The author of Empires of Time explores the connection between magic and science through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to the present, surveying the occult arts and ...

Chronicles the renowned escape artist and magician's life and career, covering his daring escapes, cinematic escapades, Broadway career, and secretive personal life.

Does there lie in mankind's remote past a single origin for the beliefs and practices of magic found in nearly every culture in the world? Behind the distortions and ...

THE GALDRABOK, or Book of Magic, is the most important single document for understanding the practice of magic in late medieval Iceland. In this translation, the author ...

This title takes a popular - not academic - look at the mythic world and mythic themes that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien, not only the Germanic and Norse mythology that most experts ...