E-book
Mysterious messages a history of codes and ciphers
Record details
- ISBN: 9781101149720 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 1101149728 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 9781101151013 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 1101151013 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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Physical Description:
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170 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Dutton Children's Books, c2009.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical and web references (p. 166) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : Penguin USA, Inc., 2009. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 97899 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 10904 KB). |
| Awards Note: | A Junior Library Guild selection |
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| Subject: | Cryptography -- History -- Juvenile literature Ciphers -- History -- Juvenile literature Cryptography -- History Ciphers -- History |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
