Mysterious messages : a history of codes and ciphers (Record no. 3616)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9780545290081 (pbk.)
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency NTNU
Transcribing agency NTNU
Language of cataloging eng
Modifying agency DISFJU
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 372.4
Item number M999.5
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Blackwood, Gary L.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Mysterious messages : a history of codes and ciphers
Statement of responsibility, etc Gary Blackwood ; designed and illustrated by Jason Henry
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication New York
Name of publisher Scholastic
Year of publication 2010, c2009
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages 170 p.
Other physical details ill.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
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 biliteralism -- 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.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc 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.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Cryptography
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Ciphers
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Henry, Jason
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Koha item type Books
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