Author: Milbourne Christopher
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: history, picture, magic
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1991-09-23
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0486263738
ISBN-13: 9780486263731

Most profusely illustrated history of stage magic ever published, brimming with rare photographs, lithographs, woodcuts, engravings, much more. Enjoy a colorful cavalcade of costumes, stage settings, magic apparatus, advertisements, related memorabilia, along with fascinating anecdotes about magicians—from the time of the Pharaohs to Houdini. 295 illustrations, 8 in full color. Index.

Author: Milbourne Christopher
Publisher: Ty Crowell Co
Keywords: occult, mystics, mediums
Number of Pages: 275
Published: 1975-05
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0690004761
ISBN-13: 9780690004762

Authors:Milbourne Christopher, Maurine Christopher,
Publisher: Running Press
Keywords: magic, history, illustrated
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 2005-12-28
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0786716886
ISBN-13: 9780786716883

Set off on a magical history tour with Milbourne Christopher’s classic Illustrated History of Magic. Follow the fascinating stories of the world’s greatest conjurers, from sorcerer-priests in ancient Egypt, The Great Herrmann, Harry Kellar, Chung Ling Soo, Houdini, to modern miracle workers like David Copperfield, Siegfreid and Roy, and David Blaine. Filled with fantastic illustrations—poster art, photographs, illusion diagrams—this book is a feast for anyone interested in the conjuring arts.

Authors:Paul Milbourne, Darren Richardson,
Publisher: friends of ED
Keywords: foundations, flex, flash, actionscript, foundation
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2009-08-07
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 1430219181
ISBN-13: 9781430219187

In this book, you’ll: Learn the fundamentals of ActionScript 3.0 using both the Flash IDE and Flex Use ActionScript 3.0’s object-oriented features Manipulate sound and video to produce exciting modern web applications Work with XML as your data source ActionScript 3.0, the latest version of the Flash Platform’s scripting language, offers many new and powerful features. ActionScript is now a full-fledged programming language, with complete object-oriented capabilities, improved event handling, sound and video support, drawing capabilities, support for regu

Authors:Adolphe Belot, Christopher Rivers, Christopher River
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
Keywords: texts, translations, femme, giraud, mademoiselle
Number of Pages: 209
Published: 2003-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0873527984
ISBN-13: 9780873527989

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your u

Authors:Christopher B. Ricks, Leonard Micahels, Christopher
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Keywords: language, state
Number of Pages: 609
Published: 1979-12
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0520037634
ISBN-13: 9780520037632

"Sprawling, uncoordinated, uneven, noisy, and appealing," wrote one reviewer of the first edition of this book, published on 1 January 1980. "The language is in rude health," wrote another. Exactly a decade later, here is the book anew, with the same editors but with fifty fresh contributors writing essays and poems that engage our language today. Imaginative attention is bestowed on the changes of recent years, changes not only in the language but in how language is understood. In the forefront are the relations between British English, American English, and those other Englishes with which

Authors:Rudolf Steiner, Christopher Bamford, Christopher Bam
Publisher: Steiner Books
Keywords: ours, mission, sophia, mary, isis
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 2003-12
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0880104945
ISBN-13: 9780880104944

The rebirth of the feminine surrounds us in many forms—from the worldwide movement for women’s rights to the resurgence of interest in the feminine spirituality of the Goddess and the Divine Mother. What is the spiritual meaning behind this rebirth? What is the feminine divine? Who is she? She has had many names in many cultures: Ishtar in Babylon, Inanna in Sumeria, Athena, Hera, Demeter, and Persephone in Greece, Isis in Egypt, Durga, Kali, and Lakshmi in India. She is the Shekinah of the Kabbalists and the Sophia, or Divine Wisdom of the gnostics. Rudolf Steiner called her Anthro