Mysterious messages : a history of codes and ciphers (Record no. 3616)
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fixed length control field | 01271cam a2200205 a 4500 |
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 |
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
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 |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
Koha item type | Books |
Withdrawn status | Lost status | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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DIS Library | DIS Library | Fiction 3F | 25/06/2014 | F Blackwo | MH001180 | Books |