The Mammoth Book of Poker

Author: Paul Mendelson
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1849015287
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
The most complete guide ever to taking up poker and winning Comprehensive and easy to follow, The Mammoth Book of Poker enables even those new to the game to begin and win at home, in casinos, in tournaments and online. Written by leading card games author Paul Mendelson, and packed with top tips, this invaluable new guide helps you understand your chances, appreciate the percentages, and master the odds that your hand improves. All aspects of poker are covered, including: Online poker Texas Hold 'Em, Omaha, Seven-Card Stud, Hi/Lo Split and all other variants No-Limit/Limit Killer online play Casino play Advanced strategies Tournament play and listings With over 500 pages, The Mammoth Book of Poker gives all you need to know to get started and win from the outset.

The Mammoth Book of Casino Games

Author: Paul Mendelson
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1849014965
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 341

Book Description
Paul Mendelson offers an indispensable guide to beating the odds in just about every gambling game, both in casinos and online. He reveals how to shift the odds in your favour as he clearly explains every game and analyses optimum strategies in detail with the aim of helping you to win. Other chapters show you how to: get the best out of your casino - pick up free drinks, meals, hotel accommodation, thousand-dollar shopping trips, room upgrades, flights, bonus money etc.; make the most of your trip to Las Vegas or anywhere else - casino information, the best places to gamble (for each game), recommended hotels and attractions; win online - which sites to avoid and which can be trusted, a discussion of every game from poker through to online bingo, including bonuses, incentives, play-through data and the best strategies to use. The Mammoth Book of Casino Games covers every major casino game in detail, as well as many less well known games, including: blackjack, roulette, punto banco (baccarat, chemin de fer, chemmy), poker (including three-card, Caribbean stud and video poker), Chinese dice and domino games (including sic bo, gwat pai and kap tai shap), slots (three-wheel, multi-line, bonus), other casino games (including Keno, Wheel of Fortune, Red Dog and Spanish 21) and tournaments (slots, roulette etc.). Praise for The Mammoth Book of Poker: 'I've won 20 times the price in the last three days!' Gareth Hughes

Liar's Poker

Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039333869X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313

Book Description
The author recounts his experiences on the lucrative Wall Street bond market of the 1980s, where young traders made millions in a very short time, in a humorous account of greed and epic folly.

The Mammoth Book of On The Edge

Author: Jon E. Lewis
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1780337337
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
No one sees clearer than an individual whose life is hanging by the finger tips on the edge of an abyss. Probing the furthest reaches of human daring and endurance, here are 28 of the great first-hand accounts of extreme mountaineering, from legendary names. Written by the bestselling author of Meadowland and The Running Hare, Featuring: ·Heinrich Harrer - first conqueror of the notorious Eigerwand. ·Robert Bates - the classic account of the ill-fated American 1953 expedition to K2. ·Maurice Herzog - his unstoppable ascent of Annapurna at the cost of frostbite. ·Walter Bonatti - tragedy on the Central Pillar of Freney on Mont Blanc. ·George Leigh Mallory - surviving an avalanche on the 1922 Everest expedition. ·René Desmaison - his epic story of 14 days stuck on The Grandes Jorasses in winter. ·Jon Krakauer - recalling his solo ascent of The Devil's Thumb in Alaska. The price of the summit is often measured in human suffering, yet for those who succeed the rewards can be incalculable. Nerve-wracking and unputdownable.

The Mammoth Book of Great British Humour

Author: Michael Powell
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1849016690
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 490

Book Description
A doorstopper of a collection of the very best of both contemporary and classic British wit and humour. From Monty Python's 'Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more . . .' to Dan Antopolski's 'Hedgehogs. Why can't they just share the hedge?'. From George Bernard Shaw to Michael McIntyre, from Eric Morecombe to Omid Djalili, and from Oscar Wilde to Jimmy Carr, a side-splitting look at Britain, the British and life in general. Including these gems from Britain's finest comedians: I was delighted to learn that my friend's schadenfreude was not as satisfying as mine. Armando Iannucci. I went on a girls' night out recently. The invitation said 'dress to kill'. I went as Rose West. Zoe Lyons For a while I was the perfect mother. Then the Pethidine wore off. Jenny Eclair. My girlfriend was complaining last night that I never listen to her. Or something like that. Jack Dee. Why do dogs always race to the door when the doorbell rings because it's hardly ever for them? Harry Hill. Arse-gravy of the very worst kind. Stephen Fry on The Da Vinci Code. You have to come up with this shit every year. Last week I just wrote "I still love you, see last year's card for full details." Michael McIntyre on Valentines Day. I went to the doctor and he said, 'You've got hypochondria.' I said, 'Not that as well!'Tim Vine. I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge. Spike Milligan. When someone close to you dies, move seats. Peter Kay. My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden. Eric Morecambe. My dad's dying wish was to have his family around him. I can't help thinking he would have been better off with more oxygen. Jimmy Carr. Eighty-two point six per cent of statistics are made up on the spot. Vic Reeves. A bird in the hand invariably shits on your wrist. Billy Connolly. Getting divorced isn't like a bereavement at all, because if he's died, I'd have had me mortgage paid, and I could've danced on his grave. Sarah Millican. My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela: incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990, he's been out about 18 years now and he hasn't re-offended. Ricky Gervais. If you want to confuse a girl, buy her a pair of chocolate shoes. Milton Jones. Phil Collins is losing his hearing, making him the luckiest man at a Phil Collins Concert. Simon Amstell. We'll continue our investigation into the political beliefs of nudists. We've already noticed a definite swing to the left. Ronnie Barker. A guy walks into the psychiatrist wearing only Clingfilm for shorts. The psychiatrist says, "Well, I can clearly see your nuts. Tommy Cooper

