Barton Whaley
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Bart Whaley took his BA in Chinese Studies in 1951 from University of California, Berkeley. Then in the US Army Psychological Warfare Intelligence unit headquartered in Tokyo during the Korean War. He attended London University School of Oriental and African Studies on the GI Bill for four years, and in 1969 took his Doctorate in strategic deception analysis at MIT.
By following his intellectual curiosity in deception and counterdeception he took to the study of conjuring as a deception operation. He's a magician member of the Magic Castle in Los Angeles and the International Brotherhood of Magicians. He produced four prize-winning books and articles on magic, most notably The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Magic 1584-1988 and The Man Who Was Erdnase. In 2004 he hosted a workshop on magic and the military at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
Dr. Whaley co-designed and managed, in the 1960s-80s, several senior and mid-level political-military and counter-terrorist simulations. He’s written Stratagem: Deception and Surprise in War, Codeword Barbarossa, Covert German Rearmament, 1919-1939, Cheating, (co-authored under the name "J. Barton Bowyer"). He's consulted for The RAND Corporation and MATHTECH; addressed an international conference on strategic issues at The Hebrew University, Jerusalem; and more. He currently writes monographs on the detection of deception for the Foreign Denial and Deception Committee (FDDC). His most notable recent work for the FDDC is Detecting Deception: A Bibliography of Counterdeception across Time, Cultures, and Disciplines.
Dr. Whaley was affiliated with the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA and in that capacity was collaborating with Dr. Hy Rothstein on a textbook on military deception. He also produced monographs for the FDDC on how to detect deception and was working on his book The Maverick Detective; or, the Whole Art of Detection.
Dr. Whaley lived in Pacific Grove, California, with his wife Susan Aykroyd.
Coauthors: Martin Gardner, Jeff Busby
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Sun Tzu: The Principles of WarBarton Whaley A new translation of Sun Tzu's Classic book on war, designed specifically for soldiers intelligence specialists, deception analysts, and magicians!
Most translators and commentators of the previous 37 complete translations in English of Sun Tzu have interpreted this famous passage about knowing yourself and knowing your enemy and always winning... | 2013 / 1 / 10 | $20.00 to wish list | ||
Orson Welles: The Man Who Was MagicBarton Whaley 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 is the kernel of all deception theory. It's why Bart is called the "defining expert" of deception and counterdeception (the detection of deception) by the intelligence communities of many countries.
Not only does it personify the Whaley Deception Theory it presents the genius of Orson Welles through all his creative work, not just Citizen Kane.... | 2006 / 12 / 7 | $30.00 to wish list | ||
The Man Who Was ErdnaseBarton Whaley & Martin Gardner & Jeff Busby This book won the SAM Special Library Award. It details Martin Gardner's, Jeff Busby's and Bart Whaley's search to uncover the person hiding behind the pseudonym S.W. Erdnase. It lays out in detail the case for Milton Franklin Andrews. It describes the life of Andrews, how he started with magic, and how he transitioned to become a cardshark, including his travels around the word hustling and cheating to make a living.
A detailed analysis of Erdnase's likely sources and inspirations, as well as other information about the book, its reprints, and other pertinent information will help every Erdnase researcher.... | 2020 / 12 / 29 | $45.00 to wish list | ||
Encyclopedic Dictionary of MagicBarton Whaley 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 as inserted thousands of hyperlinked cross-references to make browsing and using this dictionary as convenient as possible.
There is simply no other such encyclopedia. Some have tried but nobody has achieved what Bart Whaley has. The depth and breadth is mind boggling. Almost 4000 terms are described. This is the absolute must have magic desk... | 2007 / 2 / 8 | $50.00 to wish list | ||
Who's Who In MagicBarton Whaley 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, historians, and showmen of magic. Several are included from the so-called allied arts of magic. Thus it gives those whose deceptions or careers directly influenced magicians, such as pseudo-psychics and card sharps; and those who share many deceptive methods with magicians, such as escapologists, mentalists, and stage pickpockets and hypnotists.... | 2009 / 5 / 27 | $50.00 to wish list |
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