Dao De Jing

A Philosophical Translation

BY ROGER AMES, DAVID HALL
In this elegant volume, Ames and Hall feature the original Chinese texts of the Dao de Jing and translate them into crisp, chiseled English that reads like poetry. Each of the eighty-one brief chapters is followed by clear, thought-provoking commentary exploring the layers of meaning in the text. The book's extensive introduction is a model of accessible scholarship in which Ames and Hall consider the origin of the text, place the emergence of Daoist philosophy in its historical and political context, and outline its central tenets.

Ballantine Books 2003 256 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

Darby

What Happens When You Tell The Tr

FUQUA, JONATHAN
In 1926, Darby Carmichael starts an unexpected career as a newspaper reporter for the Bennettsville Times, and finds some true stories it is difficult to report. Was $6.99 now $5.59.

Childrens Press 2006 242 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

Darfur Diaries

Stories Of Survival

BY JEN MARLOWE AND OTHERS
In late 2004 a team of three independent filmmakers trekked to Darfurian refugee camps in eastern Chad and crept across the border into Darfur. They met dozens of Darfurians, and spoke with them about their history, hopes and fears, and the tragedy they are living. Their stories and testimonies, woven together through the personal experience of the filmmakers, and conveyed with political and historical context, provide a much-needed account to help understand Darfur. These are people whose lives, homes, safety and rights deserve to be protected as vigilantly as those of peoples all over the world.

Nation Books 2007 259 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

Dark Night Journey

Inward Re-patterning Toward A Life Centered In God

BY SANDRA CRONK
The dark night aptly describes the situation of those who have had a growing sense of God's presence, direction, and consolation and are suddenly bereft of that experience. Aridity, meaninglessness, loss, and pain are hardly the milestones expected on a journey toward God. The author brings a unique perspective to her interpretation of this powerful pathway, and offers sensitive guidance to dark night travelers and those who seek to understand and nurture them.

Pendle Hill 2001 179 PP. Paper

$12.50 (in stock)

Daughters Of Juarez (466)

TERESA RODRIGUEZ
SECONDHAND BOOK -as new in dustjacket. Subtitled "A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border" Terrible harrowing book. Despite the fact that Juarez is a Mexican border city just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, most Americans are unaware that for more than twelve years this city has been the center of an epidemic of horrific crimes against women and girls, consisting of kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and murder, with most of the victims conforming to a specific profile: young, slender, and poor, fueling the premise that the murders are not random.

Atria 2007 314 PP. Cloth

$8.50 USED - availability checked Feb 8th 9:01am EST

Daughters Of Light

Quaker Women Preaching And Prophesying In The Colonies And Abroad, 1700-1775

BY REBECCA LARSON
"With meticulous scholarship and graceful style, Rebecca Larson tells the story of the eighteenth century Quaker women ministers who criss-crossed the Atlantic, preaching the Inner Light, and changing forever the perception of women's roles. The authority with which Quaker women later spoke in the reform movements can be traced to these spiritual predecessors." - Margaret Hope Bacon.

University of North Carolina Press 2000 416 PP. Paper

$30.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Day Of Tears

BY JULIUS LESTER
Tells the story of several characters including Emma, a slave owned by gambler Pierce Butler and caretaker of his two daughters. Emma wants to teach his daughters, one opposes slavery and supports it to have kind hearts. Meanwhile, Pierce decides to cash in his "assets" and host the largest slave auction in American history. On that day, the skies open up and weep endlessly on the proceedings below, using the multiple voices of enslaved Africans and their owners, Julius Lester has taken a little-known event in American history and transformed it into a heartbreaking and powerfully dramatic epic on slavery, and the struggle to affirm humanity.

Hyperion 2007 177 PP. Paper

$7.99 (in stock)

The Dead Lie Down

BY SOPHIE HANNAH
Sold in England as a murder (that may not have been a murder) mystery, over here it is just classed as fiction, but from page 130 of this thriller, a lot of the action revolves around a very accurately described Quaker Quest event in Friends House, London. There is also some swearing (even about George Fox) and it's an unusual book all around. I note Oprah seems to like it!

