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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 : J. C. Cannell
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473381851
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)
Download or read book The Secrets of Houdini written by J. C. Cannell and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published 1930's. A well illustrated compendium of the famous Harry Houdini's magic tricks and illusions. All explained in detail.Many of the earliest magic books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Peter Lamborn Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937073725
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (737 download)
Download or read book The New Nihilism written by Peter Lamborn Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Nihilism is a group of 13 essays by anarchist author Peter Lamborn Wilson that discusses anarchy, medicine, crime, ecological sustainability, consciousness, modernity & Celtic revival.
Author : W. J. Dawson
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447482859
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (474 download)
Download or read book The Making of Manhood written by W. J. Dawson and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic book contains an anthropological study of and guide to being a young man, and will prove to be an interesting read for anyone with an interest in the subject. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Albert F. McLeanJr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813184797
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book American Vaudeville as Ritual written by Albert F. McLeanJr. and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study affords an entirely new view of the nature of modern popular entertainment. American vaudeville is here regarded as the carefully elaborated ritual serving the different and paradoxical myth of the new urban folk. It demonstrates that the compulsive myth-making faculty in man is not limited to primitive ethnic groups or to serious art, that vaudeville cannot be dismissed as meaningless and irrelevant simply because it fits neither the criteria of formal criticsm or the familiar patterns of anthropological study. Using the methods for criticism developed by Susanne K. Langer and others, the author evaluates American vaudeville as a symbolic manifestation of basic values shared by the American people during the period 1885-1930. By examining vaudeville as folk ritual, the book reveals the unconscious symbolism basic to vaudeville-in its humor, magic, animal acts, music, and playlets, and also in the performers and the managers—which gave form to the dominant American myth of success. This striking view of the new mass man as a folk and of his mythology rooted in the very empirical science devoted to dispelling myth has implications for the serious study of all forms of mass entertainment in America. The book is illustrated with a number of striking photographs.
Author : Henry Ridgely Evans
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Old and the New Magic written by Henry Ridgely Evans and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1154 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The American Stationer written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martyn Bedford
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1472105613
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book The Houdini Girl (Modern Erotic Classics) written by Martyn Bedford and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fletcher 'Red' Brandon is a conjurer, an illusionist, a master of deception who uses his talents to seduce wild, impulsive Irish rose, Rosa, into his life with a simple sleight of hand. But when Rosa is killed, Red is pitched into a new world where betrayal, exploitation and violence are no act. The deeper Red delves into the life and death of the woman with who he shared one sexy, freewheeling year, the closer he comes to a painful realization: even the trickster can be tricked.
Author : Asbjørn Grønstad
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 908964010X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Transfigurations written by Asbjørn Grønstad and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many senses, viewers have cut their teeth on the violence in American cinema: from Anthony Perkins slashing Janet Leigh in the most infamous of shower scenes; to the 1970s masterpieces of Martin Scorsese, Sam Peckinpah and Francis Ford Coppola; to our present-day undertakings in imagining global annihilations through terrorism, war, and alien grudges. Transfigurations brings our cultural obsession with film violence into a renewed dialogue with contemporary theory. Grønstad argues that the use of violence in Hollywood films should be understood semiotically rather than viewed realistically; Tranfigurations thus alters both our methodology of reading violence in films and the meanings we assign to them, depicting violence not as a self-contained incident, but as a convoluted network of our own cultural ideologies and beliefs.
Author : David Hatcher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440507333
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Words You Should Know How to Spell written by David Hatcher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-18 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ceilling. Beleive. Scissers. Do you have trouble spelling everyday words? Is your spell check on overdrive? Well, this easy-to-use dictionary is just what you need! Organized with speed and convenience in mind, it gives you instant access to the correct spellings of more than 12,500 words. Also provided are quick tips and memory tricks, like: Help yourself get the spelling of their right by thinking of the phrase ?their heirlooms.? Most words ending in a ?seed? sound are spelled ?-cede? or ?-ceed,? but one word ends in ?-sede.? You could say the rule for spelling this word supersedes the other rules. No matter what you’re working on, you can be confident that your good writing won’t be marred by bad spelling. This book takes away the guesswork and helps you make a good impression!
Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525505504
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Fifth Business written by Robertson Davies and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in Robertson Davies's acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy, with a new foreword by Kelly Link Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious, influence on those around him. His apparently innocent involvement in such innocuous events as the throwing of a snowball or the teaching of card tricks to a small boy in the end prove neither innocent nor innocuous. Fifth Business stands alone as a remarkable story told by a rational man who discovers that the marvelous is only another aspect of the real. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811201087
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Books in My Life written by Henry Miller and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1969 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique work, Henry Miller gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years.
Author : Martin Seth Kramer
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412817390
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival written by Martin Seth Kramer and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, the political ground beneath the Middle East has shifted. Arab nationalism the political orthodoxy for most of this century has lost its grip on the imagination and allegiance of a new generation. At the same time, Islam as an ideology has spread across the region, and "Islamists" bid to capture the center of politics. Most Western scholars and experts once hailed the redemptive power of Arabism. Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival is a critical assessment of the contradictions of Arab nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism, and the misrepresentation of both in the West. The first part of the book argues that Arab nationalism--the so-called Arab awakening--bore within it the seeds of its own failure. Arabism as an idea drew upon foreign sources and resources. Even as it claimed to liberate the Arabs from imperialism it deepened intellectual dependence upon the West's own romanticism and radicalism. Ultimately, Arab nationalism became a force of oppression rather than liberation, and a mirror image of the imperialism it defied. Kramer's essays together form the only chronological telling and the at fully documented postmortem of Arabism. The second part of the book examines the similar failings of Islamism, whose ideas are Islamic reworkings of Western ideological radicalism. Its effect has been to give new life to old rationales for oppression, authoritarianism, and sectarian division. Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival provides an alternative view of a century of Middle Eastern history. As the region moves fitfully past ideology, Kramer's perspective is more compelling than at any time in the past-in Western academe no less than among many in the Middle. This book will be of interest to sociologists, political scientists, economists, and Middle East specialists.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1012 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Freethinker written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. Brown
Publisher : CCV Digital
ISBN 13 : 9781407067360
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (673 download)
Download or read book Tricks of the Mind written by D. Brown and published by CCV Digital. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jason T. Eberl
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498513530
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book The Philosophy of Christopher Nolan written by Jason T. Eberl and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a director, writer, and producer, Christopher Nolan has substantially impacted contemporary cinema through avant garde films, such as Following and Memento, and his contribution to wider pop culture with his Dark Knight trilogy. His latest film, Interstellar, delivered the same visual qualities and complex, thought-provoking plotlines his audience anticipates. The Philosophy of Christopher Nolan collects sixteen essays, written by professional philosophers and film theorists, discussing themes such as self-identity and self-destruction, moral choice and moral doubt, the nature of truth and its value, whether we can trust our perceptions of what’s “real,” the political psychology of heroes and villains, and what it means to be a “viewer” of Nolan’s films. Whether his protagonists are squashing themselves like a bug, struggling to create an identity and moral purpose for themselves, suffering from their own duplicitous plots, donning a mask that both strikes fear and reveals their true nature, or having to weigh the lives of those they love against the greater good, there are no simple solutions to the questions Nolan’s films provoke; exploring these questions yields its own reward.
