MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01935cam a2200361 a 4500
001 2008048970
003 DLC
005 20100216153211.0
008 081112s2009 nyua j b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008048970
015 $aGBA981601$2bnb
016 7 $a015351811$2Uk
020 $a9780525479604 (hbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn272665437
037 $bJunior Library Guild$nhttp://www.juniorlibraryguild.com
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dBTCTA$dUKM$dTEF$dXY4$dIG#$dGRC$dIAL$dYDXCP$dDLC
050 00 $aZ103$b.B53 2009
082 00 $a652/.8$222
042 $alcac
100 1 $aBlackwood, Gary L.
245 10 $aMysterious messages :$ba history of codes and ciphers /$cGary Blackwood ; designed and illustrated by Jason Henry.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York, N.Y. :$bDutton Children's Books,$cc2009.
300 $a170 p. :$bill. ;$c21 cm.
586 8 $aA Junior Library Guild selection
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 (p. 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 1 $aCryptography$xHistory.
650 1 $aCiphers$xHistory.
700 1 $aHenry, Jason,$eill.