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Whole World Lottery Guide
Published in Paperback by World Media Brokers (August, 1991)
Author: P Green
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this is good think
most of people enter your lottary but few gift him.people are win lottary very enjoy him and also most people are win the lottary change the life sytle your are supperiour other one lower people.


Women Can Win the Marriage Lottery: Share Your Man With Another Wife: (The Case for Plural Marriage)
Published in Paperback by Orange County Univ Pr (August, 1996)
Author: Adriana Blake
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Best for those completely unfamiliar with the issues
The author of this book is apparently a former attorney and mother of three, now living in California. She sets out to convince other women of the case for plural marriage today.

The book attacks the issue from a purely secular viewpoint. This is not by any means a religious publication. If you find this site a bit too heavy on the Bible for your liking, or you want to know the beneficial side effects of a biblical way of living, then this book may be what you'd like to read.

I don't know what US readers normally get for (their money) when they buy a book, but I found it slightly disappointing. The last chapter ends at page 225, but they are not big pages, and the only way of making the book more friendly to the partially-sighted would be to publish it in Braille. Yes, the typeface is big - huge, in fact, - enabling only about 6 or 7 words per line. And 5 pages of contents means that Chapter One only gets going at page 23. It should not take you very long to read.

Also, if you're used to complicated high-level analysis then this book is going to fall short of your expectations. Its arguments are few and simple, and they are frequently repeated in different variations through the book. If you already know the arguments this can become quite tiresome and simplistic. Sorry - I wish I could be more positive about it, but I can't.

However, if you look at the potential readership for the book, and allow for them not being very familiar with this subject, then it begins to become easier to see how it could be useful. The arguments are simple, and frequently reinforced. This is what is needed if people are unfamiliar with the ideas, or those hostile to them, are to be introduced to these concepts. And it would be of particular use to young readers, or to those who don't want to have to concentrate a lot all the way through the book.

The book emphasizes the problems caused by the inequalities in the number of women and men available for marriage. It leads to competition which frequently causes problems for women. In our Western Societies it leads to damaging divorce, which is in turn linked to spiraling crime. And it leads to all parties being poorer rather than benefiting from the economies of scale, personal freedoms and security that exist within plural marriage.

The book goes into further detail on these and other important points. If you know all this already, and are committed to polygamy being an acceptable lifestyle with a place in the modern world, then this book will neither enlighten nor enthuse you. However, it will act as a contribution to the debate, and it may be just the right thing to introduce a friend to ideas which will be new to them.

It could do with being about half the price that it actually is, but I suppose part of this comes from it appealing to minority interest.


Pick Your Numbers: Easy Ways to Play the Lottery
Published in Mass Market Paperback by Signet (February, 1996)
Authors: Signet Staff, Consumer Guide, and Signet
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PICK YOUR NUMBERS: EAST WAYS TO PLAY THE LOTTERY
I live in Canada ontario like to buy this book but you gueis not shipping internaitnol so i gues i pay for the shipping realy need this book ok

Good and Entertaining!
This was a pretty good book for the price,especially when it described some of the techniques and pure luck of how players won the big one!The new age stuff was interesting but I wouldn't reccommend using it to try and win the lottery.It covers various aspects and methods of lottery play that are still used today but nothing groundbreaking or will guarantee winning anything!

Pick Your Numbers : Easy Ways to Play the Lottery.
An easy, yet informative read. Has simple to follow directionsbut they are presented in away that is not condescending. The authorrealizes the audience with whom he is contacting and maintains the tone throughout the book. The only caveat is that I did not hit the Big Game jackpot using the methods reccommended.


Invest Like Warren Buffett, Live Like Jimmy Buffett: A Money Manual for Those Who Haven't Won the Lottery
Published in Paperback by Citadel Pr (November, 2001)
Author: Luki, Cfp Vail
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Disappointment for fans of either Buffett.
If you are looking for some insights into Warren Buffett's investing success, look elsewhere. If you are looking for insights into Jimmy Buffett's lifestyle success, again, look elsewhere. This book takes some very pedestrian financial advice and wraps it up in a catchy title. I strongly suggest you avoid this book and search for more serious financial planning assistance.

This is a fun beginning book to investing for your future.
Don't look for a Joe Merchant within these pages.Look more to how to obtain your free pass to the lifestyle you dream about. It all boils down to, "If you want it, start now!" Following your dream is great but you have to pay yourself, FIRST.


The History of Sweepstakes
Published in Paperback by Sweepstakes News (July, 1997)
Authors: Lawrence Curtin and Karen Bernardo
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No brainer
This is really a facile treatment of an extraordinarily complex subject. Sweepstakes "artists" can claim to be the first professionals. Indeed, records go back to early Myan times in the Americas, the 1st dynastic period in China, and to Ramses I in Egypt - basically as far back as written records. I really didn't get the sense that the individual writing knew the historical context as well as he should have.

Kind of boring
Not a very incisive view but to be honest I just found this book boring. Not very insiteful and not a real pageturner.

