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41) A good American
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The true story of a terrorist monitoring system that the U.S. Government launched in the wake of the first World Trade Center attack, but discontinued just weeks before 9/11. Features a NSA analyst-turned-whistleblower, who was a leading expert on metadata and responsible for the world's most sophisticated global monitoring effort: ThinThread.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It tells the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work decoding thousands of messages for the U.S. government would send infamous gangsters to prison and bring down a massive, near-invisible Nazi spy ring in WWII. A suburban wife and mother who led a secret double life, her remarkable contributions to the science of cryptology would only come to light decades after her death when classified...
Author
Series
Asha and Baz volume 3
Publisher
Common Deer Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In the third book in the Asha and Baz series, readers learn about secret codes and how to break them from World War II codebreaker Elizebeth Friedman! A secret code and a mysterious prize up for grabs at school prompts Asha and Baz to once more use their magic stick to travel to the past. This time they land in 1942, where they meet Elizebeth Friedman, a codebreaker working with the US Navy. She's the perfect person to help the kids with their codebreaking...
50) Heir to the Jedi
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Challenged by ruthless Imperial bodyguards, death-dealing enemy battleships, merciless bounty hunters, and monstrous brain-eating parasites, Luke Skywalker plunges head-on into a high-stakes espionage operation that will push his abilities as a Rebel fighter and would-be Jedi to the limit.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The extraordinary story of a headmaster turned cryptographer, and our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich. On 11 August 1914, just days after war had been declared, Australian Captain J.T. Richardson boarded a German merchant vessel fleeing Melbourne's Port Phillip and audaciously seized a top-secret naval codebook. The fledgling Australian Navy had an opportunity to immediately change the course of the war. But what exactly had they found? Enter...
Author
Publisher
Wydawn. Albatros A. Kurylowicz
Pub. Date
2004
Language
Polish
Description
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci--clues visible for all to see--yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins...
Author
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Elliot Carlson's biography of Captain Joe Rochefort is the first to be written of the officer who headed the U.S. Navy's decrypt unit at Pearl Harbor and broke the Japanese Navy's code before the Battle of Midway. Listeners will share his frustrations as he searches in vain for Yamamoto's fleet prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and share his joy when he succeeds in tracking the fleet in early 1942 and breaks the code that leads Rochefort...
Author
Publisher
Clavis Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte likes cracking codes together with her great-grandmother. On her ninth birthday, she has to solve a few puzzles to find Nana's gift. Charlotte goes on a fun quest--and learns about her grandma's interesting past along the way"--
"Charlotte loves puzzles. On her ninth birthday, she receives a card from her great-grandmother, on which she finds a difficult code. Soon she embarks on a quest full of codes and riddles. While she tries to solve...
Author
Publisher
AST
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Russian
Description
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever". The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he...
57) Zaginiony symbol
Author
Publisher
Wydawnictwo Albatros Andrzej Kuryłowicz
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Polish