Dice Books

If you want to learn about dice buy it. If you want to learn to play craps look for another book.

If you want to know every thing about craps read this boo

I learned how to play casino craps with this book and would recommend it to anyone. It is very factual and informative....Combinations and Ways table is one of the best features of the book.

This is a great book for knowing what is a good bet and what is not a good bet. For example, regarding the Crap Table, Scarne gives you the house percentage (P.C.)that is against you for every bet. He also gives you the odds for any type of roll or bet.

John Scarne is the master when it comes to all types of gambling. If you want to learn the best way of understanding what the true "odds" of the game are, read his books. He goes into detail about how people cheat at the games and what to do. His argument about different methods of play are very accurate in showing you how you will eventially lose. I have always played the game using the "true odds" and have managed to come out a winner. His presentation of using money management is very important and "MUST" be considered whenever you play. I would highly recommend this book to my friends.

Este libro te deja entender que antes que nada debemos somenternos a la voluntad de DIOS no de nosotros, este libro te enseñará a vivir conforme la voluntad de DIOS a no esperar nada a cambio de lo que uno dá, sino darlo de corazón desinteresadamente...

David Gulick places all his experience and knowledge in our hands...This are HIS stories and his inspiring learnings
A mighty book that will leave lessons on life !
I strongly recomend it!

"cuentos" reales, ES UNA LECCION DE VIDA PARA UNO Y TAMBIEN PARA LOS HIJOS...

Un hombre bondadoso, cristiano y muy DURO CON LA DELINCUENCIA!
Estas historias reales, nos dejan grandes aprendizajes. Por ejemplo, en su historia de LA VÍBORA NEGRA, el COMANDANTE GULICK nos ofrece una lección valiosísima:
Es común que nos quejemos que alguien, a quien hemos hecho un favor enorme, nos corresponda con ingratitud y hasta con canalladas. En LA VÍBORA NEGRA, Gulick nos cuenta de un granjero que encuentra a una vpibora muy lastimada y la recoge para llevarla piadosamente a su casa.
La mete a la cocina, donde está calientito, le sirve un poco de leche y, a la mañana siguiente, va a checar como está el animal herido...Pero la VÍBORA APROVECHA LA OPORTUNIDAD Y MUERDE CRUELMENTE LA MANO DE SU BENEFACTOR !
Esto nos enseña que, cuando ayudamos a una persona de mal corazón, lo más probable es que, como muestra de "gratitud " NOS MUERDA LA MANO.
El Jefe Gulick nos anima a ayudar...pero a fijarnos a quien estamos ayudando o a no quejarnos cuando nos equivocamos y la antes "'víctima " nos muerde la mano.
Y en todas sus historias, hay una buena lección!
La historia de Brittany, LA BEBITA ASESINADA dentro de la demarcación del Jefe Gulick, es una aterradora lección para cualquier mujer.
VALE LA PENA LEERLO, porque nos deja ESPARCIMIENTO Y SABIDURÍA !
ES UN LIBRO EXCEPCIONAL !

Qué bella colección de historias reales! Todas tienen una gran moraleja, nos enseñan algo que no olvidamnos jamas y que dulcifica nuestra vida. El Jefe Gulick es un gran escritor ...no entiendo por qué no se ha publicado su libro en su idioma:En Inglés.. Pero es excelente y para todas las edades...

The undead are very strong creatures. Taken from D&D, they have the ability to almost not die! To bad about the not-so-good magic...

I think the Undead are the best dice made.No missile and little manuver make them the best hand-to-hand fighters!

These are the dice you want if you want Melee and saves! There's just about nothing else. The best trick with these guys is, when your in a big (50 points or more) battle, let your melee guys die off and keep your magicians in the reserves. Then cast 'Haunt'. This is a spell cast on your own forces, so you can do it from reserves, then you can melee attack ANYBODY, ANYWHERE!! And at any terrain setting! Plauge 'em!!

