Bøger af Geoff Williams

Among the runners of C. C. Pyle's First Annual International Transcontinental Foot Race were an assortment of underdogs, including twenty-year-old Oklahoman and part Cherokee Andy Payne, who wanted to win over the girl of his dreams and pay off the mortgage on his family's farm; Paul "Hardrock" Simpson, who was in over his head but couldn't let down his North Carolina hometown; Mike Kelly, a luckless boxer from Indiana; Seattle's Ed Gardner, one of four black runners who encountered bigotry; Charles Hart, a sixty-three-year-old Englishman hoping his best days weren't behind him; and Frank Johnson, a middle-aged husband, father, and steelworker from St. Louis who broke away from his humdrum life and dared to do something different. Newspaper and magazine journalist Geoff Williams details this historic event and the colorful cast of characters involved, based on firsthand accounts of those who were there and interviews from many living descendants. C. C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race is a classic American story so astonishing and surreal that you have to hear it to believe it.

This book contains 15 amazing, easy-to-do close-up magic tricks: - make George Washington's face change VISUALLY on a dollar bill!- have coins mysteriously travel from one hand to another!- make a rubber band disappear right at your fingertips!- do some truly astounding card tricks!- link paper clips and a rubber band together INSTANTLY (while you're not even touching them)!- see through solid cups!All of the tricks use common items you have around the house: playing cards, coins, rubber bands, dollar bills, toothpicks and paper clips.Now you can have hours of fun performing some really amazing magic tricks for your friends and family!This title can also fall under the following categories: Crafts & Hobbies, Education, Language Arts & Disciplines, Mathematics, Performing Arts, Psychology, Reference, Study Aids, Self-Hel

NO ADULT SUPERVISION is an updated compilation of Geoff's first two sets of lecture notes: "The Lecture Your Mother Never Gave You" and "The Lecture Your Father Never Gave You."Updated with lots of new text and illustrations, this book is filled with outstanding tricks, illusions, sleights and advice.Just a few of the highlights include: -- THE "I HATE DAVID COPPERFIELD" TRICK: Based on "Close-Up Illusion" by Larry Jennings, a card VISIBLY MELTS through another. The visuals here go WAY BEYOND the original.-- JUST A BIT MORE ULTIMATE THAN JOHN MENDOZA'S "ULTIMATE TORN & RESTORED CARD" You're clean at the first and clean at the end. As a bonus, it's SUPER EASY to do even though the card is SIGNED ON BOTH SIDES!-- MIRACLE COIN VANISH: This gets GASPS from spectators. Looks like real magic.-- DEVASTATION: This might just be the BEST impromptu card trick ON THE PLANET! Tom Daugherty's totally impossible card location that'll DEVASTATE your audience. Note: there's NOT ONE SLEIGHT in the entire trick! Worth the price of this book MANY TIMES over.-- READY 2 LINK: A technique that makes the get-ready for Dan Harlan's Impromptu Linking Rubberbands SUPER EASY and TOTALLY INVISIBLE!-- SHUFFLING STYLES FROM AROUND THE WORLD: A card is located after a series of shuffling demonstrations. Includes A TEACH-IN on the marvelous "Sybil" flourish cut (thanks to Chris Kenner) which is taught with a 5-card packet for ease of learning.-- 3CP: A wonderfully visual 3-coin production that is NOWHERE NEAR as hard as it looks.-- 4-WAY COINCIDENCE: A reworking of a stunning prediction routine by John Murray from "Card Cavalcade 3." Uses a borrowed, thoroughly-shuffled deck. There's only one real "move" (which is laughably simple).-- TWO OPENERS: A bottle production for stage or parlour (or even close-up).-- CARD IN POCKET: Al Koran's classic made even EASIER. Card palming made fun!And LOTS, LOTS MORE! 135 pages, 44 amazing tricks and sleights, 176 illustrations."I would like to say that I am a voracious reader of magic literature, reading hundreds of titles each year, and have found more usable material in your lecture notes than in any single source in recent memory."-- Christopher K."Got the set of notes in the mail yesterday. WOW! I've been in magic for many years and rarely do I get excited about a lecture, but MAN, these notes are GREAT!"-- Tommy J.You can see performance videos of many of the effects at GWilliamsMagic.wix.com/Videos

