Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic
10 best books like Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic (Penn Jillette): My Pet Virus: The True Story of a Rebel Without a Cure, The Bride of Anguished English: A Bonanza of Bloopers, Blunders, Botches, and Boo-Boos, Modern Coin Magic, I'm Not the New Me, Mathematics, Magic and Mystery, Art and Artifice and Other Essays of Illusion, The Magician and the Cardsharp: The Search for America's Greatest Sleight-of-Hand Artist, A Magician Among the Spirits, Dave Barry's Gift Guide To End All Gift Guides, The Expert at the Card Table: The Classic Treatise on Card Manipulation
| Author | Shawn Decker |
| ISBN | 1585425257 |
I was destined for a life of medical drama from day one," begins this comic memoir with a mission. "I was born in the month of July, and my horoscope sign is a disease (Cancer). The symbol for Cancer? A crab (the sexually transmitted critter). Not only that, my parents named me Shawn Timothy Decker, which...
The Bride of Anguished English: A Bonanza of Bloopers, Blunders, Botches, and Boo-Boos
| Author | Richard Lederer |
| ISBN | 0312300387 |
Although Richard Lederer's The Bride of Anguished English: A Bonanza of Bloopers, Blunders, Botches and Boo-Boos is once again and delightfully full full full of a plethora of often laugh out loud funny and diverting English language gaffes, it must also be pointed out that the massive litany of them...
| Author | J.B. Bobo |
| ISBN | 0486242587 |
When party guests request a few tricks, be prepared. Ask for a coin, and perform some of the tricks in this book. Because you will not have been aided by special stage apparatus, the results will be all the more astonishing. As tricks with coins are so readily improvised, they are among the most impressive...
| Author | Wendy McClure |
| ISBN | 1594480745 |
A hilarious and sometimes poignant look at the absurdities of weight-loss culture from an appealing and original voice.
From the creator of the immensely popular websites Pound and Candyboots, this is the memoir of Wendy McClure's odyssey-on-line and off-through the Valley of The Shadow...
Mathematics, Magic and Mystery
| Author | Martin Gardner |
| ISBN | 0486203352 |
Why do card tricks work? How can magicians do astonishing feats of mathematics mentally? Why do stage "mind-reading" tricks work? As a rule, we simply accept these tricks and "magic" without recognizing that they are really demonstrations of strict laws based on probability, sets, number theory,...
Art and Artifice and Other Essays of Illusion
| Author | Jim Steinmeyer |
| ISBN | 0786718064 |
From the author of Hiding the Elephant and The Glorious Deception comes a collection of five essays that shows how the great stage illusions were integrally products of their time, based on the traditions and fashions of the people, and the offspring of the incredible, inventive personalities who...
The Magician and the Cardsharp: The Search for America's Greatest Sleight-of-Hand Artist
| Author | Karl Johnson |
| ISBN | 0805074066 |
A famous magician's journey to find the greatest cardsharp ever evokes the forgotten world of magic where Americans found escape during the Great Depression
It has the nostalgic quality of an old-fashioned fable, but Karl Johnson's The Magician and the Cardsharp is a true story that lovingly...
A Magician Among the Spirits
| Author | Harry Houdini |
| ISBN | 1589638956 |
Harry Houdini and his exposure of the fraud spiritualist, spirit photography, spirit slate writing, ectoplasm, clairvoyance, and other quackery and cons perpetrated on the gullible, by the likes of the Boston Medium Margery, the Davenport Brothers, Annie Eva Fay, the Fox Sisters, Daniel Dunglas...
Dave Barry's Gift Guide To End All Gift Guides
| Author | Dave Barry |
| ISBN | 0517799529 |
Wouldn't your friends love a can of pork brains, a rack of pet antlers, or how about a pound of human fat? They say it's the thought that counts, and people will wonder what you were thinking when you give them gifts selected from Dave Barry's Gift Guide to End All Gift Guides. With vendor names, addresses,...
The Expert at the Card Table: The Classic Treatise on Card Manipulation
| Author | S.W. Erdnase |
| ISBN | 0486285979 |
"The Expert at the Card Table is the most famous, the most carefully studied book ever published on the art of manipulating cards at gaming tables." —from the Foreword by Martin Gardner.
For almost a century, this book has been considered indispensable to attaining the highest level of card mastery....
| Author | John Leguizamo |
| ISBN | 1419715186 |
“Ghetto Klown is autobiographical dynamite—this is Leguizamo at his scathing, honest, moving, comedic best. Among the finest portraits of an artist as a young wounded talented man as I’ve read.”
—Junot Díaz
“My main Johnny Legs has done it again. Ghetto Klown as a graphic...
Around the World in a Bad Mood!: Confessions of a Flight Attendant
| Author | Rene Foss |
| ISBN | 0786890118 |
It was a nice little one-time read about the life of a flight attendant. I really like these real-life stories. They might not be great literary pieces, but you have to applaud the effort of a person who is not a professional writer to write and sell an interesting whole more than 200 page book about their...
| Author | Theodore Annemann |
| ISBN | 0486244261 |
Mind reading, thought transmission, prophecy, miracle slate routines, and other "psychic" effects are among the most impressive tricks in any magician's repertoire. Their power to amaze and dumbfound an audience is unparalleled in the domain of stage magic. In this volume, one of the greatest of...
Inevitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds
| Author | Massimo Piattelli Palmarini |
This highly enjoyable read covers provocative recent discoveries in the study of the mind. Demonstrates that everyone is prone to certain "cognitive" illusions or biases in thinking which lead to systematic misjudgments in decision making. Shows how those illusions have important effects on everyday...
Mouse Under Glass: Secrets of Disney Animation and Theme Parks
| Author | David Koenig |
| ISBN | 0964060515 |
Mouse Under Glass: Secrets of Disney Animation & Theme Parks by David Koenig is a book that gives the secrets to Disney productions and animations. It starts off with an introduction to Disney’s “secret recipe” to their success which is the mentality of what can they do better to work on...
| Author | Noel Daniel |
| ISBN | 3836509776 |
Magic has enchanted humankind for millennia, evoking terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Once persecuted as heretics and sorcerers, magicians have always been conduits to a parallel universe of limitless possibility – whether invoking spirits, reading minds, or inverting the laws of nature...
