Nayeli Douglas 
An in-depth historical and sociological examination of magic secret societies, The Magic Circle in London, FISM World Championships, and The Magic Castle.
A definitive masterclass on close-up cartomancy, analyzing S.W. Erdnase’s ‘The Expert at the Card Table’, Dai Vernon’s revolution, and the Ambitious Card.
A definitive cultural and historical study of Indian street magic, deconstructing the Indian Rope Trick myth, the Mango Tree Mystery, and the Indian Basket Trick.
A definitive cultural and technical exploration of Asian illusion arts, covering Sichuan Opera’s Bian Lian, the Water Bowl production, and the Chinese Linking Rings.
A comprehensive technical and engineering treatise on mechanical illusion gimmicks, Black Art physics, invisible thread materials science, and expanded coin metallurgy.
A definitive cognitive neuroscience exploration of misdirection, overt and covert attention, social gaze cueing, saccadic suppression, and Tony Slydini’s off-beat psychology.
A definitive optical and theatrical engineering analysis of the Pepper’s Ghost illusion, from Dickens’ Victorian stage to Disney’s Haunted Mansion and modern concerts.
A definitive psychological analysis of forcing techniques, equivoque branching logic, the Classic Force in card magic, cognitive heuristics, and subconscious priming.
A definitive psychoacoustic study of auditory illusions, Shepard tones in Hans Zimmer’s cinema, Diana Deutsch’s tritone paradox, and phantom words.
A comprehensive cognitive psychology investigation into inattentional blindness, change blindness, Daniel Simons’ Invisible Gorilla, and Apollo Robbins’ attentional framing.