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Memoirs of an Elusive Moth

Author : Adele Friel Rhindress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974468181
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of an Elusive Moth written by Adele Friel Rhindress and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Blackstone presented a full-evening production called the Show of 1001 Wonders. It lived up to that billing, as a stage-filling spectacle combining spectacular illusions, magnificent costumes, gorgeous girls, a corps of assistants, humor, dancing, and intimate conjuring, into a seamless two-hour production. Beginning at the turn of the 20th century, Blackstone toured North America ceaselessly. His matchless personality transcended theater footlights, and his magic set minds agog. By 1947, after over four decades entertaining the public, Harry Blackstone was unquestionably one of America¿s greatest and best-known magicians. It was in that year, at the age of 17, that Adele Friel was swept into Blackstone¿s world of magic. She joined the ranks of his show unexpectedly, making the transition from solo song-and-dance act to one of ¿Mr. B¿s¿ ¿gorgeous girls¿ in the blink of an eye. It was a decision that would change her life. For the next three seasons, she trouped with Blackstone, playing an integral role in his show, both onstage and backstage. Memoirs of an Elusive Moth gives readers a rare and intimate first-person account of one of America¿s greatest touring magic shows. Laid bare in its pages are many of the secrets behind Blackstone¿s magic, as well as details of life in the theater, behind the scenes, on the road, and more ¿ all told here for the first time.

The Elusive Magic Bullet

Author : J. Mann
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Elusive Magic Bullet written by J. Mann and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his exciting new book, John Mann, author of the highly successful Murder, Magic, and Medicine, reveals the history of the drugs that are so commonplace today in the treatment of disease. While we can now treat so many of these illnesses, the side-effects caused by many of these treatmentscan be severe, and even more worrying - the bacteria are now becoming more resistant to the drugs (the so-called 'superbugs'). Scientists are also faced with a massive challenge in developing drugs that can effectively treat HIV, ebola, and many forms of cancer, but without the terribleside-effects of such treatments as chemotherapy or AZT - this is the quest for the 'magic bullet.' The book starts with a history of drug development, introducing us to some of the fascinating characters whose work so influenced the search for these drugs. Leading up to the present day, and theexciting advances being made within molecular biology, the book provides a lively, and fascinating introduction for non-scientists to one of the most exciting fields of activity within modern medicine.

Defining Magic

Author : Bernd-Christian Otto
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317545036
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Defining Magic written by Bernd-Christian Otto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic has been an important term in Western history and continues to be an essential topic in the modern academic study of religion, anthropology, sociology, and cultural history. Defining Magic is the first volume to assemble key texts that aim at determining the nature of magic, establish its boundaries and key features, and explain its working. The reader brings together seminal writings from antiquity to today. The texts have been selected on the strength of their success in defining magic as a category, their impact on future scholarship, and their originality. The writings are divided into chronological sections and each essay is separately introduced for student readers. Together, these texts - from Philosophy, Theology, Religious Studies, and Anthropology - reveal the breadth of critical approaches and responses to defining what is magic. CONTRIBUTORS: Aquinas, Augustine, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Dennis Diderot, Emile Durkheim, Edward Evans-Pritchard, James Frazer, Susan Greenwood, Robin Horton, Edmund Leach, Gerardus van der Leeuw, Christopher Lehrich, Bronislaw Malinowski, Marcel Mauss, Agrippa von Nettesheim, Plato, Pliny, Plotin, Isidore of Sevilla, Jesper Sorensen, Kimberley Stratton, Randall Styers, Edward Tylor

Vinyl

Author : Dominik Bartmanski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000189694
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Vinyl written by Dominik Bartmanski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have seen not just a revival, but a rebirth of the analogue record. More than merely a nostalgic craze, vinyl has become a cultural icon. As music consumption migrated to digital and online, this seemingly obsolete medium became the fastest-growing format in music sales. Whilst vinyl never ceased to be the favorite amongst many music lovers and DJs, from the late 1980s the recording industry regarded it as an outdated relic, consigned to dusty domestic corners and obscure record shops. So why is vinyl now experiencing a ‘rebirth of its cool’?Dominik Bartmanski and Ian Woodward explore this question by combining a cultural sociological approach with insights from material culture studies. Presenting vinyl as a multifaceted cultural object, they investigate the reasons behind its persistence within our technologically accelerated culture. Informed by media analysis, urban ethnography and the authors’ interviews with musicians, DJs, sound engineers, record store owners, collectors and cutting-edge label chiefs from a range of metropolitan centres renowned for thriving music scenes including London, New York, Tokyo, Melbourne, and especially Berlin, what emerges is a story of a modern icon.

Bad Magic

Author : Pseudonymous Bosch
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 140959128X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Bad Magic written by Pseudonymous Bosch and published by Usborne Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is incredibly BAD. It does not contain MAGIC. Or a mysterious ghost girl. Or spontaneous combustion. Or Spanish-speaking llamas. Nope. None of these things. Okay... maybe one of these things. But certainly not MAGIC. It’s just an ordinary tale of a normal boy who goes to summer camp on a desert island. Nothing exciting or weird happens. The camp is definitely NOT for crazy, badly-behaved kids, and there are NO SECRETS or MYSTERIES at all. And absolutely NO MAGIC whatsoever...

