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_aLangdon, John, _d1946- _eauthor. _9428980 |
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_aWordplay : _bthe philosophy, art, and science of ambigrams / _cJohn Langdon. |
| 250 | _aFirst edition. | ||
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_aNew York : _bBroadway Books, _c[2005] |
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_avii, 203 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (some colour) ; _c21 cm |
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| 500 | _a"A previous edition of this book was published in 1992 by Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich"--T.p. verso. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aForeword / 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. | |
| 520 | _aFeatures 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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