This is an accessory to the Dragon Dice Game. If you have ever played, and think Goblins and Drarves are too weak, you must get this

Marvalous! My wife and I enjoyed reading it to Giselle. The part when the cow seems to be brushing her teeth however seems to say "... cansandose..." instead of "cepillandose"?? The illustrations are awesome!

yeah i used a pun in the title. but it deserves it. this is a fantastic read and the illustrations keep children entertained.

This book is great for teaching your children Spanish, and learning a little yourself! My children are bilingual, so they loved it, especially the adorable illustrations! Even better, I learned the word for cow, mangos, and more! Highly recommended for all!

I just got three copies for my nephews, and they LOVE it!! The illustrations are the best part.

Tom Frey is an authority on Toys from the boomer era.I bought his "Remco Movieland Drive-in from him in 1991 from Toy Shop magazine.His photography and commentary is priceless!If you grew up in the late fifties,early sixties and bugged your Mom and Dad for a "Great Garloo" or a "Remco Drive-in"(like I did),then definitely BUY this book!!You'll LOVE IT!!

This is a great addition to any toy lovers library! There are quite a few toys shown here that I have not seen in previous books, and believe me I have a few. I thrilled at nice clean pictures of Video Village, the Talking Casper doll, Major Matt Mason, Johnny and Jane West. Lots of Marx Toys, reminiscent of Pennsylvania and my youth.
A time machine for anyone at or approaching 50!

TOY BOP! This could be THE bible for toy enthusiasts and creators...each page gives reason to why millions flock to fleas and why I personally have chosen my profession. Toy Bop is a what's what map to the never forgotten gold in yer the great mind shaft of memory. And in Toy Bop, the gold never glimmered brighter. From the quirky haphazard classic toys spawned by Marvin Glass to adorable machine guns and one color Marx's, Toy Bop displays its wears like GE at a Worlds Fair long ago. Pick it up, waste away a few hours, and tell Odd-Ogg and King Zor that I sent you.-- Daniel Seifert ---Toy Designer Guy Oddzon/koosh/hasbro

Tom Frey has put together the greatest book on toys I have ever seen. The book is not a price guide. Its a wonderful trip back in time. Back to the days when us kids had imagination. The pictures are outstanding. I have spoken with Tom and find him to be a very good source of information and you can tell from talking to him that he really loves his toys. If you were a child in the 50s to 60s and want a real trip down memory lane, then this is the book for you.

This book is an excellent memoir of one man's life in the casinos (in this case publisher Lyle Stuart). Well-written and engaging, the only reason it does not get five stars is because there is no mathematical way of beating games such as craps, baccarat, or blackjack (without counting, which is not covered in this book). Still, if you don't know how to properly gamble in a casino, this volume will help you. Very good!

A very good read. Will make you a better casino player if followed! Will also increase your winnings.

Who better to get advice about gambling than the man that casinos go to to learn how to protect themselves? Several time baccarat champion and casino advisor, Lyle Stuart has done it again.

Lyle tells you which games to play and which to avoid like the plague. He gives odds and tips on how to win at the casinos and more importantly walk away a winner.

He also entertains you with true stories of winning and losing millions in hours. If you only read one authority on gambling, Lyle is your man for honest, straight forward advice about casinos, gambling and not losing your shirt.

This book is about developing a winning philosophy for gambling. While it does include some strategic tips for playing casino games, the book does not set out to teach you how to play. Instead of focusing on the rules and strategy for individual games, it teaches money managment and how to maximize your chances of leaving the casino with more money in your pocket than you brought in. Lyle Stuart is an acknowledged gambling expert, and he offers up his own experiences in playing and watching casino games. Even though there is a bit too much self-congratulations throughout, his stories are entertaining, and he does a good job of explaining complex odds to the layman. This is a very useful book for anyone who has a basic understanding of casino play.

The best ever. yet another add on to Dragon Dice. You must have this!

