Magic

Magic
Author: Michael D. Bailey
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2017-08
Genre: Magic
ISBN: 9781138809604

A magical world -- The meanings of magic -- Magical acts -- Magic contested and condemned -- Magical identities -- The reality of magic -- Magic in the modern world

Performing Magic

Performing Magic
Author: Mike Lane
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2012-01-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1448867339

Readers will learn wonderful performance tricks to impress their friends and family in this fascinating volume. Step-by-step instructions and colorful illustrations guide readers toward the mastery of these unbelievable illusions.

Inspirations

Inspirations
Author: Lawrence Hass
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2015-10-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9780985532673

Here Is Real Magic

Here Is Real Magic
Author: Nate Staniforth
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2018-01-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 163286424X

An extraordinary memoir about finding wonder in everyday life, from magician Nate Staniforth. Nate Staniforth has spent most of his life and all of his professional career trying to understand wonder--what it is, where to find it, and how to share it with others. He became a magician because he learned at a young age that magic tricks don't have to be frivolous. Magic doesn't have to be about sequins and smoke machines--rather, it can create a moment of genuine astonishment. But after years on the road as a professional magician, crisscrossing the country and performing four or five nights a week, every week, Nate was disillusioned, burned out, and ready to quit. Instead, he went to India in search of magic. Here Is Real Magic follows Nate Staniforth's evolution from an obsessed young magician to a broken wanderer and back again. It tells the story of his rediscovery of astonishment--and the importance of wonder in everyday life--during his trip to the slums of India, where he infiltrated a three-thousand-year-old clan of street magicians. Here Is Real Magic is a call to all of us--to welcome awe back into our lives, to marvel in the everyday, and to seek magic all around us.

How Magicians Think

How Magicians Think
Author: Joshua Jay
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1523510919

Professional magician Joshua Jay's (author of Magic: The Complete Course) brief and fascinating essays offer an inside look at how the very best magicians think about magic, how they practice and put together a show, what inspires them, and the psychology behind creating wonder and being tricked when we expect both, as well as why we seek magic in the first place.

Performing Magic on the Western Stage

Performing Magic on the Western Stage
Author: L. Hass
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2008-12-08
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0230617123

Performing Magic on the Western Stage examines magic as a performing art and as a meaningful social practice, linking magic to cultural arenas such as religion, finance, gender, and nationality and profiling magicians from Robert-Houdin to Pen& Teller.

Transformations

Transformations
Author: Lawrence Hass
Publisher:
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2007
Genre: Magic tricks
ISBN: 9781604029123

Sleightly Out of Order

Sleightly Out of Order
Author: Patrick G. Redford
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781636840031

Inside "Sleightly Out of Order" (a much anticipated second volume of the "Out of Order" series), you'll discover card plots, both classic and new. The magic routines range from spellers to triumphs. Tricks that tell stories to mentalism that messes with the audience's minds. You'll discover gambling demonstrations and even worthwhile approaches to the Sellers Diary effect. You'll also find creative versions of the Tommy Wonder Elizabeth series along side interesting applications of principles both Gilbreath and Kruskal. The routines in this volume explore the iconic Si-Stebbins system (which the Redford stack effortlessly transforms into with a quick overhand shuffle sequence), memorized deck orders, the Power/Parallel Stack, Heinlein Hold'em Stack, and more! All arrangements that this book explores are quickly accessible when using from the Redford stack! You'll also read a mix of routines that may be performed with any memorized stack order along side card miracles that wont require any sort of learned memorization. Of course, no Redford stack book would be complete without unlocking more of the built in features specific to the Redford Stack! Whether you're a seasoned stack worker or your first adventure exploring the wonderful world of a stack deck, this book is a must have.

Show Me Cool Magic

Show Me Cool Magic
Author: Jake Banfield
Publisher: QEB Publishing
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2019-05-14
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1786034093

This book that takes the reader from knowing zero about magic to being able to do a whole show for their family and friends. Along the way they will learn some cool tricks to show their friends in school, find out how to do a PR stunt, film their own tricks, develop their unique magician persona, and all the other secrets to making magic amazing. The reader will be offered an array of trick options, from openers to finales, from which to build their own tailored show, depending on their favourite style of magic and stage of learning.