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|BK55073||SERIOUSLY SILLY - (Jacket slightly damaged) - HARDCOVER||
|BK55071||MAGIC OF MICHAEL AMMA - HARDCOVER||
|BK55048||RIFFLE SHUFFLE SET UPS||
|BK55047||BEST OF SLYDINI - HARDCOVER||
|BK55046||LINKING RINGS - HARDCOVER||
|BK55042||CARDMAGIC - HARDCOVER||
NEW MODERN MAGIC - HARDCOVER
The big book on coin magic - a go to for coin magic knowledge
Not only is this a drop dead gorgeous opener (or finale) but it is almost IMPROMPTU!----AND, it is so versatile it can be used in a myriad of different routines and settings. The basic effect is predicting or divining lottery numbers freely chosen by spectators----a killer routine! Its half-brother is doing the same thing with a new, borrowed or incomplete deck!
JACK KENT TILLAR
PART 1 is filled with chapter after chapter of effects, routines, spin-offs that explore, then branch out from the seminal principle. PART 2 is a compilation of useful switching devices and manual methods including some eye-opening new techniques. PART 3 opens flood gates inspiring and teaching you how to create mental and magical originalities that will fit your audience, your abilities and your own particular personality!
|BK54349||DRAMATIC MAGIC - H/C 257 PAGES - FIRST EDITION - Packed into this book are countless refreshing ideas for those who seek something new! Tricks based on music or sound; the bios and routines of pickpocket magic experts; a variety of escapes before and after Houdini's era; and a complete gambling lecture ready to use! Included are two knockout mentalism/spirit effects from||
Booth's celebrity platform lecture-shows. Close-up magic anyone can do. Special chapters surveying the ideas and genius of magic masters. The latest detailed revelations identifying the mysterious Erdnase as M.F. Andrews, murdering gambler! To enhance table routines, a modified palmistry course in one easy lesson. Truly a book with something for everyone! Two years in preparation. Hardbound; beautifully produced. 257 pages.
SECRETS OF THE SNOWSTORM
Loaded with information! This book covers all aspects of the classic snowstorm in china illusion. Chapters include making your own storms, handling, effects, presentations, other props to use with the storm ex. Mirror Glass, Thumb Tips etc.
CARD MAGIC BOOK LOT (6 BOOKS)
50 Card Tricks You Can Do 64 psges - Steele , 202 Methods of Forcing, Card Tricks Without Skill 264 pages - Faber, Scane on Card Tricks 306 pages, Exhibition Card Fans 50 pages, Fun & Games with Cards 98 pages - Scott.
GOSPEL MAGIC - 5 BOOK LOT
[Gospel Magic] Magic Ministry, by Dan Shutters (Like New); Magic Sermonettes, by Aldini (Good); Magic With and Upward Look; Magic That Points to the Upward Life, both by Jim Dracup (Like New); Sermons in Magic, by Harold Philmore Wells (Like New)
|BK54321||DEREK DINGLES LAST NOTES||LOVELL & MAROTTA||LN||$23.00||
Within the pages of this volume, the reader will find many effects which may easily be incorporated into a program of exposes, or as part of a manipulative act. None of the effects discussed in the first section require sleights more difficult than the double lift. Many a performer will want to credit the occurrences to his own skill even though none is involved.
B.W. MC CARRON
While at no time should the Lecturer attribute the happenings to magic, a fairly plausible cause is sleight-of-hand. The reader may be surprised to learn the simplicity of many of the moves shown, and magicians will find much of the material suitable for card effects before lay audiences.
AMATEUR MAGICIANS HANDBOOK - H/C
Amateur Magician's Handbook - Hardcover with dust jacket 356 Pages - by Henry Hay - A lavishly illustrated FIRST PRINTING of the classic handbook for conjurers is designed to help magicians of all levels, from beginning to advanced, hone their skills at legerdemain and develop new and exciting illusions to baffle the mind - 6.5 x 9.5-
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CARD TRICKS - HARD COVER
1970's - 3rd Louis Tannen edition,very good condition, with a dust jacket published by Louis Tannen, New York, 403 pages. A treasure trove of card Magic by some of the best in the Magic business, with the likes of Al Baker, Dai Vernon, Charles Jordan, Ted Annemann, Clayon Rawson, William Larsen, Sr. etc. - Product Description - Jean Hugard's Encyclopedia of Card Tricks. An incredibly rich resource for learning card magic.
If you only can buy one book on card magic maybe this should be it! Over 400 pages of magic. Includes sections on Impromptu Card Tricks, Spelling Effects, You Do As I Do, Card Subtleties utilizing Key Cards, 'Slick' Principles, Diachylon, Double Back Cards, Double Face Cards, One-way Back Designs, Reversed Cards, Calculation tricks, Prearranged packs of cards, Svengali packs, Mene-Tekel packs, Stripper decks, Special packs, Short Cards, Sleights, the Nikola Card System, and more! 403 Pages - approx - 6 x 9
MAGIC - STAGE ILLUSIONS SPECIAL EFFECTS BOOK
Soft Cover - 560 Pages - classic stage illusions performed by Robert-Houdin, Bautier de Kolta, Maskelyne and others. Detailed descriptions of techniques of fire eaters, sword swallowers, jugglers, acrobats, etc. Also ancient magic, automatons, magic photography, much more. Over 400 exceptional illustrations.
SECRETS OF A MILLIONAIRE MAGICIAN
Suppose you could instantly access all the secrets, tools, and resources you need to create all the bookings you want. At much higher fees. Here's a comprehensive guide to profitable marketing strategies in a complete step-by-step system. Intact, like new, no markings.
|BK52296||BILL SEVERNS MAGIC WORKSHOP - 176 PAGES||BILL SEVERN||VG||$0.00||$8.75||$|
|BK52295||SECRETS OF MAGIC REVEALED||HERBERT BECKER||VG||$0.00||$4.95||$|
|BK52290||VISIBLE MONTE - BOOK ONLY NO CARDS||GAETAN BLOOM / BUSBY||VG||$0.00||$3.50||$|
|BK52289||MIRACLE FLOATING LIGHT EFFECTS||BURLING HULL||VG||$0.00||$2.99||$|
17 pages total /7 pages of illus. Nothing to guess, full plans with all dims. and specs. A Midieval sword is seen impaled into a solid stone.
Covered with a cloak, the sword is removed and the stone is tranformed into the magician (great opener) or an assistant.
|BK51986||TRICKS OF THE TRADE - 24 PAGES - 1946||GEORGE ARMSTRONG||VG||$0.00||$3.59||$|
INVISIBLE THREAD BOOK
Great illustrations showing hook-ups, hand positions, and the real skinny on how to work with Invisible Thread. "Braco and Fin Jon are the masters of thread work and by learning the material in this "Bible" of thread you can achieve the impossible. This is a clean copy of a book always in demand. 82 Pages
|BK51714||STICKS THAT GO ZOOM - CANE & CANDLE CONJURING||BILL STEINACKER||VG||$0.00||$6.50||$|
THE STRING BOOK
Comments: Floating Routines for Table and Stage - Contents: 3 Introduction - 5 Basic Facts Relating to Effect - 5 Effects - 5 Methods - 7 Guide to Flotation - Using Thread and Balls - 7 Thread - 9 Balls - 10 Object and Thread Chart - 11 Routines Using Thread 'Link-Ups' 11 Technique for the One Point Thread- 13 Application of the Technique of the One Point Threat - 13 - Ball and Silk- 17 - The Ball and Cane - 21
The Ball and the Bowler Hat - 26 Technique for Two Point Thread - 9 Application of Technique of the Two Point Thread 29 - The Ball and Silk - 34 - The Floating Balloon - 36 - The Two Ball Routine - 40 - The Ball and Hat - 44 - TheFree Point Ball and Cane - 46 - The Close Up Floating Ball - 55 - The Floating Cigarette - 61 - Tips for the Floating Cork - 63 - The Ball and Cane - 72 - The Ball and Sword - 80 - The Tennis Ball and Racket - 80 - The Ball and Aerosol Can - 81 - The Endless Loop
|BK51712||RIGHT BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES||OSCAR MUNOZ||VG||$0.00||$7.50||$|
|BK51708||HOW TO DO CIGARETTE TRICKS||IRELAND MAGIC CO.||VG||$0.00||$2.50||$|
|BK51707||PRIZE WINNING MAGIC||HORACE BENNETT||VG||$0.00||$6.95||$|
|BK51706||BOOK OF THIRTY ONE||TOTO||VG||$0.00||$8.95||$|
SECRETS OF THE GREAT MAGICIANS - 1976
A note written in 1981 on the first page ?
|BK51489||NEW MAGICIANS MANUAL - 1975 S/C||WALTER GIBSON||VG||$0.00||$3.95||$|
|BK51486||QUICK CHANGE SILK||DAVID GINN||VG||$0.00||$1.95||$|
|BK51484||MASTERING MAGIC - 100 SECRETS||WALTER GIBSON||VG||$13.00||$5.95||$|
MAGIC BOOK LOT S/C - 4 BOOKS
Masters of Magic - Gene Wright, Classic Secrets of Magic - Bruce Elliot, Secrets of Magic - Blackstone, How to spot card sharps - Sidney Radner.
