Levitation/Wire Mothers & Inanimate Arms Two-Book Set

Levitation: Physics and Psychology in the Service of Deception Hypnotic gestures, fancy clothes, and attractive assistants make the magician, but it's science that makes the magic! [INSERT PARAGRAPH BREAK] Levitation tells the story of the most dazzling gravity-defying illusion ever performed on stage, and features a cast of characters that seems almost too good to be true: John Neville Maskelyne, the very proper scientist-magician and the trick's inventor; Harry Kellar, the brash American who fails to buy the illusion, so steals it instead; Howard Thurston, the handsome and charismatic performer who inherits the act from Kellar; and Guy Jarrett, the rough-and-tumble engineer who perfects the levitation and guides us through the unfolding drama. But true it is-you'll never look at magic, or the mysteries of science-the same way again. [INSERT PARAGRAPH BREAK] This book is part of a two-book set on the "Science of the Unscientific," paired with Wire Mothers and Inanimate Arms: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love. Future volumes planned for this series will focus on the science of religion, art, and other surprising topics. Wire Mothers & Inanimate Arms: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love "Never hug and kiss them, never let them sit on your lap. ... The end result is a happy child. Free as air because he has mastered the stupidly simple demands society makes upon him." [INSERT PARAGRAPH BREAK] Psychologists know best, of course, and in the 1950s they warned parents about the dangers of too much love. Besides, what was 'love' anyway? Just a convenient name for children seeking food and adults seeking sex. It took an outsider scientist to challenge it. When Harry Harlow began his experiments on mother love he was more than just an outside the mainstream, though. He was a deeply unhappy man who knew in his gut the truth about what love-and its absence-meant, and set about to prove it. His experiments and results shocked the world, and Wire Mothers & Inanimate Arms will shock you as well. [INSERT PARAGRAPH BREAK] This book is part of a two-book set on the "Science of the Unscientific," paired with Levitation: Physics and Psychology in the Service of Deception. Future volumes planned for this series will focus on the science of religion, art, and other surprising topics.Jim Ottaviani is the author of 'Levitation/Wire Mothers & Inanimate Arms Two-Book Set', published 2007 under ISBN 9780966010695 and ISBN 0966010698.