Maria Popova

Maria Popova is the creator of The Marginalian (founded in 2006 under the name Brain Pickings), which is included in the Library of Congress’s permanent digital archive of culturally valuable materials. She is the author of Figuring and Traversals, the editor of A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader, and the maker of The Universe in Verse—a live celebration of the wonder of reality through stories of science winged with poetry, which is now a book.

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Willard Gibbs: The Whole Is Simpler than Its Parts

$32.00

Muriel Rukeyser

Foreword by Maria Popova

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 American creativity, character, and remembrance.

COMING FEB 25, 2025

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An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days

$35.00

Maria Popova

From writer Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian, comes a gorgeous and inspiring book of cards: one hundred “divinations” for daily living, partway between poem and koan yet neither, collaged from the texts and illustrations of 19th-century ornithological books.

COMING MAR 18, 2025

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Is Peace Possible?

$24.00

Kathleen Lonsdale

Foreword by Maria Popova

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 politics that might enable the triumph of peace.

COMING APR 15, 2025

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Alpha and Omega

$28.00

Jane Ellen Harrison

Foreword by Maria Popova

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 opposing forces from magic and theology to peace and patriotism.

COMING JUN 3, 2025