A collection of 95 of the most interesting examples of code & concealed communications throughout history. Many of these examples are from wartime, incl. the story of how a too simple code was the undoing of Benedict Arnold, & how Comm. Jeremiah Denton blinked in Morse code to indicate that his N. Vietnamese captors were torturing him. Others are more lighthearted, such as the creative use of hand signals by catchers & managers in modern baseball. And some selections offer a glimpse into how codes are used in everyday life, in hospitals, police stations, & firehouses. Explores the future of encryption, where technology will enable vast amounts of info. to be hidden within minuscule hosts such as human DNA, or the dot of an ''i.''

Secret Messages: Concealment, Codes, and Other Types of Ingenious Communication

Politics & Social Sciences

William S. Butler

L. DOUGLAS KEENEY

Social Sciences

Simon&Schuster, Inc.

<p>Louisville, Kentucky's recent history has no more vivid moment than the tornado which tore a path of destruction across the city and Jefferson County on April 3, 1974. This book is a 30th anniversary look back at the events of that day as seen through the images of journalists, freelance photographers and ordinary people who grabbed their cameras and recorded the destruction that occurred. <br><br> Complementing the photographs are the compelling personal accounts and recollections of people whose fate brought them into contact with the storm, and who lived to tell the tale.</p>

Tornado: A Look Back at Louisville's Dark Day, April 3, 1974

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