Joshua Jay's amazing book of cards

Finally, here's how to do all those showy tricks and flourishes that  card players are dying to know: how to send a deck cascading from one  hand to the other. How to snap open two flawless fans. How to cut a deck  with one hand. Choose four aces seemingly at random. Flick a card  accurately across the room.

The clearest, easiest-to-follow book  of step-by-step directions, The Amazing Book of Cards will show anyone  how to do 52 amazing things with a deck of cards. Written by Joshua Jay,  the award-winning close-up magician and card-obsessed author of Magic:  The Complete Course, The Amazing Book of Cards combines friendly,  concise text and full-color photos with a full-length download that  teaches the lessons and shows the subtleties of performance. Here are  simple, killer tricks, like "Presto Prediction," which performs the  impossible task of knowing someone's choice before she even makes it.  Nine different shuffles, including the Faro Shuffle, the one most often  used by pros, which helps you perfectly weave a split deck together in  seconds. How to perform fans, flips, and flourishes, including Ribbon  Spread & Flip and Catch-a-Deck. Tricks you can't lose-go ahead, take  the bet to throw a card in a hat. How to memorize a deck in less than  ten seconds, how to put a deck of cards into a glass bottle, build a  card castle, and more. Filling out this labor of love is a whole world  of card trivia, including the origins of Kings: King of Spades is  modeled after King David, the King of Diamonds is Julius Caesar, Hearts  is Charlemagne, and Clubs, Alexander the Great.