Penguin 2010 470 PP. Paper

$15.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Dealing Creatively With Death

A Manual Of Death Education And Simple Burial, 14th Edition

BY EARNEST MORGAN
This book is a small encyclopedia on death-related problems: social, emotional, philosophical and practical. It is written simply and sensitively, drawing substantially on direct experience.

Barclay House 2001 163 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Dealing With Difficult Behavior In Meeting For Worship

Meeting The Needs Of The Many While Responding To The Needs Of The Few

BY THE MINISTRY AND NURTURE COMMITTEE OF FRIENDS GENERAL CONFERENCE
We've changed the size and the title but otherwise this is the same pamphlet as 'The Wounded Meeting.' The new title, formerly the sub-title, more clearly reflects the contents. When someone disrupts meeting for worship, what can the meeting community do? Explore your options and find caring solutions.

Quaker Press of FGC 2002 27 PP. Paper

$8.00 (in stock)

Dear Benjamin Banneker

BY ANDREA DAVIS-PINKNEY, ILLUSTRATED BY BRIAN PINKNEY
Though the fact that Banneker regularly attended meeting for worship is not mentioned, this is a very good short biography of this remarkable free Black man: an accomplished astronomer and mathematician and the first Black man to publish an almanac. He also wrote Thomas Jefferson as incredibly eloquent letter (which is excerpted here) speaking against slavery. Ages 6-9.

Harcourt 1998 32 PP. Paper

$7.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Dear Friend

Letters And Essays Of Elias Hicks

BY ELIAS HICKS EDITED BY PAUL BUCKLEY
Elias Hicks penned hundreds of letters. They complement his Journal, fleshing out details of his life and beliefs - revealing a man devoted to his family, neighbors and friends, to the RSOF, but more than anything else, a man simply, humbly, and steadfastly devoted to God. Some of his letters recount the trials of a traveling minister in the early 19th century. Most controversially, some put forward his theological beliefs and the scriptural basis for them. Paul Buckley has compiled and transcribed a selection of Elias Hicks' letters and essays from the original manuscripts. Footnotes & appendices explain archaic and unfamiliar words and phrases, and biographical sketches.

Inner Light 2011 296 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

Dear Friends And Brethren

25 Biographies Of Quaker Men

GIL SKIDMORE
By popular request Gil Skidmore has now written a companion volume to Dear Friends and Sisters. These accounts of lesser known Quaker men include artists and scientists, writers and bankers, some conventional, some radical and some highly eccentric.

Sowle Press 2000 64 PP. Paper

$12.00 (in stock)

Dear Gift Of Life

A Man's Encounter With Death - Php 142

BY BRADFORD SMITH
The journal and poetry of this faithful Friend in the months before his death from cancer.

Pendle Hill 1993 38 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

The Death Of Innocents

An Eyewitness Account Of Wrongful Executions

BY HELEN PREJEAN
Sister Helen Prejean traces the historical underpinnings of executions in this country, demonstrating that it is no accident that over 80 percent of executions in the past twenty-five years have been carried out in the former slave states. She also raises profound constitutional questions about an appeals system that decides most death cases on procedural grounds without ever examining their merits. To date, well over one hundred wrongfully convicted persons have been freed from death row. If constitutional protections - due process, assistance of counsel, and equal justice under law - are truly being respected, how is it possible that these people were convicted in the first place?

Vintage 2006 336 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

Death Of The Liberal Class

BY CHRIS HEDGES
The Death of the Liberal Class examines the failure of the liberal class to confront the rise of the corporate state and the consequences of a liberalism that has become profoundly bankrupted. Hedges argues there are five pillars of the liberal establishment - the press, liberal religious institutions, labor unions, universities and the Democratic Party-- and that each of these institutions, more concerned with status and privilege than justice and progress, sold out the constituents they represented. In doing so, the liberal class has become irrelevant to society at large and ultimately the corporate power elite they once served.

