Författare: Maria Popova

Equal parts mail art, data visualization, and affectionate correspondence, Dear Data celebrates ’the infinitesimal, incomplete, imperfect, yet exquisitely human details of life, ’ in the words of Mar …

Reformers had high hopes that the end of communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union would lead to significant improvements in legal institutions and the role of law in public administrat …

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Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries – beginning with the astrono …

In Consolations David Whyte unpacks aspects of being human that many of us spend our lives trying vainly to avoid – loss, heartbreak, vulnerability, fear – boldly reinterpreting them, fully embracing …

Maria Popova porträtiert brillante Denkerinnen und Denker aus Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur. In poetischer Sprache und mit erfrischend persönlichem Erkenntnishunger verknüpft Popova Lebensentwürf …

Thirty years after Bulgaria’s democratic breakthrough, this book provides a ’;balance sheet’ of the country’s democratic institutions through a number of interdisciplinary contributions. The volume i …

In February 2022, Russian missiles rained on Ukrainian cities, and tanks rolled towards Kyiv to end Ukrainian independent statehood. President Zelensky declined a Western evacuation offer and Ukraini …

Marginalian Editions presents a groundbreaking poet’s biography of the forgotten scientist who founded physical chemistry, shaping much of the 20th century—and an ingenious, expansive treatise on Ame …

Marginalian Editions presents a trailblazing Quaker scientist’s slender masterwork of moral courage, penned at the height of the Cold War, envisioning a transformation of the human spirit and our pol …

From Marginalian Editions, a remarkable essay collection by the iconoclastic historian Jane Ellen Harrison, hero to generations of writers from Virginia Woolf to Mary Beard, exploring seemingly oppos …

Kathleen Lonsdale was a groundbreaking chemist who was instrumental in developing the science of crystallography. She was also a midlife convert to Quakerism who campaigned for peace and prison refor …

In May 1924, the BBC broadcast a miracle to the world: a wild nightingale singing a duet with a remarkable young cellist called Beatrice Harrison. Over a million people tuned in to hear this live per …