Quakers And The Arts

Plain And Fancy

BY DAVID SOX
The author presents the shift in Quaker attitudes toward the arts through the lives of 15 British and American painters, writers, and actors. Quakers profiled include Benjamin West, Edward Hicks, James Fenimore Cooper, Walt Whitman, and John Greenleaf Whittier.

Friends United Press/Sessions of York 2000 125 PP. Paper

$18.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Quakers Answer The Call

BY BARBARA CALDWELL AND LYNNE BRICK
Lessons drawn from six Quaker lives and biblical calls. Mixed ages.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1999 LOOSLEAF Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

Quakers In Action (32161)

Recent Humanitarian And Reform Activities Of The American Quakers.

BY LESTER JONES
SECONDHAND BOOK, hardback no dustjacket. Some underlining's. Quite a lot of illustrations of some of the most uninteresting details of the work - especially horses and people sunbathing in an attempt to cure tuberculosis. The book tells of relief workelief work by Friends - mostly AFSC during and after WW I

1929 226 PP. Cloth

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The Quakers In America - Paperback

BY THOMAS HAMM
This multifaceted book is a concise history of the Religious Society of Friends, an introduction to Quaker beliefs and practices and a vivid picture of the culture and controversies of the Friends today. The book opens with lively vignettes of Conservative, Evangelical, Friends General Conference, and Friends United Meetings, reflecting Friends' diversity in the wake of the sectarian splintering of the nineteenth century. "There has long been a need for a study of American Quakers in the twentieth century. With meticulous scholarship and a graceful style, Thomas Hamm has filled this need admirably." -Margaret Hope Bacon

Columbia University Press 2006 304 PP Paper

$28.00 (in stock)

Quakers In Canada (5176)

A History

BY ARTHUR DORLAND
Ex Stony Run Library copy, good condition with tatty dust jacket. Published in 1968 by Ryerson Press, 360 pp with map endpapers and black and white photographs throughout. A revision of Professor Dorland's 1927 edition, written 41 years before, has the often overlooked history of the Society in Canada, interrelated to Quakerism in America and Britain. Written with an international perspective.

Ryerson Press 1968 360 PP. Cloth

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Quakers In Conflict, The Hicksite Reformation

BY LARRY INGLE
The Hicksite reformation, the single most influential development in American Quaker history, receives its definitive interpretation in this book. Larry Ingle traces the schisms of 1827 and 1828, showing that the conflict was not only over matters of doctrine; it was also a struggle for power within the Society of Friends. Ingle's approach to his subject links the Quaker experience to a question that has always been central to Protestantism: Which has greater authority --the testimony of religious experience or the collective weight of the scriptures and church doctrine? Ingle shows how rural Hicksites resisted Evangelicalism and themselves contributed to modern notions of individualism.

P Hill 1998 310 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Quakers In Conflict

BY LINDA WILLARD
Not to be confused with Larry Ingles book on the Hicksite Orthodox split. This book tells the tales of Quakers who felt constrained to break a Quaker testimony, mostly by going to war, and to separate from their Meeting. Includes the founder of the Marines, Samuel Nicholas buried at Arch St Meeting in Philadelphia and many many others - including Annie Oakley.

Tate Publishing 2009 256 PP. Paper

$14.99 (in stock)

Quakers In Fiction

An Annotated Bibliography

BY ANNA BREINER CAULFIELD
A useful reference work for readers and Quaker librarians. Learn for instance that Christopher Isherwood and Herman Melville had Quaker characters in their novels, discover well known authors who are Quakers. The main feature is that this book gives brief plot descriptions of hundreds of adult and children's fiction titles that feature Friends. The book is alphabetical by author with a subject and title index at the back. Was $13.95, We have a lot so we are making this very cheap!

Pittenbruach Press 1993 168 PP. Paper

$2.50 (in stock)

Quakers In The Modern World (6)

WISTAR COMFORT
SECONDHAND COPY- little blue war quality hardback -no dust jacket and with much pencil underlining. A Quaker look at all the social issues and what should be done in the optimism after a world war ended.

Macmillan 1949 212 PP. Cloth

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Quakers In The Colonial Northeast

BY ARTHUR WORRALL JR
Traces the Quaker experience in New England and New York from the arrival of the first English Quaker missionaries in 1656 through till 1790.

University Press of New England 2003 248 PP. Paper

$24.95 (in stock)

Quakers In The Israeli - Palestinian Conflict

The Dilemmas Of Ngo Humanitarian Activism

BY NANCY GALLAGHER
When war broke out in Palestine in 1948, The UN asked AFSC to provide humanitarian relief to Arab refugees in Gaza. AFSC also sent volunteers to work in Israel, where they hoped to serve both Arabs and Jews. Its goal was repatriation of the refugees and conciliation and coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians. As eyewitnesses to some of the major events of the conflict, the AFSC volunteers came to understand it better than most outsiders at the time. By examining these early efforts at peacemaking and assistance, historian Nancy Gallagher has uncovered essential insights for today's peacemakers, human rights activists, and humanitarian NGOs.

