Okay, that’s a pretty weak way to draw you in with a silly pun that uses the title of my book Rope – How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization. But it could have been worse. I could have written Get Twisted! (so many ways to do that! But this is a family blog) or Get Bundled! (maybe not so intriguing) or Get a Backbone, dammit! (yeah, stand up for yourself!) Or even Get Civilization! but that might send you off to buy the latest version of Sid Meier’s Civilization game — which is a great game but that was hardly the point I was trying to make.

Maybe the best thing at this point is to just provide you with the info that you can enter to get a giveaway copy of Rope by clicking on this link.

Now I’ll just sidle away inconspicuously.