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Compulsive gambling

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• Impulse control disorders

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• Compulsive gamblers

• Pathological gambling
• Problem gambling

• Pathological Gambling: A Critical Review, by National Research Council Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Action Track: Treatment Tools for Counsellors Working With Youth (c2001), by Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission (PDF at University of Calgary)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Consequences of Clutter: How Hoarding Disorder Affects America's Older Adults, First Responders, and Their Communities (2024), by United States Senate Special Committee on Aging (PDF at fdlp.gov)

• The Consequences of Clutter: How Hoarding Disorder Affects America's Older Adults, First Responders, and Their Communities (2024), by United States Senate Special Committee on Aging (PDF at fdlp.gov)

• The Consequences of Clutter: How Hoarding Disorder Affects America's Older Adults, First Responders, and Their Communities (2024), by United States Senate Special Committee on Aging (PDF at fdlp.gov)

• La Femme et le Pantin: Roman Espagnol (in French; 1898), by Pierre Louÿs (Gutenberg text)

• My Secret Life (11 volumes, 1888) (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• The Encyclopedia of Gambling: The Game, the Odds, the Techniques, the People and Places, the Myths and History (c1977), by Peter Arnold (PDF files at University of Calgary)
• Betting and Gambling (second edition; London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1894), by Seton Churchill (PDF at University of Calgary)
• Chance and Luck: A Discussion of the Laws of Luck, Coincidences, Wagers, Lotteries, and the Fallacies of Gambling, With Notes on Poker and Martingales (second edition; London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1887), by Richard A. Proctor (page images at Cornell)
• The Gaming Table: its Votaries and Victims, by Andrew Steinmetz
  • volume 1: HTML at Virginia
  • volume 2: illustrated HTML at Virginia
• The Reformed Gambler, by J. H. Green (page images at MOA)
• Card Sharping Exposed: The Tricks of the Greeks Unveiled, or, The Art of Winning at Every Game (c1882), by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, trans. by M. I. Smithson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Robert's Rules of Poker (electronic editions; with info on author's other books), by Bob Ciaffone (MS Word and HTML at pokercoach.us)
• Sharps and Flats: A Complete Revelation of the Secrets of Cheating at Games of Chance and Skill (London and New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894), by John Nevil Maskelyne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Evils of Gaming: A Letter to a Friend in the Army ("no. 60"; Civil war era), by Jeremiah Bell Jeter
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Governing Fortune: Casino Gambling in America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Edward A. Morse and Ernest Goss (page images at HathiTrust)

• The History of Gambling in England (London: Duckworth and Co., 1898), by John Ashton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Hit: A Novel (New York: Vanguard Press, c1957), by Julian Mayfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Long Odds (1869), by Marcus Clarke (HTML and PDF at University of Sydney)
• Monsieur Beaucaire, by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text)
• Monsieur Beaucaire (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1900), by Booth Tarkington, illust. by C. D. Williams (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Shadowed by Three (Chicago: Donnelley, Gassette and Loyd, 1882), by Lawrence L. Lynch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Squaw Man: A Novel (based on play by Royle; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1906), by Julie Opp, contrib. by Edwin Milton Royle
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Squaw Man: A Novel (based on play by Royle; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1906), by Julie Opp, contrib. by Edwin Milton Royle (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Gambling: Hazard and Reward (London: Athlone Press, 1972), by Otto Newman (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Drink, Drugs and Gambling (c1952), by Mahatma Gandhi, ed. by Bharatan Kumarappa (PDF in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Sucker's Progress: An Informal History of Gambling in America From the Colonies to Canfield (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1938), by Herbert Asbury (page images at HathiTrust)

• Artifice, Ruse and Subterfuge at the Card Table: A Treatise on the Science and Art of Manipulating Cards (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., c1902), by S. W. Erdnase (page images at HathiTrust)
• Card Sharping Exposed: The Tricks of the Greeks Unveiled, or, The Art of Winning at Every Game (c1882), by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, trans. by M. I. Smithson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sharps and Flats: A Complete Revelation of the Secrets of Cheating at Games of Chance and Skill (London and New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894), by John Nevil Maskelyne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Speculate This! (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2013), by Uncertain Commons (illustrated HTML with commentary at pressbooks.com)
• New Methods for Profit in the Stock Market; With a Critical Analysis of Established Systems (second and revised edition; Boston: Metcalf Press, c1951), by Garfield Albee Drew (page images at HathiTrust)
• George Wollsten: Expert Stock and Grain Trader (c1946), by George Bayer (rotated page images at HathiTrust)
• Granville's New Key to Stock Market Profits (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1963), by Joseph E. Granville (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Art of Speculation (Boston et al.: Barron's, 1927), by Philip L. Carret (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Benner's Prophecies of Future Ups and Downs in Prices: What Years to Make Money on Pig-Iron, Hogs, Corn, and Provisions (Cincinnati: The author, 1876), by Samuel Benner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fourteen Methods of Operating in the Stock Market (third edition; New York: Magazine of Wall Street, 1918) (page images at HathiTrust)
• International, Commercial and Financial Gambling in "Options and Futures" (Marchés à Terme): The Economic Ruin of the World (London: P. S. King and Son, 1906), by Charles William Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Psychology of the Stock Market (New York: Ticker Pub. Co., c1912), by G. C. Selden (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Psychology of the Stock Market (third edition; New York: Magazine of Wall Street, 1921), by G. C. Selden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in Tape Reading (published under "Rollo Tape" pseudonym; New York: Ticker Pub. Co., c1910), by Richard D. Wyckoff
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Théorie de la Spéculation (in French; Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1900), by Louis Bachelier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 45 Years in Wall Street: A Review of the 1937 Panic and 1942 Panic, 1946 Bull Market, With New Time Rules and Percentage Rules with Charts for Determining the Trend on Stocks (Miami: W. D. Gann, c1949), by William D. Gann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Story of Wall Street (New York: Greenberg, c1929), by Robert Irving Warshow (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Free Trade and Protection Under the International Bear Operator (London: P. S. King and Son, 1904), by Charles William Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• How I Trade and Invest in Stocks and Bonds: Being Some Methods Evolved and Adopted During My Thirty-Three Years Experience in Wall Street (first edition; New York: Magazine of Wall Street, c1922), by Richard D. Wyckoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), by Edwin Lefevre (page images at HathiTrust)
• It's No Gamble: The Economic and Social Benefits of Stock Markets, by Lewis D. Johnson and Bohumir Pazderka (HTML at Fraser Institute)

• Games of the North American Indians (ca. 1907), by Stewart Culin (multiple formats at archive.org)

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