Visible Bones

Visible BonesBy: Jack Nisbet How can you know a place? Historian and naturalist Jack Nisbetauthor of Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson Across Western North Americalooks to the relics of a region to connect the present moment to the distant past. In the vast Western territory defined by the Columbia River, Nisbet tracks the stories and meaning of relics such as a trilobite fossil that points to a tropical prehistoric ecology; the nearly extinct

trails morph into roads and highways

She shows how Roosevelt’s struggle to overcome his frailties as a child helped to build his character

the ultranationalist Mexica Tenochca

Rose became notorious in Washington for her daring–and numerous–love affairs

Her body will float to the surface

By: Mitch Albom     From the bestselling author of Tuesdays with Morrie

reach far beyond the region's borders

Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) #68-85 and AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL (1964) #5

• ways to have fun in the kitchen—creating scallion firecrackers and radish rosettes

At least that's the plan when Mr Speed sets up his super-cool new Worry Website

and tons more counterintuitive ideas that will inspire and provoke you

and underground tunnels