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• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 21,7 Mb
• Release Date : 14 July 2016

This book charts the history of modern magic across India, China and Japan, analyzing representations in the cultural imagination of the West.

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• File Size : 37,6 Mb
• Release Date : 28 January 2021

This volume addresses the idea of origins, how things are formed, and how they relate to their present and future in terms of 'constitution-making' which is a continuous process in

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• File Size : 53,7 Mb
• Release Date : 03 May 2023

This book explores stage conjuring during its “golden age,” from about 1860 to 1910. This study provides close readings highlighting four paradigmatic illusions of the time that stand in for different kinds

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 29,9 Mb
• Release Date : 12 January 2021

The powers of political secrecy and social spectacle have been taken to surreal extremes recently. Witness the twin terrors of a president who refuses to disclose dealings with foreign powers

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• File Size : 24,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 October 2018

India's association with magicians goes back thousands of years. Conjurors and illusionists dazzled the courts of Hindu maharajas and Mughal emperors. As British dominion spread over the subcontinent, such wonder-workers

• Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
• File Size : 53,7 Mb
• Release Date : 27 May 2024

This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however

• Publisher : Springer Nature
• File Size : 40,6 Mb
• Release Date : 21 April 2022

This book examines the work of psychological illusionist Derren Brown to understand the significance of storytelling and ancient philosophy in our society. Reflecting on the social disconnection and political polarisation

• Publisher : Penguin
• File Size : 24,7 Mb
• Release Date : 17 July 2018

Pull back the curtain on the real history of magic – and discover why magic really matters If you read a standard history of magic, you learn that it begins in

• Publisher : e-artnow sro
• File Size : 31,9 Mb
• Release Date : 27 May 2024

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• File Size : 40,6 Mb
• Release Date : 21 September 2020

This volume addresses controversies connected to the testing of the capacities and potentials of mediums. Today we commonly associate the term "medium" with the technical communication between transmitters and receivers.