|BK51480||75 TRICKS WITH STRIPPER & SVENGALI DECKS||A. STEVENSON||VG||$0.00||$1.95||$|
|BK51070||SHOWMANSHIP FOR MAGICIANS - H/C||DARIEL FITZKEE||VG||$0.00||$9.95||$|
|BK51111||HUGARD'S MAGIC MONTHLY #8 1952 H/C||HUGARD||VG||$0.00||$25.00||$|
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CIGARETTE TRICKS
H/C 1ST EDITION
|BK51106||ART OF CLOSE-UP MAGIC 1 - 1ST EDITION 1972||SUPREME||VG||$0.00||$29.00||$|
|BK51104||JOHN BOOTH CLASSICS - H/C DUST JACKET||SUPREME||VG||$0.00||$49.00||$|
|BK51102||TRICKS ANY BOY CAN DO - H/C JACKET||JOSEPH LEEMING||VG||$0.00||$3.99||$|
|BK51099||LEIPZIG BOOK - H/C (SUPREME)||LEWIS GANSON||VG||$0.00||$49.00||$|
|BK51096||CLOSE-UP CAVALCADE H/C 1ST EDITION||JERRY MENTZER||VG||$0.00||$18.50||$|
TARBELL COURSE IN MAGIC
VOLUMES NUMBER 1 TO 7 - H/C
|BK51089||SLEIGHT OF HAND - H/C||EDWIN T SACHS||VG||$0.00||$22.50||$|
|BK51088||MAGIC WITHOUT APPARATUS H/C 1ST EDITION||CAMILLE GAULTIER||VG||$0.00||$39.00||$|
|BK51084||EXPERT CARD TECHNIQUE - H/C 1ST EDITION||HUGARD / BRAUE||VG||$0.00||$22.50||$|
MAGIC WITH CARDS - H/C - WARN
|BK51080||MY BEST - 1945||J.G. THOMPSON||VG||$0.00||$13.50||$|
|BK51077||MAGIC OF LEWIS CARROLL - H/C||JOHN FISHER||VG||$0.00||$9.95||$|
|BK51076||ART OF CLOSE-UP MAGIC II - H/C 1ST EDITION||SUPREME MAGIC||VG||$0.00||$29.00||$|
|BK51075||MAGIC MAN - H/C 1ST EDITION||HANSON ZWEERS||VG||$0.00||$39.00||$|
|BK51066||FURTHER MAGIC OF THE HANDS - H/C||EDWARD VICTOR||VG||$0.00||$8.95||$|
|BK50973||MICKEY HADES CATALOG # 1||MICKY HADES||VG||$0.00||$4.95||$|
|BK50972||SIMPLEX MAGIC CTALOG - 1981||JIM RAINHO||VG||$0.00||$4.95||$|
|BK50971||MICKY HADES BOOK A LOG - 1982||MICKY HADES||VG||$0.00||$4.95||$|
|BK50968||MALINI EGG BAG||CHARLIE MILLER||VG||$0.00||$2.95||$|
|BK50967||ONE CARD LINK||EL DUCO MAGIC||VG||$0.00||$3.50||$|
|BK50965||MAGIC CLIP ART||TOMMY WINDSOR||VG||$0.00||$2.95||$|
THE DECK GIMMICK
INSTRUCTION BY MICHAEL AMMAR
|BK50958||ABBOTTS CATALOG NO. 22||ABBOTTS MAGIC CO.||VG||$0.00||$7.50||$|
|BK50956||NOTES ON THREE CARD MONTE - 150 PAGES||WHIT HAYDN||VG||$35.00||$19.50||$|
|BK50955||ANIMATED MIRACLES (LOOPS)||YIGAL MESIKA||VG||$0.00||$14.50||$|
|BK50953||STREET MONTE||SAL PIACENTE||VG||$0.00||$14.50||$|
|BK50950||SLEIGHTLY TRICKY - 1994||JOHN SHRYLOCK||LN||$0.00||$19.50||$|
|BK50403||MAGIC MENU - PICK OF THE MONTH (WITH CARDS)||JIM SISTI||VG||$0.00||$4.50||$|
|BK50370||DUNNINGERS COMPLETE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MAGIC H/C||
SECRETS OF MAGIC - S/C 1973 1ST EDITION 147 PAGES
Inside front and back cover have marks from tape holding clear plastic cover.
COMPLETE BOOK OF MAGIC - H/C 512 PAGES- DUST COVER
Amaze and amuse friends and family with these hundreds of tricks, all presented by a master magician. Ranging from basics for beginners to more sophisticated illusions, this magical compendium covers everything from sleight of hand with ropes, ribbons, and strings to mind-boggling adventures in mind-reading. Most require little or no equipment--just minor props and a little preparation. And more than 350 detailed line drawings provide a close-up view of every move you need to make. Perform some quick switches with coins and dollar bills. Stun everyone by predicting what the highest bid will be on a gift package you've auctioned off. Tie an "impossible knot." It's loads of fun for you and your audience.
|BK50195||BOB KING MAGIC CATALOG 1999||DAN GARRETT||VG||$0.00||$2.50||$|
DAN GARRETT MAGIC
CATALOG N0. 5
TRIUMPH - 1979
|BK50173||PRACTICAL MAGIC||DAVID ROBBINS||VG||$0.00||$1.50||$|
|BK50170||ANNIVERSARY WALTZ||CHRISTOPHER CARTER||GOOD||$0.00||$3.95||$|
|BK50168||TRICKS WITH THE ANIMATOR||JOHN KENNEDY||VG||$0.00||$3.95||$|
|BK50166||HOW MAGIC WORKS||DAVID WILLIAMSON||GOOD||$0.00||$2.95||
|BK50031||PRESENTATION SECRETS - 9 X 12||TOPAS||LN||$0.00||$22.00||$|
|BK49897||CARD MAGIC BY MANIPULATION (REVISED EDITION)||LEWIS GANSON||VG||$0.00||$5.50||$|
|BK49895||DICE DEXTERITY||AUDREY WALSH||VG||$0.00||$3.75||$|
|BK49894||SAME BOTH SIDES - 1973||LLOYD E JONES||VG||$0.00||$3.75||
|BK49890||RING IN NEST OF BOXES||MIKE SCHIRMER||VG||$0.00||$2.95||$|
|BK49888||HOW TO DO CIGARETTE TRICKS -1957||IRELAND||VG||$0.00||$3.99||$|
|BK49885||MY FAVORITE PASTIMES - 1970||JERRY LUBIN||VG||$0.00||$4.95||$|
|BK49884||GAMBLING MAGICIAN - 1976||B.W. McCARRON||VG||$0.00||$2.95||$|
|BK49883||MILK PITCHER MAGIC||HEN FETSCH||VG||$0.00||$4.75||$|
|BK49882||BLACK ART WELL TRICKS - 1969||CHARLES EARL MILLER||VG||$0.00||$17.5||$|
|BK49828||MASTERS OF MAGIC AND A HISTORY OF MAGIC||RONY / WRIGHT||VG||$0.00||$3.50||$|
|BK49827||SCARNE ON CARD TRICKS & SCARNE ON CARDS||JOHN SCARNE||VG||$0.00||$3.99||$|
|BK49826||ENCYL OF CARD TRICKS & MAGIC / ENCYL OF GAMES||DIAGRAM GROUP||VG||$0.00||$4.50||$|
|BK49824||50 TRICKS THUMB TIP AND SPONGE BALL MANIPULATION||CHRISTOPHER / WALSH||VG||$0.00||$1.50||$|
|BK49823||AMAZING CARD TRICKS & CARD TRICKS ANYONE CAN DO||TEMPLE PATTON||VG||$0.00||$4.50||$|
|BK49821||INVISIBLE SECRETS REVEALED (INVISIBLE DECK TRICKS)||FIELDS / SCHWARTZ||VG||$0.00||$4.95||$|
|BK49818||MORE CARD MANIPULATIONS 1,2,3,4 FOUR (S/C) BOOKS||ASSORTED||VG||$0.00||$8.75||$|
|BK49817||4 SOFTCOVER BOOKS FOR KID SHOWS||ASSORTED||VG||$0.00||$8.75||$|
|BK49339||THE MAGIC BOOK H/C 224 PAGES - 9.5 X 12 DUST COVER||Lida Darbyshire||VG||$30.00||$18.75||$|
|BK49222||CLOSE UP ASSASSIN - BOOK ONLY||DAVID ACER||VG||$0.00||$8.95||$|
|BK49216||BOOK A LOG #20||MICKEY HADES||VG||$0.00||$6.99||$|
|BK49215||MASTER MAGIC - FIRST EDITION||KOVARI||LN||$0.00||$8.95||$|
|BK49209||MONEY MAKER MACHINE MANUAL - SPIRAL - 1ST EDITION||ALGONQUIN MC DUFF||VG||$0.00||$14.99||$|
|BK49208||CREATIVE MAGIC - LECTURE NOTES (SPIRAL BOUND)||TONY GRIFFITH||VG||$15.00||$8.99||$|
|BK49204||A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS||RICH BLOCH||VG||$0.00||$7.99||$|
|BK49200||CONVERSATIONS WITH MYSELF||MAX HOWARD||VG||$0.00||$3.99||$|
CLASSIC TRIO TWO
Silent Mora: 4 Ball & Net, David Hoy: Bold & Subtle Miracles of Dr. Faust, Jerry Andrus: Misers Miracle (minor checkmarks)
|HOY - ANDRUS||VG||$0.00||$35.00||$|
|BK48796||COMEDY MAGIC TEXTBOOK - 1986 1ST EDITION||DAVID GINN||VG||$0.00||$44.00||$|
PRINCIPLES OF DECEPTION
Owner's name covered by
book plate. Some minor
check-marks. Otherwise EX.
