Shock, amaze and astound anyone with mind blowing card tricks - just like those performed by David Blaine, Criss Angel and David Copperfield Discover over 280 pages of fully illustrated, step-by-step secrets of card trick masters and exactly how to perform them yourself. My name is Nick Williams, and through years of practice and an astute sense of observation, I've honed my skills to perform jaw-dropping card tricks - the same kind of slick moves performed by TV magic superstars like Criss Angel and David Blaine. In card magic revealed I "put all my cards on the table" so to speak to bring their secrets - and many more, out to you. Card Magic Revealed is packed with fully-illustrated tricks, slights and manoeuvres that teach you the secrets behind playing card tricks using progressive, build-on-as-you-go techniques to go from beginner to master. This natural learning progression is perfect for both budding magicians and advanced practitioners because it enables you to add on and further refine your skills with detailed photos and steps showing precisely how each trick and slight is accomplished. In fact, this revolutionary approach is why card trick magicians worldwide have been raving - * 'must have...for anyone who loves performing card tricks ' - Dave J. Castle (LearnMagicTricks.org) * 'probably one of the best books I have read this entire year...it will literally blow your mind' - Aaron Smith * 'It's awesome...even the beginners tricks fool everyone, it's unbelievable' - Paul Naas Card Magic Revealed details 70 distinctive, memorable and incredible card magic tricks for novices, amateurs and expert magicians alike. With names like The Haunted Deck, Houdini Card Trick and That's Not Possible - you'll have an arsenal of astounding tricks up your sleeve - ready to dazzle and impress an audience

All The Tricks And Secrets Of The Famous Herrmann Fully Explained And Demonstrated. Many Of The Tricks Are Easily Executed Without Apparatus.

James A. Bailey and P. T. Barnum first joined forces to produce a double show in 1881--a royal coupling--inaugurating the "Golden Age" of the American circus. This book details some of the activity leading up to that notable landmark in amusement history, particularly during the decade of 1871-81. Complete with notes, bibliography, index, and contemporaneous illustrations.

With Instructions For Using And Making The Ventrilo.

The Illustrated Book Of Tricks By The Famous Artist And Magician.

Marco Bellocchio is one of Italy's most important and prolific directors, with a career spanning five decades. In this book, Clodagh J. Brook explores the boundaries between the public and the private, the political and the personal, and the collective and the individual as they appear in Bellocchio's films. Including work on psychoanalysis, politics, film production, autobiography, and the relationship between film tradition and contemporary culture, Marco Bellocchio touches on fundamental issues in film analysis.

Brook's study interrogates what it means to make personal or anti-institutional art in a medium dominated by a late-capitalist industrial model of production. Her readings of Bellocchio's often enigmatic and perplexing work suggest new ways to answer questions about subjectivity, objectivity, and political commentary in modes of filmmaking. Relating the art of a private director to a public medium, Clodagh J. Brook's work is an important contribution to our understanding of film.

The culmination of more than thirty years of research, Olympians of the Sawdust Circle is an attempt to identify every major and minor player in the American circus world of the nineteenth century. This A-Z guide lists: surname, given name, dates of birth and death (if known), type of entertainment (and function) with which the individual was associated, and the companies and dates by whom the person was employed. Every researcher and library interested in American circus history will need this seminal guide. An absolutely astonishing piece of scholarship.

Well-known theatre and circus historian William L. Slout here collects together 29 first-hand accounts of 19th- and early 20th-century popular amusements, including summer resorts, watering places, agricultural fairs, World's Fairs, the circus, vaudeville, theatre, and amusement parks. Complete with index, introduction, and contemporaneous illustrations.

In 1847, during the great age of the freak show, the British periodical Punch bemoaned the public's 'prevailing taste for deformity'. This vividly detailed work argues that far from being purely exploitative, displays of anomalous bodies served a deeper social purpose as they generated popular and scientific debates over the meanings attached to bodily difference. Nadja Durbach examines freaks both well-known and obscure including the Elephant Man; 'Lalloo, the Double-Bodied Hindoo Boy', a set of conjoined twins advertised as half male, half female; Krao, a seven-year-old hairy Laotian girl who was marketed as Darwin's 'missing link'; the 'Last of the Mysterious Aztecs' and African 'Cannibal Kings', who were often merely Irishmen in blackface. Upending our tendency to read late twentieth-century conceptions of disability onto the bodies of freak show performers, Durbach shows that these spectacles helped to articulate the cultural meanings invested in otherness - and thus clarified what it meant to be British - at a key moment in the making of modern and imperial ideologies and identities.

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

It is the early days of Magic: The Gathering. Wizards has just announced the first professional competition: Pro Tour New York. Follow along as the author and his friends discover Magic, go to their first tournaments then the first Pro Tour. After getting a taste for professional competition they strive to get back on the tour through qualifier after qualifier. Strategy, deck lists, humor and accounts of the early days of Magic: The Gathering when people still played for ante, Shivan Dragons ruled the skies and people were just starting to understand the value of a Black Lotus. (This book was previously published as "Tournament Reports." This version has been renamed and extensively revised for grammar, spelling and punctuation.)

In a unique cultural statement, Kaapse Klopse features the colourful and lively Cape Town Minstrel Carnival, held for the first three days of the New Year. The music and dance style of the 'Kaapse Klopse' (Cape Minstrels) was influenced by the North American minstrel troupes that visited the Cape in the late 1880s. Traditionally, the colourful and lively minstrels cavort through the city, singing and dancing to the sound of banjos, tubas, guitars, ghoema drums and whistles. The book features extraordinary contemporary photographs of this event by Gerald Hoberman, with an historical overview as well as unique photographs of District Six and Bo-Kaap, taken by him in 1969. The entertaining and insightful traditional minstrel songs are published with English translations for the first time - a valuable contribution to the cultural history of the Cape.

This volume is based on a series of lectures given by the author in the early years of the 20th Century on the problems faced by Christian missionaries working in India.

Not only do the authors look at the history of magic, but also the art and science of it. They detail fundamental principles and discuss practical theory essential for a proper understanding of the craft.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Drawn from never-before-seen documents and many unpublished photographs. It will appeal to readers of theatre, magic and war history. John Mulholland (1898-1970) edited the magician's magazine The Sphinx for 23 years, ending the publication to be consultant to the newly born CIA in 1953. His assignments included working with billionaires and inventors, cracking codes and delving into the clandestine world of ESP research, LSD use and the secret MK-ULTRA world headed by the notorious Dr. Sidney Gottlieb. During this period, CIA Dr. Frank Olson died the day after Thanksgiving, 1953.This book examines Mulholland's role during this dramatic period in the CIA's history and goes against the current trend of accusing Mulholland as having a role in Olson's fatal fall from a hotel window.

Originally published in 1938, the revised edition of Jean Hugard's book on magic for small audiences presents such tricks as the "Cut and Restored Handkerchief," tricks with cigarettes and dollar bills, vesting and sleeving, and many more.

Many magicians need a table. This book shows you what to look for and how to construct your own. A necessary reference book for every illusionist, conjurer, and amateur stage magician!