The Natural Child

Parenting From The Heart

BY JAN HUNT, FOREWORD BY PEGGY OMARA
"The Natural Child is a collection of essays on parenting and education which I wrote between 1988 and the present. The essays were written to help parents and future parents understand the critical importance of treating their children with dignity, respect, understanding, and compassion from infancy into adulthood. I hope to inspire parents toward a new way of being with their children that allows for a mutually trusting and loving relationship based on respectful, gentle guidance and emotional support." - from the author's Introduction Jan Hunt is a Friend.

New Society 2001 192 PP Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

The Natural Child - Audio

Parenting From The Heart

BY JAN HUNT, READ BY KEATON SIMONS
A three and a half hour audio edition of the full text of The Natural Child book. " A collection of essays on parenting and education which I wrote between 1988 and the present. The essays were written to help parents and future parents understand the critical importance of treating their children with dignity, respect, understanding, and compassion from infancy into adulthood. I hope to inspire parents toward a new way of being with their children that allows for a mutually trusting and loving relationship based on respectful, gentle guidance and emotional support." - from the author's Introduction Jan Hunt is a Friend.

The Natural Child Project 2008 3.5 HOURS Audio

$20.00 (in stock)

Natural Conflict Resolution

BY FRAN DE WAALS, FILLIPO AURELI
Aggression and competition are often assumed to be the natural state of affairs in both human society and the animal kingdom. Yet, as this book demonstrates, our speciesand others rely heavily on cooperation for survival. Inclu des essays by 52 authors with backgrounds in both human andanimal behavoir, as well as brief discussion of Quaker inf luence on arbitration in colonial America. Also addresses the cultural, ecological, cognitive, emotional and moral p erpectives of conflict resolution. "It makes one see conflict resolution among humans through a new and fascinating lens. This is a landmark contribution!" - William Ury

University of California Press 2000 409 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

The Natures Of John And William Bartram

BY THOMAS P. SLAUGHTER
During the 18th century, the Bartrams were America's foremost naturalists. The books and drawings in which John's son William documented expeditions through the Florida wilderness inspired Romantic poets. In telling their stories, author Thomas Slaughter creates a complex and compelling dual biography as well as a history of early American attitudes toward nature. Photos, maps, and illustrations.

University of Pennsylvania Press 2005 304 PP. Paper

$17.50 (in stock)

Navigating The Living Waters Of John

On Wading With Children And Swimming With Elephants - Php 352

BY PAUL ANDERSON
An exploration of the theologically puzzling and spiritually satisfying Gospel of John.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2001 32 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

A Near Sympathy

The Timeless Quaker Wisdom Of John Woolman

BY MICHAEL BIRKEL
A Near Sympathy is an invitation to a friendship with John Woolman, as well as an invitation to consider what John Woolman has to say to us today. Michael Birkel, professor of religion at Earlham College, acquaints readers with the spiritual disciplines and resources that nurtured John Woolman's empathy with the stranger. Woolman's deep spiritual life empowered him to engage the world as a witness on behalf of the disenfranchised, and for the earth and all its creatures. The book includes a group discussion guide.

Friends United Press 2003 140 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Necks Out For Adventure

The True Story Of Edwin Wiggleskin

BY TIMOTHY BASIL ERING
For as long as anyone could remember, the wiggleskins have lived by a simple rule: Necks out to eat, and necks in to hide. But then comes the dreadful day when all the wiggleskins are ripped from their holes and taken away, all but a brave little wiggleskin named Edwin. To save his mom and the rest of the clan, Edwin must shuck his shell and adopt a new rule: Necks out for adventure! Timothy Basil Ering's boisterous and warmhearted adventure will have you cheering for Edwin, and for plucky souls everywhere who dare stick their necks out.To be Published late may 2008.

Candlewick 2008 48 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

Neglected Voices

Peace In The Old Testament

BY DAVID LEITER
The Bible has a reputation for being about violence in the Old Testament and about peace in the New Testament. David Leiter overturns that oversimplified notion as he explores passages throughout the Old Testament in narrative, prophecy, legal texts, proverbs and psalms which from God calls for the making of peace and justice. Foreword by Jay Marshall of Earlham College.

Herald Press 2007 188 PP. Paper

$16.99 (in stock)

Neighboring Faiths

Exploring World Religions With Junior High Youth

BY CHRISTINE REED AND PATRICIA HOERTDOERFER
Flexible sessions that explore history and development of different faith traditions. Participants plan their own program by choosing which religious groups to learn about, visit and relate to their own growing faith. Includes historical resources and tips for hosting guests, visiting other faiths, creating worship experiences and more. Adaptable for senior high youth and adults.

