Maria Popova
Auteur van Figuring
Over de Auteur
Maria Popova is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University. She is the winner of the 2007 Edward S. Corwin Award from the American Political Science Association for best dissertation in the field of public law and the 2006 Sumner Dissertation Prize in the toon meer Department of Government at Harvard University. Her writings have been published in Comparative Political Studies, Demokratizatsiya, Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of East European Law, and Konstitutsionnoe Pravo: Vostochnoevropeiskoe Obozrenie. toon minder
Fotografie: Photograph by Allan Amato, taken at Pioneer Works
Werken van Maria Popova
Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies: A Study of Courts in Russia and Ukraine (2012) 8 exemplaren
Brain Pickings 3 exemplaren
Art de Vivre: Triple Challenge 1 exemplaar
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Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment, and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words (2015) — Introductie, sommige edities — 265 exemplaren
Dear Data: A Friendship in 52 Weeks of Postcards (2016) — Voorwoord, sommige edities — 195 exemplaren
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- 1984-07-28
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- New York, New York, USA
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- American College of Sofia (BA, 2003)
University of Pennsylvania - Beroepen
- writer
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literary and cultural critic
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-Dani Shapiro, page 50
This book is just what it claimed to be- a collection of letters by various well-known (and some not quite as well-known) readers to younger readers. It is what I might label as a coffee table book; it's an imposing size, has a beautiful cover, contains beautiful artwork inside, and doesn't have to be read in order. Each spread had a letter on the left page and an accompanying illustration on the right page.
For me, it was much more than the kind of book you buy just to impress guests by keeping it in a prominent spot in your living room. Since the title says the letters are written to a "young" reader, I was not quite as young as the intended audience. But the letters I found within helped me feel understood as a young adult reader. Some of the letters I loved the most were those by Laura Brown-Lavoie (page 18), Dani Shapiro (50), and Pamela Paul (218).… (meer)