Secret Messages
Autor William S. Butler, L. Douglas Keeneyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 dec 2000
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780684869988
ISBN-10: 0684869985
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 147 x 221 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Simon&Schuster
ISBN-10: 0684869985
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 147 x 221 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Notă biografică
William S. Butler ߢL. Douglas Keeney have been a writing team for many years. Between them, they have authored more than a dozen books, many of them collaboratively. Their recent titles include This Is Guadalcanal; D-Day: Day of Destiny; No Easy Days; and Tragedy at Sea. They are both natives of and reside in Louisville, Kentucky, with their families.
Descriere
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.
Cuprins
Contents
Introduction
1: SPECIAL DELIVERY
The Bald Message -- Have a Belt on Me -- The Hat Trick -- The Shirt Off Your Back
2: THE FALL OF TROY AND THE ERIE CANAL: WHAT'S THE CONNECTION?
Where There's Smoke, There's a Message -- A Towering Message -- Taking the Long View -- Smoke Signals -- Boom Time on the Erie Canal
3: GOVERNMENT SECRETS
"Paul Diction Sunk Johnson Imbue Hersal" -- "Why Buy a Cow When Powdered Milk Is So Cheap?" -- The Money Code
4: CODES IN CLOTH
The Signal Flags of Horatio Nelson -- Revolutionary Hanky-Panky -- The Quilt Code System -- Hobo Messages
5: WEARING IT OUT
On the Carrier Deck -- John Dillinger and the Woman in Red -- In LA, Clothes Make the Man -- Tying One On
6: WATCH CAREFULLY...VERY CAREFULLY
The Story of Jeremiah Denton -- Carol Burnett's Ear Problem -- Captain Midnight
7: IT'S ALL SUBLIMINAL
Persuasion Science -- The Message Is...I'm Scared! -- Better by You, Better Than Me -- 10-2-4 -- Secret Slogans -- Reading You Like a Book
8: SPANKY GOES TO BUCKEYE
The Central America -- Secret Service Codenames -- The Venona Project
9: IN THE BOOT
The Traitor's Code -- The Death of the First American Martyr
10: IT IS HOT IN SUEZ
Gone Fishing -- Dutch Curtains -- Sinking the Bismarck -- The Bent-Leg Beam -- An Unbreakable American Code -- The Doll Lady -- A Crossword Spy? -- "Blessent Mon Coeur d'Une Langueur Monotone" -- The Joke Bombed
11: DOG LEG LEFT
BAT 21 -- Working the Wall
12: BUSY SIGNALS FOR BUSY PEOPLE
What'll Ya Have...The Varsity -- The Harvey Girls and the Cup and Saucer Code
13: WHEN VOICES WON'T WORK
The Lookout -- Sealed in the Cockpit -- The Kayaker's Fist -- Chaos in the Pit
14: I RAISE A MILLION
Secret Messages at the Auction -- Connie Mack, Code Master -- Baseball Codes
15: THE MESSAGE IS THE MEDIUM
The ESP Message -- The "Mind Readers" -- The Houdini Message -- An Arthurian Legend
16: THE MESSAGE IN THE NOTES
Paul Is Dead? -- All the Kingsmen -- A Mother Goose Mystery -- The Twelve Days of Persecution?
17: WHAT MORSE WROUGHT
ard
The Morse Message -- From the Electrical Field to the Ball Field -- Taking the Fifth -- The USS Squalus -- Stop Your Squawking!
18: CODING OUT LOUD
"Dr. Kildare to the ER, Code Blue STAT!" -- Color Codes -- Number Codes
19: CHEATS AND SCAMS
The Trouble with Bridge Partners -- A Blackjack Scam
20: SIGNS AND SYMBOLS
What Is the Message, O Great Seal? -- A Message in the Marks -- The Language of Cattle Brands -- So You Survived a Shipwreck?
21: THE SECRET MESSAGE MYSTERIES
The Secret Message of Dighton Rock -- The Mongoose Messages -- The Voynich Manuscript
22: WORD PLAY
The Victor Hugo Message -- Word Play from Voltaire -- Lewis in Wonderland -- The Secret of Space -- Alexander the Great Gets the Message
23: IN PLAIN SIGHT
Marry Me! -- The Lepidoptera Message -- Corporal Violet
24: WRITE ME A LETTER
The Tic-Tac-Toe System -- The Basic Tic-Tac-Toe Code -- The Spoken Tic-Tac-Toe Code -- The Clock Code -- The Way Out Secret -- The Double-Sided Message -- Two-Fisted Genius
25: NEW MEDIA
The Message in the Molecule -- Internet Messages -- Watson! QWERTYUIO! SOS! -- The Arecibo Interstellar Message -- The Milton Berle Conundrum
Resources
Index
Introduction
1: SPECIAL DELIVERY
The Bald Message -- Have a Belt on Me -- The Hat Trick -- The Shirt Off Your Back
2: THE FALL OF TROY AND THE ERIE CANAL: WHAT'S THE CONNECTION?
