A Compendium of Meta-Puzzles the sunken archive and the modern-day mayors of

and the modern-day mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Dozens of color photographs offer step-by-step illustration as well as finished-dish showpieces

introduces us to methods for turning down the clatter in our lives

★ A hilarious

Religious liberals and the nonreligious may bristle at what they perceive as antiquated moral restrictions

A Compendium of Meta-Puzzles the sunken archive and the modern-day mayors ofThis book is filled with intriguing, innovative, interconnected puzzles with many hidden surprises and not a single word revealed about their solving procedures. Each set of puzzles occupies two facing pages, with puzzles involving a variety of graphic elements, text, or both, and with solutions requiring an array of diverse approaches, including logic, wordplay, lateral thinking, codebreaking, and more. Hints for all steps of each puzzle are