Reno Books

Contributors
Preface By William R. Eadington
Acknowledgements By Judy A. Cornelius
Sect. 1. Studies on the Mathematical Methodology of Gambling Games in Casinos
Analysis of a Gambling System By S. N. Ethier
Playing in Real Games By Thomas C. Roginski, Carlson Chambliss
Casino Card Shuffles: How Random are They? By Robert Hannum
Cardroom Theory-A Two Way Street By Donna Harris, Mason S. Malmuth

Sect. 2. Blackjack Papers
A Study of Index Rounding in Card-Counting By Ken Fuchs, Olaf Vancura
A Computer Teaches Itself to Play Blackjack By Olaf Vancura
Blackjack Subsets: Software for the Study of Blackjack, and an Application to Resplitting on Six Deck Blackjack By William G. Hawkins
Does Basic Strategy Have the Same Expectation for Each Round? By Edward O. Thorp

Sect. 3. Variations on Blackjack
A New Sidebet for Blackjack: Hedging Against Stiffs By Linda M. Woodland, Bill M. Woodland
The Quality of Blackjack Play in Australian Casinos By Michael B. Walker, Sylvana Sturevska, Duncan Turpie

Sect. 4. Kelly
The Kelly Criterion in Blackjack, Sports Betting, and the Stock Market By Edward O. Thorp
Can You Do Better than Kelly in the Short Run? By Sid Browne
Limitations on Kelly or the Ubiquitous "n "approaches" "infinity"" By John E. Leib

Sect. 5. New Games and Wagers
Blackjack: Betting the Klondike's "Free Ride" By Peter Griffin, Edward O. Thorp
An Analysis of Caribbean Stud Poker By Peter Griffin, John M. Gwynn, Jr.
Double Hand Marquez-A Derivative of Blackjack and Pai Gow By John M. Gwynn, Jr.
A Really Hard Hardway Bet By Donald E. Catlin
A Detailed Study of Pai Gow By John M. Gwynn, Jr.
Using Overall Expected Return per Dollar Risked to Determine Strategy Decisions in Gambling Games By Donald E. Catlin

Sect. 6. Mathematical Analysis of Other Casino Games
An Accurate Analysis of Video Poker By Edward Gordon
A Short Note on the Expected Duration of the Australian Game "Two-Up" By Peter Griffin
A Winning Strategy for Roulette By Jerome H. Klotz
A Statistical Characterization and Comparison of Selected Craps Money Management and Bet Selection Systems By Ken Elliott III

I have been trying to order this book for a while but each time something went wrong. I am happy to say I finally received the book and in record time from one of the best sellers at Market Place. I was surprised how small the book was with little or no photos showing the project or even the step by step guides. Granted the receipes are simple and easy to follow written guidelines I just feel cheated if there is no pictures. Overall I am going to rate the book a 4 because of the simplistic nature of the receipes I am excited to start trying them. I sell soaps on the side (when I am not book selling) and I find some of the best receipes are 3-5 ingrediants and takes 5 minutes to prepare. The hardcover is nice and tight the book itself is small but text size is normal.I did not realize that a big portion of the book (half) would be on candlemaking. While interesting it is not what I needed. There is approx. 33 soap/bath beauty receipes of which I will use about 75-80% of so I do like the book. I would of given 5 stars but they lost one star because of the lack of Pictures. (Dj has a nice one. I recommend you cannot go wrong-Too simple for the professional soaper, I am just thrilled it doesn't call for all the complicated ones I have to do. As a Gift I would Highly Recommend.

When i began to read this book did not know what to expect. I was pleasently surprised with a good balance of action, suspense and Romance. All in all i thought it was a good read.

Self-published adventure in bad fonts, deep-seated train-trench bitterness and some kinda weird idea that downtown Reno failed because of gambling during the same day and age that every other downtown failed, gambling presence excluded.

That being said, Beth Miramon has set down a wonderful tale of history for us about the first century of what we know as the Truckee Meadows (even if it does carry more than a whiff of Sam Dehne-style self-importance).

She has selected some marvelous photos of early Reno, including an 1879 late-afternoon view of Commercial Row, the Central Pacific tracks and the original Depot Hotel taken from the west. Reno is a cute and dumpy town of a handful of ramshackle wood-framed buildings surrounding the Depot and its 4 sets of tracks.

The book comes with cover-art by Ruth Hilts that is reproduced as a companion book mark. "They called it the Truckee Meadows."

For those of you who like gas explosions, Miramon's retelling of the Sierra St. explosion of 1957 will be the greatest thing since sliced bread. She goes a bit too far in blaming our new train trench for that blast and for the subsequent implosion of the Mapes.