A Scent of Magic

Author : Jill Jones
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1626814910
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book A Scent of Magic written by Jill Jones and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2014-11-24 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of an exotic scent sets the stage for a tale of love, revenge, and renewed passion in this “unique and utterly spellbinding . . . story to savor” (Romantic Times). Simone LeFevre will stop at nothing until she’s joined the exclusive ranks of the world’s top perfumers, even if it means destroying the rival who stole everything from her—including her heart. The discovery of a strange elixir dating back to the previous century is the key to a new scent called “My Desire,” which stirs Nick Rutledge’s dreams with aching memories of the woman he once betrayed. But as these lovers turned enemies delve deeper into the origin of the elusive scent, they face unknown dangers—and embrace a timeless passion. Previously published as Essence of My Desire.

Magic and Loss

Author : Virginia Heffernan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501132679
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Magic and Loss written by Virginia Heffernan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Heffernan gives a highly informative analysis of what the internet is and can be in an examination of its past, present and future.

Novel Competition

Author : Evan Brier
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609389395
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Novel Competition written by Evan Brier and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Novel Competition describes the literary and institutional effort to make the American novel matter after 1965. During this era, Hollywood movies, popular music, and other forms of mass-produced culture vied with novels for a specific kind of prestige - often figured as "importance" or "relevance" - that had mostly been attached to novels in previous decades. This trans-media competition, Brier argues, is a crucial but largely unacknowledged event in the literary and economic history of the American novel. In the face of it, the novel lost some of the symbolic specialness it formerly held. That loss, in turn, generated not just a much-discussed rhetoric of crisis but also a host of unexamined, intertwined effects on both literary form and the business of novel production. Drawing on a range of novels and on the archives of publishers, editors, agents, and authors, Novel Competition shows how fiction's declining position in a transformed "popular-prestige" economy reshaped the post-1965 American novel as art form, cultural institution, and commodity"--

The Compendium of Magical Beasts

Author : Dr. Veronica Wigberht-Blackwater
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0762464666
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book The Compendium of Magical Beasts written by Dr. Veronica Wigberht-Blackwater and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From controversial cryptozoologist and explorer Dr. Veronica Wigberht-Blackwater, The Compendium of Magical Beasts is a definitive field guide that explores the history, biology, and anatomy of mythological creatures. Approaching the fantastic with a scientific eye, Dr. Wigberht-Blackwater explains the history, habits, and biology of each creature's existence with equal attention to detail. Her research is accompanied by stunning scientific illustrations of each specimen's anatomy, providing a comprehensive view of creatures most often dismissed as pure fantasy. Combining biological fact with folklore, cultural studies, and history, this volume is crucial to science both fringe and mainstream. Locked in a dusty attic for almost a century, Dr. Wigberht-Blackwater's trailblazing work was recently discovered by writer Melissa Brinks, who spent months transcribing the journals she found. Brinks joined forces with artist Lily Seika Jones to digitize the doctor's amazingly detailed anatomical diagrams in order to share these revolutionary findings with the world for the first time. The Bestiary: Mermaid, Unicorn, Wild Man, Gnome, Werewolf, Troll, Fairy, Jackalope, Winged Horse, Centaur, Minotaur, Vampire, Dragon, Sea Monsters/Loch Ness/Kraken, Goblin, Sphinx, Phoenix, Harpy, Cyclops, Banshee, Incubus/Succubus, Nymph, Ghoul, Selkie, Kelpie

The Yale Literary Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Yale Literary Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Eternal Flame

Author : T. A. Barron
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101641800
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Eternal Flame written by T. A. Barron and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avalon is under seige by the warlord Rhita Gawr, now a wrathful dragon, who is bent on destroying it. Three unlikely heroes—Tamwyn, Elli, and Scree—are Avalon's only hope. To succeed they must overcome enormous obstacles, both in the world around them and deep within themselves. But once they do, their success is only the beginning. Everything culminates in three great battles: one deep underground, one on the muddy plains, and one high among the stars. But will there be triumph for Avalon's survival?

The Wings of Iere

Author : Doris Harper-Wills
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1426975058
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book The Wings of Iere written by Doris Harper-Wills and published by . This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of this volume contains Caribbean folklore and poetry while the second part incorporates songs and music, all illustrated with paintings and photographs.

The Forum

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forum written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current political, social, scientific, education, and literary news written about by many famous authors and reform movements.

Creative Writing Practice

Author : Debra Adelaide
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030736741
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Creative Writing Practice written by Debra Adelaide and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creative Writing Practice: reflections on form and process explores the craft of creative writing by illuminating the practices of writers and writer-educators. Demonstrating solutions to problems in different forms and genres, the contributors draw on their professional and personal experiences to examine specific and practical challenges that writers must confront and solve in order to write. This book discusses a range of approaches to writing, such as the early working out of projects, the idea of experimentation, of narrative time, and of failure. With its strong focus on process, Creative Writing Practice is a valuable guide for students, scholars and practitioners of creative writing.

Civil Service Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil Service Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Baton

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Baton written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Manufacturing Depression

Author : Gary Greenberg
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408801906
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Manufacturing Depression written by Gary Greenberg and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has the antidepressant industry manufactured not only an illness but an idea of humanity that denies our full potential?