The Delusionist

The Delusionist

Author: Don Calame

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2021-10-12

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1536222356

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Quinn’s illusions are as good as those in any Vegas act—but can he win a spot at a prestigious magic camp despite an upstaging partner, a cute rival, and a con-artist mentor? Fifteen-year-old Quinn Purcell wants only one thing: to win a coveted spot at the Masters of Magic Fantasy Camp. But the competition is stiff, including Dani Darling, an incredibly talented, and incredibly attractive, rival magician who prestidigitates her way into Quinn’s heart—unless that’s just another of her tricks. To make matters worse, Quinn and his best friend, Perry, have always performed their magic as a team, but the judges want solo acts, and a two-man audition might disqualify them. When Quinn meets his idol, the Dazzling Lazlo, at a diner, it seems like a sign. If he can convince Lazlo to spill the secrets to his greatest trick, then the spot at the camp is all but Quinn’s. But is the washed-up magician just using Quinn to run a few scams? When the chips are down, what will Quinn risk—his best friend, his new crush, or his career as a magician? Hilarious and fast-paced, Don Calame’s latest novel is full of complicated magic tricks and equally complicated friendships.


Delusion is Good

Delusion is Good

Author: Robert Joseph Ahola

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2001-08-26

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0595186300

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If you could take one book with you that would be your complete guidebook to rethinking every aspect of your life, Delusion is Good would be that book. Its subtitle, "A Visionary Guide to Extraordinary Outcomes" tells you a great deal about this remarkabla amalgamation of some of the great human behavior guidelines of all time, plus some very new ways of looking at life as we see it in this exciting and challenging new Millennium. For anyone who ever wanted to tap the visionary potentals in themselves, Delusion is Good may just be the consummate sourcebook for the next couple of decades at least.


Dominance and Delusion

Dominance and Delusion

Author: Marc A. Curtis

Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.

Published: 2023-12-12

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13:

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WHY DO WE DO THE THINGS WE DO? WHY DO WE THINK THE WAY WE DO? Why do we think we are special? Why do we think we are rational? Why do we think we are the culmination of evolution? WHY DO WE BEHAVE THE WAY WE DO? Why do we have war? Why do we have dictators? Why do we have cults Why do we have criminals? wHY DO WE BELIEVE THE THINGS WE DO? Why do we believe in astrology? Why do we believe in religion? WHY ARE WE THE WAY WE ARE? Why are we bipedal? Why are we hairless Why are we intelligent? There are answers to all these whys. That is what this book is all about.


Teresa, My Love

Teresa, My Love

Author: Julia Kristeva

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2014-11-25

Total Pages: 649

ISBN-13: 0231520468

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Mixing fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and personal fantasy, Teresa, My Love turns a past world into a modern marvel, following Sylvia Leclercq, a French psychoanalyst, academic, and incurable insomniac, as she falls for the sixteenth-century Saint Teresa of Avila and becomes consumed with charting her life. Traveling to Spain, Leclercq, Julia Kristeva's probing alter ego, visits the sites and embodiments of the famous mystic and awakens to her own desire for faith, connection, and rebellion. One of Kristeva's most passionate and transporting works, Teresa, My Love interchanges biography, autobiography, analysis, dramatic dialogue, musical scores, and images of paintings and sculpture to engage the reader in Leclercq's—and Kristeva's—journey. Born in 1515, Teresa of Avila outwitted the Spanish Inquisition and was a key reformer of the Carmelite Order. Her experience of ecstasy, which she intimately described in her writings, released her from her body and led to a complete realization of her consciousness, a state Kristeva explores in relation to present-day political failures, religious fundamentalism, and cultural malaise. Incorporating notes from her own psychoanalytic practice, as well as literary and philosophical references, Kristeva builds a fascinating dual diagnosis of contemporary society and the individual psyche while sharing unprecedented insights into her own character.


More Parables for Plain People

More Parables for Plain People

Author: Jack Worrill

Publisher: WestBowPress

Published: 2013-10-14

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1490808744

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More Parables for Plain PeopleObservations of FooFoo the Wise follows in the same vein as Jack Worrills first book, Parables for Plain People, which was well received and, according to some reports, placed him in the top 10 percent of self-published authors. Once again he shares his opinions and insightssome wise and some wittyall with a focus on their possible spiritual significance when applied to ones daily life. Jacks writings are drawn from his experience as an advertising executive, Sunday school teacher, furniture craftsman, music minister, and observer of human nature. In More Parables, he offers ninety-one fresh, new, inspirational readings on topics from The Magic Feather to The Upraised Thumb, with stops in between at such subjects as The Beggar Lice, The Delusionist, and The Sardines and Soda Crackers.


The English Reports: Chancery

The English Reports: Chancery

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1904

Total Pages: 1476

ISBN-13:

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V. 1-11. House of Lords (1677-1865) -- v. 12-20. Privy Council (including Indian Appeals) (1809-1865) -- v. 21-47. Chancery (including Collateral reports) (1557-1865) -- v. 48-55. Rolls Court (1829-1865) -- v. 56-71. Vice-Chancellors' Courts (1815-1865) -- v. 72-122. King's Bench (1378-1865) -- v. 123-144. Common Pleas (1486-1865) -- v. 145-160. Exchequer (1220-1865) -- v. 161-167. Ecclesiastical (1752-1857), Admiralty (1776-1840), and Probate and Divorce (1858-1865) -- v. 168-169. Crown Cases (1743-1865) -- v. 170-176. Nisi Prius (1688-1867).


Science's First Mistake

Science's First Mistake

Author: Ian O. Angell

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-11-13

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1780932332

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This book seeks to deconstruct the process of scientific knowledge discovery and theory construction by scrutinizing the circumstances under which all scientific hypotheses are conceived. It concentrates on the interrelatedness of observation, paradox, delusion and self reference in scientific theory and method.