The Photographer

Into War-torn Afghanistan With Doctors Without Borders

BY DIDIER LEFèEVRE, EMMANUEL GUIBERT, FREDERIC LEMERCIER
A unique and literally stunning book, mixing contemporary black and white photos, with a comic strip. The book looks at the work of Doctors without Borders in Afghanistan in 1986, the period when the Russians tried to control the country. The relentless mountain scenery, the difficulty of movement or communication and ever present corruption and danger are portrayed only too well. A reminder of how complex the situation was and still is over there. 14 inches by 12 inches.

First Second 2009 267 PP. Paper

$29.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Picasso's War

The Destruction Of Guernica And The Masterpiece That Changed The World

BY RUSSELL MARTIN
In Picasso's War, Russell Martin weaves politics, history, art, and science into a stirring narrative of the monumental canvas that was to become the most important artwork of the 20th century. Pablo Picasso, enraged by Hitler's bombing of Guernica in Northern Spain on April 26, 1937, responded to the devastation in his homeland by beginning work on Guernica. In Picasso's War, Martin follows Guernica, the renowned masterwork, across decades and continents, crafting an engrossing story of a its impassioned creation and the struggle to find hope in the face of unspeakable acts of terror.

Plume 2002 274 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Picking Up The Pieces From Portugal To Palestine

Quaker Refugee Work In World War Ii - A Memoir

BY HOWARD WRIGGINS
As a conscientious objector prior to World War II, author Howard Wriggins joined the American Friends Service Committee. A young idealist who left his graduate studies in political science to assist refugees fleeing Hitler's madness, Wriggins batted out daily letters on an ancient Underwood portable to describe the cruel events he witnessed. He shares his experiences as he came to know numberless refugees and prisoners in Europe and the Middle East. Professor Wriggins has used his letters to tell a riveting personal story about the horrors of governmental persecution and the war to end it, in the midst of which idealism nevertheless persisted.

University Press of America 2004 258 PP. Paper

$48.50 (in stock)

Pictures From An Expedition

BY DIANE SMITH
Told through the reminiscences of scientific illustrator Eleanor Peterson, Pictures from an Expedition is set in 1876 and tells of a diverse band of adventurers heading west to the desolate badlands of Montana to work on a dinosaur fossil dig. The story recounts the experiences of this field crew as they argue over theories of evolution and contend with rival scientists. I thought Quakers featured in the book, but haven't spotted any yet - however it is a good book!

Penguin 2002 276 PP. Paper

$2.00 (in stock)

A Piece Of Forever

BY LAUREL LEE GUGLER
A Piece of Forever begins where Catching Forever ended, with the story of Rose and her experiences being of Mennonite faith in a public school. In A Piece of Forever, Rose is forced to address the issue of warfare, and to examine her own feelings about violence and peace for the upcoming Remembrance Day assembly. While doing research for a school project, Rose learns how the effects of war have touched everyone around her. A member of Toronto Meeting.

Lorimer 2008 164 PP. Paper

$8.95 (in stock)

The Pigment Of Your Imagination

Mixed Race In A Global Society

BY JOY M. ZAREMBKA
Throughout the world arbitrary racial notions are used to define who is '"black" and who is "white" but the lines become blurred with people of mixed racial heritage. Friend Joy Zarembka and her brother Tommy -- who are featured on the front cover of the book -- share the same parents and have striking physical similarities, yet were labelled at birth with very different racial designations; Joy was described as "black" and her brother as "white." After extensive research in Britain, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Jamaica, Joy Zarembka explores the vastly divergent interpretations of racial identity. Zarembka leads us to a new understanding of racial identity.

Madera Press 2007 312 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Pillar Of Fire

America In The King Years 1963-65 Sale Paperback

BY TAYLOR BRANCH
The second volume of America in the King Years. The Book begins with the events preceding the "Birmingham spring," which took place in April and May of 1963 when young marchers, as Branch writes, "released collateral forces that drew them together. Seekers of the black vote in rural Mississippi, who literally could not move in 1963, rose to dominate the pivotal year of 1964." The volume ends with King's vow "to bring a voting bill into being" in Selma, Alabama.

Simon and Schuster 1998 746 PP. Paper

$7.50 (in stock)

Pink And Say

PATRICIA POLACCO
In a true story, Pinkus Aylee, a black Union soldier, finds Sheldon Curtis left for dead and carries him home to be tended by his mother, but when the two boys attempt to rejoin the Union troops, they are captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.

Philomel Books 1994 32 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

The Place Of Universalism In The Society Of Friends

BY DAN SEEGER
The author encourages Friends to share the "unity which universalism sees in the various religious faiths."

Quaker Universalist Fellowship 1984 16 PP. Paper

$3.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Places In Between

BY RORY STEWART
In January 2002, Rory Stewart survived a walk across Afghanistan by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. In this memoir, he writes about heroes and rogues, tribal elders and teenage soldiers, Taliban commanders and foreign-aid workers as he makes tangible the forces of tradition, ideology, and allegiance.

