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University of California Press
Language
English
Pages
279

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Subjects
Ciphers, Cryptography, Signs and symbols

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2009, University of California Press
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Table of Contents

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

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Berkeley, CA

Classifications

Library of Congress
Z103 .B56 2009, Z103 .B66 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
279 p. :
Number of pages
279

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OL24063249M
Internet Archive
bookofcodesunder0000unse
ISBN 10
0520260139
ISBN 13
9780520260139
LCCN
2009281679
OCLC/WorldCat
428433188

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