American University in Cairo Press 2007 240 PP. Cloth

$29.95 (in stock)

Quakers, Newgate And The Old Bailey

BY SIMON WEBB
Quakers were involved with the Old Bailey and the notorious Newgate Prison for over 200 years. Their number included, victims of injustice, a few Quaker criminals and prison reformers such as Elizabeth Fry. Drawing on the Newgate Calendar, The Proceedings of the Old Bailey and other sources, this book tells a true story of Quakers, crime, justice and reform from 1652 to 1851.

Simon Webb 2008 76 PP. Paper

$12.50 (in stock)

Quakers, Or Our Neighbors, The Friends

BY WILLIAM WHALEN
An excellent pamphlet for outreach and new attenders in particular that presents information about the Religious Society of Friends , past and present. Was $1.50 for single copies 10 or more $1.25 50 or more 85 cents each.

Quaker Press of FGC 1999 PP30 Tract

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

Quakers!! Where?

Bumpersticker

BY THE ADVANCEMENT AND OUTREACH COMMITTEE OF FRIENDS GENERAL CONFERENCE
Help make Quakerism more visible in the world. Attractive and easy-to-read bumpersticker with "Quakers!! Where?" plus www.QuakerFinder.org in large type. The QuakerFinder website helps seekers and Friends find the nearest unprogrammed meeting to any location in the United States or Canada

Quaker Press of FGC 2003 BUMPERSTKER Blank

$2.00 (in stock)

Quaking - Paperback Edition

BY KATHRYN ERSKINE
Everything changes for fourteen-year-old Matt when she moves in with peaceful Quakers Sam and Jessica Fox, who are active in the movement against the war in the Middle East. After years of being batted around, fourteen year old Matt (don't call her Matilda) has learned to rely on herself at school and everywhere. "Biology is good. I am an expert. We are studying morphing, but I have already morphed. I have my own exoskeleton . . . I have spent years developing my armor and I will not let it be pierced". She must call on all of her resources to handle Mr. Warhead, the Rat, and the Wall at her new school, not to mention the Beast in her head.

Speak an imprint of Penguin 2010 236 PP. Paper

$7.99 (in stock)

Quaking Meeting

Transforming Our Selves, Our Meetings And The More Than Human World

BY HELEN GOULD
The James Backhouse lecture from 2009. In early Quaker Meetings the expectation was you would really have to literally quake under the "Power of the Lord" to know there was a message that you HAD to deliver from the silence. Helen Gould believes modern friends can still open themselves to this immensely powerful and loving divine energy, and that from it transformation can flow through us to others, in an ever widening spiral.

Australia Yearly Meeting 2009 69 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

Quality And Depth Of Worship And Ministry

BY THE COMMITTEE ON ELDERSHIP AND OVERSIGHT OF BRITAIN YEARLY MEETING
Friends would say that meeting for worship is central to their spiritual lives - but what is worship? What does `ministry' mean? How can we talk to each other, sharing our understandings of listening or waiting on God? Meetings can feel shallow, unsatisfying, or deep and transforming. Dare we assess quality and depth? This booklet is a distillation of experience and reflection collected from meetings and offered back in the form of queries. This booklet is an essential guide for every worship and ministry committee.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2001 44 PP. Paper

$7.00 (in stock)

Queries Story Materials

For Faith & Play

BY FAITH & PLAY CREATIONS
All the materials needed to tell the Queries story from Faith & Play. Includes felt underlay, two felt circles, wooden figures to indicate attenders or Friends, queries, felt question mark all enclosed in a ziploc bag. Elegantly produced by hand by Faith & Play Creations.

Faith & Play Creations 2009 ZIPLOC BAG Blank

$60.00 (in stock)

The Questing Spirit (3594)

Religion In The Literature Of Our Time

EDITED LUCCOCK AND BRENTANO
SECONDHAND COPY. Hardback, no dustjacket, fair condition, but binding feels a little loose. Interesting anthology of religious fiction, prose and poetry. Lots of contributors, Recognize quite a few Q's : John MacMurray, Jessamyn West, A Clutton Brock,Thomas Kelly, Arthur Eddington. A picture of the religious lit in 47.

1947 714 PP. Cloth

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A Question Of Torture

Cia Interrogation, From The Cold War To The War On Terror

BY ALFRED MCCOY
Historian Alfred McCoy locates the roots of scandals at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo in a long-standing, covert program of interrogation. He traces the spread of abusive practices across the globe, from Vietnam to Iran to Central America, and argues that after 9/11, psychological torture became the weapon of choice in the CIA's global prisons. Scrupulously documented this book is a devastating indictment of inhumane practices that have damaged America's laws, military, and international standing.

Holt 2007 309 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

The Questions Of Jesus

Challenging Ourselves To Discover Life's Great Answers

BY JOHN DEAR
The Gospels are filled with stories that trace Jesus' life and his teachings. A close reading reveals that they are also filled with questions. Like any great teacher Jesus has a question for every one he meets, for every occasion, for every experience. Using these questions as a starting point, John Dear invites readers to discover the lessons by searching their own hearts and minds for answers. Dear weaves insights from ethical and religious teachers ranging from Buddha to Martin Luther King, Jr. Using recent events as powerful examples, the author shows why a renewed commitment to Jesus' message of nonviolence, justice, and peace is essential to healing a world torn by violence and war.