I, for one, look forward to driving once again past the Mizpah on Lake unimpeded by the Amtrak whose westbound schedule is always a bit unpredictable.

When I look down into the trench from atop Wells, I try to imagine myself leaning on those leaning Sky Room windows Miramon so sweetly evokes, following West First with my eye out to where it meets that golden late-afternoon sky that we all so love here.

I ran across this book shortly after it was published under a different title (The Runaway). It is a very enticing western. It has a good plot that you want to follow, to see if things work out in the end. And, no, it is not all hunky-dory. There are consequences to all actions and Mr. Morris tries to show that. I liked it well enough to see if there are any other books in the series.

I really liked the humanity of this character. Reno has been through the mill and doesn't just bounce back like in other westerns. He is not perfect but he is searching. He thinks, he chooses for good or bad and when he falls, he learns while getting back up. Read this under previous title (The Deputy).

In a beautifully illustrated book Carmelo Urza finely analyses the discussions about this avant-garde sculpture made to celebrate the Basque shepherds of America. He shows and comments the different points of view of those implied: the Basque-american community to whom the monument was dedicated, the Basque government in Spain and, of course, the artist himself. He also provides us with detailed information of the negotiations which finally led to the placing of the monument where it is now. It is a book worth reading in order to know about the aspirations and self-image of the Basques living in America, but also of those living in Spain.

The hero's parent's are destroyed in a mining strike, and their son goes off on a mission to bring down the mining corporation that killed them. Good storyline, and more blood than Saving Private Ryan. A great read, if you can find it.

Thomas guide books used to come with the material on a cd. Now that cd is not available.They need to include the cd or make it available either by purchase
or included with the guide.

A nationally syndicated columnist and bestselling author of two books, David Limbaugh performs the duties the mainstream media used to perform decades ago with his page-turning expose "Absolute Power: The Legacy of Corruption in the Clinton-Reno Justice Department". Few non-fiction books in the past ten years have held me captive like this one.

During the 1992 campaign, and throughout the Clinton presidency, Americans heard reports of various Clinton administration improprieties. Sometimes, as was the case with Monica Lewinsky, we actually witnessed the scandals unfold. But rarely would the mainstream media afford the public more than a cursory overview of such activities. Simply put, David Limbaugh does the job the mainstream media should have.

With chapters that run the gambit on such topics as Waco, the Tobacco Wars, Billy Dale and The White House Travel Office, Monica Lewinsky, presidential pardons to benefit Hillary's Senate campaign, and Elian Gonzalez, Absolute Power is one of the premiere historical records cataloguing the innumerable scandals that plagued Bill Clinton's presidency. Surprisingly, readers will find little commentary. I can find no instance of the author offering his own opinion. Instead, his book reads like a newspaper description of a public event (or at least in the days before liberal media bias). The book contains extensive footnotes and source references, quoting FBI agents and high-ranking officials on the record by name, rather than by quoting "anonymous sources"...

The result is a genuine breath of fresh air. I was fifteen when the storming of the Waco compound took place. Yet despite the abundance of media coverage, I knew few details regarding the incident itself and the people surrounding it before reading this book. David Limbaugh fills in the details about the life of David Koresh, the history of Waco, and all of the other topics previously listed in a way the major media outlets have failed to do since those events occurred.

Readers of Absolute Power will be left breathless by its vivid illustration of a presidential administration willing to use the courts and agents of federal law enforcement to achieve its own political ends. Had David Limbaugh published this book just one year earlier, no American would have been surprised by Al Gore's attempts to circumvent election law in Florida. Although, optimist that I am, I'd like to believe that had this book been published one year earlier, the 2000 presidential election would not have been so close...

Britt Gillette
Author of "The Dittohead's Guide To Adult Beverages"

The two greatest organizations for enforcing the law under the Clinton and Reno administration politicized the law, weakened justice, and brought politics under the influence of big business because political partiesý differences eroded to a point where a single individualýs influence in the party was considered minimal; the goal of such erosion was to reduce polarization of ideas, allowing increased influence from the special interests groups; the special interests groups used money to open import businesses, get contracts, buy weapons, gain most-favored-nation status, decrease legal penalties and soften constitutional intent.