|BK48788||ROUTINED MANIPULATION FINALE - H/C||LEWIS GANSON||VG||$0.00||$33.00||$|
|BK48783||PROFESSIONAL CARD MAGIC - 1ST EDITION H/C 1961 - Hard Cover. 1st ed. 1961. Some corner wear, otherwise EX.||CLIFF GREEN||VG||$0.00||$137.50||$|
|BK48741||INTERNATIONAL MAGIC YELLOW PAGES - 1996-1998 - 144 PAGES - MORE THAN 3000 ENTRIES.||WITTUS WIT||LN||$0.00||$6.95||$|
|BK48595||THANK YOU BOOK - IN APPRECIATION||DAVID GINN||VG||$0.00||$1.00||$|
|BK48594||THANK YOU BOOK - SERIOUSLY||DAVID GINN||VG||$0.00||$1.00||$|
|BK48593||COMEDY WARM UPS||DAVID GINN||VG||$0.00||$2.99||$|
|BK48592||THE SPOTLIGHTS ON YOU||?||VG||$0.00||$3.50||$|
|BK48591||BROADWAY MAGIC CATALOG - 32 PAGES||BROADWAY MAGIC||LN||$0.00||$4.00||$|
|BK48581||200 TRICKS ANYONE CAN DO - H/C & DUST COVER- One of the great magicians of the 20th century offers 200 feats of magic to mystify and entertain. Illustrations throughout.||HARRY BLACKSTONE||LN||$0.00||$5.50||$|
Tricks and gags with flash paper are becoming more and more popular. Once you have used flash paper or flash bills in a trick you will understand why. The unexpected flash of flame, no matter how it is used, adds a dramatic touch or "punch" to any trick or gag.
|NATIONAL MAGIC CO.||VG||$0.00||$3.50||$|
FLASH PAPER TIPS - 56 PAGES
What can you do flash paper? Many many things! This booklet has some very clever ideas that you can do very effectively with flash paper.
|ROBSON / READ||VG||$0.00||$3.99||$|
|BK47415||SIMPLE TRICKS FOR YOUNG MAGICIANS H/C - 1955||GREEN||VG||$0.00||$9.95||$|
|BK47413||NOW YOU SEE IT NOW YOU DON'T - S/C - REAL SLEIGHT OF HAND TRAINING.||BILL TARR||VG||$0.00||$9.75||$|
|BK46884||LAFLINS CATALOG 1999 - SILK & GOSPEL MAGIC||LAFLIN||VG||$0.00||$4.95||$|
|BK46883||TOMMY WINDSOR BIBLE VOL # 1 (ART BROCHURES)||LEE JACOBS||VG||$0.00||$4.95||$|
|BK46767||BEST TRICKS W/SLATES||PETER WARLOCK||VG||$0.00||$3.25||$|
|BK46766||SPOOKY MAGIC TRICKS (KIDS BOOK)||DAVID KNOLES||VG||$0.00||$3.00||$|
|BK46765||SPOOKY MAGIC (KIDS BOOK)||LARRY KETTLEKAMP||W||$0.00||$2.00||$|
|BK46763||SAFETY CHALK TALKS||TOM McCORMICK||W||$0.00||$3.00||$|
|BK46753||CLASSIFIED COMEDY||ROBERT ORBEN||G||$0.00||$3.00||$|
|BK46719||SMART TALK||GEORGE McATHY||G||$0.00||$3.00||$|
|BK46716||SCREAMLINED PATTER-RHYMES & WRINKLES||DOC HALLOCK||G||$0.00||$3.00||$|
SECRET BOOKS OF DEVO 2 - H/C
De'vo's Secret Books as a project is a 3 volume collection of De'vo's early underground material from the 1970s to current day. Here is a listing of the contents: Chapter 1 THE JOURNEY - This is the story how De'vo went from struggling to doing many shows and eventually ended up the main performer for the American Embassy. SWISS HECKLER - This is a story how a heckler magician taught him a valuable lesson. Chapter 2 - THE GHOST REALM (Geist)
DEVO VOM SCHATTENREICH
- The Ghost Cut - Poker Ghost/variations/ideas (finally De'vo
decided to teach his ghost cut... after many, many years) - Chapter
3 - WEAPONS CHEST- King Cobra Double Strike (He finally decided
to release this very underground Cobra) and 2 unique fans/combos,
and 2 unique utility moves - Chapter 4 - THE TRANSPORTER + introduction
to this concept + ideas - Pages:166 -
|BK45320||75 TRICKS WITH SVENGALI DECK||AL STEVENSON||VG||$0.00||$1.00||$|
|BK45190||COMEDY RING ROUTINE||DAVID GINN||LN||$0.00||$3.95||$|
|BK45187||TRADE SHOWS - AN INSIDE INSIGHT||FRANCES MARSHALL||VG||$0.00||$6.99||$|
|BK45173||CONFIDENTIAL BOOKING REPORT THREE - Pages great, but has quite a bit of highlighting & underlining||DICK RYAN||GOOD||$0.00||$16.99||$|
|BK45172||CONFIDENTIAL BOOKING REPORT TWO - Pages great, but has quite a bit of highlighting & underlining||DICK RYAN||GOOD||$0.00||$16.99||$|
|BK45171||CONFIDENTIAL BOOKING REPORT ONE Pages great, but has quite a bit of highlighting & underlining (AUTOGRAPHED)||DICK RYAN||GOOD||$0.00||$16.99||$|
SUCCESS BOOK ONE
A FEW PAGES HAVE HIGHLIGHTING
|FRANCES & JAY MARSHALL||LN||$0.00||$19.95||$|
|BK45169||SUCCESS BOOK TWO||FRANCES & JAY MARSHALL||VG||$0.00||$19.95||$|
|BK44879||101 TRICKS WITH GAMBLERS MARKED DECK||DONDRAKE - MUNARI||VG||$0.00||$1.00||$|
|BK44810||COLOR ISOLATION||CONNIE BUSH||VG||$0.00||$4.50||$|
|BK44728||TANNEN CATALOG #13 - SIEGFRIED & ROY COVER - H/C||TANNEN||VG||$0.00||$10.00||$|
|BK44271||SHELL GAME||TOM OSBORNE||VG||$0.00||$3.50||$|
|BK44263||SEX - SALES - EFFECTS - ILLITERATION||LARRY CLARK||VG||$10.00||$5.99||$|
ELIXIR OF LIFE
Go to your local coffee shop with a friend, and order green teas together. Explain to her that this is in fact the fabled Elixir of Life and the secret to your youthful good looks. If she looks skeptical, offer to try an experiment with her. Have your friend write her current age on the bottom of her cup in permanent marker, and you do the same.
Enjoy your teas together over stimulating conversation and mental acrobatics. When youve both finished and are ready to leave, you each look and see that your ages have decreased! By A YEAR, TWO YEARS or MORE! Individual results may vary. Naturally, everything is examinable and your friend leaves with an extra bounce in her step, feeling rejuvinated and ready to face the world.
