The Big Book For Peace And The Big Book For Our Planet

Audio Cassettes

BY VARIOUS ARTISTS
The Big Book for Peace edited by Ann Durrell is sadly out of print, but here on audio are recorded most of its poems and stories about many kinds of peace, peace among people living in different lands, among next-door neighbors, among people of different races, and among sisters and brothers. Understanding among those separated by their beliefs, and those separated by generations. Combined with the ecological stories and poems in Big Book for the Planet. Graet value for 3 hours of listening.

Media Books 1999 2 TAPES Audio

$5.00 (in stock)

Big Momma Makes The World - Paperback

BY PHYLLIS ROOT, ILLUSTRATED BY HELEN OXENBURY
When Big Momma makes the world, she doesn't mess around. With a baby on her hip and laundry piling up, she demands light and dark, earth and sky, creepers and crawlers, and lots of folks to trade stories with on the front porch. And when the work is done, Big Momma, she is pleased all right. "That's good," she says. "That's real good." With down-home language and infectious rhythms, Phyllis Root spins a creation myth like no other.

Candlewick 2007 40 PP. Paper

$6.99 (low stock)

The Big Orange Splot

BY DANIEL MANUS PINKWATER
When Mr. Plumbeans' house is splashed with bright orange paint, he decides a multicolored house would be a nice change and one by one he convinces the nieghbors to follow their hearts and make their homes reflections of their true selves. A very fine book about integrity and the power of dreams.

Scholastic 1993 32 PP. Paper

$4.99 (backorder)

Binding The Strong Man

A Political Reading Of Mark's Story Of Jesus

BY CHED MYERS
Myers finds in the earliest gospel that Jesus is a great example of nonviolent resistance to the "powers" of his day - and by extension ours. Reissued as a 20th anniversary edition

Orbis 2008 540 PP. Paper

$28.00 (low stock)

Biographical Dictionary Of British Quakers

In Commerce & Industry 1775 -1920

COMPILED BY EDWARD MILLIGAN
Many years in the making, the former librarian and archivist at Friends House in London has garnered and written 2,800 biographies of Friends active in industry or commerce. The large double columned pages mean this really is a treasure house of information for historians and genealogists. Indexed by occupation, place, apprentice master, and school attended. 8 appendices and 50 pages of illustrations.

Sessions 2007 605 PP. Paper

$60.00 (in stock)

The Biography Of A Germ, Lyme Disease

BY ARNO KARLEN
This is the story of Borellia burgdorferi (Bb for short), the bacterium responsible for Lyme disease, a disease many Quakers seem to have contracted! Arno Karlen tells the story from the germ's point of view; it must first reside in three different creatures -deer tick, mouse, and deer - before it is ready for said Friend. He shows how Bb and humans, which coexisted for millions of years on earth without meeting, became entangled through changes in human habits, technology, and land use.

Phoenix Books (UK) 2001 178 PP. Paper

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Bird On A Rocking Chair (302)

ELKINTON,J
SECONDHAND COPY. Slightly worn. Good condition. A collection of the essays and personal observations, including doodles, of the Westtown and Harvard educated Quaker doctor. A restless and open mind ranges over topics from internal medicine, to travels from England to China and from Darwin to Quarks.

The Cottage Press 1988 257 PP. Paper

$12.00 USED - availability checked Mar 19th 2:55pm CDT

Black Abolitionists

BY BENJAMIN QUARLES
Black abolitionists introduces us to the many overlooked African Americans who were active in the movement, preaching, writing, guiding and travelling the world to bring an end to the despicable practice of slavery. A reprint of the then groundbreaking 1969 book but still as relevant as ever today.

Da Capo 1990 320 PP. Paper

$16.95 (backorder)

Black Hands, White Sails

The Story Of African-american Whalers

BY PATRICIA & FREDERICK MCKISSACK
"The introduction links together slavery and whaling as "part of the growth and development of the American economy," and the book shows the important role of the whalers in the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad. Incisive accounts are given of significant African Americans in this industry; seafaring women are not ignored; and life aboard a whaling ship is thoroughly documented." - Horn Book. Captain Paul Cuffe is profiled, as are the Nantucket Quaker whalers and the Quaker involvement in abolition.

Scholastic 1999 152 PP. Cloth

$17.95 (low stock)

Black Presence In Pennsylvania

Making It Home

BY EMMA LAPSANSKY
Starting with the details of some of William Penn's slaves this little pamphlet makes an excellent introduction to the troubled history of African Americans in Pennsylvania. Quakers are often mentioned in the progress towards equal rights.

