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

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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

$6.50 (in stock)

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 (backorder)

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Brass Fold Formed Scarf Slide

CRAFTED BY SETH BARCH
Scarf Slide about 2.5 inches wide. My (Seth's) mother received a prototype as a gift months ago and is still finding new ways to wrap a scarf through the coils of this slide. Brass version. Price includes shipping within the USA.

Seth Barch SCARF SLIDE Boxed

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The Bride Of E

Poems

BY MARY JO BANG
These new poems explore a contrast between high and low culture. She wrote each of them through the lens of an invented character, rather than through her own eyes and her own emotions. "I tend to reject the notion that poems should somehow reveal something about the poet's life", these poems are lighter and more humorous, with a less elegiac tone. .

Graywolf Press 2009 90 PP. Cloth

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Bridging The Class Divide

And Other Lessons For Grassroots Organizing

BY LINDA STOUT
This book is a practical and inspirational guide to overcoming barriers of class and race. Again and again social change movements have been run by middle-class leaders. But in order to make real progress toward economic and social change, poor people--those most affected by social problems--must be the ones to speak up and lead. It can be done. Quaker Linda Stout herself grew up in poverty in rural North Carolina and went on to found one of this country's most successful and innovative grassroots organizations, the Piedmont Peace Project.

Beacon Press 1997 192 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Brief Candles

101 Clerihews

BY HENRY TAYLOR
With hilarious irreverence, Quaker Pulitzer Prize winning poet Henry Taylor takes on people usually taken overly seriously - members of the Supreme Court, poet's laureate, literary theorists, Whitewater celebrities and New Testament figures - demonstrating through 101 clerihews that one of the primary purposes of poetry is to have fun, even while holding a high standard of craftsmanship.

Louisiana State University Press 2000 51 PP. Paper

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Brief History Of Spirituality

SHELDRAKE
Tells the story of Christian spirituality from its origins in the New Testament to the present day. It charts the main figures, ideas, images and historical periods, showing how and why spirituality has changed and developed over the centuries, drawing out the distinctive themes of Christian spirituality and exploring the historical and cultural events that have changed people's attitudes and practices. Includes all the modern debates on spirituality and Religion.

Wiley Blackwell 2008 272 PP. Paper

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A Brief Memoir Of Elizabeth Fry

1781-1845

EDITED BY DAVID GOFF
A republication of a document originally published by the London Tract Association of Friends, which tells the story of Elizabeth Fry, often in her own words.

Friends United Press 2008 104 PP. Paper

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Briefer Barclay

Being A Simplification

EVANS, WILLIAM BACON

1961 Tract

$0.10 (in stock)

Bringing God Home

Exploring Family Spirituality - Php 362

BY MARY KAY REHARD
The L'Arche and Taize communities have influenced Quaker Mary Kay Rehard in her vocation as mother and religious educator. In this pamphlet, she writes of those influences and the insights and practices that help create healthy family environments and nurture the spirituality of children and their parents.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2002 39 PP. Paper

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Bringing The War Home

On The Road With Eyes Wide Open

BY AFSC
Eyes Wide Open, the American Friends Service Committee's widely-acclaimed exhibition on the human cost of the Iraq War, features a pair of boots honoring each U.S. military casualty, a field of shoes and a Wall of Remembrance to memorialize the Iraqis killed in the conflict, and a multimedia display exploring the history, cost and consequences of the war. Since January 2005, this simple exhibit of empty boots and shoes has opened eyes and stirred emotions across the country. This short documentary captures the essence of Eyes Wide Open, a stark reminder of the human cost of the Iraq War.

AFSC 2006 12 MINS Disk

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Broken English

Ohio Amish Mystery Series - #2

BY P. L. GAUS
The peaceful town of Millersburg, Ohio, in the heart of Ohio's Amish country, is rocked by the vicious murder of one of its citizens at the hands of an ex-convict. When a local reporter covering the story ends up dead as well, with the convict already behind bars, suspicion falls on David Hawkins, father of the first victim. But Hawkins is nowhere to be found, not even among the protective Amish colony that had taken him in as one of its own regardless of his shadowy past. Professor Michael Branden, Sheriff Bruce Robertson, and Pastor Cal Troyer set out to uncover the truth that seems so elusive in their otherwise quiet corner of the world. .

