Traversal - Maria Popova Hardback New York City is a

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Traversal - Maria Popova Hardback New York City is aIn Traversal, Maria Popova traverses the border between life and death, chance and choice, chemistry and consciousness: what makes a body a person? What makes a planet a world? How do we safeguard our love of truth from our lust for power? What slakes our longings and what redeems our losses? Popova illuminates our various instruments of reckoning with these questions our telescopes and our treatises, our postulates and our poems through the