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Encyclopedic Dictionary of Magic
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Magic

This is a new edition of the famous and unique magic dictionary by Bart Whaley. Bart has continued to correct entries in this dictionary until the present. We have converted everything to PDF and added bookmarks for each entry in the dictionary as well
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Barton Whaley  2007-02-08   $50.00  Read More 
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Orson Welles: The Man Who Was Magic
Orson Welles: The Man Who Was Magic

This Orson Welles ebook is a case study of an individual that was able to think “out of the box”. Each small fact presented leads to the whole of a thinking process that will always provide an unexpected Third Option. The process that is presented here
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Stratagem: Deception and Surprise in War
Stratagem: Deception and Surprise in War

Out-of-print and out of the hands of military professionals for years, Artech House answers the demand, making the sought-after, classic work, Stratagem: Deception and Surprise in War, available once again. This timeless and widely cited volume offers
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Barton Whaley  2009-12-08   $99.00  Read More 
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Stratagem: Deception and Surprise in War: Appendix
Stratagem: Deception and Surprise in War: Appendix

Appendix from Stratagem: Deception and Surprise in War.
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Stratagem: Deception and Surprise in War: Chapter 1
Stratagem: Deception and Surprise in War: Chapter 1

CHAPTER ONE: STRATAGEM IN WARFARE
  • A. Deception in History
  • B. The Practitioners
  • C. The Ruses of War
  • ENDNOTES TO CHAPTER ONE
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Stratagem: Deception and Surprise in War: Chapter 2
Stratagem: Deception and Surprise in War: Chapter 2

CHAPTER TWO: DECEPTION IN NATIONAL MILITARY DOCTRINES
  • A. British
  • B. German
  • C. American
  • D. Russian
  • E. Japanese
  • F. Italian
  • G. French
  • H. Israeli
  • I. Chinese
  • ENDNOTES TO CHAPTER TWO
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Stratagem: Deception and Surprise in War: Chapter 3
Stratagem: Deception and Surprise in War: Chapter 3

CHAPTER THREE: THE PLACE OF SURPRISE AND DECEPTION IN MILITARY THEORY
  • A. The Ethics of Stratagem
  • B. Guerrilla
  • C. The “Indirect Approach” in Strategy
  • D. Surprise and the “Principles of War”
  • ENDNOTES TO CHAPTER THREE
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Stratagem: Deception and Surprise in War: Chapter 4
Stratagem: Deception and Surprise in War: Chapter 4

CHAPTER FOUR: A THEORY OF STRATAGEM
  • A. Alternative Objectives and Alternative Expectations
  • B. Stratagem as a Decision-making Model
  • C. Counter-Deception
  • D. Future Development
  • ENDNOTES TO CHAPTER FOUR
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Stratagem: Deception and Surprise in War: Chapter 5
Stratagem: Deception and Surprise in War: Chapter 5

This timeless, sought-after, and widely cited volume offers a model and template of how to study and analyze deception operations. Readers get a historical analysis of deception and surprise, over 100 real-world case studies, and a set of methods that
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Stratagem: Deception and Surprise in War: Chapter 6
Stratagem: Deception and Surprise in War: Chapter 6

CHAPTER SIX: SPECULATIVE CONCLUSIONS
  • A. The Security of Options
  • B. The Economics of Stratagem
  • C. The Strategic-Tactical Dimension
  • D. The Permanency of Stratagem
  • E. Total Stratagem and the Fog of War
  • F. Summary
  • ENDNOTES TO CHAPTER SIX
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Who's Who In Magic
Who's Who In Magic

New updated edition.

This biographical guide lists over 5,500 men and women associated with the art of conjuring from earliest recorded times to the present: performers, inventors, writers, teachers, dealers, manufacturers, publishers, collectors,

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Barton Whaley
(1928 - )

Born in San Francisco. Ph.D. in Political Science from M.I.T., 1969. Military-political deception theorist since 1968.

Student of magic as deception since 1973. Wrote The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Magic (1989 & 2000), Who’s Who in Magic (1990 & 2001), and The Man Who Was Erdnase (1991 with Martin Gardner & Jeff Busby). Won four international awards for these books.

In 2003-2004 Visiting Professor of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, teaching deception, the detection of deception, and intelligence analysis. Also, in 2004 hosted a two-day conference at the School on “Magic and the Military”.