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Juggling : the art and its artists.
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ISBN: 3980114015 Year: 1985 Publisher: Berlijn : Werner Rausch & Werner Lüft,

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Secrets of Conjuring and Magic : Or How to Become a Wizard
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ISBN: 1139058681 1108032400 Year: 1877 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

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Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805-71) is often called the father of modern conjuring. His name was later adopted by magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, whose highly sceptical exposé of Victorian spiritualism is also published in this series. The best-known magician of his time, Robert-Houdin toured France, England and Germany, performed for Queen Victoria, and was sent to French Algeria by Napoleon III to demonstrate the perceived superiority of French magic to the local shamans. This book, originally published in 1868, is devoted primarily to coin and card tricks, but Robert-Houdin also describes many other magical tricks and includes a history of conjuring. In 1877 the book appeared in this English translation by Louis Hoffmann (1839-1919). Hoffmann (real name Angelo John Lewis, a barrister) had published his own guide to magic in 1876, and both books caused controversy for revealing the secrets of stage magicians in such unprecedented detail.


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Sleights of mind : what the neuroscience of magic reveals about our everyday deceptions
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ISBN: 9780805092813 9780312611675 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Henry Holt and Co

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Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, the founders of the new discipline of neuromagic, have convinced some of the world's greatest magicians to allow scientists to study their techniques for tricking the brain. This book is the result of the authors' yearlong, world-wide exploration of magic and how its principles apply to our behavior. Magic tricks fool us because humans have hardwired processes of attention and awareness that are hackable--a good magician uses your mind's own intrinsic properties against you. Now magic can reveal how our brains work in everyday situations. For instance, if you've ever bought an expensive item you'd sworn you'd never buy, the salesperson was probably a master at creating the "illusion of choice," a core technique of magic. The implications of neuromagic go beyond illuminating our behavior; early research points to new approaches for everything from the diagnosis of autism to marketing techniques and education.--From publisher description.


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Pouvez-vous faire confiance à votre banque ? : rendement minimum, risque maximum : à quoi servent les banques aujourd'hui ?
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ISBN: 9782875152121 Year: 2014 Publisher: Bruxelles Ixelles éditions


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The mathematics of juggling
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ISBN: 0387955135 9786610009862 1280009861 0387227482 9780387955131 Year: 2003 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Springer,

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Learn to juggle numbers! This book is the first comprehensive account of the mathematical techniques and results used in the modelling of juggling patterns. This includes all known and many new results about juggling sequences and matrices, the mathematical skeletons of juggling patterns. Many useful and entertaining tips and tricks spice up the mathematical menu presented in this book. There are detailed descriptions of jugglable and attractive juggling sequences, easy zero-gravity juggling, robot juggling, as well as fun juggling of words, anti-balls, and irrational numbers. The book also includes novel, or at least not very well known connections with topics such as bell ringing, knot theory, and the many body problem. In fact, the chapter on mathematical bell ringing has been expanded into the most comprehensive survey in the literature of the mathematics used by bell ringers. Accessible at all levels of mathematical sophistication, this is a book for mathematically wired jugglers, mathematical bell ringers, combinatorists, mathematics educators, and just about anybody interested in beautiful and unusual applications of mathematics.


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The physics of invisibility : a story of light and deception
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ISBN: 1461406153 9786613353238 1283353237 1461406161 9781461406150 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York: Springer Science+Business Media,

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Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote that, "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." These words most certainly ring true with respect to invisibility cloaking devices. At work is the magic of science, of course. The technology to make an object simply disappear from view is now a reality. There is both great fear and great desire in the thought of invisibility. Indeed, for thousands of years, authors have grappled with the idea. Power, devilry, secrecy, ethical dilemma, and moral corruption - invisibility has it all. And yet, our waking world is full of familiar invisible phenomena. Electricity flowing along a metal wire, the gravity that keeps us grounded, the air we breathe, the bacteria and viruses that make us ill, the X-rays that reveal our broken bones - all are invisible to our eyes. They surround and envelop us, and we don't give them a second thought. Nature long ago learned how to play tricks with light rays, enriching the world with rainbows, mirages, and animal camouflage. The new physics of invisibility simply aims to take these tricks of nature a few steps further. Indeed, by learning what light is and how it interacts with matter, physicists have begun to take control of light - with metamaterials, which, manmade, can be precisely melded, warped, twisted, transformed, and even time-edited. In this book the ancient and modern story of light and invisibility is revealed, from early Greek speculations to the remarkable works of James Clerk Maxwell. The new and burgeoning field of transformation optics is also explored, and the story behind the development of the first fully functional invisibility cloak is charted. What will they be used for and how will they change things? Find out here.


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The illusionist brain : the neuroscience of magic
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ISBN: 0691239150 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,

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How magicians exploit the natural functioning of our brains to astonish and amaze usHow do magicians make us see the impossible? The Illusionist Brain takes you on an unforgettable journey through the inner workings of the human mind, revealing how magicians achieve their spectacular and seemingly impossible effects by interfering with your cognitive processes. Along the way, this lively and informative book provides a guided tour of modern neuroscience, using magic as a lens for understanding the unconscious and automatic functioning of our brains.We construct reality from the information stored in our memories and received through our senses, and our brains are remarkably adept at tricking us into believing that our experience is continuous. In fact, our minds create our perception of reality by elaborating meanings and continuities from incomplete information, and while this strategy carries clear benefits for survival, it comes with blind spots that magicians know how to exploit. Jordi Camí and Luis Martínez explore the many different ways illusionists manipulate our attention—making us look but not see—and take advantage of our individual predispositions and fragile memories.The Illusionist Brain draws on the latest findings in neuroscience to explain how magic deceives us, surprises us, and amazes us, and demonstrates how illusionists skillfully “hack” our brains to alter how we perceive things and influence what we imagine.

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Optical illusions. --- Magic tricks. --- Neurosciences. --- Algeria. --- Analysis. --- Behavior. --- Cerebral cortex. --- Cognition. --- Cognitive dissonance. --- Cognitive neuroscience. --- Cryptography. --- Decision-making. --- Everyday life. --- Explanation. --- Fred Kaps. --- French Colonial. --- Genre. --- Grammar. --- Handkerchief. --- Human brain. --- Hypothesis. --- Inference. --- Instance (computer science). --- Learning. --- Long-term memory. --- Magic (illusion). --- Mathematics. --- Metabolism. --- Methods of divination. --- Napoleon III. --- Naturalness (physics). --- Neuron. --- Neuroscience. --- Neuroscientist. --- Opportunism. --- Perception. --- Persi Diaconis. --- Phenomenon. --- Planning. --- Practical reason. --- Problem solving. --- Processing (Chinese materia medica). --- Processing (programming language). --- Psychic. --- Quantity. --- Reason. --- Result. --- Retina. --- Scientist. --- Sense. --- Short-term memory. --- Statistic. --- Theoretician (Marxism). --- Theory. --- Trial and error. --- Visual perception. --- Visual system. --- Western culture. --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Conjuring --- Legerdemain --- Parlor magic --- Prestidigitation --- Sleight of hand --- Tricks --- Illusions, Optical --- Hallucinations and illusions --- Physiological optics --- Visual perception --- SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience --- PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology

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