On the Edge
Subtitle: How Successful Gamblers and Risk-Takers Think
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2024
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 559
ISBN-13: 9781594204128
Copyright date: 2024
First sentence: The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, features one nightclub, seven pools, fourteen restaurants, a thirty-foot high indoor waterfall, dozen of pieces of bedazzled rock-and-roll memorabilia, two hundred gaming tables, 1,275 guest rooms, three thousand slot machines, and a glimmering guitar-shaped hotel that shoots beams of neon blue light twenty thousand feet into the sky.
Table of contents: label: Prologue
title: Motivation
pagenum: 1; title: Introduction
pagenum: 3; label: Part 1
title: Gambling; label: 1
title: Optimization
pagenum: 39; label: 2
title: Perception
pagenum: 80; label: 3
title: Consumption
pagenum: 131; label: 4
title: Competition
pagenum: 170; title: Halftime; label: 13
title: Inspiration: Thirteen Habits of Highly Successful Risk-Takers
pagenum: 217; label: Part 2
title: Risk; label: 5
title: Acceleration
pagenum: 247; label: 6
title: Illusion
pagenum: 240; label: 7
title: Quantification
pagenum: 340; label: 8
title: Miscalculation
pagenum: 382; label: ∞
title: Termination
pagenum: 405; label: 1776
title: Foundation
pagenum: 461; title: Acknowledgments, Methods and Sources
pagenum: 473; title: Glossary: How to Speak Riverian
pagenum: 477; title: Notes
pagenum: 503; title: Index
pagenum: 545