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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
World War I is often viewed as a war fought by armies of millions living and fighting in trenches, aided by brutal machinery that cost the lives of many. But behind all of this an intellectual war was also being fought between engineers, chemists, code-breakers, physicists, doctors, mathematicians, and intelligence gatherers. This hidden war was to make a positive and lasting contribution to how war was conducted on land, at sea, and in the air, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First United States edition.
Language
English
Description
"Geniuses at War is the dramatic, untold story of the brilliant team who built the world's first digital electronic computer at Bletchley Park, during a critical time in World War II. Decoding the communication of the Nazi high command was imperative for the success of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Nazi missives were encrypted by the "Tunny" cipher, a code that was orders of magnitude more difficult to crack than the infamous Enigma code. But...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
All of aviation's dangerous, exciting, and most courageous moments are featured within this stunning compendium on flight. Packed with stories of heroic and innovative pioneers, fascinating profiles of remarkable planes from Spitfires to space shuttles, and how-to instructions for making everything from origami helicopters to bottle rockets-all accompanied by sensational photographs, illustrations, and diagrams-Cleared for Takeoff promises to astonish,...
87) Code Breakers
Author
Series
Billie B. mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First American Edition.
Language
English
Description
"Billie and the Secret Mystery Club have found a mysterious note - in code! What does it say? And who could have sent it? One thing's for certain: it will take all the skills of the SMC to solve this mystery..."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From spy schools and ciphers to sneaky tools and secret armies, this guide takes you on a declassified tour of the undercover operations that helped decide the outcome of World War II. There's also more than a dozen short 'spy-ographies' that cover some of the most famous (and infamous!) agents who were active during the war." -- Back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The thrilling, true-life account of the FBI's hunt for the ingenious traitor Brian Regan--known as The Spy Who Couldn't Spell. Before Edward Snowden's infamous data breach, the largest theft of government secrets was committed by an ingenious traitor whose intricate espionage scheme and complex system of coded messages were made even more baffling by his dyslexia. His name is Brian Regan, but he came to be known as The Spy Who Couldn't Spell. In...
92) Enigma
Language
English
Description
Still reeling from the disappearance of his lover, a brilliant code-breaker is summoned to Blechley Park, Britain's top-secret intellengence campus. Now he must face his toughest assignment - crack the Nazis' infamous Engima codes. Putting together the pieces of a puzzle, he discovers the reason for his lovers' disappearance to U-boats closing in on Allied cargo ships to a mass grave in Poland.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Programming is fun, and you can create some really cool stuff when you know how. If you haven't had a chance to learn Ruby yet, this book is for you! Follow the steps, and you'll learn to code while you build games and other projects to impress your friends!" -- Cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
A gripping account of the unflagging battle by spies, code breakers, ambassadors and confidence-men who sought to protect Elizabeth I from the most powerful rulers of Europe who conspired to destroy her, their plans most fully realized by the Spanish Armada.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When three high school friends experience breakups on the same night, a fourth writes "The Break up Code, " which all agree to follow as they try to get over the bad relationships and get back in touch with themselves and one another.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling and award-winning author-illustrator Marissa Moss, praised for her accessible blend of narrative nonfiction with graphic novel-style chapter openers in The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner, comes another fascinating story of a groundbreaking woman in STEM. One of the founders of U.S. cryptology who would eventually become one of the world's greatest code breakers, Elizebeth Smith Friedman (1892-1980) was a brilliant...
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: The setting: Bolivia in the near future. Miguel "Turing" Saenz, a veteran cryptanalyst, is the most famous code-breaker in the employment of a secret government organization known as the Black Chamber. He is leading the pursuit of the Chamber's latest target: Kandinsky, a "cyberhacktivist" leader who is staging a war against both the government and the country's transnational corporations as part of an antiglobalization revolution....
100) Codebreakers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In 1951, a cheating scandal rocks West Point academy as 83 cadets, including the son of the school's football coach, are implicated and ultimately dismissed.
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