Hocus Pocus: Magic, Mystery and the Mind (The Complete Collection!) [Professor Richard Wiseman presents...]

While well-written, well-drawn, and entertaining, this book falls into the usual pattern of a magician claiming to reproduce a paranormal effect and claiming to have therefore disprove it. While this argument is not logically correct, it also ignores the fact that the magician rarely actually duplicates the effect; instead just coming close. Still, it is always good to know how things can seem to be faked. Includes several experiments the reader can do -- DHF