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Author : Tom Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780711280595
A Miscellany of Mischief and Magic is a compendium of history's best hoaxes, hijinks, tricks and illusions.
Author : Tom Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780711280588
A Miscellany of Mischief and Magic is a compendium of history's best hoaxes, hijinks, tricks and illusions.
Author : Mary V. Jackson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803275706
Looks at the social, political, religious, and aesthetic forces that shaped the form and content of early children's books
Author : Alex Palmer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781628732214
Wouldn’t it be great to be a fly on the wall as the great writers took pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard)? While reading this work, you’ll be just that. Here are behind-the-book stories and facts about authors, publishing and everything literary that will entertain both casual and serious readers. Among the questions asked and answered: • When Did Literature Finally Get Sexy? • Is Coffee or Opium Better for Literary Creativity? • Why Are the Best Autobiographies so Embarrassing? • Why Do Some Detectives Use Their Minds and Others Their Fists? Who knew that bestseller lists and children’s books could be the source of intense controversy? Or that even the biggest writers had to scrape by, with odd jobs and inventions like the Mark Twain Self-Pasting Scrapbook? In Literary Miscellany, examine the trend of “fake memoirs,” with a list of who lied about what, and a rogues’ gallery of hoaxers dating back centuries. From epic poetry and Homer to pulp fiction and Harry Potter, Literary Miscellany is a breezy tour through the literature of today and yesterday, packed with enough interesting facts to entertain both the erudite professor and pleasure reader.
Author : Max Sexton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501320965
The power of the moving image to conjure marvelous worlds has usually been to understand it in terms of 'move magic'. On film, a fascination for enchantment and wonder has transmuted older beliefs in the supernatural into secular attractions. But this study is not about the history of special effects or a history of magic. Rather, it attempts to determine the influence and status of secular magic on television within complex modes of delivery before discovering interstices with film. Historically, the overriding concern on television has been for secular magic that informs and empowers rather than a fairytale effect that deceives and mystifies. Yet, shifting notions of the real and the uncertainty associated with the contemporary world has led to television developing many different modes that have become capable of constant hybridization. The dynamic interplay between certainty and indeterminacy is the key to understanding secular magic on television and film and exploring the interstices between them. Sexton ranges from the real-time magic of street performers, such as David Blaine, Criss Angel, and Dynamo, to Penn and Teller's comedy magic, to the hypnotic acts of Derren Brown, before finally visiting the 2006 films The Illusionist and The Prestige. Each example charts how the lack of clear distinctions between reality and illusion in modes of representation and presentation disrupt older theoretical oppositions. Secular Magic and the Moving Image not only re-evaluates questions about modes and styles but raises further questions about entertainment and how the relations between the program maker and the audience resemble those between the conjuror and spectator. By re-thinking these overlapping practices and tensions and the marking of the indeterminacy of reality on media screens, it becomes possible to revise our understanding of inter-medial relations.
Author : Margaret Ryan
Publisher : B.E.S. Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0764131869
Airy Fairy might not be able to attend the Christmas party.
Author : Anna Dale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781599907758
What if magic took over everything in its path? This is the fate of the old Hardbattle Bookshop. Magic has settled in every corner and brought chaos to Mr. Hardbattle's life, driving away all of his customers. Then one day, just when Mr. Hardbattle's had enough, a young boy named Arthur stumbles in. And soon Mr. Hardbattle, Arthur, and the lovable Miss Quint are banding together to reclaim the shop. A new home for magic must be found . . .
Author : Richard Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : OCLC:1730911
Author : Kathryn Hulick
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786037855
Prepare to have your mind blown! As you explore ten of the world's greatest unsolved mysteries, you'll witness a UFO encounter, search for the lost city of Atlantis, tour a haunted house, and discover the kraken's true form. Along the way, you'll use the scientific method and sharp thinking to separate fact from fiction and explain the unexplainable. Learn how sightings of flying saucers and stories of alien abductions can be explained by sleep paralysis, false memories, and hypnosis. Find out what pareidolia is and how this psychological phenomenon may explain some ghost sightings. Explore possible real locations for the lost city of Atlantis. Beautiful, haunting illustrations set the mood and spark the imagination. Discover the fascinating truth surrounding these mysteries and legends: Alien abductions, including the Roswell incident Psychics Mysterious disappearances, including plane MH370 Zombies Ancient aliens, including the Nazca Lines Curses, including King Tut's tomb Monsters of the Deep, including Nessie the Loch Ness monster The search for Atlantis Ghosts and haunted mansions Bigfoot
Author : Walter Wick
Publisher : Can You See What I See
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0545244684
Walter Wick's new search-and-find adventure in the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series OUT OF THIS WORLD, the ninth title in this search-and-find series, follows two characters from two separate, very different worlds--until their worlds collide In the end, we learn that these two worlds really aren't that different at all. They both come from the same place: a child's playroom Walter Wick's fantastic photographs bring the princess and the robot worlds together through a series of search-and-find activities. Amazing photographs accompany a terrific search-and-find game by Walter Wick, the creator of the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling Can You See What I See? series and the photographer of the internationally successful I Spy series.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Liberalism (Religion)
ISBN : HARVARD:AH3NI7
Author : Society for promoting Christian knowledge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555012950
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1801
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555083552
Author : Daniel B. Quinby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044092835651
Author : Robert Chambers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024485167