This superb guide to magic tricks uncovers and teaches the secrets behind many of the most popular magic routines and stage illusions ever invented. Perfect for beginners and fans of casual performance and stage magic, The Definitive Guide to Magic is an illustrated guidebook which examines and unveils the methods behind magic tricks, optical illusions, conjuring, coin magic and sleight of hand - to highlight just some of this epic book's topics. Reve...

This atlas focuses on selected aspects of cochlear anatomy as illustrated by material prepared by the microdissection technique**,** a three-dimensional perspective not possible with standard histological approaches. Although much of the material in this text was processed by the microdissection method, photomicrographs from conventionally cross sectioned inner ear tissues and scanning electron microscopy, are also presented. Taken together, these technical approaches provide different, co...

Home of the first settlement in the United States and known as Old Dominion and The Mother of Presidents, the state of Virginia’s artistic output proves among the most fecund in the nation, evidenced in this ninth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology. This collection includes well-known, established, and celebrated poets such as Charles Wright, Claudia Emerson, Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt, R. T. Smith, Forrest Gander, and Rita Dove, and the editors have dedicated equal focu...

After the end of something, there comes another end,This one behind you, and far away.Only a lifetime can get you to it,and then just barely.Littlefoot, the eighteenth book from one of this country's most acclaimed poets, is an extended meditation on mortality, on the narrator's search of the skies for a road map and for last instructions on "the other side of my own death." Following the course of one year, the poet's seventieth, we witness the seasons...

Hard to imagine that no one counts,that only things endure.Unlike the seasons, our shirts don't shed,Whatever we see does not see us,however hard we look,The rain in its silver earrings against the oak trunks,The rain in its second skin.--from "Scar Tissue II"In his new collection, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Wright investigates the tenuous relationship between description and actuality--"thing is not an image"--but also r...

The collection of testimonies you are going to read contains the real stories that were written and submitted by each of the courageous men and women. Some are ordinary people who experienced extraordinary traumas and loss. Others are stories of veterans who served in conflicts from Vietnam, the Gulf War, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The common denominator in these testimonies is trauma which does not distinguish between military or civilian. Many of the stories describe thoughts of doing person...

This newest volume in a long-running work of mapping the sources of Anglo-Saxon literary culture in England from 500 to 1100 CE takes up one of the most important authors of the period, the eighth-century monk-scholar known as the Venerable Bede. Bede is best known as the author of the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, which is one of the key sources for our historical and cultural knowledge of the period; this collection covers that and more, drawing on manuscript evidence,...

The novel follows the story of Kate Meredith, a strong-willed and resourceful woman who inherits her father's business and decides to take on the male-dominated world of finance. Kate is portrayed as intelligent, determined, and unafraid to challenge societal norms. The narrative focuses on her efforts to navigate the complexities of the financial world, manage the business, and secure her position in a field dominated by men.Kate's journey is fraught with challenges, including opposition ...

This novel is a sequel to Hyne's earlier work "Captain Kettle." It follows the adventures of the main character, Captain Kettle, a resourceful and daring seafaring man, as he engages in further adventures across various maritime settings. The narrative typically involves Kettle's exploits, challenges, and escapades as he navigates the high seas, encounters adversaries, and seeks opportunities for wealth and success.Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne was celebrated for his adventure stories...

"A Master of Fortune: Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle" by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne is a thrilling maritime adventure set against the backdrop of the high seas. Hyne, renowned in British literature for his swashbuckling tales, delivers an action-packed narrative driven by the heroic exploits of the indomitable Captain Kettle. As the master of fortune, Captain Kettle embarks on a perilous journey of treasure hunting, navigating treacherous waters and facing formidable fo...

The wandering Englishman, the atom of empire, at sundry ends of the earth is not always good company in the flesh, but in Mr. Cutcliffe Hyne's stories he is good company. For the reader is not in the position of the "native"; he is, on the contrary, elected of the company of proper Britons and talked to as an equal. Those who try this book will have no sharp regrets.

A Christmas Carol, one of the holiday’s greatest traditions told . . . in texts?!Imagine: What if Scrooge, Marley, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, and the whole Cratchit family had smartphones? A classic is reborn in this clever adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol!One grouchy old man who can’t stop asking “How did you get this number?!”Three ghosts who communicate in the most modern ways, including o...