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Author:   David Pogue (The New York Times)
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   For Dummies
Dimensions:   Width: 18.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780764551017

ISBN 10:   0764551019
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   09 July 1998
Recommended Age:   From 18 To 99
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1 About This Book 1 Where the tricks came from 2 Of handedness 2 How This Book Is Organized 3 Part I: Becoming Magical 3 Part II: Wizardry Anywhere 3 Part III: The Restaurant Zone 3 Part IV: Pick a Card  Trick 3 Part V: Party Time 4 Part VI: The Part of Tens 4 Part VII: Appendixes 4 Icons Used in This Book 4 The Process of Learning a Trick 5 Welcome to the Circle 6 Part I: Becoming Magical 7 Chapter 1: All Form, No Content 9 The Anti-Gravity Pencil 10 The Disappearing Anything 13 The One-Legged Leg Vanish 15 Fingertip Munch 18 How to Get Rubbery 19 The Stretchiest Thumb in the World 19 The Stretchiest Finger in the World 21 The Stretchiest Arm in the World 22 Off the Wall 24 It’s a bird, it’s a plane  24 Social climbing 25 The mugger nobody knows 26 Chapter 2: The Instant Gratification Chapter 29 Two-Card “Sleight of Hand” 29 The Tale of the Tightrope Walker 33 The Pencil-and-Quarter Double Vanish 37 Part II: Wizardry Anywhere 43 Chapter 3: The Financial Wizard 45 Hard, Cold, Pencil-Breaking Cash 46 Sheep and Thieves 49 The Vanishing Quarter, Show-Off Edition 52 The Big Money Rises 54 The 7-Penny Reflex Test 57 Don’t Show Me the Money 61 Heads or Tails: The Shadow Knows 64 Chapter 4: New Uses for Old Office Supplies 67 Pencil up the Nose 67 Cheapskate Houdini: The Triple Rubber Band Escape 70 Stage I: The rubber band jumps 71 Stage II: Locked in place 73 Stage III: Dueling bands 75 The Antigravity Ring 76 Post-It-ive Identification 78 The Photocopied Card Trick 82 Chapter 5: What to Do with Other People’s Clothing 85 Give Me a Ring Sometime — and a String 85 Walking through Ropes 88 Scarf Decapitation 92 Give That Purse a Hand 94 Chapter 6: Take It Outside, Pal 99 The Missing Spray-Paint Marble 99 The Ninja Key Catch 102 Straw through the Jaw 104 The Astonishing Straw-Wrapper Restoration 106 The Creepy Little Baby Hand 109 The $100 LifeSaver Trick 113 The Unforgettable “Cloudy” Toilet Paper 116 Part III: The Restaurant Zone 121 Chapter 7: Cutlery Is Your Friend 123 The Bendy Spoon, Part I 123 Bendy Spoon II: The Return 126 The Classic Salt Shaker Penetration 129 Forks a Lot 132 The Three-Mug Monte 134 Three-Object Monte, Freakout Edition 137 Chapter 8: Playing with Your Food 143 A Sugar Substitute 143 The Evaporating Sugar 146 The Linking Pretzels 149 Beans through the Orifices 152 Bouncing the Roll 157 The Floating Dinner Roll 158 Chapter 9: Matches Made in Heaven 163 Making an Ash of Yourself 163 Ashes through Someone Else’s Palm 165 The Three-Matchbox Shell Game 168 Weighing the Matchbooks 171 The Static-Electricity Test 173 Intermission 177 A Day in the Life of a Semi-Pro 177 Entertainment Weekly 179 The Restaurant Summers 179 The Offer 180 The Show 181 It’s in the Cards 182 Part IV: Pick a Card Trick 183 Chapter 10: I Could Have Dealt All Night 185 How to Shuffle without Really Accomplishing Anything 185 You Do As I Do 187 The Hands-Off, Mixed-Up, Pure Impossibility 190 Aces by Touch 193 Dealing to the Aces 195 The Envelope, Please 198 Soul Mates 200 The “Pick a Number” Spelling Bee 203 The Shuffling Lesson 207 Sleight of Foot 211 The Future Deck 215 Dream a Card, Any Card 219 Chapter 11: The Build-Your-Own-Card-Trick Kit 223 How This Chapter Works 223 Forces 224 The Cut Anywhere force 224 The Under the Hanky force 226 The Bottom-Deal force 227 The Countdown force 228 