Next time you`re at a boring party, create some magic of your own. Just bring along a few props, and then make things disappear, win bets with your friends, and do amazing feats with coins, paper clips, and napkins. Magic has never been easier to learn -- here are over 100 how-did-you-do-that? tricks, clearly explained in simple word-and-all-color-picture steps. Even better, you learn to be a true performer, fooling the eye and confusing the mind. Tricks are divided into five categories: Disappearing Acts (a thimble disintegrates, a salt shaker vanishes, a quarter dissolves); Cards & Coins (drop cards into a hat on the floor, pass a quarter through a napkin without tearing it); Ropes and Rings (you tie a rope into a knot with one hand, cut a piece of rope in half and restore it); Mental Magic (memorize a list of 10 objects in a few seconds, guess a name someone picks from the phone book); and Outrageous Others. Props, showmanship, and practice, practice, practice...here`s how you put them all together to become an impresario of illusion.