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Secret Messages: Concealment Codes and Other Types of Ingenious Communication Hardcover - 2001
by William S. Butler; L. Douglas Keeney
A lively chronicle of coded messages, secret passwords, code names, concealment tricks, and other types of ingenious communication, "Secret Messages" presents an extensively researched collection of wit and wile at its best -- and acts as a primer into the extraordinary capabilities of the human mind. Illustrations.
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- Title Secret Messages: Concealment Codes and Other Types of Ingenious Communication
- Author William S. Butler; L. Douglas Keeney
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st/1st
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2001-01-02
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780684869988 / 0684869985
- Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.72 x 5.8 x 0.78 in (22.15 x 14.73 x 1.98 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Cryptography, Ciphers
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00046368
- Dewey Decimal Code 652.8
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- Kirkus Reviews, 11/15/2000, Page 1592
- Publishers Weekly, 11/27/2000, Page 64
- School Library Journal, 06/01/2001, Page 186
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From the fall of Troy to interstellar messages by way of the Underground Railroad and Captain Midnight, Secret Messages is a collection of ninety-five of the most interesting examples of code and concealed communications throughout history.Authors William S. Butler and L. Douglas Keeney have compiled a fascinating array of encrypted communications from a varied field. Many of these examples are from times of war, including the story of how a too simple code was the undoing of Benedict Arnold, and how Commander Jeremiah Denton blinked in Morse code to indicate that his North Vietnamese captors were torturing him. Others are more lighthearted, such as the creative use of hand signals by catchers and managers in modern baseball. And some selections offer a glimpse into how codes are used in everyday life, unbeknownst to most of us, in places like hospitals, police stations, and firehouses.Uncovering hidden layers, Secret Messages will amaze you with its new insights into history and how it has been…
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