Pennsylvania Historical Association 2001 46 PP Paper

$6.50 (low stock)

Blackwater

The Rise Of The World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army - Paperback

BY JEREMY SCAHILL
On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad's Nisour Square leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled "Baghdad's Bloody Sunday," was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor U.S. soldiers. The shooters were private forces working for the secretive mercenary company, Blackwater Worldwide. This is the story of a company that rose a decade ago from Moyock, North Carolina, to become one of the most powerful players in the "War on Terror." In his gripping bestseller, journalist Jeremy Scahill exposes Blackwater as the frightening new face of the U.S. war machine.

NationBooks 2008 452 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

Blessed Are The Pacifists

The Beatitudes And Just War Theory

BY THOMAS TRZYNA
Thomas Trzyna takes a fresh look at pacifism as a way of life and a practical method of conflict resolution that is grounded in the Scripture, particularly the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew's gospel. Based on a study of just war theory and contemporary world events, this book does not rehearse familiar debates about how to justify war. Rather, it approaches the topic from the provocative angle that the work of peacemakers requires setting goals to be measured in generations, not years.

Herald Press 2006 138 PP. Paper

$11.99 (in stock)

Blessed Community

BY MARTY WALTON
Marty Walton expounds upon the many meanings of "blessed community" in Quakerism.

Southeastern Yearly Meeting 1994 21 PP. Paper

$3.00 (low stock)

Blessed Unrest

How The Largest Social Movement In History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, And Beauty To The World

BY PAUL HAWKEN
Hawken has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. "This is first full account of the real news of our time, and it's exactly the opposite of the official account. The movers and shakers on our planet aren't the billionaires and the generals - they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing, revitalizing. This powerful and lovely book is their story - our story - and it's high time someone's told it. Nothing you read for years to come will fill you with more hope and more determination." - Bill McKibben

Penguin 2008 352 PP. Paper

$16.00 (low stock)

The Blessing Of The Lord

Stories From The Old And New Testaments

BY GARY SCHMIDT, ILLUSTRATED BY DENNIS NOLAN
"In a smooth, poetic style, Schmidt retells twenty-five Bible stories, emphasizing the humanity of the characters. For example, he fills out Noah's story with a description of the despair Noah and his family feel, trapped on the Ark not knowing if they will ever see land again. The elaborations retain the tone of the original stories but extend them to explore motivations and emotions. Nolan's handsome paintings are suitably majestic or gentle." - Horn Book

Eerdmans 1997 160 PP. Cloth

$20.00 (low stock)

The Blogging Church

Sharing The Story Of Your Church Through Blogs

BY BRIAN BAILEY
The author is "web director" at Fellowship Church. His book is aimed at pastors, but Friends will also find it useful. It explains blogging and the associated technologies in simple terms and talks about its advantages and pitfalls for outreach and ministry. Bailey gives tips and examples of good blogging practice.

Jossey Bass 2006 199 PP. Paper

$19.00 (low stock)

Blood Rites

Origins And History Of The Passions Of War

BY BARBARA EHRENREICH
Nickel and dimed author Barbara Ehrenreich examines the human attraction to violence: What draws our species to war and even makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking? Looking at violence and war from prehistory to the present day she sees its origins not in a killer instinct but in the blood rites early humans performed to reenact their terrifying experience of predation by stronger carnivores. Brilliant in conception, rich in scope, Blood Rites is a monumental work that will transform our understanding of the greatest single threat to human life.

Owl Books 1997 292 PP. Paper

$7.00 (in stock)

Blue Arabesque

A Search For The Sublime

BY PATRICIA HAMPL
The author of "I could tell you stories" was mesmerized by a Matisse painting: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl. In Blue Arabesque, she explores the allure of this lounging woman, immersed in leisure, so at odds with the rush of the modern era. Her meditations give her insights into her own early life in Minnesota.

Harvest 2007 224 PP. Paper

$13.00 (in stock)

The Blue Parakeet

Rethinking How You Read The Bible

BY SCOT MCKNIGHT
Parakeets make delightful pets. We cage them or clip their wings to keep them where we want them. Scot McKnight contends that many, conservatives and liberals alike, attempt the same thing with the Bible. We all try to tame it. Here McKnight challenges al flvors of Christian to rethink how they read the Bible, to see it as a Story that we are summoned to enter and to carry forward in our day.

Zondervan 2008 236 PP. Cloth

$18.99 (low stock)

The Body In Pain

The Making And Unmaking Of The World

BY ELAINE SCARRY
A challenging book; by examining how inexpressible one person's pain is to another, Scarry looks at how humankind is a ble to torture one another and go to war. She looks deeply into the language and the philosophy of violence. This book offers a profound analysis that is thought provoking and should be widely read. She goes on to see the potential for creativity arising from these same depths.

Oxford Uniersity Press 1987 385 PP. Paper

$19.95 (low stock)

The Body Of God

An Ecological Theology

BY SALLIE MCFAGUE
Plenary Speaker at the 2006 FGC Gathering, award-winning theologian Sallie McFague here develops a striking and novel vision of the universe, one that takes seriously and radically both contemporary science and the incarnational commitments of the Christian tradition.

