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Sleights of Mind wins the Prisma Prize!

Sleights of Mind has won the Prisma Prize, an annual science communication award to the best book of the year.

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The Spanish translation of our book Sleights of Mind ("Los Enganos de la Mente") has won the Prisma Prize, an annual science communication award to the best book of the year. The Prisma Prizes, now in their 26th edition, are awarded by the Casa das Ciencias museum in Spain. Steve will attend the award ceremony in A Coruna, Spain, this Saturday, November 16th.

Susana Martinez-Conde is a professor of ophthalmology, neurology, and physiology and pharmacology at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, N.Y. She is author of the Prisma Prize–winning Sleights of Mind, along with Stephen Macknik and Sandra Blakeslee, and of Champions of Illusion, along with Stephen Macknik.

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