{"product_id":"traversal","title":"Traversal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Maria Popova  |  Hardcover\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMarginalian \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ecreator and bestselling author Maria Popova, a bold exploration of what makes a meaningful life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhat is life?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhat is death?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhat makes a body a person?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhat makes a planet a world?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTraversal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Maria Popova illuminates our various instruments of reckoning with the bewilderment of being alive―our telescopes and our treatises, our postulates and our poems―through the intertwined lives, loves, and legacies of visionaries both celebrated and sidelined by history, people born into the margins of their time and place who lived to write the future: Mary Shelley, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Fanny Wright, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Marie Tharp, Alfred Wegener, Humphry Davy, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead. Woven throughout their stories are other threads―the first global scientific collaboration, the Irish potato famine, the decoding of the insulin molecule, the invention of the bicycle, how nature creates blue―to make the tapestry of meaning more elaborate yet clearer as the book advances, converging on the ultimate question of what makes life alive and worth living.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy turns epic and intimate―as concerned with the physical laws binding atoms into molecules as with the psychic forces binding us to one another―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTraversal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores the universe between cells and souls to reveal the world, and our lives, in a dazzling new light.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50822107365538,"sku":"9780374616410","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0448\/5162\/6146\/files\/d3bbdde2-b283-45f1-98af-f80edaaf27d5.jpg?v=1793912247","url":"https:\/\/dashophnl.com\/products\/traversal","provider":"da Shop: books + curiosities","version":"1.0","type":"link"}