Nonfiction

"Showing how a man may with privacy and speed communicate his thoughts to a friend at any distance."

This is one of the first published works on cryptography, secret inks, signalling and secret codes - methods later used in thought reading acts. It is therefore not only of interest to cryptographers and historians of cryptography, but also to people who study silent codes and other related methods in mentalism.

[Toole-Stott 731]

[Please note that this is not a simple scan of an old book. This old book has been typed in and digitized with the utmost care, using an appropriate font with the correct glyphs to make this look exactly as the original. Literally hundreds of hours have been spent to restore and digitize this wonderful work. This sets a new standard for the preservation of very old books.]

1st edition 1641; 2nd edition 1694; PDF based on 2nd edition, 192 pages....

Sleight of Mind, is a unique 7 day thinking course, designed to unleash a torrent of bright ideas.

Written by magician and creativity expert Timothy Hyde, it will change the way you think. This ebook was first developed as an online course and then fine tuned by many hundreds of participants over the last three years at many different workshop sessions.

As well as his work as a mentalist in the high end corporate market and on luxury cruise ships, Timothy has developed a number of in demand corporate development workshops. This particular course has been run on 8 separate occasions for...

This little gem of a book consists of five chapters - with prudent advice backed up by years of painful observation and field work. Are you a winner?

• Does everyone you know seem to be having more sex than you?
• Do your facial expressions give away your intentions?
• Do you know when to "cut your losses?"

This book will help you "tilt the odds" in your favor every time you date.

Illustrations by Muriel Alvarez.

1st edtion 2007; 63 pages.

The only biography of the master magician and spy instructor John Mulholland.

"John Mulholland is surely one of the most fascinating personalities in magic history. For his work to advance conjuring as a recognized art, he deserves tremendous respect, and no serious student of magic will want to skip this book." - Michael Claxton, Magic Magazine, Feb 2009.

"I can even imagine him up in heaven huddling with Christopher, Houdini, Blackstone and Thurston as they discuss your biography. Their applause is loud enough to be heard on planet Earth." - Maurine Brooks Christopher

"I am an avid reader of books, all types of books, but not since...

History, sovereignty, geography and money are timely topics in todays global economic marketplace.

Money has attracted a major part of mankind’s attention since its invention in Asia Minor in the 7th century B.C. It has had many uses over the ages beyond its original development for purposes of long distance trade and military power. Among the most important and least studied is the use of money as a means of communication through their designs and legends. A nation’s money is often the first impression a visitor gets of the nature of a country. As such, the designs and legends placed...

SIMON is a sophisticated multipurpose simulator for single-electron devices and circuits. It features a graphical circuit editor embedded in a graphical user interface as well as the simulation of co-tunnel events and a single step interactive analysis mode. It supports energy dependent density of states and is able to calculate stability plots.

[Please note that this software is for 32bit architectures. To run on 64bit computer you could do:

• WINDOWS: 'Windows XP Mode' and 'Windows Virtual PC'. Alternatively you can use a virtual machine.
  • downloaded Virtua Box: https://www.virtualbox.org/ (With this program one can create virtual computers in any system.)
  • Create a partition for Win...

SIMON is a sophisticated multipurpose simulator for single-electron devices and circuits. It features a graphical circuit editor embedded in a graphical user interface as well as the simulation of co-tunnel events and a single step interactive analysis mode. It supports energy dependent density of states and is able to calculate stability plots.

[Please note that this software is for 32bit architectures. To run on 64bit computer you could do:

• WINDOWS: 'Windows XP Mode' and 'Windows Virtual PC'. Alternatively you can use a virtual machine.
  • downloaded Virtua Box: https://www.virtualbox.org/ (With this program one can create virtual computers in any system.)
  • Create a partition for Win...

This book teaches exercises with dumb-bells, pulley-weights and elastic strings. You also get a good introduction into the theory of exercising, the body and its muscles. And it also has a chapter on obesity, which couldn't be more timely.

Published 1899 by George Routledge and Sons; 63 illustrations; 199 pages.

1. Chapter I: Introduction
8. Chapter II: The Physiology of Exercise
22. Chapter III: The Various Forms of Exercise
33. Chapter IV: How and When to Exercise
40. Chapter V: The Muscles of the Body
49. Chapter VI: The Dumb-Bells and Exercises Therewith
92. Chapter VII: The Pulley-Weight Apparatus ...