yorker. I have a 2-inch-thick file of my favorites torn from Forbes and many other publications, and a 7-foot-tall shrine to McCall in my living room. Well, that last part about the shrine is false, but the rest of it is true.

Why should you buy this? Because it's funny. It helps if you're smart, though-- McCall references lost culture and super-annuated thinking the way SJ Perelman did, so if you don't know who SJ Perelman was, you may not really appreciate these brilliant little blossoms of satire and absurdity.

If that's the case, I'm deeply, deeply sorry.

"He's fighting for your butter tarts!".......2004-01-10

Here is another wonderfully wacky collection of imaginary nostalgia from Canadian cartoonist Bruce McCall. This is pretty much the same sort of collection as his book _Zany Afternoons_ was, and it is a pleasant surprise to see that there is no recycled material from the earlier book to this one.

In case you are unfamiliar with McCall's work, he used to be an automobile advertisement illustrator back in the Fifties. He uses the same style to the same retro-cheesy effect in his spoofs of old Popular Mechanics articles, imaginary stomping grounds of the rich & famous of the Twenties and Thirties, and lots of gibes at his old home, Canada.

The original written material for this book is so-so, but it's only a page long, every thirty pages or so. The cartoons, with their marvelous verisimilitude of the real period pieces they send up, are just great. McCall is a master at capturing eras that never were.

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All Meat Looks Like South America: The World of Bruce McCall
Bruce McCall
Manufacturer: Crown Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K4Z4HA

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"By the time you finish reading, you're going to know as much about craps as anyone who is involved with the game, and I include casino managers, pit bosses and dealers in this category. Not only that, but this book will reveal methods of play and strategies never before put into print. The purpose of this work is to transmit this knowledge to you, the reader, and to make you a winner."

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I Like Silberstang.......2007-03-01

I became acquainted with Silberstang's writing way back in the 1980s and his basic ideas do hold up. You will not really learn an advantage method in this book, but a betting system that does cut the house edge to its minimum. Silberstang's writing is crisp and clear, his experiences show that he is a player, and his knowledge of the game for random players is top notch.

This is a good book to start your craps playing career.

Frank Scoblete: Author of Golden Touch Dice Control Revolution!

waste of money.......2007-02-28

If you have no idea how to play craps then i will say as all other books it explains the basic bets etc. The problem this book had, along with many other craps books i have bought is that 70% of the book is basic craps primer, 10% are about stories of big rolls, 10% is about comps and casino management and about 5 pages are about actual strategy to use while playing the game.

Drumroll please, the big strategy that will make you tons of money can be summarized in 3 sentences.

bet the pass line with double odds. After each Pass win without a loss, press the bet up. At the end it has you betting something like $500 on the pass and 1000 on the odds bet. here is the problem:

In order to get to that level the shooter, get this, has to make something liek 11 points. I have seen some shooters make 5 or 6 points but 11 is very very rare.

This book in a sentence:

After each pass with double odds win press your pass and odds bet. if you lose on 3 shooters go home.

Must-have Reference .......2006-05-22

One of the best overall reference books on craps, as worthwhile for the more advanced player as it is for the beginner. No serious craps library should be without it.

Great book .......2005-09-01

Read this book, its great for explaining the different bets and strategies. Once he explanins the bets,he goes about how to bet to maximize your winnings and minimize your losses. If you order this book you wont be sorry. Another good book is how to gamble without getting plucked like a chicken.

Love this book!.......2004-10-17

This was the first book I bought on craps. It taught me the basics and gave me a good understanding of right and wrong betting. I've been using the strategies in this book for several years now with good success. Not a big gambler, I've been able to sit at a 5-dollar craps table for or 30-60 minutes on a good night and have a ball, plus leave a winner. While luck has a great deal to do with it at least I understand what's happening on the table. I lent my book to a co-worker who went to Las Vegas with it and never returned it, so I'm buying another.

Craps Underground: The Inside Story of How Dice Controllers are Winning Millions from the Casinos!

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I Know 10 of the People Mentioned in This Great Book
This is a book of fiction, no mention of craps strategy
The Captain rolls 147 Numbers - Dice Control is REAL
Adventures in DEFEATING the Casinos

Craps Underground: The Inside Story of How Dice Controllers are Winning Millions from the Casinos!
Frank Scoblete
Manufacturer: Bonus Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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In a revealing, no holds barred style, America's best--selling gamblilng author shares the exciting inside story of the new advantage players. Frank introduces us to the fascinating Runyonesque characters who are out there beating the system.

