Titre:
Mysterious messages : a history of codes and ciphers
PERSONAL_AUTHOR_EPSB:
Sommaire:
From the ingenious ciphers of Italian princes to the spy books of the Civil War to the advanced techniques of the CIA, codes and code breaking have played important roles throughout history.
Date de publication comme intervalle:
2009
Description matérielle:
170 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Table des matières:
Clay, wax and Greece -- The rise and fall of Rome -- Ham and Bacon -- A disk, a grille and a tableau -- Babington, beer and Baconian biliteralisim -- Prisons, pigpens and black chambers -- The two revolutions -- Security suffers some severe setbacks -- The blue and the gray (and the green and the brown) -- Agony, dancing men and buried treasure -- The manuscript, the machine and the Mexican message -- Romance, rum and Romaji -- Hounds, magicians and indians -- Bookies, spies and POWs -- Colossus, Lucifer and Kryptos.
EPSB_586:
A Junior Library Guild selection
Vedette secondaire auteur:
Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN):
9780525479604
Informations de publication:
New York, N.Y. : Dutton Children's Books, c2009.
