Maria Popova
1) Figuring
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 578 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
This is the real-life story of Jeremy, a rare garden snail found in 2015 by a retired London scientist. Jeremy's shell spiraled to the left, indicating reversed internal anatomy--including a heart positioned on the right. As a result, a similarly rare mate was needed in order to procreate.
3) Dear data
Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 289 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Equal parts mail art, data visualization, and affectionate correspondence, Dear Data celebrates "the infinitesimal, incomplete, imperfect, yet exquisitely human details of life"--
"In their year-long visual correspondence project, Giorgia Lupi, an Italian woman living in New York, and Stefanie Posavec, an American woman living in London, capture the inherent poetry of that subjective selectivity. Each week, they jointly selected one aspect of daily...
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
256 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"A collection of 121 letters by authors, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and philosophers about the impact reading has had on their lives. Every letter is accompanied by a full page illustration"--
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
131 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
When Rich and MacNaughton discovered a painted manuscript at an antiquarian book fair, it drew them in like a magnet. The sixty-five years old work was by Cipe Pineles, the first female art director at Condé Nast. Completed in 1945, it was a keepsake of her connection to her childhood's Eastern European food. The manuscript led Rich and McNaughton into a dazzling history of mid-century design, art, food, New York City society, and culture. With...
