"Is understanding the science of attachment the key to building lasting friendships and finding "your people" in an ever-more-fragmented world?"-- How do we make and keep friends in an era of distraction, burnout, and chaos, especially in a society that often prizes romantic love at the expense of other relationships? In Platonic, Dr. Marisa G. Franco unpacks the latest, often counterintuitive findings about the bonds between us--for example, why...

A comedy on a jilted woman whose misfortune leads to a new career. Jane Goodall of New York turns to studying animal-mating habits for an explanation of why her man left her. She evolves a theory applicable to humans, gets a job as a columnist and proceeds to offer advice. The public laps it up and Jane is famous.