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        Long Days, Short Years

        Long Days, Short Years

        Long Days, Short Years

        A Cultural History of Modern Parenting

        by Andrew Bomback

        ISBN: 9780262047159

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 9, 2022

        How parenting became a verb, from Dr. Spock and June Cleaver to baby whispering and free-range kids.
        Ancestors

        Ancestors

        Ancestors

        Edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Ed Pavlić and Ivelisse Rodriguez

        ISBN: 9781946511553

        Publisher: Boston Review

        Pub Date: March 23, 2021

        Some of today's most imaginative writers consider what it means to be made and fashioned by others.
        Similarity in Difference

        Similarity in Difference

        Similarity in Difference

        Marriage in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900

        by Christer Lundh and Satomi Kurosu

        ISBN: 9780262027946

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 5, 2014

        A study of marriage in preindustrial Europe and Asia that goes beyond the Malthusian East–West dichotomy to find variation within regions and commonality across regions.
        Heredity, Family, and Inequality

        Heredity, Family, and Inequality

        Heredity, Family, and Inequality

        A Critique of Social Sciences

        by Michael Beenstock

        ISBN: 9780262016926

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 6, 2012

        An economist critiques nature versus nurture hypotheses from behavioral genetics, developmental psychology, sociology, and economics.
        The Mathematics of Marriage

        The Mathematics of Marriage

        The Mathematics of Marriage

        Dynamic Nonlinear Models

        by John M. Gottman, James D. Murray, Catherine C. Swanson, Rebecca Tyson and Kristin R. Swanson

        ISBN: 9780262572309

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 14, 2005

        Divorce rates are at an all-time high. But without a theoretical understanding of the processes related to marital stability and dissolution, it is difficult to design and evaluate new marriage interventions....
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