The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures

Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: C & R Crime
ISBN: 1849015392
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 701

Book Description
The biggest collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle laid down his pen - nearly 200,000 words of superb fiction featuring the Great Detective by masters of historical crime, including Stephen Baxter, H. R. F. Keating, Michael Moorcock and Amy Myers. Almost all the stories here are specially written; the cases presented in the order in which Holmes solved them. The result is a new life of Sherlock Holmes, with a continuous narrative alongside the stories that identifies the 'gaps' in the canon and places the new and hitherto unrecorded cases in sequence. Plus an invaluable complete Holmes chronology.

The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles

Author: Jon E. Lewis
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1780332831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 634

Book Description
From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John Strawson, Charles Mey, John Pimlott, and John Laffin. All the major conflicts are covered, from two world wars, through Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia, Chechnya, to Iraq and Afghanistan. Among the battles featured are: the Somme, Passchendaele, Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, El Alamein, Monte Cassino, Omaha Beach, Iwa Jima, Dien Bien Phu, Ia Drang, Hamburger Hill, Desert Storm, Kabul, Baghdad, and Basra.

The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories

Author: Ian Watson
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1849014280
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 757

Book Description
Every short story in this wonderfully varied collection has one thing in common: each features some alteration in history, some divergence from historical reality, which results in a world very different from the one we know today. As well as original stories specially commissioned from bestselling writers such as James Morrow, Stephen Baxter and Ken MacLeod, there are genre classics such as Kim Stanley Robinson's story of how World War II atomic bomber the Enola Gay, having crashed on a training flight, is replaced by the Lucky Strike with profoundly different consequences. Praise for the editors: 'Mr Watson wreaks havoc with what is accepted - and acceptable.' The Times 'One of Britain's consistently finest science fiction writers.' New Scientist

The Mammoth Book of Men O' War

Author: Jon E. Lewis
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1780333579
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 493

Book Description
Eighteen classic sea-faring tales by the best-loved writers of the genre, including Patrick O'Brian, C. S. Forester, Richard Woodman, Herman Melville and Frederick Marryat. Featuring favourite heroes such as Captain Jack Aubrey, Adam Hardy, Horatio Hornblower and Nathaniel Drinkwater. These tales vividly re-create the age of the glory days of sail, aboard the great ships that sailed for trade, discovery or warfare. They include storms and shipwrecks, the great sea battles of the Napoleonic era and the sheer, dangerous excitement of life before the mast.

The Mammoth Book of the Mafia

Author: Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher: C & R Crime
ISBN: 1849012563
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 498

Book Description
30 inside stories of the American Mafia, Sicilian Cosa Nostra, Camorra and 'Ndrangheta Images of life in the Mob pervade our film and TV screens, some glamorous, some horrific - what is the reality? Investigative journalist Roger Wilkes has put together the largest ever collection of insider stories from prominent ex-mafiosi, infiltrators and award-winning writers. It contains tell-all accounts by the likes of: Richard 'The Iceman' Kuklinski, the contract killer who claimed to have murdered over 200 people in a career lasting 43 years. Frankie Saggio, who 'freelanced' for all five of New York's Mafia families, narrowly escaping assassination before being busted for a major scam. Joey Black, the Hitman, chillingly professional murderer of 38 victims and regarded by many as the 'original Soprano'. Albert DeMeo, the son of a gangster, who later became a lawyer. 'Donnie Brasco', real name Joseph Pistone, the FBI agent, who worked undercover in the Bonanno and Colombo crime families in New York for six years. Tommaso Buscetta, the Sicilian mafioso, the first pentito, or informant, of real significance to break omertà. The two judges with whom he worked, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, were both later killed by the Mafia. This is the reality of the world of men you wouldn't want to cross.