Recounts how squirrels, robins, grasshoppers, and other creatures in an urban environment find their food and avoid being eatenthemselves.

Traces the importance of printing as a means of communication from the invention of moveable type to today's modern presses.

Explains the difference between the two principal methods of secret writing: codes (which use symbols for whole words) and ciphers (which use symbols for different letters of the alphabet); also gives examples throughout history of each.

An introduction to Washington, D.C., its history, day-to-day life, and points of interest.