Masons and stones........Alex Stone.....SAM i am ......May 10.........................
Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind
Paperback
– June 11, 2013
From the back rooms of New York
City’s age-old magic societies to cutting-edge psychology labs,
three-card monte games on Canal Street to glossy Las Vegas casinos, Fooling Houdini recounts Alex Stone’s quest to join the ranks of master magicians.
As
he navigates this quirky and occasionally hilarious subculture
populated by brilliant eccentrics, Stone pulls back the curtain on a
community shrouded in secrecy, fueled by obsession and brilliance, and
organized around one overriding need: to prove one’s worth by deceiving
others.
But his journey is more than a tale of tricks, gigs, and
geeks. By investing some of the lesser-known corners of psychology,
neuroscience, physics, history, and even crime, all through the lens of
trickery and illusion, Fooling Houdini arrives at a host of startling revelations about how the mind works--and why, sometimes, it doesn’t.
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