PICTURE YOURSELF AS A MAGICIAN & DVD - 330 PAGES
Step-by-Step Instruction for the Street, Stage, Parties, Card Table, and More. Description - Picture yourself astonishing your friends as you dazzle them with classic card tricks, mystifying coin routines, mind-reading magic, a levitation of yourself, escapes, tricks with your iPod, and more. "Picture Yourself as a Magician: Step-by-Step Instruction for the Street, Stage, Parties, Card Table, and More" is the perfect introductory book to entertaining yet simple magic tricks and techniques that will leave your audience marveled and amused. Written using clear step-by-step instructions along with full-color photographs to demonstrate each new skill and trick taught, the book
will help beginners establish a foundation in basic magic. "Picture Yourself as a Magician" features the same high-impact magic tricks performed by professionals but adapted for novices. Tips from the pros will help you hone your craft and develop your magic act. The accompanying DVD with live demonstrations and lessons on many of the tricks and techniques taught in the book will help you along the way. Get ready to wow your friends and family as you share the gift of magic with them. Features * Presented in the 4-color, visual, tutorial style of the "Picture Yourself" series. * Teaches readers techniques that will help them establish a foundation in basic magic, including street magic and gambling tricks. * The accompanying DVD features videos of the tricks and magic featured in the book, along with explanation of how to perform them.
|BK43189||FLASH SIGNATURE||RICHARD RAVEN||VG||$0.00||$2.95||$|
|BK43185||TABLE HOPPING||BRUCE POSTGATE||VG||$0.00||$5.95||$|
|BK43175||BE A STREET MAGICIAN!||?||VG||$0.00||
|BK43173||EASY TO MASTER THREAD MIRACLES VOL. 1||MICHAEL AMMAR||VG||$0.00||
|BK43172||MAGIC IN THEORY||?||VG||$0.00||
|BK43170||ROYAL ROAD TO CARD MAGIC||?||VG||$0.00||
|BK43169||THE MAGIC OF MICHAEL AMMAR||AMMAR||VG||$0.00||
|BK43167||SECRETS OF A MILLIONAIRE MAGICIAN||RANDY CHARACH||VG||$0.00||
|BK43165||BLACKSTONE'S SECRETS OF MAGIC||BLACKSTONE||VG||$0.00||
|BK43064||CARDIAC - invite a spectator to take your pulse. To ensure there is nothing restricting your pulse, allow them to check under your arms and examine your arms completely. They will agree there are no devices on you. Ask them to find your pulse. When they have it, ask them to snap their fingers along with it... They will keep track of your pulse rate. Tell them no matter what happens to you, make sure they report ANY changes in your pulse rate. You close your eyes and begin to breathe deeply and slowly... ask them if your pulse is getting stronger.||
They will agree it's beating harder. Then close your eyes and ask them if they feel the rate changing... they will say it's getting slower... and slower... and eventually only 1 beat every few seconds, and then it speeds back up to normal and goes faster and faster. Then the performer turns his attention inward and has a self-induced attack! This is "cardiac arrest"! The performer takes a deep breath and holds it and his pulse stops... after a few seconds it eases back to normal.
The secret is out! Well... not one secret, but three new routines from Patrick Redford. Triangle is dedicated to "passing on the power." Not only will you be able to memorize a deck of cards in thirty seconds, be able to divine the amount of change shaken to your ear, and identify information on dollar bills that you've never
touched**...you can pass these powers onto your audience members. Get this...they won't know how they know! Did I mention all of these routines are impromptu? This means anywhere and anytime!
|BK42913||WISDOM OF SOLOMON - SEALED - H/C 212 PAGES - The Wisdom of Solomon has over 50 effects succinctly written by David Solomon and Jeff Siegfried in a manner similar in style to past Marlo writings. There are over 200 photos to clearly illustrate all sleights, layouts, and procedures. At the beginning of each effect the reader is treated to David's personal reflections in the section aptly titled, "Solomon's Mind." More than 50 card effects, with over 200 photos - Full Presentational Pieces for any audience. - Effects for the Intermediate through Expert card Enthusiast - Commercial Stunners & Magician Foolers - A Dose of Clever Gaffed Effects||
A Chapter of Don May's magic - Unpublished Ed Marlo Tricks - David Solomon's Personal Reflections - David Solomon is one of the most prolific thinkers in card magic today. From his earliest days at the table with his friend and mentor, Ed Marlo, to the more recent days of his Saturday Chicago Sessions with Simon Aronson and John Bannon, David has been a consistent source of card magic discussion, planning, creation, and performance. Jeff Siegfried has been performing magic for over 20 years, and is an educator/writer by trade. He currently performs weekly at three restaurants in the greater Chicagoland area, and performs monthly for corporate, and private events. David and Jeff are great friends.
|BK42893||INSIDE THE HEAD OF DONNY ORBIT BOOK- CONTENTS - SUPERMAN -- A drawing of a lump of coal is squeezed in the magicians hand where it changes to a drawing of a diamond! The drawing then becomes a REAL DIAMOND! - FUTURE BURN - A spectator chooses any finger on a drawing of a hand. The magician opens a sealed envelope and reveals that he correctly predicted which finger would be chosen. Then he reveals a REAL BLISTER on his own corresponding finger! - SOUPED CAN - Two selected cards are lost into the pack. Both cards are then found through a random number offered by the spectators. The cards are lost for a second time and the spectatEors proceed to find both cards with the deck in their own hands! JUST IN CASE - Three||
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Cards are chosen and returned to the pack. One card appears under the card case but, it's the wrong card. With a snap, anoth er card appears under the case and this time, it IS a selection! Then, the first â¬Üwrong' card changes into a selection and finally the whole deck appears under the card case except for the final selection!
FOILED - The magician demonstrates how an impression of a coin can be made in tin foil. Then he proceeds to "mint" a second coin right out of the mould! Cautioning that it is a fake he then SCREWS THE COIN INTO A TIN FOIL BALL AND HANDS IT OUT FOR EXAMINATION! - CHERRY THING - The stalk of a cherry is plucked from the fruit and knotted in the magicians mouth! The knotted stalk is then magically re-attached to the cherry and handed out for examination!
|BK42104||HERMANN THE MAGICIAN - H/C - 294 PAGES - SEALED||BURLINGAME||NEW||$49.95||$39.50||$|
STREET MAGIC - 400 PAGES
Forget about David Copperfield, cruise ship illusionists, and birthday party magicians. Theyre so twentieth century. Think cutting-edge magickers like David
Blaine and Criss Angel. People starting out in magic today want something edgier, grittier, quick, visual, and maybe a little dangerous. This guide will teach you how to do it!
FIVE TIMES FIVE - (SEALED) H/C
What happens when five superb Japanese magicians each contribute five effects for a book written by Richard Kaufman and illustrated by Ton Onosaka? A welcome addition to any magic library.
|BK41993||NEW MAGIC OF JAPAN 1988 (SEALED) H/C - 25 Japanese magicians each presenting one effect ranging from close-up to stage magic using cards, coins, silks, paper flowers, sponge balls, canes, wands, rings, etc. - Hardbound||PHIL GOLSTEIN/RICHARD KAUFMAN||NEW||$45.00||$38.50||$|
BLISTER BOOK - 172 PAGES
Once or twice every century, a new principle is discovered in our mystery field. In 1972, Jack Kent Tillar's Blister Effect was first published in Tarbell Volume 7. Harry Lorayne wrote, As far as I know, this principle is new to magic. The effect is that a performer mysteriously makes a blister appear on the tip of his or her finger. Since its publication, this unique effect has become well-known and used by most mentalists and magicians. However, most people don't know that Jack Kent Tillar, and Academy Award-winning composer and highly respected mentalist, had an extensive amount of work published in Magick, Genii, Invocation, and other notable publications. He has influenced many of the top professionals in mentalism today. Now, thirty-five years later, this book
JACK KENT TILLAR
celebrates all the individual ingenuity that performers have brought to this classic.Included in this volume is Jack Kent Tillar's original unpublished routine for the Blister Effect. It also contains over fifty cherished routines, ideas, wisdom, and secret devices for stage, close-up, and even radio, many of them guarded secrets, from some of today's biggest mentalism talents.Contributors include: Michael Weber, Banachek, Paul Harris, Marc Salem, Richard Osterlind, Barrie Richardson, Alain Nu, Penn & Teller, Richard Busch, Ted Karmilovich, Mark Edward, Larry Becker, Gerard Senehi, Ray Grismer, Newell Unfried, E. Raymond Carlyle, Joseph White, Tony Andruzzi, Richard Mark, Jheff, Loren Tindall, Robin Dewitt, Gerald Blount, Leo Behnke, Burton Sperber, Joe Zabel, Pasqual Perino, Odes Odhner, James Gallivan, Leo Kostka, Michael Selwyn, Alberto, Peter Marucci, Robert Fenton and Bill Herz.
TEAR ABLE SESSIONS
Have You Ever Been Asked The Question: Can you do that trick where that guy threw the deck at the window and their card was on the other side Well now here is the answer, a simple plot in which a torn corner of a signed card can be found anywhere you want that includes the other side of a window! From the creative mind of Ben Williams comes THREE brand new easy to do, high impact card tricks involving the torn corners of signed cards.
Virtually sleight free so you can concentrate on your performance.