Juan Tamariz is considered worldwide as a true master of his art. Five of his critically acclaimed best-selling books have been translated into English: The Five Points in Magic, The Magic Way, Sonata, Verbal Magic and Mnemonica. Among magicians, one of the things Juan Tamariz is most recognized for is his trailblazing work with the memorized deck. His personal stack, which he named Mnemonica, is a seemingly random arrangement of cards that has miracle properties built into it. Many magicians have avoided adding memorized deck work to their repertoires because of the daunting task of committing a stacked deck to memory. I was the same way... until a Harry Anderson manuscript got me to thinking about how to make this process easier. PMS, my Peg Memory System, was born. Suddenly, I found that it was not only easy but also FUN to commit a memorized deck arrangement to memory! Using the PMS system in this book, it took me only AN HOUR to commit a memorized deck stack to memory! In the pages of Mnemonica For Everybody, you will find a streamlined, GRAPHICAL method for EASILY and QUICKLY learning the Tamariz stack. BTW, this same technique works great for EVERY memorized stack out there including memorized deck stacks by Simon Aronson, Martin Joyal, Laurie Ireland, Nikola and others. NOTE: THERE ARE NO ACTUAL MAGIC TRICKS TAUGHT IN THIS MANUSCRIPT! This manuscript is merely a tool for learning one of the most popular memorized deck configurations in the history of magic. Please refer to the writings of Tamariz, Aronson, Michael Close, Pit Hartling and others for the many uses of this incredible tool (see page 69 inside for a FREE gift).

For Magicians Only... Geoff's THIRD set of lecture notes contains some KILLER, and surprisingly-easy-to-do, COMMERCIAL material. Something for absolutely EVERYBODY (from close-up to stage performers) at ALL skill levels: cards, coins, newspaper, rocks and LOTS of miscellaneous ideas & tips to improve what you already do and to make your performing life MUCH easier. Skill level required for most of the tricks: beginner to intermediate. There are NO second deals, one-handed top palms, multiple-coin classic palms or pipe dreams of ANY kind here. All effects are direct from Geoff's strolling, parlour and stage repertoires and are no nonsense, do-able, real-world workers that appear to be much harder than they really are! I can assure you that magicians of all skill levels will have fun playing with the moves and ideas in these notes. This title can also fall under the following categories: Crafts & Hobbies, Education, Language Arts & Disciplines, Mathematics, Performing Arts, Psychology, Reference, Study Aids, Self-Help You can see performance videos of many of the effects at http: //GWilliamsMagic.wix.com/Videos

For Magicians Only... In 1979, Simon Aronson gave the world of magic an incredible tool - A Stack To Remember - which has come to be known as the "Aronson stack," a seemingly random arrangement of cards that has amazing miracle properties built into it. Many magicians have avoided adding memorized deck work to their repertoires because of the daunting task of committing a stacked deck to memory. Struggling to grasp the associations of the cards and their locations within the stack, most quit after a few hours or days. I was the same way... until a Harry Anderson manuscript got me to thinking about how to make this process easier. PMS, my Peg Memory System, was born. Suddenly, I found that it was not only EASY but also FUN to commit the stack to memory! In the pages of "Aronson Stack for Everybody," you will find a streamlined, GRAPHICAL method for easily and quickly learning the Aronson stack IN AS LITTLE AS 90 MINUTES! BTW, this same technique works great for EVERY MEMORIZED STACK EVER MADE! The manuscript includes examples on how to use it with Mnemonica by Juan Tamariz, The Six-Hour Memorized Deck by Martin Joyal and the Nikola stack. It can also be used when you need to remember multiple cards on the fly, to help you quickly memorize a shopping list, phone numbers and lots MORE. Even though THERE ARE NO ACTUAL TRICKS TAUGHT IN THIS MANUSCRIPT, it does contain LINKS to several FREE memorized deck tricks and other resources (including a FREE e-book from Simon Aronson himself)! This title can also fall under the following categories: Crafts & Hobbies, Education, Language Arts & Disciplines, Mathematics, Performing Arts, Psychology, Reference, Study Aids, Self-Help

The Flowering of Australia's Rainforests provides an overview of pollination in Australian rainforests, especially subtropical rainforests. It also examines the plant-pollinator relationships found in rainforests worldwide. The Flowering of Australia's Rainforests progresses through introductory and popular sections that cover pollination in lore and legend; plant and flower evolution and development; and the role and function of colour, fragrance and form. Later chapters deal with breeding systems; mimicry; spatial, temporal and structural influences on plant-pollinator interactions; and a discussion and overview of floral syndromes. The book concludes with a section on conservation and fragmentation, and individual plant pollination case studies. Illustrated with colour photographs of major species, this reference work will be treasured by field naturalists, ecologists, conservation biologists, botanists, ecosystem managers, environmentalists, community groups and individuals involved in habitat restoration, students, and those with a broad interest in natural history.

Step-by-step guidelines that walk the reader through the entire process a building a CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machine from start to finish.