{"product_id":"b0h6pcb8yy","title":"Kin: Childhood, Parenting, and the Making of Civilization","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat if one of the most powerful forces in human history has been hiding in plain sight?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe tell history through wars, rulers, inventions, and institutions.  KIN  tells it through childhood—through the ways each generation has raised the next, and the kinds of people societies have needed children to become.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the first human communities, where survival depended on many hands caring for helpless infants, to agricultural households, empires, factories, classrooms, consumer culture, smartphones, and artificial intelligence,  KIN  follows childhood across the long arc of civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlong the way, discover: How the helplessness of human infants helped make cooperation, empathy, and culture possible How agriculture transformed children into workers, heirs, and carriers of family wealth How religions, empires, schools, and nations shaped childhood around belief, obedience, and citizenship How markets turned children into consumers—and screens turned childhood into something increasingly public, measurable, and commercial How AI, declining fertility, climate uncertainty, and emerging technologies may reshape childhood again\u003cbr\u003e\nKIN  is not a parenting manual. It is a big-idea work of nonfiction about the hidden relationship between childhood and civilization, drawing on research across history, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience, and the social sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt asks us to look beyond the question of how to raise successful children and consider something larger: what happens when millions of families, institutions, technologies, and cultures all shape the next generation at once?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat kind of people are we raising—and what kind of world is raising them?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor readers interested in history, psychology, family, education, technology, and the future of society,  KIN  offers a new way to understand where we came from—and what we may be becoming.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52855360520408,"sku":"YSL83183","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0835\/3356\/2072\/files\/51bWmcxqpGL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793417861","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmebay.com\/products\/b0h6pcb8yy","provider":"BookMebay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}