99% Invisible

John Loomis who we've been talking to throughout this episode published his book about the schools called Revolution of Forms.

And through Revolution of Forms Felipe finally learned the story of this place where he had studied for five years.

The year Revolution of Forms came out, Fidel Castro publicly committed to restoring them.

Special thanks of course to John Loomis, author of Revolution of Forms.

I was accused in Cuba of being an employee of the CIA and writing this book to embarrass Cuba and that's... I don't think it embarrasses Cuba. I hope not.

Corinne spent seven years researching Frances Glesner-Lee.

Corinne Botts' book, The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, is full of amazing photographs of the nutshells, some of which you can see on our website is 99pi.org.

She wrote a book about Sarah Winchester that challenges some of the myths about her.

Sarah herself didn't write a memoir or speak to the press but Mary Jo did find documents that helped her understand who the real Sarah Winchester may have been.

That is David Ewing Duncan and I am the author of calendar.

Robert wrote a book about how Kodak film was made called making Kodak film.

My name is David Wolman, my book is The End of Money.

For a lot of people our currency is a physical touchstone of our national identity.

And that other concern is that when you redesign the money you remind people what currency is and what gives the currency value.

And of course what gives the currency value is our belief that it's valuable and in the religious sense of it nothing more than faith or trust or worship whatever you want to call it makes a dollar worth a dollar or worth whatever you're going to buy with it.

I don't think it's that remarkable. Congratulations to the Aussies and the scientists who came up with polymer banknotes and I think they profited well because of that innovation but I'm just not convinced it's a very world-changing kind of thing it's it's pretty.

Hi, my name is Alan Krell and I'm the author of The Devil's Rope, A Cultural History of Barbed Wire.

Alan says that World War I is the first time barbed wire really becomes widely associated with being a tool of war.

Ellen Krell's book, The Devil's Rope, is a really great resource for this.

Joanne Liu, who you heard throughout the piece, wrote Barbed Wire, The Fence That Changed the West.

That's AJ Mass, writer for ESPN.com and author of a book all about sports mascots called Yes, It's Hot in Here.

In Plato's Republic, Plato sets up this kind of debate about whether the ideal polis, the ideal society or city-state should function on a diet of whole grain gruel associated with rural life or kind of cidified white bread cakes.

Will's book, Universal Principles of Design, is one of my two go-to recommendations for books about design.

It's fun, insightful, quick-hit encyclopedia of all kinds of design principles.

I consult it all the time. I highly recommend it.

In 1985, Akasagawa published a book of these collected photographs and writings, which Matt Fargo translated into English for the first time in 2009.

After Matt translated Akasagawa's original book, which, by the way, is entitled Hyper Art Thomasson, the American publishers wanted to get a conversation going stateside.

My book is called Invisibles, the Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion.

David Zweig's book is a series of portraits of people whom he refers to as invisibles. Invisibles are people who are highly skilled professionals, people who are really important to whatever enterprise or endeavor that they're a part of, that their work really has a big effect on the overall outcome, but yet who are largely unknown, never thought of by the public or the end user.

One of my books is called 'The Fireproof Building'. I can't remember the subtitle. It's 'The Fireproof Building', Technology and Public Safety in the 19th Century American City.

I'm Kenneth D. Rose. I wrote One Nation Underground, the fallout shelter in American culture.

And he says, in fact, there was a lot of debate going on at the time about fallout shelters.

The subject was virtually inescapable in the early 1960s.

Every newspaper was running articles on shelters and the potential for survival.

And Dr. Rose also believes... Americans simply did not like the image of themselves cowering underground.

Brendan I. Kerner author of The Skies Belong to Us love and terror in the golden age of hijacking says