Learn two routines centred around making the torn corner of a signed card appear anywhere you want, under your watch, in a spectators pocket, on the OTHER side of a window, the possibilities are endless. Also learn how to restore the corner to a signed card with a routine so visual and simple you will have the perfect starter for your favourite ambitious card routine or your favourite signed card routine. All of these routines have been tried and tested and have never failed to get great reactions, their simplicity in plot and handling combined make these routines perfect for your arsenal.
|BK41460||STREET MAGIC MAGAZINE - AUG/SEPT 2007 ISSUE - This is a Bi-Monthly Magic Magazine and in every issue there is an incredible amount of valuable content. We are here to provoke intelligent thought, logical discourse, and to positively influence magicians of all levels into thinking outside the proverbial "magic" box, and start pushing our art to the next level.||
SM is a magazine for the thinking magician-for artists who don't want to fall in line and be like everyone else, but want to stand out from the crowd and be proud of who they are, where they are going, what they accomplish, and the legacy they leave behind.
|BK41452||FRESH MINT - Signed Bill to 'Tic Tac' box! + 3 mind blowing bonus effects! Effect: A bill is borrowed and signed by the spectator. The performer then completely vanishes the bill. The performer then points out a tin of mints that has been in view throughout. The spectator tips out the contents. Inside is a box of Tic Tac breath mints but instead of mints a folded bill can be clearly seen. The lid is popped off the box and the bill is tipped out onto the spectators hand. They actually see it come from the box which is now genuinely empty. The bill is unfolded and sure enough, it bears the spectators signature! Can also be performed with playing cards, business cards, billets etc. The possibilities for this amazing utilty gimmick are endless! ALSO INCLUDES 3 AWESOME BONUS EFFECTS! BONUS 1: Cards Gone Wild - An incredible packet effect that YOU WILL USE!||
Two spectators each choose one of the four Aces. In an instant, all the Aces change into the first selection with the exception of one which is face down. This card is revealed to be the second selection! BONUS 2: Twisted Limo Service - The four Jacks are removed from the deck then two cards are selected - one is sealed in the card case the other is lost in the deck. The four Jacks now magically turn face down, one at a time before suddenly transforming into a single card! Its the selection that was in the card case! The case is opened and inside we find the four Jacks with the second selection face down in between them! BONUS 3: Hard Knocks - Two cards are selected and signed on the back before being lost back into the deck. With a snap, the deck is spread and both selections are seen to be reversed! Each spectator holds onto their respective selection. Another snap and the signatures on the back transpose! This could be the most direct method EVER conceived for this type of effect!
Once again Ben Highway and Kenton push past the barriers of what can be done in mentalism and magic. Like Kolossal Killer before it, this brings a new standard to dealing with spectator intuition and free spectator choice, challenging all previous methods. A card is selected and returned to the deck. The deck is cut or mixed. Its NOT a card trick. It is a real demonstration of subliminal influence.
Spectator deal cards face up on to the table, stopping whenever they feel the need. They are not to think about when to stop, but rather to stop when they feel it is time to stop. In other words, the participant must stop dealing using only his or her own intuition. The performer remains hands off as the spectator deals. The spectator deals using intuition, until they arrive at their own selected card. The spectator does not know how he or she deals to their own card. But they do. Really.
|BK41342||SCROLLS - marvelous, wonderful and secret things were written upon them. Now, a new kind of Scroll. Scrolls is about magic. Scrolls is about story telling. Scrolls is about The Authors efforts, thoughts and journeys into the world of Bizarre Magic. To the author, Bizarre Magic is about story telling. Its about using a combination of magic and stories to produce a feeling. Contained in these pages are some of Tims routines, articles and obsessions. You will not really find anything in the way of new moves or innovative handling. If anything, you will find that handlings are as simple as possible and even very close to the moves you find described in the store-bought instructions.||
Where possible, he tries to give credit where it belongs and where it is most certainly due. Everything is about stories. Also, as a matter of general concern, you will find that everything is kept as simple as possible. There arent many books which focus on Bizarre Magic to begin with, and of the ones that are available, many contain very elaborate effects and very elaborate setups. While these effects are often excellent, sometimes they are so intensive they become difficult to use regularly. And they shouldnt be. 125 page, large format book, features Essays on Character, Acting, Material and 20 plus routines that you could actually USE.
|BK41341||SESSION - MAGIC OF JOEL GIVENS - FIVE FORTY SEVEN - A companion volume to Session. Contains 8 additional routines not included in the book||JOSHUA JAY||MINT||$15.00||$11.50||$|
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WONDERFUL SURPRISES BOOK
220 pages of text with 20 pages of color photographs interspersed throughout.
The Life of Marco The Magi - Researched and written over many years by Avrom Karl Surath, an original member of Le Grand David and his own Spectacular Magic Company, this book carries you through Marco the Magis childhood and youth in Cuba up to the present time as producer and director of Beverlys famed magic troupe. The authors research brought him in contact with members of the Cuban diaspora who were Marcos friends and members of his theatre company when they were all beginning their lives in Cuba. The author was present when they rediscovered him in America fifty years later.The book recounts the revolution and
the agony of Marco's forced exile. It covers his seven years of doctoral studies and friendship with Abraham Maslow at Brandeis University. It gives new perspectives on his founding of the Le Grand David stage magic ensemble. It shows how the genial magician has incorporated Maslows principles in the colorful and often surprising life of the magic company over its thirty-year-plus history. The book includes forewords by John Fisher, Dr. Ricardo Morant (Fierman Professor of Psychology, emeritus at Brandeis), and Luis Puello, a former student in Santa Clara, Cuba. Chapters contain interviews with Cesareo about how he conceived and directed the shows. It also includes interviews with Le Grand David about his role in the productions.
Suppose you could take an egg and a coin and have both of them marked by a spectator. You then cause the coin to magically penetrate INSIDE the egg. A small hole is chipped in the egg, big enough to pour out some of the egg goo, but small enough that a coin, which will be found INSIDE the egg, cannot escape. Spectator can look inside the hole and verify they see the coin AND their mark. Spectator can reach through the hole and grab the coin
with tongs or tweezers and pull it out THROUGH the shell themselves AND can immediately verify that it IS the same coin they marked earlier. No tricky sleights. You receive a manuscript giving you two versions of this effect, one totally impromptu, and another which thoroughly explains the gimmick. All this in a nice 45 page booklet, complete with over 50 illustrational photo's.
This mesmerizing and innovative effect is actually simple, but the psychological impact is dramatic! As you begin, have a spectator open a new bottle of water and take a drink. Then, you transform the water to mouthwash INSIDE of their mouth!
At the end of the routine, the spectator spits the mouthwash into a clear glass for all to see! Seeing is believing! Add Taste Conditions To Your Performance Collection Today! This routine is recommended for close up, stand up, and stage show performances.
In 'Pentalogy' we learned about Shane in an ENOURMOUS body of work that focused on simple methods wrapped in AMAZING dynamic sometimes bizarre, fun or disturbing presentations. Each of these had been audience tested again and again and all had Shane's unmistakable mark of creativity among them. In 'Automata,' Shane presented a series of his
creative ideas, based on self working mathematic principles, given a mask of humanity through awesome presentations and stories! Tractare features magic that is easy to do, based on a subtlety or simple move, but nothing that really requires slights or finger flinging. Here you are able to beguile your audiences while making them smile, laugh, engage and become PART of your show! - 154 PAGES
TONY CLARK UNMASKS BOOK
This handbook for doves is a must for anyone using birds in their act. It includes dove care and feeding, traveling techniques with doves, training doves and dove pockets and positions. Many nice illustrations including: dove pockets and positions, sleeve enlargements, tail pockets. Also included is a step - by - step breakdown of Tony Clark's five week return flight dove training program.
There are also many Routines by Tony, Gary Darwin, Rand Woodbury, Vito Lupo and General Grant. Plenty of drawings and a special photo section of young Tony Clark.
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Zero Gravity is unlike any levitation on the market. You will receive a detailed manuscript explaining step-by-step how to build the special gimmick. The materials are available at your local hardware store for pennies.
Any card is borrowed or freely chosen by a spectator and signed. With both hands unmistakably empty, two impromptu rings are torn from the card. Without any overt actions or suspicious cover, the two rings are magically linked together, one ring hanging from the other. Such is their linked
condition that one ring must actually be torn in order to free the other - one ring is unmistakably displayed as being torn.To finish, the torn ring is completely restored and everything is handed out for examination. There is nothing to find. The rings may be kept by the spectator as a souvenir. Believe it! After many years of secrecy, SMOKE RINGS can now be yours!
MIND MYSTERIES -
GUIDE BOOK 4
In this fourth guide book, Richard dissects the powerful magic and mentalism items that brought the first installment of the Mind Mysteries series to such a smashing conclusion. Besides his usual insights into the material that was presented on Mind Mysteries Volume 4 youll also find: An exposition of ways to make the effects in your own show much more powerful.
