Steinmeyer, Jim: Technique & Understanding ©2009 James H. Steinmeyer, Hahne, CA Hardcover, no dj, 304 pages

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Comments: New approaches for Stage Illusionists. "The book includes four lectures on stage magic, eight stand-up routines with full patter, and sixteen illusions"

Contents (from book ToC, courtesy Stephane Labbe):

11 Introduction
23 The Author's Foreword

32 Lectures on Illusion
35 Reminding & Deceiving
45 Five Terrible Ideas
57 Why Amac Drank
69 Robert Harbin & The Polemics of Modern Illusion

84 Scripts & Routines
87 Linking Three Finger Rings
91 The Straitjacket Escape
95 The Magazine Test
99 One Hundred Mental Pictures for the Magazine Test
103 Timmy & The Spirit Slates
105 The Torn Newspaper Prediction
111 The Full Monte
121 Triumph Sudoku
133 Toccata for Light Bulb & Paper Bag
142 Unexpected Formulas
145 The New Orleans Formula
153 The Shadow Play Solution
159 The Fabric Cabinet Solution
165 The Cocoon Redux
171 The Unexpected Illusion
177 Nowhere
177 Two-Dimensional Rehearsal
180 Transformation
180 A Dress Possessed
182 Find the Joker
183 By No Means
188 Unusual Inspirations
191 The Travel
199 The Paranormal
209 The Four-Fold Screen and Platform
215 The Infinity Cabinet
221 Trouble
229 Cube-ism
238 Unique Solutions
241 The Nature of Empty
249 Pandora's Box
257 Understanding Two Principles
275 Long Division
285 Quantum Mechanics

301 Index
304 About the Author