COMMENT:A very well written and well-researched book with a good sized bibliography. One can learn a lot about the quirks of the human system from it, both physiology and psychology. Fisher includes optical illusions, tactile illusions, illusions of hearing, olfactory illusions, taste illusions, feats of apparent strength, physics of the body, memory feats, hypnosis, ideomotor effects, sensing body reactions. He has references to apparent psychic feats, tricks of spirit mediums, and dowsing.
