Magic Tokens

Magic Tokens

Author: Paul Courville

Publisher:

Published: 2021-03-26

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13:

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One of the areas of magic history is in the advertising coins, or magic tokens, used by magicians. From long ago to the present day, magicians have been using these in their shows, and to advertise their performances. The book that you will now read will help document these tokens. The documentation of Magic Tokens was begun in the United States by John Mulholland, and Edgar Heyl, and then formalized in 1978 by F. William Kuethe, Jr., when the Token and Medal Society published his Magic Tokens and Related Items. The documentation now continues, based on the work of Kuethe. It continues here.


Guild of Tokens

Guild of Tokens

Author: Jon Auerbach

Publisher:

Published: 2021-07-20

Total Pages: 638

ISBN-13: 9781734799026

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The quests are real, the rewards are real, and the dangers are unimaginable. Jen Jacobs's nights are spent traversing a strange city finding hidden objects, slaying dragons, and tangling with a host of fellow adventurers. And her days are spent counting down the seconds until she can return to the grind and continue racking up tokens and leveling up. Except Jen isn't playing a video game. It's all real and happening right in New York City. After a particularly harrowing quest pairs her up with Beatrice Taylor, a no-nonsense and ambitious mentor, Jen hopes she's on the path to becoming a big-time player. But as she dives deeper into the game's hidden agenda, she realizes Beatrice has her sights set on the Guild, the centuries-old organization that runs the Questing game. And the quests Jen loves are about to put both of them in grave danger. Will Jen survive the game before powerful forces cut her real life short? Guild of Tokens is an epic new twist on conventional urban fantasy. If you like determined heroines, gritty cityscapes, and strange magic, then you'll love Jon Auerbach's rollercoaster tale.


Conjuring With Computation: A Manual Of Magic And Computing For Beginners

Conjuring With Computation: A Manual Of Magic And Computing For Beginners

Author: Paul Curzon

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2023-05-25

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 981126435X

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The team behind Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN), brings you Conjuring with Computation: A Manual of Magic and Computing for Beginners. Develop your skills as a magician while also learning the basics of computer science by exploring its links to magic. Each chapter explains how to do a simple magic trick, step-by-step, then uses the trick to introduce linked fundamental ideas in computer science in a fun way.By reading the book you will learn to do self-working tricks, be able to hold magic shows, create your own versions of tricks, and with creativity even invent your own. We cover:The book includes profiles of computer scientists, alongside magicians with links to technology, through history.Master conjuring and thinking computationally.


Numismatic Archaeology of North America

Numismatic Archaeology of North America

Author: Marjorie H. Akin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-05

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1315521326

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Numismatic Archaeology of North America is the first book to provide an archaeological overview of the coins and tokens found in a wide range of North American archaeological sites. It begins with a comprehensive and well-illustrated review of the various coins and tokens that circulated in North America with descriptions of the uses for, and human behavior associated with, each type. The book contains practical sections on standardized nomenclature, photographing, cleaning, and curating coins, and discusses the impacts of looting and of working with collectors. This is an important tool for archaeologists working with coins. For numismatists and collectors, it explains the importance of archaeological context for complete analysis.


Conjuring the Commonplace: A Guide to Everyday Enchantment and Junk Drawer Magic

Conjuring the Commonplace: A Guide to Everyday Enchantment and Junk Drawer Magic

Author: Laine Fuller

Publisher: 1000 Volt Press

Published: 2023-09-19

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1734742275

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Is there magic in your junk drawer or in the pieces of a broken china plate? In Conjuring the Commonplace, Laine Fuller and Cory Thomas Hutcheson answer with a resounding, “Yes!” and deftly show you how to incorporate that magic into your everyday. They also point to other hidden treasures in places in your home you may have never thought to look. As the hosts of the long-running podcast New World Witchery, Cory and Laine have shared the folklore and magic of North America and their own magical journeys with listeners. Conjuring the Commonplace continues that conversation, highlighting the folklore of the common objects and the practical ways they have each incorporated these small magics into their lives and how you might too. If you’ve ever questioned whether to toss out that bit of string from a sewing project or wondered what you should know before picking up that shiny penny on the sidewalk, this book is for you.


