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Author : Signor Blitz
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368119869
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (681 download)
Download or read book Fifty years in the magic circle written by Signor Blitz and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Author : Premeet Sidhu
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262377993
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons written by Premeet Sidhu and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-11-19 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the fiftieth anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, a collection of essays that explores and celebrates the game’s legacy and its tremendous impact on gaming and popular culture. In 2024, the enormously influential tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons—also known as D&D—celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. To mark the occasion, editors Premeet Sidhu, Marcus Carter, and José Zagal have assembled an edited collection that celebrates and reflects on important parts of the game’s past, present, and future. Each chapter in Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons explores why the nondigital game is more popular than ever—with sales increasing 33 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite worldwide lockdowns—and offers readers the opportunity to critically reflect on their own experiences, perceptions, and play of D&D. Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons draws on fascinating research and insight from expert scholars in the field, including: Gary Alan Fine, whose 1983 book Shared Fantasy remains a canonical text in game studies; Jon Peterson, celebrated D&D historian; Daniel Justice, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture; and numerous leading and emerging scholars from the growing discipline of game studies, including Amanda Cote, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, and Aaron Trammell. The chapters cover a diverse range of topics—from D&D’s adoption in local contexts and classrooms and by queer communities to speculative interpretations of what D&D might look like in one hundred years—that aim to deepen readers’ understanding of the game.
Author : Signor Blitz
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368119877
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (681 download)
Download or read book Fifty years in the magic circle written by Signor Blitz and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Author : Thomas William Herringshaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography written by Thomas William Herringshaw and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Linking Ring written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karl Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107377846
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Magical Imagination written by Karl Bell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative history of popular magical mentalities in nineteenth-century England explores the dynamic ways in which the magical imagination helped people to adjust to urban life. Previous studies of modern popular magical practices and supernatural beliefs have largely neglected the urban experience. Karl Bell, however, shows that the magical imagination was a key cultural resource which granted an empowering sense of plebeian agency in the nineteenth-century urban environment. Rather than portraying magical beliefs and practices as a mere enclave of anachronistic 'tradition' and the fantastical as simply an escapist refuge from the real, he reveals magic's adaptive and transformative qualities and the ways in which it helped ordinary people navigate, adapt to and resist aspects of modern urbanization. Drawing on perspectives from cultural anthropology, sociology, folklore and urban studies, this is a major contribution to our understanding of modern popular magic and the lived experience of modernization and urbanization.
Author : John Benedict Buescher
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476642354
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Radio Psychics written by John Benedict Buescher and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When radio broadcasting began in the early 1920s, the radio was a magic box aglow with the future, drawing humanity into a new age. Some thought it would dissolve the distance between time and place, others that human minds would become transparent, one tuned to another. Performers claiming psychic powers turned radio broadcasting into a fabulous money machine. These "mentalists," born from vaudeville, circuses, sideshows, and the Spiritualist and New Thought movements of the mid-late 19th century, used the language of wireless technology to explain their ability to see the past, present, and future. Casting their mystical knowledge as a scientifically honed craft, these mentalists persuaded millions to pay for dubious advice until governmental and public pressures forced them off the air. This book is a history of over 25 performers who practiced their art behind studio microphones during the early years of radio broadcasting, from about 1920 to 1940. Here, laid out for the first time, is the tale of how they made cash rain from the heavens and harnessed the sensation of the radio in search of wealth, health, love, and success.
Author : Concord Free Public Library (Concord, Mass.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (332 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Free Public Library of Concord, Mass., Jan. 1, 1875 written by Concord Free Public Library (Concord, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Milwaukee Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Systematic Catalogue of the Public Library of the City of Milwaukee written by Milwaukee Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Book Catalogues written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Enoch Pratt Free Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Finding List of the Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City, Central Library written by Enoch Pratt Free Library and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albert Allis Hopkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Magic written by Albert Allis Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368165003
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (681 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Sawyer Free Library written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Author : Sawyer Free Library, Gloucester, Mass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library written by Sawyer Free Library, Gloucester, Mass and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ryan Howard
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476601542
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Punch and Judy in 19th Century America written by Ryan Howard and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hand-puppet play starring the characters Punch and Judy was introduced from England and became extremely popular in the United States in the 1800s. This book details information on nearly 350 American Punch players. It explores the significance of the 19th-century American show as a reflection of the attitudes and conditions of its time and place. The century was a time of changing feelings about what it means to be human. There was an intensified awareness of the racial, cultural, social and economical diversity of the human species, and a corresponding concern for the experience of human oneness. The American Punch and Judy show was one of the manifestations of these conditions.
Author : Simon During
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674034392
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Modern Enchantments written by Simon During and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's superlative work, written over the course of a decade, gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts--and by "magic," During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows--affect people? Modern Enchantments takes us deeply into the history and workings of modern secular magic, from the legerdemain of Isaac Fawkes in 1720, to the return of real magic in nineteenth-century spiritualism, to the role of magic in the emergence of the cinema. Through the course of this history, During shows how magic performances have drawn together heterogeneous audiences, contributed to the molding of cultural hierarchies, and extended cultural technologies and media at key moments, sometimes introducing spectators into rationality and helping to disseminate skepticism and publicize scientific innovation. In a more revealing argument still, Modern Enchantments shows that magic entertainments have increased the sway of fictions in our culture and helped define modern society's image of itself.
