"Combining personal interviews with careful analysis of economic
trends…Newman sheds new light on the complex trade-offs that recent
changes in intergenerational relationships and residence patterns involve
for young adults, their parents, and society as a whole." —Stephanie
Coontz, author of The Way We Never Were: American Families and the
Nostalgia Trap
"Newman shows that the ages at which young adults leave their parents'
homes are rising in developed countries around the world. She brilliantly
demonstrates that the global forces behind this change are everywhere
the same but that each nation interprets it in its own cultural way. Newman's
insightful presentation of the stories of accordion families challenges
us to re-think what it means to be an adult today." —Andrew
Cherlin, author of The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and
the Family in America Today
"Newman identifies a previously unexamined casualty of the new global
economy—the prolonged dependence of adult children on their families.…The
responses to this trend—social, political, and economic—will
shape generations to come. Brilliant and important." —Robert
B. Reich, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of
California-Berkeley and author of Aftershock: The Next Economy and
America's Future
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"Dr. Welch explains, with gripping examples and ample evidence,
how those who have been overdiagnosed cannot benefit from treatment; they
can only be harmed. I hope this book will trigger a paradigm shift in
the medical establishment's thinking." —Sidney Wolfe, MD, author
of Worst Pills, Best Pills and editor of WorstPills.org
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"Thanks to Michael Honey's meticulous editing and the inclusion
of rarely heard audio, we can finally grasp the depth of the Rev. Martin
Luther King's commitment to Americans as workers."—Nell Irvin
Painter, author of The History of White People
"Not just a testament to his rhetorical legacy--it is a call to
action."—Richard L. Trumka, president, AFL-CIO
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A Mind of Winter collects thirty-two of the most moving poems
on the experience of winter, from the great classics-James Russell Lowell's
"The First Snow-Fall" and John Greenleaf Whittier's "Snow-Bound"-to
the more contemporary, free-form, and diverse-Rafael Campo's "Begging
for Change in Winter" and Rosanna Warren's "Snow Day."
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Beacon Press is a department of the Unitarian Universalist Association
