Alex  Stone
From the back rooms of New York Cityâ€™s age-old magic societies to cutting-edge psychology labs, three-card monte games on Canal Street to glossy Las Vegas casinos, ,Fooling Houdini, recounts Alex Stoneâ€™s quest to join the ranks of master magicians.,As he navigates this quirky and occasionally hilarious subculture populated by brilliant eccentrics, Stone pulls back the curtain on a community shrouded in secrecy, fueled by obsession and brilliance, and organized around one overriding need: to prove oneâ€™s worth by deceiving others.,But his journey is more than a tale of tricks, gigs, and geeks. By investing some of the lesser-known corners of psychology, neuroscience, physics, history, and even crime, all through the lens of trickery and illusion, ,Fooling Houdini, arrives at a host of startling revelations about how the mind works--andÂ why, sometimes, it doesnâ€™t.
Nonfiction,Fantasy,Magic,Autobiography,Memoir,Science,Psychology,Biography,History,Audiobook,Biography,Autobiography,Science,Mathematics
Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind