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From Lucy, the colossal elephant-shaped building on the Jersey Shore, to the grand donut atop Randy's in Los Angeles, this full-colour guide profiles the commercial giants that loom over America's highways Created to sell products and promote tourism in a big way, they can be found all over the United States. The authors have travelled far and wide to bring readers the world's largest duck in Long Island, an enormous Amish couple in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, and towering Paul Bunyans all over the Midwest. There are buildings shaped like hot dogs, ice cream cones, and baskets, as well as the roadside phenomena known as 'Muffler Men', giants who originally advertised mufflers but now have been converted to cowboys, Indians, spacemen, and pirates. Big fun!.
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Architects often employ design methods to help them find more creative forms. These methods make it possible to break free of the traditional canon of forms and established paradigms. At the same time, there must be enough leeway for a functional, systematic design conception to take shape. This volume focuses in depth on the design methods that have decisively shaped current architectural practice.

Themes are - Diagrammatic methods (using drawings and schematic representations), -Mimetic methods (imitative), - Parametric methods (using a characteristic quantity), - Automated and digital design methods of the contemporary avant-garde, e.g. scaling, datascapes, folding, and morphing.

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Have you ever seen a giant letter on a mountain slope and wondered what it was all about? If you've traveled by car in the West, chances are you've come across at least a few of the hundreds of hillside letters that dot the landscape. Representing towns and schools from Ajo, Arizona, to Zap, North Dakota, these mountain landmarks were created by locals with hometown pride or students full of school spirit. Some letters have been around for a century, many have a story to tell, and all are beloved community icons that boldly declare to all within their viewscape: We are here. This is our place, our school, our home. Hillside Letters A to Z: A Guide to Hometown Landmarks spells out in detail this distinctive western phenomenon, exploring its origins, customs, and controversies, as well as some of the nuts and bolts (or ABCs) of letter building. Adults and children alike will enjoy an engaging collection of stories featuring 60 letters from fourteen western states. Color photographs illustrate the featured letters, and a map shows letter sites nationwide. This book lists all 426 known U.S. hillside letters, where they are, and what they stand for. Hillside Letters A to Z is a must for curious travelers, residents and alumni of letter locations, and anyone interested in western history..
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This book describes the development of a robot mapping and navigation system inspired by models of the neural mechanisms underlying spatial navigation in the rodent hippocampus. Computational models of animal navigation systems have traditionally had limited performance when implemented on robots. The aim of the work was to determine the extent to which hippocampal models can be used to provide a robot with functional mapping and navigation capabilities in real world environments. The focus of the research was on achieving practical robot performance, rather than maintaining biological plausibility.

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The lexicon of Japanese contains a large number of conventional mimetic words, which vividly depict sounds, manners of action, states of mind etc. These words are notable for their distinctive syntactic properties, for the strikingly patterned way in which they exploit sound-symbolic correspondences, and for the copiousness of their use in conversation as well as in many written registers of Japanese. This dictionary is a comprehensive resource for linguists, language teachers, translators, and others who require detailed information about this important sector of the Japanese vocabulary. Examples created by the editors are accompanied by thousands of contextualized, referenced examples from published sources to illustrate the alternative meanings of each mimetic form. All examples appear in Japanese orthography, in romanization, and in English translation. Concise information is provided concerning the varieties of syntactic usage appropriate for each mimetic. An extensive English index facilitates comparison of English and Japanese vocabulary..
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Nucleosides exhibit a broad spectrum of biological activity that generally results from their ability to inhibit specific enzymes. This activity has led to their use in the development of various pharmaceutical agents used in the treatment of cancers and to combat harmful viruses, bacteria and parasites. Nucleoside Mimetics provides an introduction to the chemistry of nucleoside mimetics, which combines carbohydrate, heterocyclic and asymmetric synthesis. The book gives a comprehensive introduction to nucleosides and coverage of the various classes. The aim of Nucleoside Mimetics is to provide the reader with a useful insight into the diversity of nucleosides, the range of elegant chemistry involved and the continuing importance of nucleosides as both therapeutic agents and as probes for studying biochemical processes..
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Among the things offered by this book are:
*The idea of mediated seeing - systems that intervene between the seer and the thing seen, allowing views not otherwise available.
*Explanation of vertical orthogonal projection, by which the map-viewer is vertically above all points on the represented ground simultaneously.
*Definition of a map: a map is a projectionally modified physical model of the surface-of-zero-elevation of a planet, with added apparitional modeling.
*Explanation of apparitional modeling.
*Differentiation of maps into topographical, and twelve kinds of thematic.
*Explanation of visual metaphor as imagery by which things unseeable, e.g. temperature, are made seeable.
*Application of the idea of homologue and analogue in explanation of various kinds of map imagery.
*Definition of the subject of topographical maps as stopped-time subaerial landscape.
*Definition of landscape.
*A classification of landscape objects.
*Definition of the subjects of thematic maps as localized processes of the universe.
*Division of the signage of maps into signatures, three kinds of symbols, and typography.
*Definition of "symbol" and "signature".
*Methods of providing identity to features on maps: by mimesis, and several kinds of adjectival modifying.
*Analysis of the visual structure of maps into 'layered' components.
*Explanation of the optional transparency of cartographical surfaces.
*Identification of the visual structure of maps with that of trompe-l'oeil art in which represented objects 'protrude' into the viewer's space.
*Time and synchronicity on maps.
* Definition and explanation of generalization.
*A summary of relief representation.
*The functions of color on maps: adjectival and graphic.
*A description of the three-dimensional variations of holistic color, and a chart of systematic color gradations.
*The idea of continuums, one- two- and three-dimensional, as applied to discussion of graphics and description of space.
*New terminology and tighter definition of old..
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