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Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Magic written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Floyd-Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107276845
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage written by Mary Floyd-Wilson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belief in spirits, demons and the occult was commonplace in the early modern period, as was the view that these forces could be used to manipulate nature and produce new knowledge. In this groundbreaking study, Mary Floyd-Wilson explores these beliefs in relation to women and scientific knowledge, arguing that the early modern English understood their emotions and behavior to be influenced by hidden sympathies and antipathies in the natural world. Focusing on Twelfth Night, Arden of Faversham, A Warning for Fair Women, All's Well That Ends Well, The Changeling and The Duchess of Malfi, she demonstrates how these plays stage questions about whether women have privileged access to nature's secrets and whether their bodies possess hidden occult qualities. Discussing the relationship between scientific discourse and the occult, she goes on to argue that as experiential evidence gained scientific ground, women's presumed intimacy with nature's secrets was either diminished or demonized.
Author : Harry Houdini
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1602060770
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Miracle Mongers and Their Methods written by Harry Houdini and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magicians debunking charlatans and revealing secrets of the trade: it's not something that Penn and Teller or James "The Amazing" Randi invented. The legendary Harry Houdini was doing the same thing a century ago, to popular acclaim. In this 1920 book, the master showman-and surprisingly entertaining writer-uncovers the mysteries behind such extraordinary feats as fire-eating, sword-swallowing, snake-charmers, and strong men. More a simple expose of stage trickery, though, this is a brisk history of such oddities throughout history and around the world, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, from the culture of the Native Americans to that of Japan. This is a fascinating work of the strange and seemingly inexplicable made plain and understandable. Hungarian-American magician and professional skeptic EHRICH WEISS (1874-1926)-aka Harry Houdini, "Handcuff King and Jail Breaker"-also wrote Magical Rope Ties and Escapes (1920) and A Magician Among the Spirits (1924).
Author : Allen Putnam
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism written by Allen Putnam and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Springhall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230612121
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Genesis of Mass Culture written by J. Springhall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-04-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough survey of the origins and development of the major distinct American commercial entertainments that emerged between over the course of the 19th century and into the 20th, including P.T. Barnum_s American Museum, freak show, and circus, as well as blackface minstrelry, Buffalo Bill_s Wild West Show, and vaudeville.
Author : Fred G. Johnson
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Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Fred G. Johnson written by Fred G. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Polizzotti
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262346710
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Sympathy for the Traitor written by Mark Polizzotti and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn't. For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a necessary evil if not an outright travesty—summed up by the old Italian play on words, traduttore, traditore (translator, traitor). For others, translation is the royal road to cross-cultural understanding and literary enrichment. In this nuanced and provocative study, Mark Polizzotti attempts to reframe the debate along more fruitful lines. Eschewing both these easy polarities and the increasingly abstract discourse of translation theory, he brings the main questions into clearer focus: What is the ultimate goal of a translation? What does it mean to label a rendering “faithful”? (Faithful to what?) Is something inevitably lost in translation, and can something also be gained? Does translation matter, and if so, why? Unashamedly opinionated, both a manual and a manifesto, his book invites usto sympathize with the translator not as a “traitor” but as the author's creative partner. Polizzotti, himself a translator of authors from Patrick Modiano to Gustave Flaubert, explores what translation is and what it isn't, and how it does or doesn't work. Translation, he writes, “skirts the boundaries between art and craft, originality and replication, altruism and commerce, genius and hack work.” In Sympathy for the Traitor, he shows us how to read not only translations but also the act of translation itself, treating it not as a problem to be solved but as an achievement to be celebrated—something, as Goethe put it, “impossible, necessary, and important.”
Author : Harry Houdini
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A Magician Among the Spirits written by Harry Houdini and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry Houdini
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Total Pages : 386 pages
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Download or read book The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin written by Harry Houdini and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Magical Bulletin of the Magical Shop of the West written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486131629
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science written by Martin Gardner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fair, witty appraisal of cranks, quacks, and quackeries of science and pseudoscience: hollow earth, Velikovsky, orgone energy, Dianetics, flying saucers, Bridey Murphy, food and medical fads, and much more.
Author : Nathan Schachner
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Total Pages : 614 pages
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Download or read book Aaron Burr written by Nathan Schachner and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Moses
Publisher : Arthur Moses
ISBN 13 : 9781425767402
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (674 download)
Download or read book Houdini Speaks Out written by Arthur Moses and published by Arthur Moses. This book was released on 2007 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing new insights, this ground-breaking book vividly recreates Houdini's solitarian lectures which he presented from 1922 until his untimely death in 1926. The reader becomes involved in understanding his struggles to reach into the afterlife to contact his deceased mother during an era filled with deceptive spirit mediums. Each of the fifty glass lantern slides that Houdini used to highlight his lectures are painstakingly recreated and matched to his original lecture text. Learn more about this book and sneak a peak at just some of the 80 photos Click here "HOUDINI SPEAKS OUT reveals that Houdini was more than magic and escapes. Houdini ́s passion to fight fraudulent spiritualists consumed his final years" David Copperfield
Author : Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje
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Total Pages : 488 pages
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Download or read book The Achehnese written by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500774315
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Great Explorers written by Robin Hanbury-Tenison and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penetrating biographies written by a group of distinguished travel writers, broadcasters, and historians reveal the lives, motives, and passions of forty major explorers in history. It has always been mankind’s gift, or curse, to be inquisitive, and through the ages people have been driven to explore the limits of the worlds known to them—and beyond. Here are the stories of forty of the world’s greatest explorers from Europe, America, Asia, and Australia. These are men and women who changed our perception of the world through their courageous adventures. Organized thematically, the book opens with the oceanic journeys of five hundred years ago, when the great era of recorded exploration began. The following sections look at The Land, Rivers, Polar Ice, Deserts, Life on Earth, and New Frontiers. Many of these explorers recounted their journeys in vivid firsthand accounts; others were superb artists or photographers. The book features quotes from their journals and reports, and it is illustrated with paintings, photographs, engravings, and maps, so that we can experience their adventures through their own eyes and in their own words. Featured explorers include: Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, James Cook, Lewis and Clark, Richard Burton, Samuel de Champlain, David Livingstone, Roald Amundsen, Gertrude Bell, Alexander von Humboldt, Yuri Gagarin, and Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
Author : Thomas Frost
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Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Lives of the Conjurors written by Thomas Frost and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of magicians and magic.
Author : Edwin Thomas Sachs
Publisher : DigiCat
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Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Sleight of Hand: A Practical Manual of Legerdemain for Amateurs & Others written by Edwin Thomas Sachs and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sleight of Hand is a manual by Edwin Sachs. It shows the basics and finer points of the skillful use of one's hands when performing conjuring tricks, such as tricks with coins, cards, cups and balls, handkerchiefs, watches, gloves, as well as mesmerism & clairvoyance tricks of the trade.