Nation Books 2011 248 PP. Cloth

$24.95 (in stock)

The Debt

What America Owes To Blacks

BY RANDALL ROBINSON
"I have tried in these pages to sketch the outlines of a story that stretches from the dawn of civilization to the present. The dilemma of blacks in the world cannot possibly be understood without taking the long view of history. My intent is to stimulate, not sate. To pose the question. To invite the debate. To cause America to compensate, after three and a half centuries, for a long-avoided wrong." - from the introduction

Plume 2000 262 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Decision Making & Spiritual Discernment

The Sacred Art Of Finding Your Way

BY NANCY BIEBER
Quaker Nancy Bieber writes on the practice of spiritual discernment . Drawing on twenty-five years of experience as a psychologist and fifteen years of experience as a spiritual director she presents three essential aspects of Spirit-led decision-making: Willingness - being open to God's wisdom and love; Attentiveness - noticing what is true, discerning the path right for us; Responsiveness - taking steps forward as the way becomes clear

Skylight Paths 2010 195 PP. Paper

$16.99 (in stock)

A Declaration Of Conscience About Paying For War

With A Guidance For Writing A Statement Of Conscience

BY CONSCIENCE STUDIO
This is a short video accompaniment to Conscience Studio's Declaration of Conscience, which aims to stop the forced paying of war taxes for conscientious objectors. It includes guidance for writing your own personal statement of conscience and a pamphlet with the text of the declaration itself.

Conscience Studio 2010 9 MIN. Video

$10.00 (in stock)

Deepening The Spiritual Life Of The Meeting

BY EDWARD HOARE
"How do we deepen the spiritual life of the meeting?" "Since there were no birthright Friends in the 1650s, what made them Quakers?" The author approaches these questions based on conviction, conversion, and convincement.$1.50 each (fewer than 10). $1.25 each (10-49). $.85 each (50 or more).

Quaker Press of FGC 1994 10 PP. Tract

0-10 $1.50, 10-50 $1.25, 50 or more $0.85 (in stock)

Deeply Rooted

Alive In The Spirit

BY MARCELLE MARTIN
In this Michener Lecture, Marcelle Martin shares her experiences that transformed her understanding of who we are, how we are united with the divine Mystery, and what we are called to be and do. She tells stories of the hearfelt search of early Friends who found what they had been seeking, then became powerful witnesses to the divine Presence and Power they came to know. This talk considers how, in their time, early Quakers presented a more radical alternative understanding of Christ and life in the Spirit than that espoused by other Christians and chose language that was fresh and evocative, and a way of living that provided visible testimony.

SEYM 2010 32 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Delaware Native Americans

A Kid's Look At Our State's Chiefs, Tribes, Reservations, Powwows, Lore, And More From The Past And The Present

BY CAROLE MARSH
An A to Z introduction to words that introduce young readers to the lifestyles, traditions, history, and heritage of Delaware's Native American tribes. Includes pages of games and puzzles.

Gallopade International 2004 36 PP. Paper

$7.95 (in stock)

Delayed Justice For Sale

BY ASHLEY DICKERSON
The astonishing life story of Mahala Ashley Dickerson, Alabama's first black female attorney. Told simply and eloquently, it is a story of almost unbelievable courage in the face of adversity. The daughter of country schoolteachers, Mahala graduated cum laude from Fisk University. Then, at Howard Law School, she encounters some of the leading legal minds of her time, such as Thurgood Marshall, Spottswood Robinson, Howard Jenkins, James Washington, George Hayes, Willian Hastie and John Bussey. Launching her career soon afterward, she is soon setting precedents and scoring major victories in Alabama, Indiana, and Alaska.

