An advanced textbook; with many examples and exercises, often with hints or solutions; code is provided for computational examples and simulations.

This book by King Yao, author of the widely-acclaimed Weighing the Odds in Hold 'em Poker, should be used as a guideline to sports betting rather than a blueprint. The sports betting market changes and adapts quickly. The underlying principles shown in this book should help the reader adapt and continue to make good bets even when the market changes.

Set over two decades, from the grim post war 1950s to the growing affluence of the 1970s, three very different lines are intertwined.Sally Steadman, the indulged, temperamental child of aspiring parents, her heart set on a career in music.Johnny Marshall, the son a back street bookmaker, making his way out of the terraced streets of his childhood at any cost.Alice Spencer, daughter of a controlling father and downtrodden mother, struggling to find her independence.All three are forced to make compromises which change their lives forever.

King Yao explains how to play Hold'Em poker. Topic covered include sizing up your opponents, counting outs, figuring pot odds, the value of position, determining when to raise, call, or fold, bluffing, semi-bluffing, slowplaying, check-raising, regular games, shorthanded games, and playing poker on the Internet.

"Parker creates ... images from old encyclopedias, cut paper, maps, laboratory glass, street metal, flowers, broken toys, and journals, using the natural light that shines through her studio window"--Cover.

This easy-to-follow textbook introduces the mathematical language, knowledge and problem-solving skills that undergraduates need to study computing. The language is in part qualitative, with concepts such as set, relation, function and recursion/induction; but it is also partly quantitative, with principles of counting and finite probability. Entwined with both are the fundamental notions of logic and their use for representation and proof. Features: teaches finite math as a language for thinking, as much as knowledge and skills to be acquired; uses an intuitive approach with a focus on examples for all general concepts; brings out the interplay between the qualitative and the quantitative in all areas covered, particularly in the treatment of recursion and induction; balances carefully the abstract and concrete, principles and proofs, specific facts and general perspectives; includes highlight boxes that raise common queries and clear confusions; provides numerous exercises, with selected solutions.

An account of the aid worker co-author's dramatic January 2012 rescue from kidnappers in Somalia by members of a Navy SEAL Team Six unit offers insight into the effective use of targeted U.S. military missions.