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This revealing book traces codes throughout history, from an encryption device used by the Spartans in 400 B.C. to the Enigma Code of the 1940s, pausing to consider coded military secrets and newspaper scoops alike. Students will be delighted by code-cracking diagrams.

A dictionary of over 60,000 abbreviations arranged by abbreviation and by term or phrase. Includes scientific and technical terms.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide definitions of 13,000 abbreviations and acronyms used in advertisements, business reports, computer manuals, and other forms of communication.

A listing of over 40,000 abbreviations collected under 20,000 headings with their meanings, initializations, acronyms, and colloquialisms.

Illustrated sentences about a family of pigs introduce contractions.

Lists abbreviations for 12,000 words and phrases, arranged in two parts.