Heres another kicker pack for Dragon Dice. Add the combonation of the Air and Death elements to your armies today! The Frostwings, as this race is called, have new powerful magic spells. They also dispel opposing magic!! there are also some new Special Action Icons, like Swallow, Frost Breath, and Volley. Do not disclude these missle heavy troops in your quest to conquer.

The formidable elements of Air and Death combine to form the powerful frostwings! This is my favorite kicker pack in all of Dragon Dice. Any fan of the game should get this pack. Alas, if only WOTC hadn't cruelly cut the production of these kickers...

PASCAL'S WAGER: The Man Who Played Dice With God.
By James A. Connor, Harper Collins Publishers, 2006]

James Connor has given us the opportunity to enter the physical space and place of 1588-1670 France. He brings classic and substantive insight into the provincial and fomenting social mores of these times: the militancy and corruption of the papacy; the intrusive and diminishing ideology of Aristotelian philosophy; and, the deepening schism in the Catholic Church and monarchies of Pascal's times. Through the lens of Blaise Pascal's tightly-knit family, we enter the inordinate emotional sibling reliance (addiction) of children who have been raised in the isolated, dominating, and cloistered world of a widowed father suddenly thrust into self-survival and the salt of erudition. Through his infancy and childhood years Blaise Pascal was afflicted with an abnormality which forced him to shift into a shrieking knot of psychic pain whenever he was with more than one parent at a time. From the beginning of his days Pascal was labeled a dark angel. Caught in the polemic of the adamancy of original sin and simultaneously possessed with the fomenting dreams of a scientist, Pascal's heart and mind joined the tight rope of his life-long pain stricken body in total accommodation. The essential terror of this dilemma necessitated a sort of "doubling phenomenon" as a protective shield against the continuous threats to his spiritual identity and intelligence.

"When I think about the shortness of my life," Pascal said, "melted into the eternity that came before me, and into the eternity that will come after...and the insignificance of the space I fill and even see, I'm lost in the infinite vastness of that space that lies beyond, that space of which I am ignorant and which has no knowledge or care of me. I'm frightened and astonished to awaken in this place rather than that and I see no reason why I should be here and not there, now and not then. Who put me here? By whose order and direction have this place and time come to me?" (Connor: 179)

Living in these polemics eventually brought Pascal into conceiving a rationality of faith based on gambling. Miraculously, Pascal's lifelong physical and emotional pain coupled with the Faustian delight of formulating mathematical theories resulted in the genius birth of the science of probability. Further, his piercing insights into the "law of big vs. the law of averages" and his brilliant staging of a new metaphysics embodied in quantum mechanics; his prideful invention of the first computing machine, the Pascaline are primo among the collective hallmarks of his extraordinary life. Connor's case study of Pascal's divided psyche exposes a tightly leashed self-will evolving into a theology of moral powerlessness. Pointing out that, in 1658, with the return of signaling pain, Pascal had taken to wearing "an iron girdle full of sharp points, which he put next to his skin." Any time Pascal had a prideful thought, or felt pulled toward some diversion, he pushed on the girdle, driving the points into his flesh. He wore that girdle until the day he died. Connor's biography of Blaise Pascal provides a curved mirror adroitly exposing the primal desire of mortals as they seek to decipher the Immortal; and, to discover the veracity of that great spiritual river running between the heart and the soul. He beautifully illustrates Pascal's scientific mind as influencing today's inquiries into cybernetics, physics, nanotechnology; advanced theories of relativity, space stations, and, yes, "the truth and the comics" imbedded in blasting beyond Disney's Black Hole. Within the context of our stumbling steps at the cusp of the 21st century, Connor offers a beguiling interpolative rendition of the facts during Pascal's life and times: How do we reconcile the scientist and the mystic? How do we formulate true questions, questions that ask a question and continue to ask another after that? Perhaps Blaise is whispering to us today, reminding that the ancient hawk of peril, courage, and creativity of his times coincide with the "new age" inquiry of our own. James A. Connor whispers back:

