{"title":"Marilyn Yalom","description":"Irvin D. Yalom, emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, is the author of internationally bestselling books, including Love's Executioner, The Gift of Therapy, Becoming Myself,  and When Nietzsche Wept. Marilyn Yalom's books include classics of cultural history such as A History of the Wife, Birth of the Chess Queen,  and How the French Invented Love, as well as her final book released posthumously, Innocent Witnesses: Childhood Memories of World War II. They were married for sixty-five years.","products":[{"product_id":"a-history-of-the-wife-paperback","title":"A History of the Wife - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow did marriage, considered a religious duty in medieval Europe, become a venue for personal fulfillment in contemporary America? How did the notion of romantic love, a novelty in the Middle Ages, become a prerequisite for marriage today? 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For any woman who is, has been, or ever will be married, this intellectually vigorous and gripping historical analysis of marriage sheds new light on an institution most people take for granted, and that may, in fact, be experiencing its most convulsive upheaval since the Reformation.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365565235423,"sku":"9780060931568","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/K85U3ofLKG9780060931568.webp?v=1789066391"},{"product_id":"the-social-sex-a-history-of-female-friendship-paperback","title":"The Social Sex: A History of Female Friendship - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom historian and acclaimed feminist author of \u003cem\u003eHow the French Invented Love\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA History of the Wife\u003c\/em\u003e comes this rich, multifaceted history of the evolution of female friendship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn today's culture, the bonds of female friendship are taken as a given. 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