The book of codes
Subtitle: understanding the world of hidden messages : an illustrated guide to signs, symbols, ciphers, and secret languages
By: Paul Lunde, general editor.
Contributors: Lunde, Paul, 1943-
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780520260139
Subjects: Ciphers; Cryptography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: THE FIRST CODES: Reading the landscape; title: Tracking animals; title: Bushcraft signs; title: Early petroglyphs; title: First writing systems; title: Reading cuneiform; title: Alphabets and scripts; title: The evolution of numerical systems; title: Linear A & Linear B; title: The Phaistos disc; title: The mystery of hieroglyphs; title: Hieroglyphs revealed; title: The riddle of the Maya; title: Indigenous traditions; title: SECTS, SYMBOLS, & SECRET SOCIETIES: Early Christians; title: The pentangle; title: Divination; title: Heresies, sects and cults; title: Rosslyn Chapel; title: Alchemy; title: Kabbalism; title: Necromancy; title: Rosicrucians; title: Freemasons; title: CODES FOR SECRECY: The art of concealment; title: For your eyes only; title: Frequency analysis; title: Disguising ciphers; title: Medieval cipher systems; title: The Babington plot; title: The da Vinci code; title: Ciphertexts and keys; title: Grilles; title: Spies and black chambers; title: Mechanical devices; title: Hidden in plain sight; title: COMMUNICATING AT A DISTANCE: Long-distance alarms; title: Flag signals; title: Semaphore and the telegraph; title: Morse code; title: Person to person; title: CODES OF WAR: Classical codes of war; title: The 'indecipherable' code; title: The great cipher; title: 19th-century innovations; title: Military map codes; title: Field signals; title: The Zimmermann telegram; title: Enigma: the 'unbreakable' system; title: WWII codes and code breakers; title: Cracking enigma; title: Navajo windtalkers; title: Cold war codes; title: CODES OF THE UNDERWORLD: Street slang; title: From Samurai to Yakuza; title: Cockney rhyming slang; title: The Mob; title: Ramblers' sign language; title: Cops and codes; title: The zodiac mystery; title: The zodiac legacy; title: Graffiti; title: Youth codes; title: Digital subversion; title: ENCODING THE WORLD: Describing time; title: Describing form; title: Force and motion; title: Mathematics: the indescribable; title: The periodic table; title: Defining the world; title: Encoding the landscape; title: Navigation; title: Taxonomy; title: The genetic code; title: Genetic ancestry; title: Using the genetic code; title: CODES OF CIVILIZATION: Codes of construction; title: Taoist mysticism; title: South Asian sacred imagery; title: The language of Buddhism; title: The patterns of Islam; title: Mysteries of the North; title: Medieval visual sermons; title: Stained glass windows; title: Renaissance iconography; title: The age of reason; title: Victoriana; title: Textiles, carpets, and embroidery; title: CODES OF COMMERCE: Commercial codes; title: Brands & trademarks; title: Makers' marks; title: Codes of work; title: Currency and counterfeits; title: The book in your hands; title: CODES OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR: Body language; title: Survival signals; title: Sporting codes; title: Etiquette; title: Dressing your message; title: Heraldry; title: Formal dress codes; title: Decoding the unconscious; title: The language of dreams; title: VISUAL CODES: Signs & signage; title: Highway codes; title: Challenged communication; title: Describing music; title: Musical scores; title: Animal talk; title: Extraterrestrials; title: IMAGINARY CODES: Modern magic and mayhem; title: The Bible code; title: The Beale Papers; title: Mystery and imagination; title: Fantasy codes; title: Doomsday codes; title: THE DIGITAL AGE. The first computers; title: Supercomputers; title: Talking to computers; title: Alice, Bob, & Eve; title: Future medicine; title: Where are codes taking us?