Body Magic

Author: John Fisher
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1590774698
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 159

Book Description
Would you believe that you could ask a full-grown man to hold a penny for you and then tell him to drop it and finds he can’t, hard as he may try? In what is undoubtedly the most original magic book of our time, John Fisher shows the reader how, with minimal practice, he can use the marvels of the human body to entertain and mystify friends and family, small and large audiences. This book is first of all a delight to read because of the instant education it provides us with about the unknown powers we have in our hands, our eyes, our noses, and our incredible nervous system. In each case, Mr. Fisher shows the easy-to-grasp principle first and then how to put the principle to work in actual tricks. Most magic books require a great deal of study and dexterity. This one enables you to entertain people even before you have finished the book. Moreover, you never have to worry about being prepared, because you always have with you all the miraculous things you need—your hands, your eyes, and the rest of your body.

Body Flex-body Magic

Author: Anja Langer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN: 9780809239306
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 350

Book Description
Langer's winning physique and fashion-model looks have landed her on the covers of over 20 fitness and bodybuilding magazines worldwide. All facets of her workouts--for all levels--are detailed and amply illustrated, with exercises ranging from the most basic to the most exacting. The most informative and extensive women's body shaping and fitness book ever published. 200 photographs.

Lisa Lyon's Body Magic

Author: Lisa Lyon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780553012965
Category : Bodybuilding for women
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Illustrated step-by-step instructions for a total program of bodybuilding at home for women, by the first world women's bodybuilding champion.

the magic my body becomes

Author: Jess Rizkallah
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610756193
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 75

Book Description
Winner, 2017 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize In the magic my body becomes, Jess Rizkallah seeks a vernacular for the inescapable middle ground of being Arab American—a space that she finds, at times, to be too Arab for America and too American for her Lebanese elders. These poems freely assert gender, sexuality, and religious beliefs while at the same time respecting a generational divide: the younger’s privilege gained by the sacrifice of the older, the impossibility of separating what is wholly hers from what is hers secondhand. In exploring family history, civil war, trauma, and Lebanon itself, Rizkallah draws from the spirits of canonical Arab and Middle Eastern poets. As a result of her conjuring, the reader feels these spirits begin to exorcise the grief of those who are still alive. Throughout, there is the body, a reclamation and pushback against cultures that simultaneously sexualize and shame women. And there is a softness as inherent as rage, a resisting of stereotypes that too often speak louder than the complexities of a resilient cultural identity. The magic my body becomes is an exciting new book from an exciting young poet, a love letter to a people as well as a fist in the air.

The Magic School Bus

Author: Joanna Cole
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0590414275
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

Book Description
A special field trip on the magic school bus gives a look at major parts of the body and how they work.

Magic, Mind, Emotion and Body, the Praxis

Author: William Hegeman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578922607
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
William Hegeman brings 50 years of study, practice of magic and psychic development with step-by-step methods to develop psychic abilities, spiritual development and the mind of a magician. There are no "WOO" methods with the metaphors and beliefs that saturate magical traditions, beliefs and cultures.A Middle Path approach is presented for mindful meditation, energy accumulation, internal alchemy, lucid dreaming, astral traveling, and plane walking with tricks, tips and techniques to develop the mind of a magician.Techniques have been stitched seamlessly together from Yoga, Chi Gong, and Shamanic insights from practices around the world.Magic and Occult books are steeped in traditions, and filled with author's insider's view of their practices based on these traditions. This book approaches it from the basics so individuals can take the steps fully conscious and aware.As Archonstone, he has participated in various practices and rituals in and out of groups as an outsider. His mystic shamanic and middle path approach took the hard disciplined detached view of the needs and necessary basics to be able to fully participate in any magical occult setting. These core basics are incorporated into this book in a step-by-step manner to build the practitioner not only in skills but also the mindset to become a magician.

Into the Magic Shop

Author: James R. Doty, MD
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698404025
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor. But back then his life was at a dead end until at twelve he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. Instead he met Ruth, a woman who taught him a series of exercises to ease his own suffering and manifest his greatest desires. Her final mandate was that he keep his heart open and teach these techniques to others. She gave him his first glimpse of the unique relationship between the brain and the heart. Doty would go on to put Ruth’s practices to work with extraordinary results—power and wealth that he could only imagine as a twelve-year-old, riding his orange Sting-Ray bike. But he neglects Ruth’s most important lesson, to keep his heart open, with disastrous results—until he has the opportunity to make a spectacular charitable contribution that will virtually ruin him. Part memoir, part science, part inspiration, and part practical instruction, Into the Magic Shop shows us how we can fundamentally change our lives by first changing our brains and our hearts.

Magic, Body and the Self in Eighteenth-Century Sweden

Author: Jacqueline Van Gent
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004171142
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237

Book Description
Contrary to previous assumptions, magic remained an integral part of everyday life in Enlightenment Europe. This book demonstrates that the endurance of magical practices, both benevolent and malevolent, was grounded in early modern perceptions of an interconnected body, self and spiritual cosmos. Drawing on eighteenth-century Swedish witchcraft trials, which are exceptionally detailed, these notions of embodiment and selfhood are explored in depth. The nuanced analysis of healing magic, the role of emotions, the politics of evidence and proof and the very ambiguity of magical rituals reveals a surprising syncretism of Christian and pre-Christian elements. The book provides a unique insight to the history of magic and witchcraft, the study of eighteenth-century religion and culture, and to our understanding of body and self in the past.

The Magic Anatomy Book

Author: Carol Donner
Publisher: W H Freeman & Company
ISBN: 9780716717157
Category : Human anatomy
Languages : en
Pages : 149

Book Description
Relates the adventures of two children as they journey through the human body and learn about its structure.

Your Body Is Magic

Author: Hope Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737880004
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
It's natural to be scared of giving birth.Yet your body is a powerhouse of baby-making--and baby-delivering--abilities.This book aims to show you the magic your body is capable of, ease your fears,and help you make the transition to motherhood feeling like the powerful beingthat you are.Your Body Is Magic provides answers to every worry that a pregnant personmight have--starting before you are even pregnant and taking you all the waythrough the first six weeks of baby's life--so that you can be physically, mentally,and emotionally prepared for your transition to motherhood.