Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas

by Natasha Dow Schüll

Book Overview

An anthropologist looks at the new "crack cocaine" of high-tech gambling

Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot machines, revamped by ever more compelling digital and video technology, have unseated traditional casino games as the gambling industry's revenue mainstay. Addiction by Design takes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691160880
• ISBN13: 9780691160887
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"