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ALL YOU NEED TO KNOWA PRACTICAL HANDBOOK with complete instructions for a routine of card tricks performed using the cards as they are removed from the manufacturers sealed carton.

OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLESSTUART LEEA practical handbook setting out full instructions for a routine of spectacular card tricks.

A famous magician's journey to find the greatest cardsharp ever evokes the forgotten world of magic where Americans found escape during the Great DepressionIt has the nostalgic quality of an old-fashioned fable, but Karl Johnson's The Magician and the Cardsharp is a true story that lovingly re-creates the sparkle of a vanished world.

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The fun, energy, and hard work integral to the exciting world of the circus is lovingly captured in The Contemporary Circus: Art of the Spectacular, an in depth look at the creative process of today's circuses.

Playwriting for Puppet Theatre provides a foundation for those puppeteers, teachers and librarians who want to develop suitable scripts for puppet theatre.

Empathy and Performance advances a study of empathy and enactments of power by examining works from author-actors whose performances explore the boundaries between two kinship positions.

A comprehensive guide to writing funny, specifically geared toward middle/high school students, adults, teachers, pastors, motivational speakers, wanna be comics, and amateur/semi-professional comedians.

This book helps you to write and deliver jokes to attract more money, honey and health into your life.

This is a collection of short stories mostly fantasy with some horror.

ContentsThe Minstrel Show Will Never DieJim Crow and Tom ThumbIrishness of it AllIrving Berlin TitillatesGershwins Racial ProfilingJews in BlackfaceJolson the ShlemielStrutting to RedemptionEndnotes--------------------------------How New York City, the Birthplace of Blackface, Defined Humor and Race for 100 Years(MIB: 12-17) Jim Crow, a blackface stage character, lends his name to the pernicious practice of racial segregation.

Set in the time of Savonarolas rise to power, this television series documents the conflict between medieval and Renaissance values in the confrontation between the celebrated Dominican friar and the citizens of Florence.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

An Essential Guide to Landing -- and Keeping -- Your first Hollywood JobA position as an assistant to a producer, agent, director, studio executive, or star can be the path to a fabulous career -- or a one-way ticket to hell.

Perhaps more than any other time of life, the teen years are a period associated with distinct social norms, and language patterns are especially important to the social dynamics of teenagers.

Inspired by a marionette show he saw, C.

Felix Dennis, notorious multimillionaire publisher, first started writing poetry after a life-threatening illness.

With a fondness for spoonerisms and double entendres, Ronnie Barker is one of the nation s greatest comics.

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Firmly established in the world of entertainment, The Cat's route to fame has been through corporate and sporting dinners.

Originally published in 1952, this classic guidebook provides a complete treatise on sleight of hand coin conjuring, making an excellent companion for those who want to impress and entertain with some classic magic tricks.

This fascinating book offers an in-depth guide to the art of ventriloquism, and will prove to be an invaluable addition to the bookshelf of anyone with a desire to learn this entertaining skill.

This early work is a fascinating read for entertainment enthusiasts.

This antiquarian book contains a detailed and novice-friendly guide to ventriloquism, with information on voice exercises, selecting dummies, common techniques and tricks, performing, sketches, and much more.

Originally published in 1953 by Harper and Brothers, 'Classic Secrets of Magic' exposes the mystery behind some of the most well-known magical tricks, such as the 'Ambitious Card', the 'Chink-a-Chink' and the 'Four Ace Trick'.

This comprehensive introduction to table top magic tricks will enthral the magician of all ages.

This vintage book contains a step-by-step guide to ventriloquism, and includes instructions on topics ranging from vocal exercises, to designing and constructing a doll.

This unusual book contains a variety of classic mental card tricks and stunts, and is ideal for those who want to impress, wow and entertain with something new.

This book will prove of great use to the budding juggler.

This unusual book, containing an impressive variety of magic tricks using billiard balls, is sure to delight young and old alike and is the perfect introduction to magic of this type.

Arms And The Man' is a three-act play written by Bernard Shaw in 1920.

This classic book contains a photographic guide to the history of the oriental and occidental shadow puppet theatre, and will prove to be a fascinating read for anyone with an interest in the subject.

This vintage book contains instructions for mastering a variety of imaginative magic tricks that use coins, cards, balls, silks, and other common objects.

This classic book contains a photographic guide to the history of the shadow puppet theatre in the West, and will prove to be be a fascinating read for anyone with an interest in the subject.

The New York Times number one bestseller from the Saturday Night Live and Parks and Recreation star.

In Truevine, Virginia, in 1899 everyone the Muse brothers knew was either a former slave, or a child or grandchild of slaves.

In the late 1860s, as America was recovering from Lincoln's assassination, a man named P.

This antiquarian book contains a comprehensive guide to designing, building, and using a wooden doll for ventriloquism.

This early works on The Expert at the Card Table is a must have for any card playing enthusiast.

Dating back to the 1930s, this illustrated compendium of magic tricks offers lots of practical instructions and advice for beginners and provides some interesting information on the history of magic.

Originally published in 1897.

Originally published in 1933, this collection contains both of the works on magic put together by the author.

This antiquarian volume contains an easy-to-digest and novice-friendly guide to learning card tricks, with descriptions and instructions designed to teach the reader a number of shuffling techniques and related tricks.

Originally published in the 1940s, the author, a master of his craft, has clearly and concisely explained the making of both hand and string puppets, and also clearly shown how they may be used in appropriate settings.

A collection of Frank Skinner's most brilliant, biting, gut-bustingly funny columns for The Times.

Julian Mann, the hard drinking, preening, and sexually provocative star of the TV sitcome Richard the Nerd, feels caught on the horns of a dilemma: should he be concentrating on his career, which is on the slide after an unseemly bout of fisticuffs at the BAFTA awards; or following his baser instincts and bedding every young girl in sight?

Alex Stone, part of the underground magic circuit, is determined to take his lifelong hobby to the professional level, to reach the pinnacle of this bizarre world and become a master magician.