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Sun Tzu: The Principles of War
Barton Whaley
A new translation of Sun Tzu's Classic book on war, designed specifically for soldiers intelligence specialists, deception analysts, and magicians!
- Know your opponent and know yourself and savor a hundred victories in a hundred battles.
- Know your opponent but don't know yourself and win only half your battles.
- Know neither your opponent nor yourself and risk great peril.
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...
The War-Peace Establishment
Arthur Herzog
An early review of the strategies of the military intellectuals, from maximum to minimum deterrence. The author chose minimum, today's American stance.
There has come to exist in the United States, as a result of the cold war, a body of specialists accustomed to dealing with issues of war and peace which may be described as a war-peace establishment. It is clear that there are important divisions of viewpoint in the United States, especially among those who have concerned themselves most with it, on the question of what to do about the threat of thermonuclear war. To some, risks must not...
The MagiCIAn: John Mulholland's Secret CIA Life
Ben Robinson
The only biography of the master magician and spy instructor John Mulholland including his work for the CIA.
"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...