Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Publication
Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, c2009.
Description
This illustrated encyclopedia surveys the history and development of code-making and code-breaking in all areas of culture and society from hieroglyphs and runes to DNA, the Zodiac Killer, graffiti, and beyond.
User reviews
LibraryThing member kaelirenee
This is essentially a coffee table book on the history of codes, traveling from the very earliest languages through the codes and jargon used to hide all kinds of information. This book is beautifully illustrated.
Subjects
Language
Original publication date
2009
Physical description
279 p.; 26.2 cm
ISBN
9780520260139
Copy notes
First edition, first printing.
Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial paper-covered boards. Illustrated red endpapers.
Dust jacket ripped at lower left front and center left front. Corresponding damage to boards under the latter.
Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial paper-covered boards. Illustrated red endpapers.
Dust jacket ripped at lower left front and center left front. Corresponding damage to boards under the latter.