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Author : Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin
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Total Pages : 454 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs of Robert-Houdin written by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108032400
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Secrets of Conjuring and Magic written by Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1877 translation of Robert-Houdin's 1868 conjuring manual reveals the techniques used in popular stage performances during the Victorian period.
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Author : Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin
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Total Pages : 322 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, written by himself [tr. by sir F.C.L. Wraxall]. Copyright ed written by Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Houdin
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Download or read book Memoirs of Robert Houdin written by Robert Houdin and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert-Houdin
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434461920
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)
Download or read book The Secrets of Stage Conjuring written by Robert-Houdin and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-01-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Secrets of Stage Conjuring" is one of the rarest of Robert-Houdin's books on magic. It is the sequel to "Secrets of Conjuring and Magic" (1868).
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:
Author : Robert-houdin
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Author : Laurie Carlson
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613741952
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Harry Houdini for Kids written by Laurie Carlson and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: &&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&&RIllusionist, escape artist, movie star, aviator, and spy—Harry Houdini was all these and an international celebrity and the world’s most famous magician. This fascinating biography looks at all the facets of Houdini’s amazing life and includes 21 magic tricks and illusions for a hands-on learning experience. Children will be inspired by this Jewish immigrant who grew up in poverty and, through perseverance and hard work, went on to become one of the most popular and successful entertainers of all time. Houdini was an artist who created his acts carefully, practicing them for years in some cases. He performed such seemingly impossible stunts as escaping several sets of handcuffs and ropes after jumping off a bridge into a flowing river. &&L/P&&R&&LP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&&R &&L/P&&R&&LP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&&RKids will learn how he devised his most legendary stunts and will also learn the science and logic behind many of Houdini’s acts including his famous milk can escape. Kids can amaze their family and friends with these simple, entertaining, and fun tricks and illusions: &&L/P&&R Stepping through an index card Performing an odd number trick Making a coin appear Mind reading with a secret code Making a magic box Lifting a person with one hand Making a talking board And much more &&LP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&&R &&L/P&&R&&L/DIV&&R&&L/DIV&&R
Author : Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin
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Total Pages : 448 pages
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Author : Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin
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Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, written by himself [tr. by sir F.C.L. Wraxall]. Copyright ed written by Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Lamont
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524704458
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book The Secret History of Magic written by Peter Lamont and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pull back the curtain on the real history of magic – and discover why magic really matters If you read a standard history of magic, you learn that it begins in ancient Egypt, with the resurrection of a goose in front of the Pharaoh. You discover how magicians were tortured and killed during the age of witchcraft. You are told how conjuring tricks were used to quell rebellious colonial natives. The history of magic is full of such stories, which turn out not to be true. Behind the smoke and mirrors, however, lies the real story of magic. It is a history of people from humble roots, who made and lost fortunes, and who deceived kings and queens. In order to survive, they concealed many secrets, yet they revealed some and they stole others. They engaged in deception, exposure, and betrayal, in a quest to make the impossible happen. They managed to survive in a world in which a series of technological wonders appeared, which previous generations would have considered magical. Even today, when we now take the most sophisticated technology for granted, we can still be astonished by tricks that were performed hundreds of years ago. The Secret History of Magic reveals how this was done. It is about why magic matters in a world that no longer seems to have a place for it, but which desperately needs a sense of wonder.
Author : Zeynep Çelik Alexander
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452960607
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Design Technics written by Zeynep Çelik Alexander and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars historicize and theorize technology’s role in architectural design Although the question of technics pervades the contemporary discipline of architecture, there are few critical analyses on the topic. Design Technics fills this gap, arguing that the technical dimension of design has often been flattened into the broader celebratory rhetoric of innovation. Bringing together leading scholars in architectural and design history, the volume’s contributors situate these tools on a broader epistemological and chronological canvas. The essays here construct histories—some panoramic and others unfolding around a specific episode—of seven techniques regularly used by the designer in the architectural studio today: rendering, modeling, scanning, equipping, specifying, positioning, and repeating. Starting with observations about the epistemological changes that have unfolded in the discipline in recent decades but seeking to offer a more expansive meaning for technics, the volume casts new light on concepts such as form, experience, and image that have played central roles in historical architectural discourses. Among the questions addressed: How was the concept of form immanent in practices of scanning since the late nineteenth century? What was the historical relationship between rendering and experience in Enlightenment discourses? How did practices of specifying reconfigure the distinction between intellectual and manual labor? What kind of rationality is inherent in the designer’s constant clicking of the mouse in front of her screen? In addressing these and other questions, this engaging and timely collection thereby proposes technics as a site for historical and philosophical reflection not only for those engaged in architectural design but also for any scholar working in the humanities today. Contributors: Lucia Allais, Edward Eigen, Orit Halpern, John Harwood, Matthew C. Hunter, and Michael Osman.
Author : David Copperfield
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982112913
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book David Copperfield's History of Magic written by David Copperfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. --
Author : Jim Steinmeyer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101486341
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Last Greatest Magician in the World written by Jim Steinmeyer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the seminal biography of the magician's magician, Howard Thurston, a man who surpassed Houdini in the eyes of showmen and fans and set the standard fro how stage magic is performed today. Everyone knows Houdini-but who was Thurston? In this rich, vivid biography of the "greatest magician in the world," celebrated historian of stage magic Jim Steinmeyer captures the career and controversies of the wonder-worker extraordinaire, Howard Thurston. The public's fickleness over magicians has left Thurston all but forgotten today. Yet Steinmeyer shows how his story is one of the most remarkable in show business. During his life, from 1869 to 1936, Thurston successfully navigated the most dramatic changes in entertainment-from street performances to sideshows to wagon tours through America's still-wild West to stage magic amid the glitter of grand theaters. Thurston became one of America's most renowned vaudeville stars, boldly performing an act with just a handful of playing cards, and then had the foresight to leave vaudeville, expanding his show into an extravaganza with more than forty tons of apparatusand costumes. His touring production was an American institution for nearly thirty years, and Thurston earned a brand name equal to Ziegfeld or Ringling Brothers. Steinmeyer explores the stage and psychological rivalry between Thurston and Houdini during the first decades of the twentieth century- a contest that Thurston won. He won with a bigger show, a more successful reputation, and the title of America's greatest magician. In The Last Greatest Magician in the World, Thurston's magic show is revealed as the one that animates our collective memories.
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Author : Jean Eugène ROBERT-HOUDIN
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Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, Ambassador, Author, and Conjuror. Written by Himself. [Translated by Sir F. C. L. L. Wraxall, Bart.] written by Jean Eugène ROBERT-HOUDIN and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Houdin
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781475105506
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Card-Sharpers written by Robert Houdin and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This heritage edition is a precise reprint of the much-lauded 1891 English translation of this seminal text. Written by French master magician Robert Houdin, and translated by Joseph Foster, this book is truly a two-edged sword. A thorough treatise on protection from cheating card sharpers, the book delves into the very mechanics of the cheats themselves, thus making it as useful for the budding card-sharper as it is for the honest gamber seeking to protect from cheating. Within its 288 pages, the reader will learn various scams, shams and confidence tricks and in doing so can protect himself from that villainous scoundrel, the gambler who never seems to lose.
Author : Robert Houdin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382313731
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Robert-Houdin written by Robert Houdin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-16 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
