{"product_id":"is-peace-possible-9781961341197","title":"Is Peace Possible?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarginalian 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKathleen Lonsdale was a groundbreaking chemist who was instrumental in developing the science of crystallography. She was also a midlife convert to Quakerism who campaigned for peace and prison reform. Horrified by the dropping of the first atomic bombs, Lonsdale felt that the entire scientific community was now tainted by the violence it had enabled. Published in 1957, \u003ci\u003eIs Peace Possible?\u003c\/i\u003e was her attempt to make amends for this communal guilt by demonstrating that science can bring peace as well as war, and can address the \"big questions\" generally left to the humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn crystalline language and logic honed from a lifetime of relying on the sharpness of her mind to cut through barriers of class and gender, and refusing to be bullied by received wisdom about war's inevitability, Kathleen Lonsdale's \u003ci\u003eIs Peace Possible?\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of quiet, elegant sanity. It is a snapshot of a particular moment in history, but its themes are eternally relevant, and perhaps even more necessary now than when it was written.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLonsdale, Kathleen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDame Kathleen Lonsdale\u003c\/b\u003e (1903-1971) was an Irish pacifist, prison reformer and crystallographer. She was one of the first two women elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1945, first woman tenured professor at University College London, first woman president of the International Union of Crystallography, and first woman president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePopova, Maria:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaria Popova\u003c\/b\u003e thinks and writes about our search for meaning--sometimes through science and philosophy, sometimes through poetry and children's books, always through the lens of wonder. She is the creator of \u003ci\u003eThe Marginalian\u003c\/i\u003e (born in 2006 under the name \u003ci\u003eBrain Pickings\u003c\/i\u003e), which is included in the Library of Congress permanent digital archive of culturally valuable materials. She has written some very long books (\u003ci\u003eFiguring\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTraversal\u003c\/i\u003e) and some very short books (\u003ci\u003eThe Snail with the Right Heart\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Coziest Place on the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e), and her show \u003ci\u003eThe Universe in Verse\u003c\/i\u003e--a charitable celebration of the wonder of reality through stories of science winged with poetry--has also become a book the length of a day on Saturn.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marginalian Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51276842664210,"sku":"9781961341197","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_32fe460a-61e7-472b-bee9-aeec973e1143.jpg?v=1747142106","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/is-peace-possible-9781961341197","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}