99% Invisible

The original working title of the book was 'What the Hell, English?'

English is Notoriously screwy, but what happened to make our language or at least the written language? It's so ridiculous.

So go definitely check it out. It's available wherever books are sold.

Erica O'Grint's new book is called 'Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language' with illustrations by Sean O'Neill.

Why tough, through, and dough don't rhyme and other oddities of the English language.

Adam recently wrote a book called Full Spectrum how the science of color made us modern.

Adam Rogers book is called Full Spectrum how the science of color made us modern.

So if you want to nerd out about color with Adams some more and I highly recommend that you do that You should definitely check it out.

The color white has been so impactful on human history that Adam devoted three whole chapters of his book to it.

My name is Bonnie Tsoi. I'm a journalist and the author of the book Why We Swim.

So a few years ago I went to Iceland to participate in this annual swim that happens on this island called Heimey, and it's in honor of a man named Gudlugur Fridthorsen who in 1984 was working as a fisherman when his boat capsized and he swam six kilometers over six hours in 41 degree water to safety.

You know, in 41 degree water you and I would die within 20 to 30 minutes from hypothermia, but he survived and it turned out that he, in addition to being a great swimmer, his fat was two to three times normal human thickness and it was like he was more like a seal than a human.

Officially titled The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food, it was simply known as Kaniga, the book, because it was one of the only cookbooks to exist in the Soviet Union.

The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food is peppered with glossy photographs of really lavish-looking spreads, and it's dense with text.

But this book was meant to do so much more than show people how to make certain dishes. It turns out, this was the cookbook of the Soviet Union. For decades. A Stalinist document that was created to address one of the most fundamental problems of the USSR. Hunger.

And so, in 1939, he decided to publish a book. The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food. The one that landed in my lap by way of Babushka.

In total, the book has over 1,400 recipes, spanning 400 pages. It also has descriptions of Mikhail's industrial progress and advice on things like proper food storage and table manners.

Anya von Bremsen is a food writer who was born in Soviet Russia.

Anya's book, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking is a must-read and look out for her forthcoming book on food and nationalism.

If you want to know more about Alice Proctor She's written a book called The Whole Picture which is available now

Jim Saltzman and Michael Heller are law professors and authors of a new book called mine How the hidden rules of ownership control our lives?

It is a very fun book to read and to argue about you're gonna enjoy it

Jim Salzman and Michael Heller are the authors of the book mine how the hidden rules of ownership control our lives

I thought it was lushly romantic, I guess is what you could say.

I thought it was corny and it didn't do justice to the strong writing and complicated characters inside the book.

I do remember registering that I'd hurt my mom's feelings.

My mom may have forgiven me, but I still hadn't sorted it out.

Well it's funny you should say that because my mom's first romance novel actually has a purpley blue cover.

She has sex on page and real sex. She has like sex and achieves orgasm on page in like long form.

In The Flame in the Flower, the hero rapes the heroine four times in the first 100 pages of the book.

It sold 2.3 million copies in its first few years on the market.

In 1985 Joanna Lindsay published a romance called Tender Is the Storm and the cover is really a sight to behold.

It's by an illustrator named Robert McInnes and it's a painted image of a man and a woman in a clinch.

The man is 100% naked. He's fully nude and like backed into some sort of sage bush or something.

The man's nether parts are conveniently hidden by the woman who's collapsed against his body in a full swoon.

Like she's completely limp and literally appears to be unconscious.

She is a UK historian and TV presenter and the author of the books How to Be a Victorian and the domestic revolution.

She is a UK historian and TV presenter and the author of the books how to be a Victorian and The Domestic Revolution.

This is dr. David prayer out I'm the author of the book sees the daylight that curious and contentious story of daylight saving time

Campaign to turn every Puerto Rican into a potential migrant

What needs to be also understood is that the Chicago River In its original incarnation it flowed eastward into Lake Michigan which was and still is Chicago's sole source of drinking water

They were introduced all around the world interestingly enough into the Caribbean into Hawaii and into Australia Under the theory and I don't know where this theory came from that they were going to eat the beetles or the beetle grubs that plague sugarcane crops

They did nothing. They did absolutely nothing for the sugarcane, but they were Like the Asian carp highly successful invaders.

They're particularly pernicious because they can eat anything So there's sort of detrimental to the everything below them on the food chain and they're so toxic They're detrimental to all the predators because if when a predator tries to eat them they kill them

The book expresses a lot of trepidation about even you know That we'd even be considering this. Um I think I described it in one interview as a sort of respectful horror

Brian Raftery actually wrote a book about 1999 Called best movie year ever you have being John Malkovich