Amazing Irv's Handbook of Everyday Magic: Tricks to Confuse, Amuse, and Entertain in Every Situation

Authors: Furman, Irv
Publisher: Quirk Books
BISAC/Subject: REF015000, GAM006000
ISBN: 9781594749148, Related ISBNs: 1594749140, 1931686017, 9781594749148, 9781931686013
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 176,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: Looking for a little magic in your life? Presto! Here’s Amazing Irv’s Handbook of Everyday Magic—a hip, how-to guide to making magic with everyday objects in everyday situations!
 
With the expert guidance of Amazing Irv, you’ll learn all the tricks of the conjuring trade. Using nothing more than your own two hands and the everyday items around you—cell phones, saltshakers, airsickness bags, TV remote controls, and others—you’ll be mystifying family, friends, coworkers, and fellow commuters in no time flat.
 
More than 45 astounding tricks—complete with step-by-step instructions and detailed illustrations—are within these pages, divided into sections on magic at home, at work, on the go, and on the town. Learn to:
 
     •  Magically Feed a Parking Meter
     •  Pull a Banana Out of Thin Air
     •  Use Your Calculator to Predict the Future
     •  Make a Shot Glass Vanish
     •  Make Time Stand Still, and more!
 
Be ready to create magic anytime, anyplace with this entertaining book for magicians of all ages.
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