Acres 1998 233 PP. Paper

$12.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Description Of The Qualifications Necessary

To A Gospel Minister; Advice To Ministers And Elders Among The People Called Quakers

BY SAMUEL BOWNAS
Friends seeking to nurture and deepen ministry in their meetings will find remarkably clear, specific and relevant guidance in this classic work. "Qualification, as this eighteenth century Friend uses the word, implies that one has gone through a process of personal transformation which reorients the ego, the will, and the attention so that one can be trusted purely to receive and purely to give forth an inspired message." (William Taber, from the Introduction) Bownas offers advice on 'qualifying' vocal ministry and other forms of ministry. A careful reading of the book can help Friends learn to discern the difference between the ego and Divine will.

Pendle Hill/Tract Association 1989 104 PP. Cloth

$15.00 (in stock)

Desert Father

In The Desert With Saint Anthony

BY JAMES COWAN
James Cowan's quest to understand the desert spirituality of St Anthony takes him to Egypt, to the monastery that still exists near the site of Anthony's hermitage, where he meets the monk who becomes his guide and mentor on the journey. He comes to regard Anthony and the colorful men and women who shared his lifestyle in the 4th through 7th centuries with affection and awe. Our modern efforts toward liberation may look different from theirs, he concludes, but the ultimate goal is no different, and Anthony remains a luminous model for anyone who passionately seeks to know God.

Shambala 2004 240 PP. Cloth

$3.50 (in stock)

Despair And Personal Power In The Nuclear Age (1174)

BY JOANNA MACY
SECONDHAND paperback in fairly good condition. A classic text now sadly out of print. Joanna Macy shows how group work is the most effective means of social change - because we are conditioned to think that despair is a personal problem that we must handle alone. A group experience restores a deep faith in life. There is a strong sense of coming home at last to one another, so that we face this together, and accomplish more.

NSP 1983 178 PP. Paper

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Devotional Classics

BY RICHARD FOSTER
These 52 selections have been organized to introduce readers through the course of one year to the great devotional writers. Each reading features a linked biblical passage, discussion questions, and individual and group exercises.

HarperCollins 2005 Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

The Diary Of Sidney George Fisher Covering The Years 1834-18

A Philadelphia Perspective

BY SIDNEY GEORGE FISHER
SECONDHAND COPY. Margaret Bacon's volume. Not by any means pristine, but a good copy of a 1967 book , that looks like a 1767 book. Binding very slightly cracked. Sidney George Fisher was no Quaker, saying among other things that slavery was evil but necessary... however he was a great diarist and candidly and amusingly commenting on matters political topical and personal from the viewpoint of a rich male who never had to work because of his inherited money. These years are the ones spent in or near Philadelphia.

Historical society of Pennsylvania 1967 625 PP. Cloth

$60.00 USED - availability checked Feb 8th 9:01am EST

A Different Mirror

A History Of Mulitcultural America

BY RONALD TAKAKI
Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics everywhere as a dramatic new retelling of our nation's past. Beginning with the colonization of the New World, it recounted the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States--Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and others--groups who helped create this country's rich mosaic culture. This new edition of A Different Mirror is a remarkable achievement that grapples with the raw truth of American history and examines the ultimate question of what it means to be an American.

Back Bay Books 2008 560 PP. Paper

$17.99 (in stock)

Dignity, Discourse, And Destiny

The Life Of Courtney C. Smith

BY DARWIN H. STAPLETON AND DONNA HECKMAN STAPLETON
Educated at Harvard in the 1930s, took a Rhodes Scholarship, taught English literature at Princeton, and was the first national director of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program before becoming president of Swarthmore College in 1953 at the age of 36. His engagement with education, philanthropy, Quakerism and government over the next 16 years resonated with such major issues of the times as McCarthyism, the future of the liberal arts, and race relations. His skill at fundraising provided Swarthmore with a useful endowment. He died in office during a sit-in in January 1969.

University of Delaware 2004 253 PP Cloth

$15.00 (in stock)