ciphers

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ciphers

The Usborne book of secret codes

1997
Describes famous cases involving codes and ciphers, explains different ciphers, and tells how to create your own.

Code busters!

1985
Presents an illustrated explanation of twenty-five codes that can be used to send secret messages.

Secret writing--codes and messages

1980
Discusses a variety of codes and explains how to send and decode messages.

Codes for kids

1976
Explains and illustrates twenty-nine codes which can be used to send secret messages or as brainteasers.

Codes, ciphers & other cryptic & clandestine communication

making and breaking secret messages from hieroglyphs to the Internet
1998
A guide to every type of coded communication that includes information on what certain codes have been used for, how professionals break those codes, what codes were used by ancient cultures, and other related topics.

Codes, ciphers, and secret writing

1984
Explains how to make and crack codes, examining several famous ones including the Playfair and the Pigpen cipers, and describing other types of encoding such as invisible ink.

Top secret

a handbook of codes, ciphers, and secret writing
2006
Presents a guide to codemaking, codebreaking, and their role in history, describing different types of codes and ciphers, discussing codebreaking and concealment techniques, and including brief stories about exciting moments in the history of the art.

Killing Rachel

2013
As her stepbrother, Joshua, continues to decipher the meaning of the cryptic murder notebooks, Rose wonders if the recent death of her former best friend may hold a clue to the disappearance of Rose's mother and Joshua's father.

Dead Time

2012
Five years after seventeen-year-old Rose's mother and Joshua's father disappeared, when the step-siblings reconnect in London, Rose witnesses two murders which she fears are linked to coded notebooks Joshua has found and his investigation of the disappearance.

Hidden in plain view

the secret story of quilts and the underground railroad
2000
Describes how African Americans made coded quilts and how they used them to escape on the underground railroad.

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