{"product_id":"9781910167212","title":"Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic?: Biography of the controversial mind-reader","description":"\u003cp\u003eJonathan Margolis's biography of Uri Geller, the controversial spoon-bending and mind-reading performer, was the first to examine dispassionately whether the former Israeli paratrooper is a talented magician or something altogether more mysterious – perhaps even an authentic paranormalist.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReviews\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Superstitious atheists will find this book toxic. Jonathan Margolis clearly spooked himself writing it and I got an attack of the creeps one night just reading it.\" - Evening Standard\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Uri's ability to perform amazing feats of mental wizardry is known the world over...Uri is not a magician. He is using capabilities that we all have and can develop with exercise and practice.\" - Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut and sixth man to walk on the moon\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I think Uri is a magician, but I don't particularly believe that he is using trickery. I believe there are psychic abilities. They don't accord with any science we have at the moment, but maybe some future science will back them up with theories.\" - Brian Josephson, Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, 1973\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Uri bent a spoon for me. The first time he did, I thought there must be a trick. The second time I was stunned - completely, completely stunned and amazed. It just bent in my hand. I've never seen anything like it. It takes a lot to impress me. Uri Geller is for real and anyone who doesn't recognise that is either deluding himself, or he is a very sad person.\" - David Blaine\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Geller has bent my ring in the palm of my hand without ever touching it. Personally, I have no scientific explanation for the phenomenon.\" - Werner Von Braun\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I came to this book a rationalist and a skeptic. Yet, open-mindedness requires me to report that Jonathan Margolis' carefully researched, scrupulously detailed and even-handed exploration of Uri Geller's paranormal capacities suggests some of our current scientific understandings will need radical revision in the next century.\" - The Jewish Chronicle\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A brilliant book - nine out of ten.\" - Channel 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A fascinating, unaided, open-minded account of a great modern puzzle.\" - Mail on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An even-handed and assiduously researched work... something close to a definitive assessment.\" - New Statesman\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Apostrophe Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154165743856,"sku":"9781910167212","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781910167212_p0.jpg?v=1763625751","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781910167212","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}