Download or read book The Art of Playing Cards written by Rob Beattie and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Playing Cards is your tour guide to a standard deck. This handbook covers the classic games, tricks, and skills you'll need to become an expert card shark. There’s something about opening a new pack of cards. It doesn’t matter whether you buy them at a filling station to while away a few hours on the road or if they’re a classic deck of Bicycle cards bought specifically for a poker night—they smell the same. There’s the same whiff of possibility, of hands to play or chances to take, of bets to win and of fun just waiting to be had. THE GAMES: There are thousands of games we could have included, but along with some of the most popular, we’ve also chosen those we think are the most fun, the most challenging, and the most exasperating. Also, much of the beauty of card games is that they vary so much, and we’ve included plenty of tips for trying something a bit different. Of course, when faced with so many variations and different games, it would be impossible to include them all here; we only hope that you like the ones we have squeezed in. THE SKILLS: Shuffles, cuts, ribbon spreads, fans, flourishes, false cuts, forces, false shuffles, finger lifts, double lifts… they’re all here, explained in a simple step-by-step fashion that makes it easy for anyone to pick them up. THE TRICKS: Here we’ve concentrated on tricks we think are easy and approachable because there are few things more frustrating than trying to do something that’s simply out of your league or utterly beyond your physical abilities. Thus, you won’t find any magician’s glue or funny specialized decks of cards; there are few props, and no fiendishly complex sleights and palms… and there are definitely no cards up anyone’s sleeves. We hope the result is a book that you’ll be able to come back to again and again, whether it’s to brush up on your shuffling or because you want to learn a new game or a new trick for the holidays. If you do that, then this book has served its purpose. Oh, and always remember, it’s not the cards in your hand that count, it’s how you play them.
Download or read book Music Genius written by Rik Lee and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cards as Weapons written by Ricky Jay and published by Grand Central Pub. This book was released on 1988 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tongue-in-cheek look at the newest method of self-defense details the history of card-throwing, exercises to improve your throwing ability, and fantastic stunts
Download or read book Antique Playing Cards written by Henry René d' Allemagne and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 900 elaborate, decorative images from rare playing cards, 14th20th centuries: Bacchus, death, dancing dogs, hunting scenes, royal coats of arms, players cheating, much more. "
Download or read book The Playing Card Oracles written by Ana Cortez and published by U.S. Games Systems. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the secrets of ordinary playing cards through delightful poetry and insightful prose.
Download or read book Van Gogh Paintings written by Belinda Thomson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling selection of Van Gogh’s most famous paintings, as well as some lesser-known masterpieces, many drawn from the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Nearly 130 years after his death, Vincent van Gogh continues to exert a powerful fascination over viewers and historians. This superb book offers readers a selection of the artist’s most unforgettable canvases, as well as some lesser-known examples, many drawn from the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The volume explores the works in the context of Van Gogh’s short but brilliant career, in which frequent spells of isolation were paired with lively engagement with his peers and the popular ideas of his time. Additionally, Van Gogh’s continuous stream of letters written to family and friends—one of the most important archival resources of nineteenth-century art—provides a narrative thread around which this study develops. In the text, art historian Belinda Thomson considers Van Gogh as a cosmopolitan figure who combined his art experiences and native traditions absorbed in Holland and in Victorian England, and later succeeded in making his mark upon the painting scene in France at one of its richest periods. This book will be a welcome resource for art lovers, offering a different take on one of history’s most interesting artists.
Download or read book Art oracles written by Katya Tylevich and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Art of the Playing Card written by Yale University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Let s Play Cards written by Banar and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn playing cards into art! This soft cover publication from Barbara Finwall, Nancy Javier, and Jerilyn Clemmits provides all the information needed to use playing cards to make Artistic Trading Cards, Greeting Cards, Boxes, Journals, Frames and Albums.
Download or read book Researches Into the History of Playing Cards written by Samuel Weller Singer and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigaciones acerca de la historia de las cartas de juego, con ilustraciones del origen de la impresión y el grabado en madera.
Download or read book The Devil s Picture books A History of Playing Cards written by May King "Mrs. J. K. Van Rensselaer Van Rensselaer and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards written by William Andrew Chatto and published by London : J.R. Smith. This book was released on 1848 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Biographical History of the Fine Arts written by S. Spooner and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Download or read book Fortune Telling with Playing Cards written by Jonathan Dee and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a deck of cards, 80 illustrations, and the help of best-selling author Jonathan Dee, you can unlock the mysteries of the future. While Tarot decks are the best-known cards for divination, ordinary playing cards have been used successfully for hundreds of years to tell fortunes.
Download or read book A Biographical History of the Five Arts being memoirs of the lives and works of eminent painters engravers sculptors and architects written by SPOONER and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
