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All Bets Are Off: Losers, Liars, and Recovery from Gambling Addiction

Arnie Wexler - Central Recovery Press
Format: Book

Arnie Wexler's life as a gambler began on the streets of Brooklyn, New York, flipping cards, shooting marbles, and playing pinball machines. At age fourteen he found the racetrack, a bookie, and started playing the stock market. His obsession with gambling accelerated until a fateful...

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Liar's Poker

Michael Lewis - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback

The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar's Poker. Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street's premier investment firms. During the next three years,...

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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

Gabor Mate - North Atlantic Books; 1 edition
Format: Book

Based on Gabor Mat's two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with the severely addicted on Vancouver's skid row, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts radically reenvisions this much misunderstood field by taking a holistic approach. Dr. Mat presents...

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