Spy [electronic resource]
Platt, Richard2013
Book
Abstract: Learn all about the world of espionage with Eyewitness Spy. Discover how spy pictures are taken from space, how codes and ciphers have been used to communicate secrets, tools of spying from biblical times to the present day, and much, much more!
Main title:
Spy [electronic resource] / written by Richard Platt ; photographed by Geoff Dann and Steve Gorton.
Work:
Edition:
Rev. ed.
Imprint:
New York [N.Y.] : DK Pub., 2009, c2000 (Boston, Mass. : Credo Reference, 2013.)
Collation:
1 online resource (285 entries) : 173 images, digital files.
Series title:
Notes:
1st American ed. pub. in 1995.Includes bibliographical references, filmography (p. 66),.Description based on title page of print version.
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Linking notes:
Print version: 72 p. : col. ill.
Contents:
What is a spy? -- Types of spy -- Secret tool kit -- Seeing the invisible -- Bugs and taps -- Listening in -- Dropping in -- Animal spies -- Secret messages -- Codes and ciphers -- Intercepts and code-breaking -- Concealment -- Spies at war -- Cover story -- Agents, moles and defectors -- Secret weapons -- Cold War -- Spymasters -- Secret services -- Surveillance at work -- Industrial espionage -- Counterintelligence -- Spy-catching -- Spying without spies -- Spying today -- Spying and you -- Famous spies -- Spies in fiction -- Rogues' gallery -- Timeline of modern spying -- Find out more -- Glossary.
Access restrictions:
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
ISBN:
0756650356 (print)9780756650353 (print)0756650348 (print)9780756650346 (print)9781782683490 (online)
Dewey class:
327.12
LC class:
JF1525.I6
Language:
English
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Subject:
BRN:
502355
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