Image 2004 336 PP. Paper

$12.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Quiet Book

BY DEBORAH UNDERWOOD AND RENATA LIWSKA
There are many kinds of quiet: Quiet can be delicate. Quiet can be thundering! Quiet can be sweet, and cozy. It will be up to the parent to talk about Quiet in Quaker Meeting Quiet, but this book has all sorts of other Quiet quite beautifully illustrated from deliberate quiet like "sisters asleep quiet" to the quiets you don't think have to think about like "lollipop quiet". I think this is unusually child appropriate for any age up to six or so.

Houghton Mifflin 2010 32 PP. Cloth

$12.95 (in stock)

The Quiet Eye

A Way Of Looking At Pictures

BY SYLVIA SHAW-JUDSON
Through selected art and text, a Quaker sculptor communicates a sense of affirmation, wonder and trust in the sacredness of the daily.

Regnery Gateway 1982 84 PP. Cloth

$12.95 (in stock)

Quiet Helpers

Quaker Service In Postwar Germany

BY ACHIM VON BORRIES
Friends translated this account of Quaker relief work in Germany, written originally for the Stille Helfer exhibit. It is a useful and readable analysis of how and why Quakers were involved in building bridges with the vanquished. The account includes descriptions of the efforts of Friends to prevent the sufferings of Jews and descriptions of contemporary service efforts. copublication of QPS in Britain and AFSC in America.

Britain Yearly Meetin/AFSC 2000 62 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

A Quiet Place

BY DOUGLAS WOOD, ILLUSTRATED BY DAN ANDREASON
"Readers will relate to the ruddy-cheeked, blond city-dweller, who with hands clamped tightly over his ears yearns for respite from `whistles shrieking and grown-ups talking and engines roaring and ... grown-ups talking....' In prose saturated with simile and metaphor, Wood suggests numerous subdued spots for solitude from ponds and deserts to caverns and museums and then interjects the boy's fantasies into the mix. . These scenarios will hold children rapt until the concluding thought perhaps a bit lofty for the very young that people hold within themselves `the very best quiet place of all.'" -Publishers Weekly Coming in May in Paper!

Simon & Schuster 2005 32 PP. Paper

$7.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Quiet Rebels

The Story Of The Quakers In America

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
Chapter titles include: 1. Who are the Quakers? 2. British beginnings 3. The Quakers come to the New World 4. The Holy Experiment 5. The middle years of American Quakerism: 1775-1875 6. The abolition of slavery 7. Pioneers in social change 8. The Quaker contribution to the cultural life of America 9. Quakers and the world 10. American Quakers today. Includes an introductory essay, "The Quaker Contribution to Nonviolent Action."

Pendle Hill 1999 240 PP. Paper

$12.00 (in stock)

Quilting The Black-eyed Pea

Poems And Not Quite Poems

BY NIKKI GIOVANNI
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea is an extraordinarily intimate collection. Each poem bears Giovanni's trademark of the unfalteringly political and the intensely personal; the collection is a meditation on humanity and the soul. Nikki Giovanni is the University Distinguided Professor of English and Virginia Tech, and was a plenary speaker at the 2009 FGC Gathering.

Morrow 2002 128 PP. Cloth

$6.50 (in stock)

Race And Prayer

Collected Voices, Many Dreams

EDITED BY MALCOLM BOYD, CHESTER TALTON
The damage done by hatred and prejudice - based on race, sexual orientation, religion, or gender - runs very deep. Race and Prayer is a collection of poems, prayers, and prose divided into five sections: Suffering and Anger; Prejudice and Hatred; Diversity; Reconciliation and Healing; and Growth in Understanding and Sharing. Contributors range in age from teenagers to the elderly are from a wide variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds, all of whom speak honestly of their own experiences, heartbreaks, and hopes.Some copies have very mild water damage.

Morehouse 2003 201 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Rachel And Obadiah

BY BRINTON TURKLE
Obadiah Starbuck and his Quaker family live in Nantucket in the early 1800s. Obadiah and his sister Rachel try to prove they can be trusted with a very important task. Tender lessons on humility, perseverance and true sportsmanship are gently integrated into this innocent story. A Quaker classic now reprinted and available again. Ages four and up.

Beautiful Feet Books 2004 37 PP. Paper

$7.95 (in stock)

Rachel Carson And Her Book That Changed The World

BY LAURIE LAWLOR, ILLUSTRATED BY LAURA BEINGESSNER
Once you are aware of the wonder and beauty of earth, you will want to learn about it, wrote Carson, the pioneering environmentalist and author of Silent Spring, the book that woke people up to the harmful impact humans are having on the planet.Rachel found many adventurous ways to study nature. She went diving to investigate coral reefs and tracked alligators through the Florida Everglades on a rumbling glades buggy. However, one of the bravest things she did was to write and publish Silent Spring, a book pointing out the dangerous effects of chemicals on the living world. Powerful men tried to stop publication of the book, but thankfully Rachel and her publishers persisted.

Holiday House 2012 32 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)