The Truth about Uri Geller,9780879751999

The Truth about Uri Geller

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9780879751999
ISBN10: 0879751991
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1982-09-01
Publisher(s): Prometheus
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Summary

Why won't Uri Geller perform in front of professional magicians? Can he really bend spoons, keys, and nails with his "psychic" powers? Randi tells all in this examination of Geller's feats. "A healthy antidote to charlatanism on all levels". -- Carl Sagan

Table of Contents

Author's Note 1(4)
Acknowledgments 5(2)
Foreword 7(2)
Leon Jaroff
Introduction: Who Is Uri Geller?
9(13)
How Does Uri Do It?
22(8)
About the ``SRI Report''
30(9)
What Does It All Mean?
39(22)
Andrew Weil's Search for the True Geller
61(26)
The Man Who Discovered Uri Geller
87(3)
The Time Magazine Episode with Geller
90(8)
The Wonderful Teleportation To and From Brazil ...
98(4)
Photographs Through a Lens Cap
102(7)
The Persons Behind the Geller Myth
109(22)
The Spaniard with the X-Ray Eyes
131(10)
The Old Broken Watch Trick Revealed
141(10)
He Didn't Fool Them in Israel!
151(12)
Alan Spraggett Throws Down the Gauntlet, Then the Towel
163(8)
Geller's Major American TV Appearances
171(11)
Geller in England
182(9)
A Century Ago: Same Game, Different Personnel
191(11)
The Magicians' Attitude and How It Changed
202(6)
Conclusion: What Geller Has Done, and Where He Can Go from Here
208(9)
Objections to This Book
217(12)
Appendix 229(4)
Glossary 233(2)
Bibliography 235

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