The Price of PrivilegeIn this ground breaking book on the children of affluence, a well known clinical psychologist exposes the epidemic of emotional problems that are disabling Americas privileged youth, thanks, in large part, to normalized, intrusive parenting that stunts the crucial development of the self. In recent years, numerous studies have shown that bright, charming, seemingly confident and socially skilled teenagers from affluent, loving families are

she harbors the terrible fear that the world could end at any moment

The Conversion of Paul

when his owner yells at him to dispose of a mouse

and a hive of magical

the most spirited

but no one has ever been able to hold on to him

perhaps losing everything

the wood-pecker scribe

and the equality recommended to Paul by his churches

Unfortunately

The Age of Disenchantments is a chronicle of a family who modeled their lives (and deaths) on the works of art that most inspired and obsessed them and who

In the moments before a catastrophic nuclear detonation