• The Amazing Life of Ormond Mcgill: Dean of American Hypnotists

    What Harry Houdini was to magic, Ormond McGill was to stage hypnosis. This exciting biography reads as a road map of one man’s astonishing seventy-five year career in stage hypnosis. Ormond McGill circled the world performing his art traveling to hundreds of places from Hollywood sound studios to the military camps in Korea, as well as almost every country in the world. He also appeared in front of early television’s hot lights on The Ed Sullivan Show and others. Ormond first started practicing stage hypnosis in 1927, and is now known world-wide as the “Dean of American Hypnotists.” Wh... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1845900014
    • ASIN: 1845900014
    • ISBN: 1845900014
    • Brand: Brand: Crown House Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Crown House Publishing

  • Svengali's Web: The Alien Enchanter in Modern Culture

    Svengali, the malevolent hypnotist in a sensationally successful novel published by George du Maurier in 1894, became such a well-known character in the culture of the period that his name entered the dictionary as one who exerts a malign persuasiveness on another. This book explores the origins and impact of Svengali and his helplessly mesmerized female victim Trilby in an age already rife with discussions of race, influence, and the unconscious mind.Daniel Pick points out that Svengali was a Jew as well as a dangerous hypnotist; his depiction struck a chord not only with pervasive nineteenth... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0300082045
    • ASIN: 0300082045
    • ISBN: 0300082045
    • Manufacturer: Yale University Press

  • Freud: The Making of an Illusion

    From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creatorSince the 1970s, Sigmund Freud’s scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin―but nonetheless the idea persists that some of his contributions were visionary discoveries of lasting value. Now, drawing on rarely consulted archives, Frederick Crews has assembled a great volume of evidence that reveals a surprising new Freud: a man who blundered tragicomically in his dealings with patients, who in fact never cured anyone, who promoted cocaine as a miracle drug ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1627797173
    • ASIN: 1627797173
    • ISBN: 1627797173
    • Brand: METROPOLITAN
    • Manufacturer: Metropolitan Books

  • The Hypnotist

    "Originally published in Sweden as Hypnotisoren by Albert Bonniers Forlag, Stockholm, in 2009." -- ECIP

    • UPC: 797137472
    • Rating: 3.172

  • Best of Chicago: 40th Anniversary Edition (CD) (Limited Edition)

    Best Of Chicago: 40Th Anniversary Edition

    • UPC: 7779537
    • Rating: 5.0

  • The Dragonfly Effect (the Hypnotists #3)

    "This book was originally published in hardcover by Scholastic Press in 2015"--Title page

    • UPC: 49744642
    • Rating: 4.0

  • The Hypnotists (the Hypnotists #1)

    Descended from two hypnotist bloodlines, twelve-year-old Jackson Opus realizes he can control other peoples' actions with frightening results--especially when the head of the Sentia Institute plans to use Jackson for his

    • UPC: 33648830
    • Rating: 3.154

  • The Hypnotists: Book 1 - eBook

    An all-new, mesmerizing adventure from the masterful Gordon Korman! Jackson Opus has always been persuasive, but he doesn't know that he's descended from the two most powerful hypnotist bloodlines on the planet. He's excited to

    • UPC: 209213086
    • Rating: 3.154

  • The Hypnotists Book 2: Memory Maze - eBook

    The second entry in an all-new, mesmerizing adventure from the masterful, #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Gordon Korman! Jax Opus knows he's not like other kids. And it isn't his skill on the basketball

    • UPC: 727785190
    • Rating: 4.0

  • The Hypnotist's Love Story

    A "sharp and funny romantic tale" (O, the Oprah Magazine) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers. Ellen O'Farrell is a professional hypnotherapist who works out

    • UPC: 120315280
    • Rating: 4.0

  • The Hypnotists: Book 1

    Descended from two hypnotist bloodlines, twelve-year-old Jackson Opus realizes he can control other peoples' actions with frightening results--especially when the head of the Sentia Institute plans to use Jackson for his

    • UPC: 22750229
    • Rating: 3.154

  • Chicago Poems

    Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits,

    • UPC: 53582922
    • Rating: 4.0

  • An American Summer : Love and Death in Chicago

    From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods. The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago,

    • UPC: 205371011
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Chicago Comedy Hypnotist Steve Meade ... Comedy Hypnotist in Chicago

    Chicago Comedy Hypnotist

    Chris Jones hypnotizes three audience members on live TV