The real way to do pre-show work. - Necessary ingredients for strong magic. - Real history of many of Richard Osterlind's most powerful creations. Mind Mysteries Volume 4 More Assorted Mysteries presents some of the strongest material Richard Osterlind has ever created, youll gain some valuable insights in how to inject this power into your own work.88 pages Perfect bound
|BK40715||STREET MAGIC MAGAZINE - MAR/APRIL - SM is a magazine for the thinking magician for artists who dont want to fall in line and be like everyone else, but want to stand out from the crowd and be proud of who they are, where they||are going, what they accomplish, and the legacy they leave behind. SM is about you and we prove that by featuring magicians of all levels. You dont have to have been dead for 70 years to get the cover.||NEW||$9.00||$6.95||$|


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Acknowledging our heritage - New DNA Uniting Church
Documents and Overview
Ian and Sharonne Price, Peter McDonald
The sermon presented by Rev Sean Gilbert at the Induction Service of Rev Lyn Leane at Para Vista and Modbury Uniting Churchs combined service at Para Vista January 2018
Presentations from the Launch at the Modbury Gathering
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The Visit of Dr Chris Baker of the William Temple Foundation. Videos of this event are now available...
Report to Synod 2013
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Congregations of the Urban Mission Network gathered at Morialta on Thursday 24th May. The focus was Church and Community...
Modbury and Para Vista congregations treated us to a feast that included worship and hospitality, friendship and fellowship, information, and encouragement and concluded with Candlelight Reflections, a quiet space among the flickering candles to contemplate matters of the soul.
Pilgrim Church in cooperation with the Urban Mission Network and other agencies is planning a series of events over the next three years to help churches reflect on the ministry implications of the emerging post secular city.
2011 has been a year of welcome and affirmation in the Urban Mission Network.
Pilgrim has appointed Lynne Taylor as the coordinator of the Seniors Research Project. Lynne will be working...
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When I was a thirteen I was in church one morning listening to a woman tell the children’s talk. Right in the middle of the story she stopped and slumped forward. It took everyone a moment to realize that something was wrong.
Report to Synod 2010
In this initial phase of the new structures the Network has developed a number of supplementary pastoral practices...
What is church? In my early university days, I discovered the art work of M.C. Escher, a Dutch artist who delighted in producing images that confused the mind through subtle transitions from one perspective to another....
Dr Virgil Howard... told the story of when his wife died. They were young and had very small children...
Hear Rev Rob Stoner’s wisdom on connecting to our neighbourhood through one (or more) mission activities...
Dr Ian & Sharonne Price May Gathering Presentation
Acknowledging Our Heritage -New DNA Uniting Church
UCA Assembly Overview Marriage Decision
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Letter Rev Phillip Gardner Pastoral Relations SA (Word)
Overview 2018 Uniting Church National Assembly (Word)
Presidents Letter Non Geographic Presbytery Sept 2018 (Word)
Discussion Paper on Marriage Requested by 13th Assembly
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15th Assembly Rev John Squires
Marrying same-gender people: a biblical rationale Rev Dr John Squires
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Pastoral Letter from Moderator Uniting Church SA
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OK, so I made a little documentary based on my years of personal experience fighting casinos - which was not boring! I hope to publish a book as well. Please watch, learn and enjoy. Some of you may even get a glimpse of yourselves! (Oh and don't miss the credits.)
Waking Up In Vegas: A true story of casinos in Massachusetts
Total time, about 35 minutes. Each part is about 18 minutes long.
Part 1 - This part sets the stage. The local fight that became a statewide movement, and lesser known impacts and business methods of casinos that I learned along the way.
Part 2 - Follows the dark comedy that was the legalization process.
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By understanding that letters make sounds, we can blend those sounds together to make whole sounds that symbolize meaning we can all exchange with one another. Elements that are usually helpful for previewing are newspaper headlines or titles; images or photos; and signal words or format. Teaching reading strategies that are effective for all students is an art. Effective learning strategies and practices take time to learn and to refine. Below are some helpful strategies that teachers can implement in their classroom, or alter to better fit the needs of their students. Generate a list of questions about what you are reading. Read as often as possible.Develop a routine where you read a book together in the morning or in the evening. All classrooms contain students at varying levels of proficiency in multiple reading skills, and individuals’ access to background knowledge is vast and immeasurable. Decodable passages for beginning readers. The most powerful way for you to help your students is to read aloud to them, often and with great expression. Use gamification for: revision, drill and practice, homework. Some purposes for reading … One of the leading predictors of future academic achievement is early reading success. Over the years, there have been many theories about the best methods for teaching reading strategies. Below are some helpful strategies that teachers can implement in their classroom, or alter to better fit the needs of their students. Check out our Reading Comprehension Strategy Resources. Watch or listen to our classroom video, author interviews and more. Teaching Strategies for Reading Comprehension in Upper Elementary Classrooms. Ask them to discuss or present. Summarising means recalling the main points or ideas. Reading Strategies for Beginning Readers. Finally, altering the teaching approach within a classroom to promote individual student performance can benefit all learners. 6 Strategies to Strengthen ESL Reading Comprehension for Beginners. Try something new and add these to your teaching toolkit. Teachers should use learner-related contexts whenever possible, as this will help them motivate students to read. 8 Reading Comprehension Strategies That Work. teaching strategies for reading comprehension with an emphasis on reciprocal teaching. Previewing. Expose them to a wide variety of genres including poetry, excerpts from speeches, and folk and fairy tales … We can probably all agree that passive learning is … by Tina Wheeler. Following the echo reading, have students read the entire poem together as a "choral read." 5. These students may be skilled at decoding words and sounding like they read on grade level, but you will notice that they do not read … Watch one-on-one reading support in action with K-3 students, FAQs When participating in a close reading, students read the text three times. Use Word Attack Strategies They listen to the words, see the pictures in the book, and may start to associate the words on the page with the words they are hearing and the ideas they represent. (Useful site, by the way.) 1) Guided Reading The International Reading Association, the National Association for the Education of Young Children, and the National Council of Teachers of English have each found that guided reading can be beneficial to young learners when used as part of a balanced literacy program. Detailed explanation about how to use it, and for what type of content, is given. This article focuses on reading comprehension strategies that are part of three main approaches: building background knowledge, teaching vocabulary explicitly, and checking comprehension frequently. Here are 7 reading strategies to get you started including tips for both primary and secondary teachers. Strategies for teaching verbal learners: Use verbal teaching and writing activities. I. You will have some students in your class who do not understand what they read. Social Studies content can be an interesting mix of itemized information, and traditional paragraphs/imagery. Students who don’t have strategies will just open up and read. Effective elementary teaching strategies in reading continue until students have finished reading and are ready to discuss or write. Get the class to read aloud. To stay up-to-date with the latest status, news and information click here. By Emily Kaplan. If your student with dyslexia is having a hard time learning literacy skills, use these four guided reading strategies and dyslexia exercises to help … 2.1 Teaching Reading Strategies 2.1.1 Activating Background Knowledge 2.1.2 Cultivating Vocabulary 2.1.3 Reading Aloud 2.1.4 Teaching Reading for Comprehension 2.1.5 Shared Reading 2.1.6 Guided Reading 2.1.7 Scaffolding in the Writing Lesson 2.1.8 Extensive Reading 2.1.9 Silent Reading 2.1.10 Time Reading 2.2 Summary Each post focuses on a different strategy. Without getting too Platonic about it all, reading doesn’t change simply because you’re reading a text from another content area. Themed Booklists Show me, and I may not remember. 25 Reading Strategies That Work In Every Content Area. Pre-teaching the organization of … Through the explicit teaching of reading strategies, students are provided with the tools needed to strategically think and problem solve as they explore text. During reading, they might monitor their understanding, adjusting their reading speed to fit the difficulty of the text and "fixing" any comprehension problems they have. Another strategy for teaching reading skills for 4th through 6th graders is to teach visualization. The following evidence-based intervention strategies were developed based on a number of important resources. Think Aloud. 1. You may start by reading aloud but have the child participate by running a finger along the text. Reading extensively inside and outside classrooms helps to improve the learners' reading skills.When preparing a lesson plan, teachers need to think that learners want various skills at different ages and competency levels. A better teacher toolkit. Saturday, March 3, 2012. Updated on: October 29, 2019 . 7. Infer. You’re needed as much as you ever were. 28-29, 42-43. The The participants included 210 3rd-6th graders divided into four groups. Good readers use metacognitive strategies to think about and have control over their reading. Reading is simply a sequence of symbol interpretation. Questioning the Text may make equal sense in both. It is usually easier to start with a TV show or sports program before introducing comprehension exercises to short stories. Teacher demonstration, modeling, and follow-up independent practice are critical factors for success. Reciprocal teaching strategies address this problem by helping students internalize concepts first learned through social interactions. Teaching Strategies is very excited to partner with the Texas Home Learning 3.0 Initiative. It helps the reader to clarify what he or she is reading and to better understand the text. Adler that is based on the US National Reading Panel Review. Our library provides teachers with effective, research-based classroom strategies to help build and strengthen literacy skills in phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing. But if you’d like to start with a basic set of strategies, you could do worse than the elegant graphic above from wiki-teacher.com. Scanning. Questioning is a reading strategy that is taught to students to help them to better engage with the text. By. Meet your favorite authors and illustrators in our video interviews. Locate Key Words. 