Revelations 230 The Geiger Counter 230 The Jumping Out revelation 230 Feeling by Muscle 232 The “Name of the Card Is” revelation 234 Slap It! 235 The “Above and Beyond” revelation 236 The Magic For Dummies Grand Finale 237 Part V: Party Time 241 Chapter 12: Rope 243 The Classic Cut-Rope Restoration 243 Ring off Rope 247 Escape from the K-Mart Tie 251 Chapter 13: I Knew That! 255 The Three-Card “Pick by Touch” Test 256 The Triple-Prediction Spouse-Clincher 258 The Math/Geography/Animal/Color Test 263 Divide & Conquer 265 The Book Test 268 The Great Vegetable Prediction 273 The Telephone Trick I: Call This Number 275 The Telephone Trick II: Call the Phantom 279 Chapter 14: Group Hysteria 281 The Torn and Restored Toilet Paper 282 You Can’t Do as I Do 285 The Strength Test 288 The Phantom Photo 291 The Late-Night Party Murder Mystery 298 Part VI: The Part of Tens 303 Chapter 15: Ten Basics of Good Magic 305 Don’t Reveal the Secret — Ever 305 Don’t Repeat a Trick 306 Know When to Start 306 Know When to Stop 307 Build Up Your Audience 307 Suit the Tricks to the Crowd 307 One Great Trick Is Worth Ten Not-Ready Ones 308 Keep at It 309 Act the Part 309 Make It Yours 310 Chapter 16: Ten Classic Moments in Magic History 311 Robert-Houdin Prevents War with a Trick 311 Herrmann Pulls a Coin from a Roll 312 Malini Produces a Block of Ice 312 Houdini Becomes Dangerous 313 Blackstone Saves His Audience 313 Richiardi Jr Bisects His Daughter 314 The Great Tomsoni Capitalizes on His Mistakes 314 Doug Henning Comes to Broadway 315 Copperfield Changes the Scale of Magic 315 You See Your First Magic Trick 316 Chapter 17: Ten Dead Magicians Worth Knowing 317 John Henry Anderson (1814-1874) 317 Harry Kellar (1849-1922) 318 Servais Le Roy (1865-1953) 318 Howard Thurston (1869-1936) 319 Horace Goldin (1873-1939) 319 Joseph Dunninger (1892-1975) 320 Cardini (1899-1973) 320 Slydini (1901-1991) 321 Ed Marlo (1913-1992) 321 Dai Vernon (1894-1992) 322 Chapter 18: Ten Things to Say When Things Go Wrong 323 Chapter 19: Ten Ways to Get More into Magic 325 Watch Other Magicians 325 Read 326 Go to Magic Shops 327 Watch TV Magic Specials 327 Join a Magic Association 328 Read Magic Magazines 328 Surf the Web 329 General magic 329 Magic history 329 Magic dealers 329 Individual magicians 330 Current events 330 Watch Magic Tapes 330 Take a Course 331 Perform 332 Part VII: Appendixes 333 Appendix A: Magic Stores, Publishers, Societies, and Magazines 335 Magic Shops 335 Book and Video Sources 336 Organizations 337 Magic Magazines 337 Appendix B: Magic Words: A Glossary 339 Appendix C: Trickography 345 Chapter 1 345 Chapter 2 346 Chapter 3 346 Chapter 4 346 Chapter 5 347 Chapter 6 347 Chapter 7 348 Chapter 8 348 Chapter 9 349 Intermission 349 Chapter 10 349 Chapter 11 350 Chapter 12 351 Chapter 13 351 Chapter 14 351 Chapters 16 and 17 352 Chapter 18 352 Appendixes 352 Index 353

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About David Pogue David Pogue is a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians and has performed magic at parties, special events, on TV, and even over the radio for 25 years. He created and taught the beginning magic programs at the New School for Social Research and the Learning Annex. He has been known to mesmerize audiences with his magic tricks while on tour promoting his many bestselling books, including Macs?? For Dummies??, 5th Edition, Opera For Dummies??, and Classical Music For Dummies??. Contributor Mark Levy, magic consultant, has levitated and read spectators' minds for nearly 30 years. His writings have appeared in some of magic's most revered literary sources, including Richard Kaufman's CardMagic, Apocalypse magazine, and Magic.

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