"Personally, this one universe is enough for me. I find it to be as weird as I can handle. Weirdness is a value in and of itself, for in weirdness lies poetry, and in poetry lies beauty, and in beauty lies truth, weird as it is. Pascal would appreciate this. (Connor: 215)

Jess Maghan Chester, CT

As an engineer I had studied all about Pascal's products, the conic sections, the vacuum, and the probability studies. However, until I read this book never could have imagined the sad and inspirational story behind the genius, Blaise Pascal. It is written in short readable chapters that give you a vivid picture on the 17th century in which he lived. The book gives a spectacular vision of the beginning of science as we know it in the 21st century. It also examines the conflict of one man between his faith and his passion for science. I won't tell you how it comes out that for you to read. The only thing I will tell you is that it is not the usual science is good and religion is bad that you find in many book today. Read this book, and if you have children interested in science have them read it too, or better read it to them.

This fairly short (216 pages) book centers around the central dilemma of Blaise Pascal's, the 17th century math prodigy's, life philosophy: How to reconcile his austere view of life as should be lived by a creation of God with his obvious love of math, science, and worldly ideas. Another hundred pages could have been used to flesh out Pascal's writings and scientific ideas so that the reader could make more of his own decision about him. Instead the author has chosen to present his own thesis for acceptance or rejection. There is considerable interesting background provided on the France of Pascal's time and on Jansenism, the ascetic (Augustinian) form of deterministic (Calvinistic) Catholicism that Pascal ultimately accepted.

There are several descriptions of the discoveries of Pascal and his peers but nothing that requires a math or science background. The last chapter is a musing by the author that uses the probabilistic view of modern life that Pascal originated by his seminal work in probability theory. The author's dividing of people into climbers and sprawlers is insightful especially if you're inunudated with amazing coincidence \ God's providence spam e-mails as I seem to be. Recommended if you're Roman Catholic, definitely recommended if you're a fan of the Jesuits (the author is a former Jesuit). The book reads fast and is divided into short chapters; useful if, as I do, you like to finish a chapter before getting off the mass transit. Well recommended.

Urns, Dice, and Polyominoes: Topics in the Theory of Groups, Residues, Primes, & Probability is an anthology of brain-teasing mathematical puzzles and solutions, written by expert mathematician and instructor Barr McCutcheon. The puzzles are presented in a print-handwritten style script with diagrams, one that readily lends itself to immediate absorption more quickly than a standard typeface. Extensive formal education is not required to better understand the probability-related problems and their solutions, which walk the reader through basic principles in a lighthearted, easy-to-assimilate manner. Highly recommended for leisure fun or for the dedicated mathematics and probability student student seeking to round out his or her problem-solving skills and put them to the experimental test.

This is a wealth of material for math teachers. Written by a math wizard with a lifetime experience in keeping kids excited about math with the help of one of his ex-students who became a math teacher himself, it's a must have for teachers looking to inspire, entertain and fire up their math students.

Full disclosure: I haven't read the book yet, but Mr. McCutcheon was my math teacher in 6th and 8th grade and all through high school, and he is singlehandedly responsible for making me comfortable and confident with math. He made math class both fun and challenging, and taught in a way that forced us to use our brains creatively rather than simply memorizing formulas and spitting them back. If this book is anything like his classes (as the title suggests it is), it would be a wonderful resource for teachers, students, and anyone interested in increasing their knowledge and enjoyment of mathematics.

The Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Adventure Gaming Dice Set (yes, I know it is a mouthfull) is a must for gamers. Without dice you can't even play. This set comes with the following 7 dice:

-1 20 sided polyhedral die
-1 12 sided polyhedral die
-1 10 sided percentile polyhedral die
-1 10 sided polyhedral die
-1 8 sided polyhedral die
-1 6 sided polyhedral die
-1 4 sided polyhedral die

With these dice you can play virtually any role-playing game, not only AD&D.

When my little brother lost I all of my dice, I did not know what to do. I was desperate, I couldn't play without these acental pices. Luckly while I was on the internet I found this place and bought the dice. It was worth it. Thanks Amizon.