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Blackwood, Gary L.
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Cryptography -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Ciphers -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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Blackwood, Gary L.
Cryptography -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Ciphers -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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Mysterious
messages
: a
history
of
codes
and
ciphers
/ Gary Blackwood ; designed and illustrated by Jason Henry.
by
Blackwood, Gary L.
Dutton Children's Books, c2009.
Call #:
652.8 B632m
Subjects
Cryptography --
History
-- Juvenile literature.
Ciphers
--
History
-- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9780525479604 (hardcover)
0525479600 (hardcover)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
170 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical and web references (p. 166) and index.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
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
.
Awards:
A Junior Library Guild selection.
Other authors:
Henry, Jason.
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Children's Nonfiction
652.8 B632m
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Children's Nonfiction
652.8 B632m
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