Harcourt 2004 299 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

The Plain Language Of Love And Loss

BY BETH TAYLOR
On November 16, 1965, Beth Taylor's idyllic childhood was shattered at age twelve by the suicide of her older brother Geoff. This memoir reflects on the meaning of death and loss for three generations of Taylor's family and their friends. Touching on the timely issues of bullying, child rearing, and non-conformity, she offers a rare look at growing up Quaker in the tumultuous 1960s that shows the more sober side of the decade's counterculture. This tender narrative is, on the surface, about Quakers and Quakerism in modern America. It is about one family's struggle to align its spiritual strivings with the realities of human limitations and the uncontrollability of circumstance.

Univ of Missouri 2009 160 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Plain Language

BY BARBARA WRIGHT
Set on the plains of Eastern Colorado in the 1930s, Plain Language is a novel about identity-that loosely knit but interconnected net of memories, dreams and aspirations that makes up who we are-and how identity is challenged by marriage, injury, secrets, and misconceptions of the past. Virginia Mendenhall, a Quaker from North Carolina, is thirty-three years old when she gives up everything and travels to Colorado to marry Alfred Bowen, a cattleman who is struggling to make his ranch succeed during the Dust Bowl. "Plain Language is an exceptional novel about the power of memory and desire....Wright takes us into the life of a passionate Quaker woman." -Ursula Hegi

Simon & Schuster 2003 352 PP. Paper

$13.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Plain Living

A Quaker Path To Simplicity

BY CATHERINE WHITMIRE
This book is a collection of the sayings of Friends (ranging from Margaret Fell and Isaac Penington to Jan Hoffman and Patricia Loring) which speak to every aspect of living a spiritually centered and simple life. Topics explored include work, plain speech, money and resources, committed relationships, grief, fear, leadings, community, practicing non-violence, spirit-led service and inward simplicity. Each section is followed by queries. An excellent resource for study groups. "Plain Living will be a well-loved, well-thumbed book, touching on every aspect of our personal choices, as ... we try to walk the challenging walk of holy simplicity." - Elise Boulding

Sorin 2001 190 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

Plan B

Further Thoughts On Faith

BY ANNE LAMOTT
"I consider reading Anne Lamott a guilty pleasure. Maybe it's because she's so irreverent or because she's so funny or maybe because she is so unabashedly human in her writing. Her most recent book, a collection of essays which originally appeared on Salon.com is just as scatterbrained and heartwarming as her earlier Traveling Mercies. In this book, though, a constant theme is waking up each day with Bush in the White House and how she deals with that, how she maintains faith in this dark political time. She tells stories of her daily waking time: going to protest rallies, celebrating Thanksgiving with her son, all the while struggling to hear God in midst of the craziness." - Lucy Duncan

Penguin 2006 336 PP. Paper

$14.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Plan C

Community Survival Strategies For Peak Oil And Climate Change

BY PAT MURPHY
Concerns over climate change & energy depletion are increasing exponentially. Mainstream solutions still assume a panacea for our climate ills without seriously modifying our way of life. Plan C explores the risks in trying to continue our energy-intensive lifestyle & how each person's individual choices can dramatically reduce CO2 emissions. It offers specific strategies in the areas of food, transportation, & housing. One chapter analyzes Cuba's economic decimation when the USSR stopped oil exports in 1990 & provides a vision for a low-energy way of living. Plan C is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in a lower-energy, saner, sustainable lifestyle.

New Society Publishers 2008 304 PP. Paper

$19.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Plant A Seed Of Peace

43 Stories Of Peacemakers

BY REBECCA SEILING
This books features 43 short stories of the lives of peacemakers who were people of faith, specifically Mennonites and other Anabaptists. This book introduces young readers to some lesser-known but effective peacemakers, showing that the Kingdom of God - even the size of a mustard seed - is a powerful thing.

Herald Press 2007 114PP. Paper

$15.99 (in stock)

Planting The Good Seed

Letters From A Quaker Relief Workerr

BY ROBERT MCCOY
A young Quaker farmer spends three years in many parts of Europe doing relief work after WWII with the AFSC. Told in very detailed and fascinating letters home about life in an extraordinary period of world history, McCoy documents this time. He met his future wife in Germany and her short poem, "What is Love," appropriately ends the book. Many illustrations.

Wilmington College Peace Research Center 2007 330 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Planting The Trees Of Kenya

The Story Of Wangari Maathai

BY CLAIRE NIVOLA
Wangari Maathai, won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize as founder of the Green Belt Movement. She grew up in the highlands of Kenya, where fig trees cloaked the hills, fish filled the streams, and the people tended their bountiful gardens. But over many years, as more and more land was cleared, Kenya was transformed. When she returned home from college in America, she found the village gardens dry, the people malnourished, and the trees gone. She decided to inspire and enable the women of Kenya to replant the trees and restore the gardens and land - The Green Belt Movement, a movement that has now spread across the world.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008 32 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

Play It Again

Favorite Songs (& One New Story) - Audio Cd

BY BILL HARLEY
One of Bill's most popular albums, a 'best of' with favorite songs from his earliest recordings and the new classic story about Charlene - the Skunk in the middle! Winner of a Parents' Choice Gold Award.

