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Wordplay : the philosophy, art, and science of ambigrams / John Langdon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Broadway Books, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Edition: First editionDescription: vii, 203 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0767920759
  • 9780767920759
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 745.61 22
LOC classification:
  • Z43 .L259 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword / Dan Brown -- Introduction -- Discovering the Tao -- Yin and Yang -- Philosophy, Art, and Science -- Hypothesis/thesis/antithesis/synthesis -- Theory -- Ambiguity -- Reality -- Orientation -- Symmetry -- Truth and beauty -- Asymmetry -- Reflect -- Balance -- Polarized -- Magnetic -- Electricity -- Gravity -- Up/dn -- Waterfalls -- Minimum -- Wavelength -- Normal distribution -- Time -- Past/present/future -- Sometimes/never -- Seasons -- Choice/decide -- Inertia -- Momentum -- Chain reaction -- Energy -- Action/re-action -- Perfection -- Mathematics -- Algebra -- Big bang -- Astronomy -- Syzygy -- Limits/infinity -- Spirals -- Organic -- Change/changes -- Origins and history of my ambigrams -- How a word becomes an ambigram -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions.
Summary: Features a collection of ambigrams, words that can be read both right side up and upside down, along with essays that show how the shape of letters can change words and their meanings.
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"A previous edition of this book was published in 1992 by Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich"--T.p. verso.

Foreword / Dan Brown -- Introduction -- Discovering the Tao -- Yin and Yang -- Philosophy, Art, and Science -- Hypothesis/thesis/antithesis/synthesis -- Theory -- Ambiguity -- Reality -- Orientation -- Symmetry -- Truth and beauty -- Asymmetry -- Reflect -- Balance -- Polarized -- Magnetic -- Electricity -- Gravity -- Up/dn -- Waterfalls -- Minimum -- Wavelength -- Normal distribution -- Time -- Past/present/future -- Sometimes/never -- Seasons -- Choice/decide -- Inertia -- Momentum -- Chain reaction -- Energy -- Action/re-action -- Perfection -- Mathematics -- Algebra -- Big bang -- Astronomy -- Syzygy -- Limits/infinity -- Spirals -- Organic -- Change/changes -- Origins and history of my ambigrams -- How a word becomes an ambigram -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions.

Features a collection of ambigrams, words that can be read both right side up and upside down, along with essays that show how the shape of letters can change words and their meanings.

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