Game Design Foundations

Game Design Foundations

Author: Roger Pedersen

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Published: 2009-06-23

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1449663923

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Game Design Foundations, Second Edition covers how to design the game from the important opening sentence, the “One Pager” document, the Executive Summary and Game Proposal, the Character Document to the Game Design Document. The book describes game genres, where game ideas come from, game research, innovation in gaming, important gaming principles such as game mechanics, game balancing, AI, path finding and game tiers. The basics of programming, level designing, and film scriptwriting are explained by example. Each chapter has exercises to hone in on the newly learned designer skills that will display your work as a game designer and your knowledge in the game industry.


Wealth of Mankind

Wealth of Mankind

Author: T Balakrishna Bhat

Publisher: Educreation Publishing

Published: 2018-12-20

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13:

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This book entitled the wealth of mankind presents a unified analysis of the important factors which determine our wealth. It describes the ways for substantially increasing the personal and national income through improvements in quality, quantity, rejuvenation, unity and life expectancy. The approach is quantitative to some extent and has been illustrated with respect to India, USA and Japan. The inquiry also covers the related aspects of unity, yoga, spirituality and the roles played by family, engineers, teachers, emotion builders, farmers, labor, wealth managers, doctors, non-players, negative players, and other forms of life and sunlight in shaping our wealth in all its dimensions. This book is an unorthodox but scientific and comprehensive presentation of a variety of practical ways to multiply the true wealth of everyone manyfold within a span of few years while at the same time nourishing the wealth called mankind and life.


War of the Spark: Forsaken (Magic: The Gathering)

War of the Spark: Forsaken (Magic: The Gathering)

Author: Greg Weisman

Publisher: Random House Worlds

Published: 2019-11-12

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 1984817957

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Return to the multiverse of Magic: The Gathering as the hunt for Liliana Vess is on in the aftermath of the War of the Spark. The Planeswalkers have defeated Nicol Bolas and saved the Multiverse—though at grave cost. The living have been left to pick up the pieces and mourn the dead. But one loss is almost too great to bear: Gideon Jura, champion of justice and shield of the Gatewatch, is gone. As his former comrades Jace and Chandra struggle to rebuild from this tragedy, their future, like the future of the Gatewatch, remains uncertain. As the Gatewatch’s newest member, Kaya aims to help write that future. In joining, she pledged an oath to protect the living and the dead, but now that oath will be tested. The grieving guild masters of Ravnica have tasked her with a grave mission suited to her talents as a hunter and assassin—a mission she is ordered to keep secret from the Gatewatch. She must track down and exact retribution on the traitor Liliana Vess. But Liliana Vess has no interest in being found. Forsaken by her friends, she fled Ravnica after the defeat of Bolas. She was hostage to his wicked will, forced to assist in his terrible atrocities on pain of death—until Gideon, the last one who believed in her goodness, died in her place. Haunted by Gideon’s final gift, and hunted by former allies, Liliana now returns to a place she’d thought she’d never see again, the only place she has left: home.


Glassborn

Glassborn

Author: Peter Bunzl

Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd

Published: 2023-11-09

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1805078674

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Fairy Tree, tall and grand, open a path to Fairyland. The year is 1826, and the four Belle siblings arrive at their new home in Tambling Village. Acton, the youngest member of the Belle family, immediately befriends a bright, red robin, leading him to discover a hidden key. That night, when the clock strikes thirteen, Acton is called to Fairyland. For in finding the key, Acton has become the Chosen One and must steal the Glimmerglass Crown, for the cruel Fairy Queen. When Cora, Elle and Bram realise their brother has been taken, they set out on a quest to rescue him. But Fairyland is full of dangers...and to overcome the Queen, and her deadly curse, they will need courage, cunning and a great deal of hope. An enthralling tale of magic, riddles, and curses, from the bestselling author of The Cogheart Adventures.