Wire Mothers: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love

"Never hug and kiss them, never let them sit on your lap. ... The end result is a happy child. Free as air, because he has mastered the stupidly simple demands society makes upon him."

Psychologists know best, of course, and in the 1950s they warned parents about the dangers of too much love. Besides, what was 'love' anyway? Just a convenient name for children seeking food and adults seeking sex. It took an outsider scientist to challenge this. When Harry Harlow began his experiments on mother love he was more than just outside the mainstream, though. He was a deeply unhappy man who knew in his gut the truth about what love -- and its absence -- meant, and set about to prove it. His experiments and results shocked the world.

About the storytellers: All of Jim Ottaviani's books have been nominated for multiple awards, including Eisners & ALA Popular Paperback of the Year, and they also receive critical praise in publications ranging from The Comics Journal to Physics World to Entertainment Weekly to Discover Magazine, and get national broadcast attention in outlets such as NPR's Morning Edition and the CBS Morning Show. Dylan Meconis was an original contributor to the groundbreaking Flight series and a nominee for the Friends of Lulu Kim Yale award. She is also a launch contributor to Girlamatic, a member of the Pants Press collective and Periscope Studio, and has been blogged just about everywhere.

ISBN: 978-0-9788037-1-1
Retail Price: US$12.95
Page count: 88 pages
Publication date: July, 2007

Wire Mothers and its companion release Levitation: Physics and Psychology in the Service of Deception are the first in a series of books on the science of the unscientific from G.T. Labs.

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Washington Post Express | The Los Angeles Times | Spacecast | Las Vegas Weekly | Panels and Pixels | Publisher's Weekly | Bookslut | Comics Worth Reading | an interview at The Comics Reporter | an interview at Newsarama | an interview at Comic Book Resources

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