Unitarian Universalist Association 1997 264 PP. Spiral Bound

$29.00 (in stock)

Neighbors And Friends

Quakers In Community: 19th Century Life In Columbiana County, Ohio

BY LYNDA SALTER CHENOWETH
Shares and documents the information that Lynda collected about all of the people named on Philena's quilt, (see her previous book) as well as members of other families who were important in the community where Philena lived. These families included the Clemsons, Coopers, Duttons, Galbreaths, Griffiths, Hambletons, Mendenhalls, Votaws, Wards, and Windles-all of whom lived in Columbiana County, Ohio, during the 19th century. The stories of their lives, as presented here, are told within the context of early migration into Ohio, anti-slavery activism, religious upheaval within the Quaker community, the daily hardships faced by Ohio's settlers, and the Civil War.

Exlibris 2010 192 PP. Paper

$19.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Neither Plain Nor Simple

New Perspectives On The Canterbury Shakers

BY DAVID STARBUCK
"Because the Shakers were a religious group that believed in communal living and celibacy, and because the group was founded in the 18th century, many people have assumed that they were cloistered, rigid or austere . . . But what Starbuck has found suggests that, while they adhered to their principles, their principles may have been different than what most people have commonly believed." - Valley News. From his 25 years of excavating at Canterbury Shaker Village, Starbuck's systematic mapping and inventory program for the entire settlement provide a new, welcome, completely different, and creative interpretation of the Shakers.

University Press of New England 2004 190 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

Nelson Mandela

The Authorized Comic Book

BY THE NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION WITH UMLANDO WEZITHOMBE
This book uses the medium of a graphic novel for a new and compelling telling of the life of Nelson Mandela. The easy-to-follow narrative of the South African president and champion for peace will be compelling to all ages, from new independent readers to adults.

W.W. Norton&Company Paper

$12.00 (in stock)

New And Selected Poems, Volume 1

BY MARY OLIVER
When New and Selected Poems, Volume One was originally published in 1992, Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award. In the fourteen years since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet's first eight books. Mary Oliver's perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from critics and readers alike. "Do you love this world?" she interrupts a poem about peonies to ask the reader. "Do you cherish your humble and silky life?"

Beacon Press 2004 272 PP. Paper

$17.00 (in stock)

New And Selected Poems, Volume 2

BY MARY OLIVER
Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-two new poems-an entire volume in itself-along with works chosen by Oliver from six of the books she has published since New and Selected Poems, Volume One. "Oliver's poetry is of the Earth, and about the Earth, and as these poems give voice to the planet, they render human life more beautiful, more sentient, more meaningful." -Karen McCarthy

Beacon Press 2007 178 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

A New And Untried Course (6334)

STEVEN PEITZMAN
SECONDHAND paperback in very good condition. Subtitled: Women's Medical College and Medical College of Pennysylvania, 1850-1998. An instution founded in 1850 by a group of reform minded (male) Quakers.

Rutgers University Press 2000 322 PP. Paper

$17.50 USED - availability checked Feb 11th 3:39am EST

A New Christianity For A New World

Why A Traditional Faith Is Dying And How A New Faith Is Being Born

BY JOHN SHELBY SPONG
Religious reformer Spong builds upon the program he initiated in Why Christianity Must Change or Die as he outlines what he believes is an authentic faith for a new millennium.

HarperSan Francisco 2002 304 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

New Collegeville Bible Commentary #2

The Gospel According To Mark

BY MARIE NOONAN-SABIN
Part of the series reviewed in the October 2006 Friends Journal. In which Tony Prete says "This is not the series for you if you are looking for reifications on a literal reading of the text. But if you want a deeper understanding of what the text is really saying, if you want as George Fox may have put it - to be led to the text in a way that will allow it to speak authentically to you, then this series will serve you well".

Liturgical press 2006 160 PP. Paper

$6.95 (in stock)

New Collegeville Bible Commentary #3

The Gospel According To Luke

BY JEROME KODELL
Part of the series reviewed in the October 2006 Friends Journal. In which Tony Prete says "This is not the series for you if you are looking for reifications on a literal reading of the text. But if you want a deeper understanding of what the text is really saying, if you want as George Fox may have put it - to be led to the text in a way that will alldow it to speak authentically to you, then this series willserve you well".

Liturgical Press 2005 168 PP. Paper

$6.95 (in stock)

New Collegeville Bible Commentary #4

The Gospel According To John And The Johannine Letters

BY SCOTT LEWIS
Part of the series reviewed in the October 2006 Friends Journal. In which Tony Prete says "This is not the series for you if you are looking for reifications on a literal reading of the text. But if you want a deeper understanding of what the text is really saying, if you want as George Fox may have put it - to be led to the text in a way that will allow it to speak authentically to you, then this series will serve you well".

Liturgical Press 2005 130 PP. Paper

$6.95 (in stock)

New Collegeville Bible Commentary #5

The Acts Of The Apostles

BY DENNIS HAMM
Part of the series reviewed in the October 2006 Friends Journal. In which Tony Prete says "This is not the series for you if you are looking for reifications on a literal reading of the text. But if you want a deeper understanding of what the text is really saying, if you want as George Fox may have put it - to be led to the text in a way that will allow it to speak authentically to you, then this series will serve you well".

