epub |eng | 2013-05-16 | Author:Liam Anderson [Anderson, Liam]

Key-Card Effects: Grey's Spelling Trick: This is one of the best card tricks in the world, and one of my favorites. In this trick the spectator chooses a card, returns ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Harry Houdini [Houdini, Harry]

PROFESSIONAL BURGLARY The professional burglar is a man of resources and daring. He has usually had a long training in criminal pursuits. A good burglar is a man who knows ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Stephen Macknik [Blakeslee, Sandra]

END OF SPOILER ALERT When our son Iago was two, Steve showed him a magic trick. Steve felt he had gotten pretty good at the trick and wanted to show ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:The Last Greatest Magician in the World [World, The Last Greatest Magician in the]

FORTUNATELY, Kellar was unaware of the real problem: Thurston’s debts had already surrounded him like a roaring inferno, licking at every investment and threatening to engulf his career. In August ...

epub |eng | | Author:S.W. Erdnase

THE PLAYER WITHOUT AN ALLY It is the general belief that it takes two to obtain any advantage in a card game with knowing players—the dealer and the man who ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-09 | Author:Hugard, Jean & Frederick Braue [Hugard, Jean]

3. Riffle the outer end and remove any card from the centre of the pack, placing it face upwards at the top. Square this card with the once face downwards ...

epub |eng | 1983-04-04 | Author:Henry Hay

This is intended to suggest: jack, ace, 8, 5, 3, king, 10, 2, 6, 7, 4, 9, queen. Finally, there is the Nikola card system, described at the end of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-04-17 | Author:Paul Auster [Paul Auster]

After that night, Nora went on telling him everything. It made sense that she should want to share her troubles with someone, but of all the people in the world, ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-27 | Author:Dynamo [Dynamo]

A FEW YEARS later, I met Lewis Hamilton for the first time. He’d just started to win a lot of races, and we’d both been invited to the 2007 MTV ...

epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:Alex Stone [Stone, Alex]

* * * * Though some have tried. In April 2011, French footwear designer Christian Louboutin sued rival Yves Saint Laurent for issuing a red-soled shoe, claiming that red soles ...

epub | | 2010-02-08 | Author:Kaufman, Richard & David Copperfield & Elizabeth Kaufman [Kaufman, Richard]

• Ask the spectator to shuffle the deck and return it to you. Take it in dealing position in the left hand and tilt it so the faces are toward ...

mobi |eng | 2012-09-26 | Author:Dynamo

A FEW YEARS later, I met Lewis Hamilton for the first time. He’d just started to win a lot of races, and we’d both been invited to the 2007 MTV ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-21 | Author:Joshua Jay

“Is Addie asleep?” Bryan asked, looking up from the papers he had spread out on the desk. A small brass lamp illuminated his work area. The only other light in ...

mobi |eng | 2010-02-08 | Author:Kaufman, Richard & David Copperfield & Elizabeth Kaufman [Kaufman, Richard]

• Ask the spectator to shuffle the deck and return it to you. Take it in dealing position in the left hand and tilt it so the faces are toward ...

epub |eng | | Author:Persi Diaconis & Persi Diaconis [Diaconis, Persi]

PROBABILITY AND THE BOOK OF CHANGES One of the mysteries in our lives is why the study of probability began so late in history. The earliest known systematic probability calculations ...