Really I’ll take anything at all if you think it even vaguely matches any of these points. If you are still wondering how to get free PDF EPUB of book Figuring by Maria Popova. This stunning meditation on the interconnectivity of lives shatters 'the illusion of separateness, of otherness. PDF / EPUB File Name: Figuring-MariaPopova.pdf, Figuring-MariaPopova.epub PDF File Size: 4.3 MB EPUB File Size: 5.4 MB PDF EPUB Figuring Download. Nonfiction books on any topic with exceptionally beautiful proseĪnd some of the people Popova examined were Johannes Kepler, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Maria Mitchell, Harriet Hosmer, and Rachel Carson, if you have any suggestions for learning more about their lives. In a striking spoken-word performance, poet and thinker Maria Popova reads an excerpt from her book 'Figuring,' accompanied by cellist Dave Eggar and guitarist Chris Bruce. Nonfiction books or essay collections about meaning, existence, and what it means to live a fulfilling life (and what that even means, anyway) Single biographies of scientists and/or poets/artists (bonus points if they’re both, and you can sub 'excellent letter-writer' for poet/artist if that’s applicable) I’m looking for at least one, hopefully more than one of these:īiographies of multiple people in one volume, bonus points if some of them are women and/or queer (as Popova’s cast largely are, but it’s not a requirement, and keeping in mind that 'queer' is a restrictive modern term that often doesn’t account for passionate nonsexual relationships throughout history Popova’s especially interested in that issue)

So, I’m desperate for books that ask similar questions.

It’s part multi-biography, part philosophy, and part love-letter to poetry and science - a book that looks at several lives over the last 150 years and asks, without ever asking outright, what makes a meaningful existence? how do we define a good life, or a good death? and what’s love got to do with it? I was absolutely blown away by Maria Popova’s 'Figuring,' a book that’s really difficult to describe.

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