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001 ocn847128638
003 OCoLC
005 20191126080329.0
008 130124n2010 nyua j b 001 0 eng d
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020 $a9780545290081
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035 $a(OCoLC)847128638
100 1 $aBlackwood, Gary.
245 10 $aMysterious messages :$ba history of codes and ciphers /$cGary Blackwood.
260 $aNew York, N.Y. :$bScholastic,$c℗♭2010.
300 $a170 pages :$billustrations ;$c18 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $aFrom 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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical and web references (page 166) and index.
505 0 $aClay, 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.
650 0 $aCryptography$xHistory$vJuvenile literature.
650 0 $aCiphers$xHistory$vJuvenile literature.
650 7 $aCiphers.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00861549
650 7 $aCryptography.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00884552
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655 7 $aJuvenile works.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411637
994 $aZ0$bP4A
948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN P4A - 4 OTHER HOLDINGS