Augsburg 1993 274 PP. Paper

$18.00 (low stock)

Bone By Bone By Bone

BY TONY JOHNSTON
A Friendship between white and black is rare in 1950s Tennessee. David's dad is determined that his son will grow up to be a doctor like himself. David studies the human bones, and secretly teaches them in turn to his black friend, Malcolm. In a rage, Dr. Church forbids Malcolm to ever enter their home and threatens to kill him if he does. David tries to change his dad's mind, but when Malcolm crosses the line, Dr. Church grabs his shotgun.

Roaring Brook Press 2007 184 PP. Cloth

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Bone To Pick

Of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation, And Revenge

BY ELLIS CLOSE
"Bone to Pick" is not only the story of victims who have found peace through confronting the source of their pain; it is also a profound meditation on how the past shapes the present, and how history's wounds, left unattended, can fester for generations. Here, Close offers peaceful strategies and solutions toward ending the pain.

Washington Square Press 2005 224 PP. Paper

$7.50 (in stock)

Bonehunters' Revenge

Dinosaurs, Greed And The Greatest Scientific Feud Of The Gilded Age

BY DAVID RAINS WALLACE
The tragic story of the competition for fame and natural treasure between (Quaker) Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, two leading paleontologists, remains prophetic of the conquest of the west as well as a watershed event in science. David Rains Wallace charts in fascinating detail the unrestrained rivalry between Cope and Marsh and their obsession to become the first to explain and make available to the world the abundant, unknown fossils of the western badlands.

Mariner Books 1999 366 PP. Paper

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The Book Of Psalms

A Translation With Commentary

BY ROBERT ALTER
Robert Alter's The Book of Psalms captures the simplicity, the physicality, and the coiled rhythmic power of the Hebrew, restoring the remarkable eloquence of these ancient poems. His learned and insightful commentary shines a light on the obscurities of the text.

W. W. Norton 2007 518 PP. Cloth

$35.00 (low stock)

A Book Of Quaker Saints

BY LUCY VIOLET HODGKIN
A reprint of this classic collection of stories of early Friends, originally published in 1917. "It must be remembered that this is not a History of the Early Quaker Movement, but a book of stories of some Early Quaker Saints. I have based my account on contemporary authorities; but I have not scrupled to supply unrecorded details or explanatory speeches in order to make the scene more vivid to my listeners." - the author, from her preface.

BiblioBazaar 2007 384 PP. Paper

$18.95 (in stock)

Born On A Blue Day

Inside The Extraordinary Mind Of An Autistic Savant

BY DANIEL TAMMET
Daniel Tammet has severe autism but can live an independent life. He sees numbers as shapes, colors, and textures, and he can perform extraordinary calculations in his head, speak new languages fluently, from scratch, in a week. In 2004, he memorized and recited more than 22,000 digits of pi, setting a record. He has savant syndrome, an extremely rare condition that gives him the most unimaginable mental powers, much like those portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the film Rain Man.

Free Press 2007 256 PP. Paper

$15.00 (low stock)

Bottomless Belly Button

SHAW, DASH
Quaker graphic artist Dash Shaw's comedy-drama that follows the dysfunctional adventures of the Loony Family. After 40 years of marriage, Maggie and David Loony shock their children with their announcement of a planned divorce. In a six-day period rich with atmospheric sequences, the family stumbles blindly around one another, often ignoring their surroundings and consumed by their own daily conflicts. Visually, Shaw employs a leisurely storytelling pace that allows room for exploring the interconnecting relationships among the characters and plays to his strength as a cartoonist, small gestural details and nuanced expressions that bring the characters to vivid and intimate life.

Fantagraphics Bks 2008 720 PP. Paper

$29.99 (low stock)

Bound For Canaan

The Epic Story Of The Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement

BY FERGUS BORDEWICH
The true story of the Underground Railroad is much more morally complex and politically divisive than even the myths suggest. Bound for Canaan tells the stories of men and women like David Ruggles, who invented the black underground in New York City; bold Quakers like Isaac Hopper and Levi Coffin, who risked their lives to build the Underground Railroad; and the inimitable Harriet Tubman. Interweaving thrilling personal stories with the politics of slavery and abolition, Bound for Canaan shows how the Underground Railroad gave birth to this country's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for social change.

Amistad Press 2006 576 PP. Paper

$14.95 (low stock)

The Boy Who Loved To Draw

Benjamin West

BY BARBARA BRENNER, ILLUSTRATED BY OLIVIER DUNREA
Here in lively and easy to read words and vivid pictures is the story of Friend Benjamin West, the farm boy from colonial Pennsylvania who grew up to be the first world famous American artist and friend to Benjamin Franklin and the king of England.

Houghton Mifflin 2003 48 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)