1999 53 MINUTES Audio

$15.00 (in stock)

Playing War

BY KATHY BECKWITH, ILLUSTRATED BY LEA LYON
One hot summer day Luke and his friends decide to play their favorite game of war, using sticks for guns and pine cones for bombs and grenades. Sameer, who hasn't lived in their neighborhood for very long, hesitates to join in. When he tells Luke and Jen and Jeff and Danny that he has been in a real war, they don't believe him. "No way! You haven't told us anything about that! A real war? Did they let kids be soldiers? Did you have an M-16?" Then, as Sameer explains what happened to his family, the other children start to see their game in a new light. Ages 4-8.

Tilbury House Publishers 2005 43 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

A Plea For The Poor

BY JOHN WOOLMAN
A reprint of Woolman's 1793 essay on poverty. Woolman relates poverty to wasteful consumption, brings the rich and powerful to account, and calls for simplicity as a style of life.

Pendle Hill 2001 56 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Plow Up The Fallow Ground

A Meditation In The Company Of Early Friends

BY LU HARPER
Following on examples from the writings of early Friends, Lu Harper explores the depth and variety of insights that can be found in biblical images of field and vineyard. What wisdom did early Friends find in these passages, and what do they say to us today? Through this extended exploration, and by offering rich queries for personal meditation, the author invites readers to rediscover a Quaker way of deriving powerful, personal meaning from the Bible.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2011 35 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Poesia De John Greenleaf Whittier / Poems Of John Greenleaf

BY JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, SELECTED AND TRANSLATED BY SUSAN FURRY AND BENIGNO SANCHEZ-EPPLER
Whittier used his poetic gift to express his understanding of worship and Friends understanding of the Divine .This dual language edition, richly annotated with explanatory notes and Bible references, opens these nine selections from his poetry to Friends throughout the Americas. Includes "El Culto" (The Meeting), "del primer dia" (first day thoughts). Has English text and translation on facing pages.

New England Yearly Meeting & Mosher Book and Tract 2009 41 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

The Poetry Of John Greenleaf Whittier

A Reader's Edition

EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY WILLIAM JOLIFF
Joliff, Professor of English at George Fox University, has selected 55 of Whittier's poems with the intention of turning Quaker readers into fans of the poet. A biographical and critical introduction and the identification of themes in introductions to each section are important guides.

Friends United Press 2000 275 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Poets Love

Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe

BY HEIDI HART
Nineteen songs by Robert Schumann sung in the original German by Quaker Heidi Hart.

Mountain Creek Productions 2000 19 SONGS Audio

$14.95 (in stock)

Political Teachings Of Jesus

TOD LINDBERG
Through close reading of the Sermon on the Mount and Jesus's parables, Lindberg offers a sophisticated portrait of Jesus as a teacher of unique insight and perception, one whose political views have transcended time and become essential to the way everyone lives in our society. In an era when people on both sides of the aisle are prone to using Jesus's beliefs for their own ends, The Political Teachings of Jesus is a refreshingly clear-eyed take on our shared concepts of government and society--and their common roots between the covers of the New Testament. Tod Lindberg is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and editor of Policy Review.

HarperCollins 2007 272 PP. Cloth

$5.00 (in stock)

The Political Writings Of William Penn

INTRODUCTION, ANNOTATIONS BY ANDREW MURPHY
A large selection of Penn's writings. Part 1 focuses on liberty and religious toleration; Part 2 addresses general arguments to specific events in British politics; and Part 3 presents the essay "Toward the present and future peace of Europe."

Liberty Fund 2002 439 PP. Paper

$14.50 (in stock)

The Politics Of Jesus - Vicit Agnus Noster

BY JOHN HOWARD YODER
Tradition has painted a portrait of a Savior who stands aloof from governmental concerns and who calls his disciples to an apolitical life. But such a picture of Jesus is far from accurate, according to Mennonite theologian John Yoder. This watershed work in New Testament ethics leads us to a Savior who was deeply concerned with the agenda of politics and the related issues of power, status, and right relations. By canvassing Luke's gospel, Yoder argues convincingly that the true impace of Jesus' life and ministry on his disciples' social behavior points to a specific kind of Christian pacifism in which the "cross of Christ is the model of Christian social efficacy."

Eerdmans 1994 280 PP. Paper

$22.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Politics Of Jesus

BY OBEREY HENDRICKS
Focusing on a powerful but little-examined aspect of the Gospels, Hendricks portrays Jesus as a political revolutionary whose teachings are meant to lead the way to freedom from the tyranny of principalities and unjust rulers in high--and low--places.

Doubleday 2006 384 PP. Paper

$26.00 (in stock)

Politics Of Repentance (72176)

BY ANDRE TROCME
SECONDHAND BOOK, hardback, good condition for its age. Dedicated and signed by Trocme to Emily Parker Simon with some notes on end papers by EPS. Andre and Magda Trocme are perhaps best known for their work in the small French town of Le Chambon where, during World War II, they inspired the villagers to help protect and sometimes to assist in the escape of Jews and other political refugees. This book looks at church state relations in "war".

Fellowship Publications 1953 111 PP. Cloth

$15.00 USED - availability checked Feb 11th 3:39am EST