Liturgical Press 2005 135 PP. Paper

$6.95 (in stock)

New Collegeville Bible Commentary #1

The Gospel According To Matthew

BY BARBARA REID
Required for the 2008 Gathering Workshop #20. The Gospel of Matthew (Gail Thomas). Part of the series reviewed in the October 2006 Friends Journal. In which Tony Prete says "This is not the series for you if you are looking for reifications on a literal reading of the text. But if you want a deeper understanding of what the text is really saying, if you want as George Fox may have put it - to be led to the text in a way that will allow it to speak authentically to you, then this series will serve you well".

Liturgical Press 2005 160 PP. Paper

$6.95 (in stock)

The New Covenant

Commonly Called The New Testament: The Four Gospels And Apocalypse

TRANSLATED BY WILLIS BARNSTONE
In this new translation of the Four Gospels and Revelation (Apocalypse), poet, translator, and scholar Willis Barnstone returns the bedrock of Christianity to its origins as an outgrowth of Judaism. In place of the Greek names that we are accustomed to, he restores probable Hebrew or Aramaic names to New Testament figures. And in translating Apocalypse in blank verse, he reveals it as the great epic poem of the New Testament. Barnstone places the Christian Bible in new perspective, transporting us back to the pre-Hellenic world and the Jewish tradition from which the New Covenant emerged.

Riverhead 2002 577 PP. Paper

$3.50 (in stock)

The New Economics

A Bigger Picture

BY DAVID BOYLE, ANDREW SIMMS
The new economics turns our assumptions about wealth and poverty upside down. It shows us that real wealth can be measured by increased well-being and environmental sustainability rather than just having and consuming more things. This book is the first accessible and straightforward guide to the new economics. It describes the problems and bizarre contradictions in conventional economics as well as the principles of the emerging new economics, and it tells the real-world stories of how new economics is being successfully put into practice around the world.

Earthscan 2010 190 PP. Cloth

$24.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

New England Quaker Meetinghouses

Past And Present

BY SILAS WEEKS
Silas Weeks spent more than 15 years gathering photos and histories of more than 110 Quaker meetinghouses in New England. Delightful anecdotes weave through notes about architectural style, location, cost, and significant Quaker family names. The book also includes lists for each state of related Quaker burial grounds with directions. Appendix of meetinghouses by architectural style, historical and current maps, glossary and index.

Friends United Press 2001 180 PP. Paper

$18.50 (in stock)

The New Jim Crow

Mass Incarceration In An Age Of Colorblindness

BY MICHELE ALEXANDER
"The New Jim Crow" was initially published with a modest first printing and reasonable expectations for a hard-hitting book on a tough topic. Now, ten-plus printings later, the long-awaited paperback version of the book is available. Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination--employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits are suddenly legal. We have sold 100's to Quakers already.

New Press 2012 336 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

The New Jim Crow Hardcover

Mass Incarceration In The Age Of Colorblindness

BY MICHELLE ALEXANDER
Former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community - and all of us - to place confronting mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America. suggested price $27.95 Our price $25.15

New Press 2010 290 PP. Cloth

$27.95 (in stock)

New Light

12 Quaker Voices

EDITED BY JENNIFER KAVANAGH
Jennifer Kavanagh pulls together the writings from the Quaker Quest series "Twelve Quakers and..." on such as pacifism, evil, simplicity and the Quaker understanding of God. "In this book, we are given varied and thought-provoking Quaker views on a series of important topics related both to belief and to practice. ...A valuable resource for those who wish to reflect on their Faith and Practice, whether a newcomer to Quakerism or an experienced member of a Quaker Meeting. Particularly helpful is that they are each short and to the point, with the different viewpoints..." - George Ellis, Quaker Cosmologist, Winner of the Templeton Prize

O Books 2008 240 PP. Paper

$24.95 (in stock)

The New Q

A Fresh Translation With Commentary

TRANSLATED BY RICHARD VALANTASIS
Valantasis has taken the supposed text of Q, (produced by painstaking academic detective work) - The "missing" gospel on which Mathew Mark and Luke is presumed to be based and put it into a fresh translation, aiming to give the immediacy and challenge of someone writing about Jesus life shortly after his death. He also provides a commentary on what it says, its meaning at that time, and then how it was used by the early Christians.

T & T Clark 2005 238 PP. Paper

$8.95 (in stock)

New Seeds Of Contemplation

Audio

BY THOMAS MERTON
Thomas Merton examines the contemplative life and experience. Full of insightful reflections on how one can seek, and find, nearness to God in the modern world. Abridged audio version.

Audiologos 1995 90 MIN. Audio

$2.00 (in stock)

New Theory, Old Practice

Nonviolence And Quakers

BY GEORGE LAKEY
"Nonviolent action has three major applications: social change, social defense, and third party nonviolent intervention. Trailblazers, both Quaker and not, have shown that nonviolent action can be a tremendously powerful way of expressing our testimonies. Learning the differences and dynamics of the three applications, and therefore the possibilities of strategy, enables us to become even more the kind of practical idealists that made Quaker leaders in countless movements." - from the Author's Notes.

Southeastern Yearly Meeting 2004 30 PP Paper

$5.00 (in stock)