6. "Tell me and I'll forget. This kind of mental imagery allows a student (who self-identifies as creative or perhaps not) to stimulate their sensory nervous system. For example, explicit teaching can take place during: Palincsar and Brown’s (1984) reciprocal teaching model consisting of the four strategies of prediction, summarization, question generation, and clarification was used by Klingner and Vaughn (1996) to teach reading comprehension to ELLs with LDs. Before reading During reading After reading ; Blending and Segmenting Games: Concept of Word Games: Elkonin Boxes: Onset/Rime Games: Rhyming Games: Syllable Games When using any teaching strategy, teachers should (1) help students to understand why a strategy is useful, and (2) describe explicitly how the strategy should be used. Should we use narrative texts to teach science, math, and social studies? Students who don’t have agency will just sit and Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension. - Native American Proverb. Real questions from parents and educators, answered by experts. Strategies for Teaching Reading Balancing Instructional Elements …………………………………………………………….. 1 Brainstorming …………………………………………………………………………………... 3 It allows you to see right away if a particular strategy should be used before, during, and/or after reading. Strategies for Teaching Reading: Grades 3-5 For teachers, coming up with new strategies to assist students in reading at the intermediate level can be difficult. These are the essential reading strategies that you should be teaching your students — at any level. By implementing these teaching strategies, we are giving our students the tools that can help them succeed. What Reading Strategies will Increase Reading Levels? A close reading lesson will scaffold student learning and focus on text-dependent questions. 266-269 Beyond Monet, pp. A resource created by C.R. 25 Reading Strategies That Work In Every Content Area. Well, that depends on if you mean the flexible form of poetry, the enduring structure of a novel, or emerging digital literature that combines multiple modalities to tell a story. Here are five of the most effective teaching strategies for reading that elementary teachers can use with their primary learners. Teach the strategy of using pictorial, semantic, and syntax cues, and conventions of print to read for meaning. We’ll gather these and put them in a Before Reading, During Reading, and After Reading matrix soon. Tips on finding great books, reading nonfiction and more, "A book is like a garden, carried in the pocket." Pinpoint the problem a struggling reader is having and how to help, Reading Interventions — Chinese Proverb, Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA), Supporting Children with Autism During COVID-19, Mary Amato’s Tips for Keeping a Writer’s Notebook. Questions about reading, writing, dyslexia and more, Author Interviews Asking good questions is a way for students to monitor their own comprehension while reading. Teaching comprehension strategies, Curriculum K-12 From there, they will be more likely to transfer those experiences into their own reading. 1. Comprehension should include how to summarize, predict, context and monitor. 8. People read different kinds of text (e.g., scholarly articles, textbooks, reviews) for different reasons. Many common text reading strategies—such as annotation, SQ3R, and the KWL chart —make use of these thinking strategies, including: Discussing or activating prior knowledge, Developing questions while reading, One method is to ask students to individually read a short passage, note two to three strategies they used when reading, and compare their strategies with a partner. This guide lists some purposes for reading as well as different strategies to try at different stages of the reading process. 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His own history is a unique tale of adventures in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. When he isn't digging into Revelation, Joel spends his time exploring the mountains with his wife, setting off fireworks or playing with his grandchildren.
His book, Explosive New Info on Revelation with Never Before Seen Scrolls gives light to the End Times that has been overlooked or misinterpreted.


History of Mexican food and Ingredients
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University Confidential: How faculty members engage in sensemaking AND social capital and role conflict among Deans
The Canadian Association of Sociology of Education (CASE) and Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) Sociology of Education Research Cluster are pleased to present this webinar recorded on November 23, 2023.
Presentation 1: Making Sense of Experiential Education: The Four Lenses of Faculty Sensemaking
Emerson LaCroix - PhD candidate, University of Waterloo
Experiential education is a growing institutional phenomenon in university education. Despite its spread, little attention has been paid to the perspective of faculty members in terms of how they make sense of experiential education and how it shapes their professional roles or disciplinary priorities. To shore up these gaps, I report the findings of a qualitative survey that was used to understand general faculty sentiments in Ontario about experiential education (n=132), and in-depth semi- structured interviews (n=47) from faculty members across eight disciplines from six universities. The findings of this study reveal four sensemaking lenses that faculty use to make sense of experiential learning: the disciplinary lens, the institutional lens, the pedagogical lens, and the professional lens. The presentation concludes with recommendations for future research on faculty sensemaking.
Presentation 2: Janus Lives: Social capital and role conflict among Deans at a large Canadian university
Dr. David Mandzuk - Dean Emeritus, University of Manitoba
There is a growing body of literature on the multiple roles that deans play in higher education (Mandzuk, 2023; Montez, Wolverton & Gmelch, 2002; Seale, 2021). One of the central themes addresses the important mediating roles that deans play between the expectations of senior university administrators and the expectations of their own academic and administrative staff and students. Some scholars have used the concept of the ‘Janus effect’ to illustrate how deans and other middle managers essentially have two ‘masters’ and therefore, they are in a constant state of looking forward and backward to try to meet the often-conflicting expectations of these two groups (Pienaar & Cilliers, 2016). This study examines the multiple roles that deans play by expanding the use of the Janus effect to include other ‘masters’ or stakeholders both internal and external to the university and by linking it to two well-known sociological concepts—social capital and role conflict.


The War of 1812: A bicentennial worth observing
This year, the United States observes a number of anniversaries.
The year 2014 is part of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War (1861-1865), with late 1864 marking the turning point in the fortunes of battle in favor of the Union.
It’s the 225th anniversary of the beginning of government under the American Constitution, with 1789 as the year when George Washington took office as the nation’s first president.
And it’s the centennial year of the start of World War I in 1914; America didn’t enter the war until three years later, but the groundwork for our alliance with Britain and France was laid 100 years ago.
Then there’s the War of 1812.
Two hundred years ago, the United States was engaged in battle with Great Britain on land and sea in a 32-month conflict that started with the American declaration of war in June 1812, and ended with the Treaty of Ghent, ratified by the United States in February 1815.
Despite the bicentennial of the war, media have been curiously silent about it.
There are several reasons. First, the treaty returned all borders to their lines prior to 1812.
Second, the complicated nature of diplomatic arguments about the rights of neutral nations on the high seas — one of the primary causes of the war — is foreign to most of us today.
Third, as wars go, the War of 1812 was a relatively minor one in terms of lives lost and infrastructure destroyed.
Fourth, war support was sectional in nature, with the Northeast opposed and the South and West in favor.
And finally, events outstripped the causes of the war, bringing about an easy peace treaty.
War came in 1812 for a number of reasons. England and France had been doing battle for nearly 20 years as a result of Napoleon’s attempt to bring all of Europe under the banner of the French Empire. Both nations demanded that neutral countries, like the United States, halt trading with their opponent, and took American ships as prizes if the traditional trading practices were continued.
Also, the British had tried ever since the American Revolution ended to prevent American expansion beyond the South and West frontiers of settlement (“West” at that time meant the forests between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River). To that end they had forged alliances with native American tribes who were of the same mind, providing them financial and military aid.
A related cause of the war was the desire of many Americans, particularly Democrats in the South and West, to annex Canada, which some like Thomas Jefferson felt would be an easy conquest.
In addition, the English crown had desperate need of more sailors for the Royal Navy. During peacetime, British ships had an adequate supply of seamen, but with the coming of war with France, those needs increased sharply.
British commanders looked to American ships as a source of supply.
United States law provided for naturalization of British immigrants, including sailors. But British law was different: once British, always British. British warships therefore halted American ships on the high seas and “reclaimed” formerly British seamen (a practice called impressment), and were not particularly careful to distinguish between British-born and American-born personnel.
American victories in the war included the defeat of the tribes, such as the coalition under Tecumseh north and west of the Ohio River and the Creek Nation in Georgia and Alabama; Commodore Perry’s victories on Lake Erie, which severed the British supply lines between East and West Canada; the successful defense of Baltimore and New York City; and Andy Jackson’s stunning victory over British troops at New Orleans (which actually took place after the peace treaty was negotiated but before word of it had arrived in America).
British victories included the successful defense of Canada against ill-advised American incursions; the forced surrender of Detroit early on in the war; and the capture and burning of government buildings in Washington in 1814. There were also victories by both sides in naval battles on the high seas.
The war ended rather quietly.
After the British coalition defeated Napoleon in 1814 at Waterloo, the Crown’s need for additional sailors came to an end, and Britain halted its practice of impressment, thereby ending one of the causes of the war.
After American troops defeated the tribes in the South and West, British hopes for an Indian buffer to American expansion came to end, and England stopped providing aid and comfort to hostile tribes. And commercial interests on both sides were eager to resume the lucrative prewar trade between the two nations.
So the peace treaty ending the war proved to be rather simple to forge.
On the surface, with borders returned to their prewar lines, and trading lanes once again open to all nations, it would seem that not much was accomplished by the War of 1812. But the defeat of Tecumseh and the Creeks opened up vast areas of territory to American settlement, and Jackson’s defense of New Orleans discouraged further European designs on American territory.