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A great book.......2005-12-18

I read this book after I read the Scoblete / Dominator Golden Touch Craps Dice Control Revolution! and it is a great companion book to go with that one. The first shows you exactly how these great dice controllers develop the skill to beat the casinos at their own games and this book is the great stories of the great dice controllers such as the Arm, the Captain who has the world record of 147 throws in a row before sevening out, and the Lee Brothers who head a band of professional players.

Scoblete is a great writer and these two books are great together.

I Know 10 of the People Mentioned in This Great Book.......2005-08-27

Chalon Jackson has written a phoney review. I know ten people from this book as I took a Golden Touch Dice control course.

Frank Scoblete, Dominator, Dave the barnacle, Mr. Finesse, Howard the Rock 'n Roller, Stickman, Street Dog, Bill Burton, Jerry Patterson, No Field Five.

Two of the above have played with the Captain and one student from the class I was in also played with the Captain - so the Captain is real and not a fiction. You can read about his great roll of 147 at golden touch craps.com if you want.

The book was not advertised as the manual for dice control but as the story of the great dice controllers and that it sure is. You will meet the Captain, the Arm, Jimmy P., the Lee Brothers, the great Golden Touch shooters such as Dominator.

The last chapter of the book is supremely interesting - a 16 day diary of Frank's adventures (and they were some adventures for sure) in Las Vegas.

Don't let shills for other authors guide you away from this masterpiece. Check out all the reviews of the Craps Underground and you'll see that almost all are five stars. This book deserves that many for sure.

This is a book of fiction, no mention of craps strategy.......2005-08-20

This book is more of an advertisement for Scoblete's other books, his writing buddies other books, and his golden touch craps siminar. This book gives no mention of how the reader can acomplish dice control, which is the reason I bought this book. The book is rather a collection of stories. Scoblete tells of people he met playing craps but he forgets to tell how to play craps. It would not surprise me at all if the characters in the book are made up, especially the Captain, the authors ultimate craps hero. I couldn't even finish this book. It was boring and repeated the same type of uninteresting stories all the way through, and left the reader with no knowledge gained. If you are interested in a good casino book I recomend something by Avery Cardoza or a book published by his company.

The Captain rolls 147 Numbers - Dice Control is REAL.......2005-07-23

This book is the great stories of the greatest dice controllers in the casinos, including the Captain, who just rolled 147 numbers!!!! You can read about this great roll at golden touch craps web site under the world records. This book takes you on an adventure into the world of the greatest advantage-players of all time - the Captain, Dominator, Sharpshooter, the Lee Brothers, and the great shooter who ever lived, THE ARM.

This is a must for all dice players and those interested in a great book!!!!

Adventures in DEFEATING the Casinos.......2005-07-01

Frank Scoblete has been involved with dice control since the late 1980s and this book is a culmination of his experiences with the greatest advantage craps players in the world. You will meet the Dominator, the Captain, the Arm, Sharpshooter, Howard "Rock 'n Roller," and many other great ones in this exciting and fascinating book.

Scoblete recounts his true adventures in the casinos since the late 1980s, practicing a way to beat the house at the game of craps, dice control. He wrote about dice control in 1991 and 1993 in his first two books and then wrote Forever Craps in 2000. These three books lay the groundwork for the Captain's method of dice control which is featured in The Craps Underground.

You will love Scoblete's true adventures on the A&E television show, in his diary of 16 days of play in Las Vegas, in his setting up with Dominator of the Golden Touch craps dice control seminars.

This is a book that is a must read for all craps players looking to see what the great ones have been able to accomplish.

Craps: A Winning Strategy: A Guide to Winning Casino Craps Consistently

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You will make money using this strategy

Craps: A Winning Strategy: A Guide to Winning Casino Craps Consistently
David Medansky
Manufacturer: Golden Dice
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0970138601

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Craps: A Winning Strategy teaches the reader how to increase the probability of winning to 83% on each roll of the dice. Teaches people when to place bets and when to remove bets. Strategy is simple to understand. Author is an attorney who earns more playing craps than practicing law. Strategy has been tested in Las Vegas-- It Works!

