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Encyclopedia of Cryptology
Encyclopedia of Cryptology

Secret writing for the transmission of messages has been practiced for nearly 4,000 years. According to David Kahn, the great historian of cryptology, the first example of an intentionally altered message can be traced to a tomb in ancient Egypt dated about 1900 b.c. In the 40 centuries since that...

Seeing the Unseen. Geophysics and Landscape Archaeology
Seeing the Unseen. Geophysics and Landscape Archaeology

SEEING THE UNSEEN. GEOPHYSICS AND LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY is a collection of papers presented at the advanced XV International Summer School in Archaeology ‘Geophysics for Landscape Archaeology’ (Grosseto, Italy, 10-18 July 2006). Bringing together the experience of some of the world’s greatest experts in the field of...

A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

The essays in A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism explore rhetoric as a practical art of deliberation and judgment, best taught and learned through concrete examples of argument, interpretation, and criticism. Historically and in our own time scholars have shown that rhetoric can very well be theorized in the strong sense that...

Secret Societies: Gardiner's Forbidden Knowledge: Revelations about the Freemasons, Templars, Illuminati, Nazis, and the Serpent Cults
Secret Societies: Gardiner's Forbidden Knowledge: Revelations about the Freemasons, Templars, Illuminati, Nazis, and the Serpent Cults
This book is a collection of thoughts and researches about secret societies. It is going to take you on many journeys, but whether you arrive or where you arrive will be your decision. I need to make a simple point before you proceed to “bite the apple”: Clear your mind of anything you have been told. I care not...
Natural and Wood Fibre Reinforcement in Polymers (Rapra Review Reports)
Natural and Wood Fibre Reinforcement in Polymers (Rapra Review Reports)
The use of composite materials dates from centuries ago, when it all started with natural fibres. In ancient Egypt some 3,000 years ago, clay was reinforced by straw to build walls. Later on the natural fibre lost much of its interest.

This report examines the different fibre types available and the current research. The...

Food Supply Chain Management
Food Supply Chain Management
Food is always a matter of interest, a means of providing energy, the raw material that builds and maintains our well-being, a defence against illness, a pleasure to consume when well prepared and presented, a basis for social interaction and enjoyment at home, in a restaurant, canteen or perhaps even hospital or school. Our...
Document Security: Protecting Physical and Electronic Content
Document Security: Protecting Physical and Electronic Content

Several electronic layers exist in most documents, a fact overlooked by many writers. Probing these sublayers often reveals information not intended for release by the author. Documents in electronic formats create a “palimpsest” that even semiskilled investigators can probe for sensitive data.

Palimpsest seems...

Texturing and Modeling, Third Edition: A Procedural Approach
Texturing and Modeling, Third Edition: A Procedural Approach

What is a realistic image? This is an age-old question in art, and a contemporary question in computer graphics. This book provides a modern answer involving the computer and a new definition of realism.

The classic definition of realism has been veridical realism. Does the picture pass the comparison test? That is, would an...

Computability Theory: An Introduction to Recursion Theory
Computability Theory: An Introduction to Recursion Theory

The study of the class of computable partial functions (i.e., recursive partial functions) stands at the intersection of three fields: mathematics, theoretical computer science, and philosophy.

Mathematically, computability theory originates from the concept of an algorithm. It leads to a classification of functions according...

Write Your Way into Animation and Games: Create a Writing Career in Animation and Games
Write Your Way into Animation and Games: Create a Writing Career in Animation and Games

Audiovisual storytelling has a long, well-developed history. As far back as the earliest known prehistoric times, human beings have communicated the essence of story through the use of pictures and sound: whether it’s cave paintings of the hunt, a poet proclaiming the epic adventures of Odysseus, Greek actors performing tragedy...

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies...

The Pyramid Builders of Ancient Egypt: A Modern Investigation of Pharaoh's Workforce
The Pyramid Builders of Ancient Egypt: A Modern Investigation of Pharaoh's Workforce

In this engrossing detective story, Rosalie David uncovers a fascinating picture of Kahun, a pyramid workmens' town excavated in 1887. In David's hands, the Egyptian builders of the pyramids are revealed as simple people, leading ordinary lives while they are engaged in building the great tomb for a Pharaoh. They worry about their...

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