Jays Journal Of Anomalies

Author : Ricky Jay
Publisher : Quantuck Lane Press& the Mill rd
ISBN 13 : 9781593720001
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jay's Journal of Anomalies written by Ricky Jay and published by Quantuck Lane Press& the Mill rd. This book was released on 2003 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excursion into the history of bizarre entertainments includes armless calligraphers, mathematical dogs, tightrope-walking fleas and assorted quacks, flimflammers and charlatans of spectacle.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442480947
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jay's Journal written by Anonymous and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Times Books, 1979.

Author : Ricky Jay
Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374525705
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women written by Ricky Jay and published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. This book was released on 1998 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A popular magician offers a guide to the most exotic entertainers in the history of showbusiness--from the amazing feats of handicapped individuals to the unusual talents of trained animals

Author : Ricky Jay
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780446387569
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cards as Weapons written by Ricky Jay and published by Grand Central Pub. This book was released on 1988 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tongue-in-cheek look at the newest method of self-defense details the history of card-throwing, exercises to improve your throwing ability, and fantastic stunts

Author : Ricky Jay
Publisher : Quantuck Lane Press& the Mill rd
ISBN 13 : 9781593720124
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extraordinary Exhibitions written by Ricky Jay and published by Quantuck Lane Press& the Mill rd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informal history of sensational, scientific, silly, satisfying, and startling attractions based on seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth-century broadsides from Ricky Jay's extraordinary collection.

Author : Ricky Jay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781593720308
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dice written by Ricky Jay and published by . This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato said God invented dice. This we learn from one of the fascinating essays, which take readers from the origins of dice to the myriad forms of cheating throughout history. Rosamond Purcell's luminous photographs transform dice made from unstable celluloid into an art form.

Author : Jay Hakes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470419490
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Declaration of Energy Independence written by Jay Hakes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you’ve wondered about how America can break links between oil consumption, terrorism, and the war in Iraq, A Declaration of Energy Independence: How Freedom from Foreign Oil Can Improve National Security, Our Economy, and the Environment will show you how our country can gain energy independence and solve its energy crisis. Written by a top energy expert, this book outlines seven economically and politically viable ways America can more efficiently use and produce energy. Find out how carbon fuels negatively impact our lives and understand the political framework of the energy crisis.

Author : Suresh Canagarajah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000548546
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Incompetence written by Suresh Canagarajah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-08 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is framed as a memoir of the author’s journey through a cancer diagnosis and resulting impairments, as he continued his teaching and research activities during and after medical procedures. The narrative weaves together theoretical debates, textual analyses, and ethnographic data from communicative practices to redefine language competence. The book demonstrates: the generative and resistant value of human vulnerability the importance of vulnerability in motivating engagement with social networks and material ecologies for productive thinking, communication, and community the role of relational ethics in social and communicative life a decolonizing orientation to disability studies and language competence. While language competence was traditionally defined as mentally internalized grammatical knowledge for individual mastery of communication, this book demonstrates the need for distributed, ethical, and embodied practice. The book is intended for graduate students and researchers in language and literacy studies. It would interest scholars outside these disciplines to understand what language studies can offer to address the role of disabilities, impairments, and debilities in embodied communication and thinking. In the context of the global pandemic, compounded by environmental catastrophes and structural injustices which disproportionately affect marginalized communities, the book helps readers treat human vulnerability as the starting point for ethical social relations, strategic communication, and transformative education.

Author : Walter Alvarez
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691169667
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book T. rex and the Crater of Doom written by Walter Alvarez and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into the Earth, inducing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized detritus blasted through the atmosphere upon impact, falling back to Earth around the globe. Disastrous environmental consequences ensued: a giant tsunami, continent-scale wildfires, darkness, and cold, followed by sweltering greenhouse heat. When conditions returned to normal, half the plant and animal genera on Earth had perished. This horrific chain of events is now widely accepted as the solution to a great scientific mystery: what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? Walter Alvarez, one of the Berkeley scientists who discovered evidence of the impact, tells the story behind the development of the initially controversial theory. It is a saga of high adventure in remote locations, of arduous data collection and intellectual struggle, of long periods of frustration ended by sudden breakthroughs, of friendships made and lost, and of the exhilaration of discovery that forever altered our understanding of Earth's geological history.

Author : Ricky Jay
Publisher : Siglio Press
ISBN 13 : 9781938221125
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matthias Buchinger written by Ricky Jay and published by Siglio Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the exhibition "Wordplay: Matthais Buchinger's inventive drawings from the collection of Ricky Jay" held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January 5-April 11, 2016.