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You will make money using this strategy.......2000-12-29

My wife sat next to the author on a flight to Las Vegas recently. The conversation eventually came around to gambling in general and craps specifically. She was intrigued by David's approach so he gave her a copy of his book (for free). Upon her return from Vegas, she gave me the book and said, "You may want to try this".

I read the book cover to cover in about an hour. I then logged on to Omni Casino and proceeded to turn a $2,000 bankroll into approximately $9,000 in five days, playing about an hour a day.

The strategy is simple to implement and requires minimal practice to get the hang of it. I actually received a private practice session from David using his personal craps table that he purchased from MGM Grand. I bought in for $500 and walked away an hour later with $800 using David's strategy.

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Good for making you think, but that is about it.......2004-04-22

I bought this book before heading to Vegas mainly because I wanted to brush up on the rules of blackjack. I was only going to have 4 hours there so i didn't want to waste any time getting ready to play. I found the second chapter and other sections that describe how things work in casinos (where to get your chips, what hand signals to give the dealer, etc) useful in keeping me from wasting time when i got there. The rest of it was worth reading to learn the rules of the games and to get me thinking about probabilities.

Unfortunately, the logic's not always there and sometimes the data are wrong.

Some examples:

In the roulette section, he recommends that if you are going to bet on a single number, you should pick one that hasn't shown up in the past 20 spins. This, after explaining how a lot of people keep gambling on the faulty premise that if something hasn't happened in a while, it's likely to happen, and after describing bias in roulette tables, which would make a number more likely to re-appear if it HAS appeared multiple times before.

In the blackjack section, I re-calculated the probabilities for each of the tables that he has in there, and while most of his numbers are right, some of them are off by as much as 5%. True, my numbers could be wrong, but since i wrote a computer program to do it (meaning that it did it consistently for each test), why would it be right for all but one value in the table? More likely, they are hand-copying or editing errors.

I wrote software (yes, i'm a geek) to play the game, implemented his suggestions one by one, and played 100,000 hands with each to see what kind of improvement each one made. The fact is, if you play your hand just like the dealer (hold at 17+, hit below), you will win 48% of the time, lose 43% of the time, and push 9% of the time. If you implement all of his strategies, you will win 48% of the time, lose 43% of the time, and push 9% of the time (yup! exactly the same!). What's important turns out not to be how you play the game (in most of the strategies, you are trading busts for losing hands and vice versa), but how you BET. Using his doubling and splitting strategies lets you hang on to your money much longer before going broke (sometimes twice as long). In the blackjack section, he doesn't spend much time talking about betting.

Lastly, and this applies to blackjack again, he claims that the casino's main advantage in blackjack lies in the fact that "the players must choose before the dealer whether or not to draw more cards." While it's true that you could play a lot better if you could see the dealer's cards, that is not what gives the casino the advantage. Remember, the dealer is basically a human machine -- it hits at < 17, holds at 17+. The dealer does not have the benefit of seeing EITHER of your cards, so that can't be the advantage. The casino's real advantage is that the player has one more losing condition than the dealer has. That condition occurs when both the dealer and the player bust. Other than that, if the player played exactly like the dealer, they would both do exactly the same. You cannot overcome this handicap. If you play conservatively such that you do not bust (which is where most of Svoboda's recommendations lead you), the percentage of hands you lose because the dealer has more points than you will go up.

That's about it for now. Just wait till I read the other chapters, though!

Do it again!.......2004-03-19

Once I picked up this book I knew immediately I would breeze through the explainations easily. The text was well done and very readable = the charts, graphs and diagrams all came at the right time. The tid-bits about Mr Svoboda's experiences were fun to read, But.. most of all I was able to acquire a grounded knowledge of how to approach the games at any casino! Can't wait for the next book to come out from Mt Svoboda!! His knowledge and skills at communicating the nuances and the details of each game were very evident! Fun and easy lessons!!

garbage.......2002-01-08

I browsed through this book at the local bookstore. All I can say is don't take any pointers from this guy. He says before placing bets on "any craps", you should wait until the die hasn't produced craps for atleast 18 rolls???? He says after this the probability of any craps showing is 88 %. What is this all about? The truth is the odds of rolling craps is the same (11 %) regardless of how many times it's been rolled in the past. If you already own this book, I suggest you take your loss and throw it away.