David Limbaugh hedges towards demonstrating how the Clinton and Reno administration found loopholes in the law, extended the interpretation of the law, used obscure laws to establish precedents, bombarded their opponents using trial-lawyer-rhetoric and accusatory, false witnesses as diversionary tactics, and pitted the United States against the United States by creating conflicting interests within government organizations; thus, the Justice Department became a political arm of the Executive Branch. The cases are: Waco (military usage in civilian affair), Linda Tripp (privacy act violation), Campaign scandal (soft money in the Democratic National Committee (DNC)), discrediting of Kenneth Star (conflict of interest), Elian Gonzalez (political pressure to overturn the courts). Waco is a wake up call! Clinton would say the incident at Waco was a tragedy, but he could not control a fanatic who decided to kill himself and everyone at Waco. A review board analyzed the governmentýs handling of Waco and found no wrong doing. Limbaugh presented a different story and revealed a number of blatant lies.

Why attack Koresh? Koresh's original name was Veron Howell. The Koresh group was a break-off, apostate, dissenting group from the original Seventh Day Adventist organization. Divisions occurred over the doctrine of spiritual (White: Something happened in heaven) versus physical (Davidic throne) manifestation of Christýs second coming and the particular date this event would occur. Howell claims to be the seventh messenger for the seventh seal as recorded in the Book of Revelation in the Bible.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) becomes involved in watching the activities on the Waco (Mount Carmel, TX) compound. Dispute over ownership occurs between Howell and Roden; Roden forces the ATF to petition for US military assistance because Roden has set up a methamphetamine lab, but at the time of the petition, the lab was dysfunctional; Roden challenged Howell to a contest to determine who was God; Howell had a sexual relationship with Lois Roden, who was sixty, thinking she was like the biblical Sarah, and he would produce offspring with her; Roden digs up a 20-year-dead corpse and challenges Howell to bring the corpse back to life; Howell declines; Howell reports Rodenýs activities to the authorities; Roden is charged with contempt of court; Howell gains possession of the property and the followers; Howell changes his name to David Koresh; Koresh claims to be the Messiah to bring about the end-of-time prophecy; reports of Koresh beating children surface (he boasts 17 wives and 11 children, many of the wives were under-aged); Marc Breault, a disgruntled member, prods the sheriff to take action; Child Protective Services becomes involved; June 9, 1992, ATF begins an open investigation. Dummy hand grenades were discovered, there were purchases of aluminum and black powder, and evidence of 40,000 AR-15 rifles (convertible to a machine gun). The Fed does not prohibit possession of a machine gun; however, it does require a registration for each weapon, a registration Koresh did not complete. A warrant is obtained based on this evidence; Koresh is seen leaving the Mount Carmel premises, no arrest is made because a dynamic raid is preferred; Koresh was tipped off according to Robert Rodrigues, 76 agents staged the raid, they were exposed to Koresh during unload, but no shots were fired.

The 1878 Posse Comitatus Act restricted military involvement in civilian law enforcement because military is used to fight wars, not enforce the law, with the exception of drugs; there was evidence surfacing the Koresh residents were anticipating a peaceful resolution; Reno justified force because she believed 1) there was no reason to believe Koresh would voluntary come out 2) the health and jeopardy of the children were at risk 3) the Hostage rescue team was fatigued; the hostage rescue team wanted action, and the experts urged caution. The two groups were at odds with each other, but eventually, the team acted. A tank pushed through a wall and either knocked over the kerosene lamps, starting a fire, or Koresh committed mass suicide. Why would Koresh murder his people? He had not finished his mission. The tactics employed by the Hostage Rescue team follow a military strategy, and casualties are expected; "strike first, strike hard, no compromise" is the message. Why was a military force strategy employed in a local, law enforcement situation?

People who complain about the truth never have any facts to back it up. Womnder why? Those Facts do not exist. If the David Barrett report is ever realeased...Hillary and Bill will be in line for a prison term.

The truth is out there. Facts are out there and David L has put out a book that people who want truth and can think for themselves will find.

Its interesting because in the past 6 months so much had come out. Facts regarding WMD's and Al Quaeda's ties with Iraq. The tuth needs to be spoken and this book speaks out loud and clear. A must read.

Well of course this is biased nonsense. What did you expect? That's not my trouble with this book, as I expect nothing less from Rush's little brother. What did depress me was how lazily thrown together it was, like maybe Rush had a few of his interns dig up some Washington Times articles for David to weave together into a partisan rant. Also a tad distressing was the lack of any sort of historical perspective, on say what Ed Meese got up to let alone Nixon's crook Mitchell. (Though again this is standard party trick of right wing hacks so no surprise.) I am vaguely interested in whether David actually believes this stuff, as "The Legacy of Corruption" has the whiff of utter cynicism and making a buck off the rubes...

....is what the title of this book should read. Limbaugh clearly has an agenda here. If your republican you'll love this, if your democrat you'll hate it. Big surprise!!