Where There's Smoke, There's a Message -- A Towering Message -- Taking the Long View -- Smoke Signals -- Boom Time on the Erie Canal
3: GOVERNMENT SECRETS
"Paul Diction Sunk Johnson Imbue Hersal" -- "Why Buy a Cow When Powdered Milk Is So Cheap?" -- The Money Code
4: CODES IN CLOTH
The Signal Flags of Horatio Nelson -- Revolutionary Hanky-Panky -- The Quilt Code System -- Hobo Messages
5: WEARING IT OUT
On the Carrier Deck -- John Dillinger and the Woman in Red -- In LA, Clothes Make the Man -- Tying One On
6: WATCH CAREFULLY...VERY CAREFULLY
The Story of Jeremiah Denton -- Carol Burnett's Ear Problem -- Captain Midnight
7: IT'S ALL SUBLIMINAL
Persuasion Science -- The Message Is...I'm Scared! -- Better by You, Better Than Me -- 10-2-4 -- Secret Slogans -- Reading You Like a Book
8: SPANKY GOES TO BUCKEYE
The Central America -- Secret Service Codenames -- The Venona Project
9: IN THE BOOT
The Traitor's Code -- The Death of the First American Martyr
10: IT IS HOT IN SUEZ
Gone Fishing -- Dutch Curtains -- Sinking the Bismarck -- The Bent-Leg Beam -- An Unbreakable American Code -- The Doll Lady -- A Crossword Spy? -- "Blessent Mon Coeur d'Une Langueur Monotone" -- The Joke Bombed
11: DOG LEG LEFT
BAT 21 -- Working the Wall
12: BUSY SIGNALS FOR BUSY PEOPLE
What'll Ya Have...The Varsity -- The Harvey Girls and the Cup and Saucer Code
13: WHEN VOICES WON'T WORK
The Lookout -- Sealed in the Cockpit -- The Kayaker's Fist -- Chaos in the Pit
14: I RAISE A MILLION
Secret Messages at the Auction -- Connie Mack, Code Master -- Baseball Codes
15: THE MESSAGE IS THE MEDIUM
The ESP Message -- The "Mind Readers" -- The Houdini Message -- An Arthurian Legend
16: THE MESSAGE IN THE NOTES
Paul Is Dead? -- All the Kingsmen -- A Mother Goose Mystery -- The Twelve Days of Persecution?
17: WHAT MORSE WROUGHT
ard
The Morse Message -- From the Electrical Field to the Ball Field -- Taking the Fifth -- The USS Squalus -- Stop Your Squawking!
18: CODING OUT LOUD
"Dr. Kildare to the ER, Code Blue STAT!" -- Color Codes -- Number Codes
19: CHEATS AND SCAMS
The Trouble with Bridge Partners -- A Blackjack Scam
20: SIGNS AND SYMBOLS
What Is the Message, O Great Seal? -- A Message in the Marks -- The Language of Cattle Brands -- So You Survived a Shipwreck?
21: THE SECRET MESSAGE MYSTERIES
The Secret Message of Dighton Rock -- The Mongoose Messages -- The Voynich Manuscript
22: WORD PLAY
The Victor Hugo Message -- Word Play from Voltaire -- Lewis in Wonderland -- The Secret of Space -- Alexander the Great Gets the Message
23: IN PLAIN SIGHT
Marry Me! -- The Lepidoptera Message -- Corporal Violet
24: WRITE ME A LETTER
The Tic-Tac-Toe System -- The Basic Tic-Tac-Toe Code -- The Spoken Tic-Tac-Toe Code -- The Clock Code -- The Way Out Secret -- The Double-Sided Message -- Two-Fisted Genius
25: NEW MEDIA
The Message in the Molecule -- Internet Messages -- Watson! QWERTYUIO! SOS! -- The Arecibo Interstellar Message -- The Milton Berle Conundrum
Resources
Index