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"The author's upbeat, positive tone is refreshing and his enthusiasm about his topic is contagious." — School Library Journal (starred review)Pssst! Do you know the difference between a code and a cipher? Can you tell a St. Cyr slide from a Cardano grille? Did you know that the discovery of a substitution cipher caused Mary Queen of Scots to lose her head? Don’t look now, but packed into this practical field guide is everything a young person needs to know about the art of concealment — making and breaking codes, mastering cipher systems, and experimenting with secret writing. Offering plenty of hands-on practice sessions, tips for creating a code-making kit, sidebars on secret codes in history, and an amusing pair of spies to illustrate techniques, Paul B. Janeczko’s tantalizing Top Secret won’t stay a secret for long. Back matter includes suggestions for further reading, an author’s note, an answer key, and an index.
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Top Secret, Paul B. Janeczko
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2006
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- Top Secret
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Paul B. Janeczko
- Verlag
- Candlewick Press (MA)
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2006
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 144
- ISBN10
- 0763629723
- ISBN13
- 9780763629724
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Wissenschaft & Mathematik, Handbücher und Anleitungen, Wissenschaft, Mathematik
- Bewertung
- 3,95 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- "The author's upbeat, positive tone is refreshing and his enthusiasm about his topic is contagious." — School Library Journal (starred review)Pssst! Do you know the difference between a code and a cipher? Can you tell a St. Cyr slide from a Cardano grille? Did you know that the discovery of a substitution cipher caused Mary Queen of Scots to lose her head? Don’t look now, but packed into this practical field guide is everything a young person needs to know about the art of concealment — making and breaking codes, mastering cipher systems, and experimenting with secret writing. Offering plenty of hands-on practice sessions, tips for creating a code-making kit, sidebars on secret codes in history, and an amusing pair of spies to illustrate techniques, Paul B. Janeczko’s tantalizing Top Secret won’t stay a secret for long. Back matter includes suggestions for further reading, an author’s note, an answer key, and an index.