This Book Is Magic

This Book Is Magic

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  • Author: Ashley Evanson
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • ISBN: 0399543929
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 31

Make some magic in this colorful, interactive picture book from the author/illustrator of the Hello, World board book series! Do you know that you're a magician? In this interactive book, use your fingers to perform all kinds of magic tricks. Tap a hat to make a bunny appear, recite a spell to make books bigger, say "Gone-zo!" to make a ship disappear, and much more. But beware: the clever magic tricks don't always turn out the way you'd expect! Reminiscent of Hervé Tullet's Press Here, kids—and adults!—are sure to want to read this book again and again as they perfect their magic skills.


THE MAGIC

THE MAGIC

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  • Author: Rhonda Byrne
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 0731815599
  • Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 272

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.


David Copperfield's History of Magic

David Copperfield's History of Magic

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  • Author: David Copperfield
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 1982112913
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 272

In this personal journey through a unique performing art, David Copperfield profiles some of the world's most groundbreaking magicians. From the sixteenth-century magistrate who wrote an early book on conjuring, to the roaring twenties and the man who fooled Houdini, to the woman who levitated, vanished, and caught bullets in her bare hands, David Copperfield's History of Magic takes you on a wild journey through the remarkable feats of some of the greatest magicians in history. The result is a sweeping tale that reveals how these astonishing performers were outsiders who used magic to escape class, challenge conventions, transform popular culture, explore the innermost workings of the human mind, and inspire scientific discovery. Their incredible stories are complemented by more than 100 never-before-seen photographs of artifacts from Copperfield's exclusive Museum of Magic, including a sixteenth-century manual on sleight-of-hand; Houdini's straitjackets, handcuffs, and water torture chamber; Dante's famous sawing-in-half apparatus; Alexander's high-tech turban that allowed him to read people's minds; and even some coins that may have magically passed through the hands of Abraham Lincoln. By the end of the book, you'll be sure to share Copperfield's passion for the power of magic. --


The Encyclopedia of Magic and Alchemy

The Encyclopedia of Magic and Alchemy

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  • Author: Rosemary Guiley
  • Publisher: Infobase Publishing
  • ISBN: 1438130007
  • Category : Alchemy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 385

A comprehensive illustrated reference guide with more than 400 entries on the subjects of magic and alchemy.


Magic

Magic

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  • Author: Jamie Sutcliffe
  • Publisher: MIT Press
  • ISBN: 0262543036
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 241

The first accessible reader on magic’s generative relationship with contemporary art practice. From the hexing of presidents to a renewed interest in herbalism and atavistic forms of self-care, magic has furnished the contemporary imagination with mysterious and often disorienting bodies of arcane thought and practice. This volume brings together writings by artists, magicians, historians, and theorists that illuminate the vibrant correspondences animating contemporary art’s varied encounters with magical culture, inspiring a reconsideration of the relationship between the symbolic and the pragmatic. Dispensing with simple narratives of reenchantment, Magic illustrates the intricate ways in which we have to some extent always been captivated by the allure of the numinous. It demonstrates how magical culture’s tendencies toward secrecy, occlusion, and encryption might provide contemporary artists with strategies of remedial communality, a renewed faith in the invocational power of personal testimony, and a poetics of practice that could boldly question our political circumstances, from the crisis of climate collapse to the strictures of socially sanctioned techniques of medical and psychiatric care. Tracing its various emergences through the shadows of modernity, the circuitries of ritual media, and declarations of psychic self-defence, Magic deciphers the evolution of a “magical-critical” thinking that productively complicates, contradicts and expands the boundaries of our increasingly weird present.


Performing Magic on the Western Stage

Performing Magic on the Western Stage

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  • Author: L. Hass
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 0230617123
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 240

Performing Magic on the Western Stage examines magic as a performing art and as a meaningful social practice, linking magic to cultural arenas such as religion, finance, gender, and nationality and profiling magicians from Robert-Houdin to Pen& Teller.


Amazing Magic Tricks for Beginners

Amazing Magic Tricks for Beginners

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  • Author: Bryan Miles
  • Publisher: New Shoe Press
  • ISBN: 0760383715
  • Category : Games & Activities
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 146

With a little practice and this beginner’s guide, you will quickly be amazing your friends and family with your new sleight-of-hand craft. Being an accomplished magician definitely takes practice, but it starts with the right instruction. Amazing Magic Tricks for Beginners offers just the right level of foundational guidance in easy-to-follow, illustrated, step-by-step instruction. Whether it’s cards, coins, or magic boxes and hats, even the most inexperienced magic enthusiasts will be able to access the insider magic tips and performance advice taught in this book. Professional magician Bryan Miles from the world-renowned School of Magic presents: A guide to all the tools you will need to do everything from a simple card trick to tricks that use multiple props to execute The practical elements for executing a wide array of tricks, starting with the basics and including fresh takes on traditional tricks Performance skills such as distraction, sleight of hand, storytelling, and pace, which are the key to executing a convincing magic trick Amazing Magic Tricks for Beginners will give you the inspiration you need to create a magic show around every trick you perform. No matter which end of the spectrum your magic aspirations fall in, you will succeed in performing your tricks of choice with panache and leave your audience wondering how you did it. Always wanted to pull a coin out from behind an ear or pull the queen of hearts from a shuffled deck of 52 cards? This book will teach you what you need to know to be the magician you’ve always wanted to be!


The Magic Wand and Magical Review

The Magic Wand and Magical Review

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  • ISBN:
  • Category : Magic tricks
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 748


The Place of Magic in the Intellectual History of Europe ...

The Place of Magic in the Intellectual History of Europe ...

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  • Author: Lynn Thorndike
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Magic
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 122


Tales of magic, tales in print

Tales of magic, tales in print

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  • Author: Willem De Blecourt
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • ISBN: 1526129701
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 254

Since the beginning of the nineteenth century folklorists, and the general public in their wake, have assumed the orality of fairy tales. Only lately have more and more specialists been arguing in favour of at least an interdependence between oral and printed distribution of stories. This book takes an extreme position in that debate: as far as Tales of magic is concerned, the initial transmission proceded exclusively through prints. From a historical perspective, this is the only viable approach; the opposite assumption of a vast unrecorded and thus inaccessible reservoir of oral stories, presents a horror vacui. Only in the course of the nineteenth century, when folklorists started collecting in the field and asked their informants for fairy tales, was this particular genre incorporated into a then feeble oral tradition. Even then story tellers regularly reverted to printed texts. Every recorded fairy tale can be shown to be dependent on previous publications, or to be a new composition, constructed on the basis of fragments of stories already in existence. Tales of magic, tales in print traces the textual history of a number of fairy tale clusters, linking the findings of literary historians on the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries to the material collected by nineteenth- and twentieth-century field workers. While it places fairy tales as a genre firmly in a European context, it also follows particular stories in their dispersion over the rest of the world.