| Description |
279 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (some col.) ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
THE FIRST CODES: Reading the landscape -- Tracking animals -- Bushcraft signs -- Early petroglyphs -- First writing systems -- Reading cuneiform -- Alphabets and scripts -- The evolution of numerical systems -- Linear A & Linear B -- The Phaistos disc -- The mystery of hieroglyphs -- Hieroglyphs revealed -- The riddle of the Maya -- Indigenous traditions -- SECTS, SYMBOLS, & SECRET SOCIETIES: Early Christians -- The pentangle -- Divination -- Heresies, sects and cults -- Rosslyn Chapel -- Alchemy -- Kabbalism -- Necromancy -- Rosicrucians -- Freemasons -- CODES FOR SECRECY: The art of concealment -- For your eyes only -- Frequency analysis -- Disguising ciphers -- Medieval cipher systems -- The Babington plot -- The da Vinci code -- Ciphertexts and keys -- Grilles -- Spies and black chambers -- Mechanical devices -- Hidden in plain sight -- COMMUNICATING AT A DISTANCE: Long-distance alarms -- Flag signals -- Semaphore and the telegraph -- Morse code -- Person to person -- CODES OF WAR: Classical codes of war -- The 'indecipherable' code -- The great cipher -- 19th-century innovations -- Military map codes -- Field signals -- The Zimmermann telegram -- Enigma: the 'unbreakable' system -- WWII codes and code breakers -- Cracking enigma -- Navajo windtalkers -- Cold war codes -- CODES OF THE UNDERWORLD: Street slang -- From Samurai to Yakuza -- Cockney rhyming slang -- The Mob -- Ramblers' sign language -- Cops and codes -- The zodiac mystery -- The zodiac legacy -- Graffiti -- Youth codes -- Digital subversion -- |
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ENCODING THE WORLD: Describing time -- Describing form -- Force and motion -- Mathematics: the indescribable -- The periodic table -- Defining the world -- Encoding the landscape -- Navigation -- Taxonomy -- The genetic code -- Genetic ancestry -- Using the genetic code -- CODES OF CIVILIZATION: Codes of construction -- Taoist mysticism -- South Asian sacred imagery -- The language of Buddhism -- The patterns of Islam -- Mysteries of the North -- Medieval visual sermons -- Stained glass windows -- Renaissance iconography -- The age of reason -- Victoriana -- Textiles, carpets, and embroidery -- CODES OF COMMERCE: Commercial codes -- Brands & trademarks -- Makers' marks -- Codes of work -- Currency and counterfeits -- The book in your hands -- CODES OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR: Body language -- Survival signals -- Sporting codes -- Etiquette -- Dressing your message -- Heraldry -- Formal dress codes -- Decoding the unconscious -- The language of dreams -- VISUAL CODES: Signs & signage -- Highway codes -- Challenged communication -- Describing music -- Musical scores -- Animal talk -- Extraterrestrials -- IMAGINARY CODES: Modern magic and mayhem -- The Bible code -- The Beale Papers -- Mystery and imagination -- Fantasy codes -- Doomsday codes -- THE DIGITAL AGE. The first computers -- Supercomputers -- Talking to computers -- Alice, Bob, & Eve -- Future medicine -- Where are codes taking us? |
| Source |
NBK 12/9 PPL |
| Subject |
Ciphers.
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Signs and symbols.
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| Added Author |
Lunde, Paul, 1943-
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| ISBN |
9780520260139 |
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0520260139 |
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