Incorrect information.......2001-07-11

This is the first review I have written on Amazon. I felt compelled to write this to keep unsuspecting people from purchasing this book. I do not know the author, I am not an author, and I have no interests in whether this book does well or not. I am simply giving my opinion.

Simply put, my problem with this book is that it is full of incorrect statements and poor advice which completely ignores probability theory. For example, on roulette, Mr. Svoboda actually says, "The house will always have a 5.26% edge, but you can increase your winning probabilities by playing it smart." What?!? When I read that, I knew he had a very weak grasp of probability theory. It is impossible to change the odds in roulette; they are fixed. You are always at a 5.26% disadvantage, no matter what your betting strategy is. Period. I suggest you run away from any book that asserts otherwise.

The surprising thing is that in several parts of the book, Mr. Svoboda agrees that the casino has an advantage over the player in the long run. However, to overcome this, he recommends that players play in the short run! I couldn't believe that an engineer, and someone who supposedly understands mathematics and probability, would actually write such completely incorrect information. True, in the short run you may win, but odds are that you will lose. The percentage disadvantage you face does not change.

Over and over, Mr. Svoboda asserts that his strategies increase your chances of winning. How can you increase your chances of winning if the odds against you are fixed? For example, after several pages of detailed and complex tables and charts, Mr. Svoboda admits that his craps betting strategy gives the house a 2% advantage. Yet he still advocates following his strategy, saying that you just need to know when to walk away when ahead. What he fails to mention is that you will be behind more often than you will be ahead.

In games of chance and independent trials (such as craps, roulette and keno, to name a few), the house has a fixed percentage advantage over the player. This is a proven mathematical fact. There are no betting systems or strategies whish can change this percentage advantage. The only thing a player may do is bet slowly and bet the minimums in order to decrease the rate at which he loses. Gambling at these types of games should be viewed as paying for entertainment, not investing, as Mr. Svoboda suggests.

Casinos love people with systems. Why do you think companies choose to spend $1 billion to build a new casino? Because they know that system betters will come in and lose more than that. Casinos exist because they make money for their owners. I had thought that with the advanced level of gaming theory available today, that books which advocated incorrect probability theory would become a thing of the past. Then I read Mr. Svoboda's book and realized I was wrong.

On the plus side, the book does clearly state the rules of the games and the odds of winning. It has very pretty and colorful charts and tables. As a rule book, it is very good. However, as a strategy guide, you are much better off ignoring this book. Mr. Svoboda's assertion that "this book will help you learn how to level the playing field...and gain a return on your investment" is false. This book does not tell you how to even the odds against the house. The only return on investment you will get by following the advice in this book is negative.

A Casino Gaming Guide You'd Like to Have Around.......2001-03-04

Beating The Casinos At Their Own Game is a book you should consider if you'd like some help playing at the casinos. It's a well, written and nicely illustrated 278-page gambling guide with instructions for most of the games you'll find at any casino. The author, Peter Svoboda, knows his math because he has the credentials: a degree in both mechanical and civil engineering.

You'll find casino basics in chapters 1 and 2 including some history, odds of winning and losing, what the casinos do to get you there, the house advantage, advice on managing your money and when to quit. And if you have a gambling problem, Peter will direct you to the right place. Chapters 3 through 13 list rules of the ten most popular casino games, with playing strategies and some betting systems you can try. The illustrations will help you learn the games and the math listed will explain the odds and probabilities of winning.

Peter includes some known strategies for Craps, Roulette and Baccarat. So, if you're inexperienced at any of these games, you can take an expert with you to the casino. Peter also presents some of his own winning systems.

Book Description

The second edition of Winning Casino Craps has been updated to cover changes in how the game is played and how casinos treat their players. This entertaining and informative guide includes:

• Instructions for playing craps, including illustrative examples from actual games
• Explanations for the basic betting combinations
• Dos and don'ts for making bets
• Aggressive winning strategies

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Winning Strategies for Casino Craps
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Manufacturer: Systems Technology Press
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WINNING CASINO CRAPS

Manufacturer: David Mckay
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000H2A8J4

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Winning Casino Craps
Edwin Silberstang
Manufacturer: David McKay Company, Incorporated
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ASIN: B000OLVZI6

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