Ohio University Press 2000 214 PP. Paper

$12.95 (low stock)

Brother Outsider

The Life Of Bayard Rustin - Dvd

BY NANCY KATES AND BENNETT SINGER
"Brother Outsider" illuminates the life and work of Quaker Bayard Rustin, who has been described as "the unknown hero" of the civil rights movement. A tireless crusader for justice, a disciple of Gandhi, a mentor to Martin Luther King Jr., and the architect of the legendary 1963 March on Washington, Rustin dared to live as an openly gay man during the fiercely homophobic 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Brother Outsider reveals the price that Rustin paid for this openness, chronicling both the triumphs and setbacks of his remarkable 60-year career. Five years in the making and the winner of more than 25 awards and honors.

Western Film Projects 2008 87 MINUTES Dvd

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Brotherly Love

A Poem About William Penn

BY DANIEL HOFFMAN
A long poem which evokes William Penn's luminous vision of America and shows what has become of it as the intractable conflicts of our history-struggles over land, keeping faith with the Indians, the uses and abuses of power-threaten Penn's ideal. "Though grounded firmly in historical fact, [this poem] is very original in conception and quite effectively expresses the dreams and despairs of those who lived this history as well as our own contemporary need to understand the past as 'we clatter down the rigid rails into the future.'" - Library Journal.

University of Pennsylvania Press 2000 178 PP. Paper

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Brothers And Sisters All

Special Projects For First Day Schools

EDITED BY MARTHA SMITH
Projects include: Who is My Family?, Caring for One Another in Families, Honoring Differing Gifts in Families, Resolving Conflicts in Families, and Celebrating the World Family of God. Grades 1-HS.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1997 40 PP. Paper

$9.50 (in stock)

The Brothers Doug

Chronicles Of Babylon, Volumes I & Ii

WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY DOUG GWYN
This 2-CD set of original music will be welcomed by those who've heard the lighter side of Quaker author-teacher-pastor Doug Gwyn-and a surprise to those who haven't. Doug showers a mix of theology, Quakerism, and human frailty with humor in "Approach-Avoid-Dance," "Eighty-Weighty Friend," "My God," and 27 other titles. Seriously funny.

Doug Gwyn 2006 2 CD SET Audio

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Buddhism Without Beliefs

A Contemporary Guide To Awakening

BY STEPHEN BATCHELOR
The former monk gives here a solid, straightforward introduction that demystifies Buddhism and explains simply and plainly how its practice can enrich our lives. Avoiding jargon and theory, Batchelor concentrates on the concrete, making Buddhism accessible and compelling and showing how anyone can embark on this path-regardless of their religious background.

Penguin 1998 127 PP. Paper

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Building A Global Civic Culture

Education For An Interdependent World

BY ELISE BOULDING
"How will we find ways to occupy the common space and share the common resources and the common opportunities in this company of strangers which is the human race, without obliterating the differences or doing violence to deeply held values? Can we stay rooted in our own communities, retain the best of our national ways, and still develop strategies for meeting human needs everywhere, in a linked system of mutual aid that respects the integrity of other ways of life?"From the Introduction.

Syracuse UP 1988 197 PP. Paper

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Building Consensus

Conflict And Unity

BY MONTEZE SNYDER, ET AL
"Practical peacemaking is carried on in many ways, and consensus decision-making is a very important part of this endeavor. This book envisions a much wider application of the traditional Quaker business process and suggests ways in which all kinds of groups can make decisions without voting, without personal manipulation and with respect for everyone's wisdom." A fine pragmatic articulation of the process involved in building consensus.

Earlham Press 2001 92 PP. Paper

$21.50 (low stock)

Building Peace

Sustainable Reconciliation In Divided Societies

BY JOHN PAUL LEDERACH
Building peace is John Paul Lederachs's definitive statement on peacebuilding. He explains why we need to move beyond traditional diplomacy , ehich emphasises top level leaders and short term objectives, toward a holistic aproach that stresses amultiplicity of peacemakers, long term perspectives, and the need to create an infrastructure that empowers resources within asociety and maximises contributions from outside.

US Institute of Peace 1998 208 PP. Paper

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Building The Life Of The Meeting

BY FRAN & WILLIAM TABER
The 24th annual Michener lecture sheds light on creating and sustaining spiritual community.

SEYM 1994 21 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)