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Alex stone fooling houdini5/16/2023 ![]() From back-street scams to laboratories to the Magic Olympics, Fooling Houdini reveals the mysterious world of magic as never before. Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the MindbyAlex Stone2,487 ratings, 3.71 average rating, 412 reviews Open Preview See a Problem We’d love your help. Seeking answers to broader questions about decision making, the limits of perception, and the nature of deception, Stone helps us understand what happens as we attempt to distinguish reality from illusion, and discovers the link between magic and psychology, physics and even crime. ![]() Alex Stones quest to become a master magician, however, does not bring him nearly as close to that. ![]() In Fooling Houdini, we journey through a strange and colourful subculture of obsessive, brilliant and dysfunctional geniuses - blind card sharps, street-hustlers and Las Vegas showmen - learning the principles and history of some of the greatest tricks ever performed. 'Fooling Houdini' is an ostensibly self-effacing memoir by an inept amateur conjurer. Alex Stone seems simultaneously a BS artist and a born mark he believes the outlandish PR claims of others as readily as he hopes others believe his own. Determined to take his lifelong hobby to the professional level, Stone embarks on a personal quest to reach the pinnacle of this bizarre world, and become a master magician. A PhD candidate in physics at Columbia University, Alex Stone is also part of the underground magic circuit, an exclusive community whose members convene regularly in pizza parlours and coffee shops to swap tips and develop new illusions. Booktopia has Fooling Houdini, Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind by Alex Stone.
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