The end of the war also spelled the death of the Federalist Party, whose wartime opposition was now highly unpopular, and thereby opened the “Era of Good Feelings” under which partisan politics in the United States decreased to a status never before seen up to that point nor since. And America had fought to a standoff the world’s greatest naval power.
So even though the War of 1812 was not one of the nation’s major wars, it firmly established the United States as a significant player on the world stage.
That’s a consequence that deserves bicentennial recognition in American history.


The aim of Alternatives is to publish high quality scholarly research on international political, social, economic and legal issues. The journal publishes two types of articles: "essays" and "articles". "Essays" are extended opinion pieces on a current topic of major interest, and are succinct with a clear line of argument. "Articles" are traditional scholarly articles. The journal also publishes research notes, book reviews, review essays, notes. Alternatives features a lively exchange of views and therefore publishes critical comments and responses as well. Alternatives aims to provide a major platform for the study of non-western approahces in the discipline. Alternatives is open to any contribution from different "worlds" in the context of breaking down the barriers between the worlds of academia, journalism, government and business. The journal holds the copyright of the articles published and encourages the reproduction of the articles in scholarly journals with proper credit to the journal. Although Alternatives is an on-line journal, editors have intention to publish some special issues in paper back format.
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Product code: Business environment-AW326
Subject: Global Business Environment
This is a 3 assignment request that must connect/correlate with each assignment. Please pick a great topic in Global Business Environment that will get me an A. Please do not plagiarize. Format should be in APA style with in-text citations and reference lists that are APA formatted. Also, please pay attention to assignment dates.
In this course, you will prepare and submit a research paper on a topic of your choice and approved by your instructor. This project is an opportunity for you to personalize the concepts you are learning in this course. The topics must be in the field of global business or some application (e.g., an application of course concepts to your work situation; a research paper, using a survey or questionnaire to investigate a concept of interest and value; a detailed review of the literature about a concept from the course). You may consider other options; however, be sure to discuss your ideas with your instructor.
For this assignment you will produce an introductory paragraph with your thesis statement and an annotated bibliography for the Final Research Paper.
Thesis Statement: Generating a thesis statement is perhaps the most important part of the research paper process. It is essential for you to create a strong, defendable thesis statement upon which you will base further research. Include your thesis statement within an introductory paragraph.
Annotated Bibliography: The purpose of the annotated bibliography is to assist you in developing research analysis skills including critical thinking, writing, and literature research skills. The annotated bibliography should include the following information for each source:
• Name of the article, including the complete bibliographic citation, using APA format.
• Summary/abstract of the article – annotation (sometimes it is helpful to ask yourself the following questions in synthesizing the information):
º Who? (author)
º What was done? (e.g., an experimental study investigating the interaction of short term memory and attention)
º How? (was it done)
º What were the findings? (identify the major ones)
º Contributions? (new findings, applications, etc.)
Review the complete instructions for the Final Research Paper in Module 8 of the course. To conduct accurate research for the annotated bibliography, consider the following:
• Research in peer-reviewed journals or other journals that are considered to have reliable information. Do not use sources from the secular press (e.g., Time, Newsweek, or Wikipedia).
• Identify at least five academic sources, at least three that can be found in the Excelsior Online Library. If you do find something on the World Wide Web, it must be authored and be a reliable source.
The paper must be 2 pages in length and formatted according to APA style. You must use at least five scholarly resources (at least three of which can be found in the Excelsior Online Library) other than the textbook to support your claims and subclaims. Cite your resources in text and on the reference page.
This assignment will be checked by anti-plagiarism software.
Now that you have submitted an introductory paragraph with your thesis statement and an annotated bibliography for the Final Research Paper. In this assignment, you will submit the draft of the paper. The draft must include all the work completed so far and a checklist of work needed. Your draft should be as close to the final paper as possible. You are expected to incorporate any instructor feedback on your draft in your final paper.This assignment will be checked by anti-plagiarism software.
You will prepare and submit a research paper on a topic of your choice and approved by your instructor. This project is an opportunity for you to personalize the concepts you are learning in this course. The topics must be in the field of global business or some application (e.g., an application of course concepts to your work situation; a research paper, using a survey or questionnaire to investigate a concept of interest and value; a detailed review of the literature about a concept from the course). You may consider other options; however, be sure to discuss your ideas with your instructor.
Follow the format below for your term project report:
• Title: The title is a concise statement of the subject of the paper.
• Abstract: The abstract is an "executive overview" of your paper. It should be a 50–100-word summary that would be appropriate to give your instructor so that he or she would know the essence of your project without reading the paper in its entirety.
• Table of Contents: In this section, list each section of your paper, with the page number. The list should include the following:
• Tables and Figures if you included more than two; Appendices, if included; Bibliography or reference section listing sources used.
• Introduction: In this section, state the purpose of the paper in succinct, declarative sentences. Convince your reader that the study will have a practical value and meaning for you, and the study will be based upon the concepts studied in the course.
• Background and Significance: This section provides further justification of the need for your study. If your project examines a topic drawn from your work, include a description of your work environment, your position in the organization and how your position fits into the organization, both vertically and horizontally.
• Explain the applicable concepts from the course. If your project is focused on a particular organization, explain how these concepts apply to that organization. What is the organization doing well? Would it benefit by adopting some of the concepts you have been studying?
• Discussion, Implications and Recommendations: In this section, provide a thorough discussion of your findings and the implications of your study. Be sure to include only the pertinent implications. Also present your recommended action plan. This plan will vary based on the type of project you selected. For example, it may be a personal action plan for you to follow in your present position or a future position, where you would be able you to put the plan into action. If your project is a literature review, then your recommendations may be focused on what issues need further research. Be sure that the recommendations are realistic in terms of the appropriate concepts and, if applicable, the organization you have studied.
Keep in mind that all accepted rules of English composition apply. Papers must be typed or word-processed, be double spaced, and have standard margins (one inch on each side). The length of the paper is not the primary measure of the quality of the paper. A paper of 40–50 pages is probably too long for the purposes of this course.
On the other hand, the purpose of this assignment cannot be properly satisfied in a paper of only five pages! As a guideline, you will probably need about 15 pages to present your research adequately.
Be sure that you cite all references and quotes correctly; all sources used must be referenced in the Bibliography or References section. If you have questions about the format or content of references, discuss it with your instructor.Download Questions
This research report is written to understand the global business environment of Food industry in Brazil using Porter’s Diamond model, Hofstede Cultural Dimensional Analysis and risks factor analysis. Brazil is the world’s tenth largest economy is also the largest and most populous country of South America.
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My fiancé, Peter Harren, and I went to what might possibly be the coolest children's book store in all the land. Here are a couple images from Wild Rumpus in Minneapolis. It is truly a wonderland.
There is a chicken roaming around with a cat. Also a chinchilla, a ferret, a lizard, a tarantula, mourning doves and cockatiels are hanging out in their cages. A super cool nook area with a glass floorboard reveals rats in a cubby beneath your feet. A fish tank takes the place of a mirror in the bathroom. The ceiling is an upside down lake with a canoe slicing through the sheetrock/water. Employees walk around barefoot, the walls are decorated with kids' artwork, and the front door has a small child-sized door hidden in the regular sized door.
And most importantly the book selection is wonderful. There are comic books, a plethora of picture books for all tastes, and a huge young reader novel section where I spent most of my time. I highly recommend Wild Rumpus. I am feeling very happy about our decision to move to Minnesota!
Looking at my Dakota County Library catalogue, I discovered this heartwarming article about dogs and reading. My two favorite things! It makes sense they go so well together.
"During the 10-week program the kids sat with dogs for a few minutes and then read aloud to them for about 15 minutes... the students who read to dogs improved their reading fluency by 12 percent while the students in the rest of the control group did not increase their fluency at all" "Dogs make the perfect audience for kids as they develop their reading skills. They don't judge. They don't criticize or correct. They don't laugh at mistakes or stumbles. They just hang out and listen."
Dogs are awesome. Get your kids to read with the help of a dog.
My latest story is published!
I illustrated this story of a young Isaac Newton. The story is cute and fun and makes children want to be curious about the world.
Check it out by downloading the picture book app FarFaria. Follow this link for the story: Isaac Newton Boy Genius


[n] C. Ohmori et al., “Irradiation tests of a cavity core material and GaN devices in J-PARC Main Ring”, presented at the IPAC'23, Venice, Italy, May 2023, paper WEPA125, unpublished.
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Paper Title: Irradiation tests of a cavity core material and GaN devices in J-PARC Main Ring
Conference: 14th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf. (IPAC'23)
Paper ID: WEPA125
Original Author String: C. Ohmori, M. Paoluzzi, S. Danzeca, K. Hasegawa, H. Nakamura, H. Okita, M. Shirakata, Y. Sugiyama, F. Tamura, M. Yoshii