Somewhat wanting in detail
I'm not college educated on this subject and I can't speak to the truths at large. Still, I found this book kind of lacking in the details. I really wish that the authors had taken the time to try to draw somemore substance into it before going and making conclusions.


Analytical Model of a Combinatorial Number Lottery
Published in Hardcover by Rutledge Books, Inc. (March, 1997)
Author: Lee, Phd Whiting
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This Book Is Really Bad.
This book is really bad. I wish I had found the time to review it when I bought it - then I could have returned it for a refund. This book is full of mathematical jargon, and never does provide clear explanations or examples of how to apply what is discussed to a lottery. Someone would be better off with a good book on probability theory, and develope their own models than to try to read this book. Save your money - Do Not Buy this book.

Lottery Players, No Way!...Mathematicians, Maybe!
If you are a lottery player looking for a book to provide you with guidance or strategies for playing lotteries then you need to AVOID THIS BOOK. If you happen to be a mathematician that wants to read 134+ pages of the author painfully detailing his mathematical model of a lottery then this might be your cup of tea. That this book is even remotely being marketed to the lottery player or the "average reader" as detailed in its editorial review is simply DEPLORABLE. The only portion of this book that would be of interest to a lottery player is the final couple of pages of the author's "treatise" where the reader is provided with a "basis for making an informed choice" when playing the lottery, the author's opinion on "so-called System Books", the author's view "About the Merits of Computer 'Picks'", and a blurb about the incredible odds that are against the player of a lottery. The "informed choice" and other stuff just mentioned is not that insightful nor helpful--certainly not worth the cost of the book! A funny story about this book: I was in one of those used bookstores, wherein people trade in their used books for credit towards other used books, and happened to see a copy of this book on the shelf. It was in perfect condition. Obviously, the original owner purchased the book, opened the book just once, saw all the mathematical symbols, maybe even tried reading a couple of paragraphs, closed the book, and traded it in as fast as they could. I laughed out loud when I saw it! Bottom line: a person has more of a chance of winning a lottery than this book has of being of any value (or read for that matter).

Vain Effort
This book is published by Rutledge Books, a vanity press. Thatis, the author paid for the book's publication (It's a 160 pagehardcover). There is no index, and the short list of references, which cites an item in the Schaum's Outline Series, includes nothing more recent than 1977. There is much rigor here but no organization.


Million Dollar Jeans
Published in School & Library Binding by E P Dutton (April, 1983)
Authors: Ron Roy and Joyce Audy Zarins
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Not a very good book
Not that I expect much from books like this but come on, even I (a 15 year old boy) could write a better book than this. Here's an idea: Kids get lottery ticket, find out it's a winner and chase it all over town loooking for it. So original. Not a very good way to spend 30 minutes...plus you can predict the entire book just by reading the titles of the Chapters in the Table of Contents. Skip this one.


Dominoes: Basic Rules & Variations
Published in Paperback by Sterling Publications (December, 1995)
Author: Reiner Muller
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Hard to read and full of errors
It boggles the mind how a book publisher can put out a book with so many typos and mistakes. Since the author's name looks German maybe the problem was in the translation process. After struggling with this book for a week I went back and purchased Jennifer A. Kelley's Great Book of Domino Games... what a difference. My advice is don't waste your time or money on Muller's book. Buy Kelley's book (her book is a pleasure to read).

Rough edition
I am not sure if there was a translation error, bad print run, etc... but watch out for typos and other errors in this book. Learning a new game becomes even more challenging when the diagrams do not match up and the text is wrong.

A decent overview, but errs on at least one specific game.
My specific goal with this book was to find information about the famous Texas domino game of "42," so I was primarily interested in that section of the book. Its attempt to teach that game is inconsistent with the known guidelines and strategies played in Texas 42, so be careful if that is your interest in this book. If so, a comprehensive new book solely on the domino game of "42" is available from amazon.com - "Winning 42: Strategy & Lore of the National Game of Texas."


Casino Keno
Published in Paperback by Chauncey H Shattuck (20 June, 2000)
Author: Chauncey H Shattuck
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Casino Keno
This book was very basic, had nothing in it that you couldn't find on a pamphlet handed out for free at any casino. There was only one page that had some keno tips on it that may be helpful to some people, especially people new to the game of keno. But for anyone else that has played this game before, there is nothing new in this book that we keno players don't already know.


Hitting the Jackpot: Lives of Lottery Millionaires
Published in Hardcover by Berg Pub Ltd (October, 1999)
Authors: Pasi Falk and Pasi Maenpaa
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Overpriced and a disappointment.
I bought this book thinking it would be filled with anecdotal material. I had hopes it would be a fun book about how lives have changed (for better or worse) after winning a large sum of money. It was not. Hitting the Jackpot is a treatise based on interviews of Finnish lotto winners. It reads like a textbook. There are some quotes from the winners, but basically, this book is boring. I had to force my way to the end of it. I would not buy it again, but someone interested in sociological studies might find a use for it.


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