Walking Cheerfully

BY BARBARA HENDERSON, KARLA READ, LORRAINE WILSON
Affirmation, gifts, conflict resoulution as ways to recognize and nurture God's light within. Six lessons.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1991 28 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Walking In The Way Of Peace

Quaker Pacifism In The Seventeenth Century

BY MEREDITH BALDWIN-WEDDLE
A synthesis of intellectual and social history, Walking in the Way of Peace investigates the historic context, meaning, and expression of early Quaker pacifism in England and it's colonies. In a nuanced examination of pacifism, Weddle focuses on King Phillip's War, which forced New England Quaker, rulers and rules alike, to define the parameters of their peace testimony.

Oxford University Press 2001 348 PP. Paper

$29.95 (in stock)

Walking With Wolf

Reflections On A Life Spent Protecting The Costa Rican Wilderness

BY KAY CHORNOOK AND WOLF GUINDON
From the forest of Monteverde in Central America comes the story of pioneering conservationist Wolf Guindon. Jailed in the U.S. in 1949 as a conscientious objector, Wolf was among a small group of Quakers who left a year later in search of a new life and found it on a wet, green mountaintop in Costa Rica. For the next twenty years, Wolf labored clearing land and establishing a dairy farm. In 1972, he found a new purpose when he helped establish the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve. Since then he has worked relentlessly to secure the protection of the wilderness so that the flora and fauna of this vast, beautiful and diverse region will be intact for generations to come.

Wandering Word Press 2009 298 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

Walt Whitman

Words For America

BY BARBARA KERLEY, ILLUSTRATED BY BRIAN SELZNICK
Did you know that poet Walt Whitman was also a Civil War nurse? Devastated by his country dividing and compelled to service by his brother's war injury, Walt nursed all soldiers-Union & Confederate, black & white. By getting to know them through many intense and affecting experiences, he began to see a greater life purpose: His writing could give these men a voice, & in turn, achieve his greatest aspiration--to capture the true spirit of America. Dramatic, powerful, & deeply moving, this consummate portrait of Whitman will inspire readers to pick up their pens & open their hearts to humanity.

Scholastic Press Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

Walt Whitman

Selected Poems

BY WALT WHITMAN
This collection brings together Whitman's greatest and most famous poems spanning the whole of his career. From the groundbreaking first edition of Leaves of Grass are seven poems, including "Song of Myself" and "I Sing the Body Electric."From later editions there are such masterpieces as "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"

Orion Publishing 2002 135 PP. Cloth

$6.95 (in stock)

Walt Whitman And Opera

BY ROBERT FAUER
SECONDHAND. Grubby but readable paperback. "There is excitement even in Professor Faner's schol­arship: the excitement of young Whitman as he went from opera to opera and from concert to concert, as he began to understand the full beauty, first of the human voice and, later, of the orchestra, and the excitement of observing how all this comes back into his poetry, as subject-matter, as words written with the capabilities of the voice always in mind, as construction. There is, too, much information on other things than Whitman's art in Walt Whitman and Opera, so that it is a source-book for the history of music in America during the middle years of the nineteenth century." -TLS

S Illinois press 1972 246 PP. Paper

$5.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Walt Whitman Notecard Folio

FROM SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE
This folio of notecards presents two photographic portraits of the very hirsute Whitman from the collection of the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution, accompanied by excerpts from the Leaves of Grass poem Song of Myself, a celebration of the freedom and dignity of the individual. Ten black and white 5 x 7 blank note cards (5 each of 2 designs) and ten white envelopes.

Smithsonian/Pomegranite 10 CARDS Blank

$6.00 (in stock)

Walt Whitman's Spiritual Epic

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 395

BY MICHAEL ROBERTSON
Walt Whitman's celebrated 1855 poem "Song of Myself" was an astonishing new poetic venture in its language and style as well as in the values and spirituality it expressed. The poet, Whitman believed, was to be the high priest of a new, democratic religion. Whitman was inspired by the progressive religious ideals surging through Quakerism and other spiritual movements. With particular attention to the perspectives of Friends, Robertson walks the reader through "Song of Myself," noting its beauties, its challenges, and its deep inspiration. (Discussion questions included)

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2008 36 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Wandering Home

A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley And New York's Adirondacks

BY BILL MCKIBBEN
The acclaimed author of The End of Nature takes a three-week walk from his current home in Vermont to his former home in the Adirondacks and reflects on the deep hope he finds in the two landscapes.

Crown Books 2005 160 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Wangari's Trees Of Peace

A True Story From Africa

BY JEANETTE WINTERS
Jeanette Winter tells of the Green Belt movement and its founder Wangari Maathai. In simple words and picures she explains how Wangari saw Kenya turning from a forest to a desert and how she started to try and change this, first by planting nine saplings in her own backyard, then by recruiting and organizing hundreds, then thousands, of woman to join her, paying them a small amount for each tree they planted that survived three months. Now many more than thirty million trees have been planted all over Africa, and women and local economies and empowered

Harcourt 2008 32 PP. Cloth

$17.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning

BY CHRIS HEDGES
As a War correspondent, Hedges has covered conflicts in the Middle East, the Balkans, Central America, Africa. He uses his first-hand knowledge of the horrors of war, as well as knowledge of literature from Homer to Herr , and his master of divinity from Harvard University, to reflect on the nature of human violence and myth-making. Having suffered through his own "addiction" to war, he concludes that even if we cannot eradicate fighting among nations, love remains a virtue worth pursuing.

Anchor Books 2003 211 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

War Is A Racket

The Antiwar Classic By America's Most Decorated Soldier

BY SMEDLEY BUTLER
The son of West Chester Quakers, General Smedley Butler's frank book shows how American war efforts were animated by big-business interests. This extraordinary argument against war by an unexpected proponent is relevant now more than ever. See also his life story in Maverick Marine.

Feral House 2003 120 PP. Paper

$9.95 (in stock)

The War Of The Lamb

The Ethics Of Nonviolence And Peacemaking

BY JOHN HOWARD YODER
Before his death, he planned the essays and structure of this book, which he intended to be his last work. Now two leading interpreters of Yoder bring that work to fruition. The book is divided into three sections: pacifism, just war theory, and just peacemaking theory. The volume crystallizes Yoder's argument that his proposed ethics is not sectarian and a matter of withdrawal. He also clearly argues that Christian just war and Christian pacifist traditions are basically compatible--and more specifically, that the Christian just war tradition itself presumes against all violence.

Brazos 2010 256 PP. Paper

$24.99 (in stock)

War Taxes Experiences Of Philadelphia Ye

CRAUDERUEFF, ELAINE

1989 Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

The Warmth Of Other Suns

The Epic Story Of America's Great Migration

BY ISABEL WILKERSON
Tells the story the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping in Mississippi for Chicago. George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a glittering medical career, Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. For this book she interviewed more than 1,000 people, and gained access to new data and official records. Suggested retail $30.00 our price $27.00

Random House 2010 640 PP. Cloth

$27.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Wartime Diaries Of Francis Newman

HILL, MARGARELIVES

2008 60 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

Way Of Friendship (94)

Meditations On Love And Friendship

BY PERRY TREADWELL
81 meditations in poetic form on Love and Friendship from Quaker and former pub owner. As new condition but has price sticker (for $11.95) on cover.SECONDHAND.

Iuniverse 2004 80 PP. Paper

$3.50 USED - availability checked Feb 11th 3:39am EST

Way Of Man

BUBER, MARTIN
Martin Buber was one of the most significant religious thinkers of the twentieth century. In this short and remarkable book he presents the essential teachings of Hasidism, the mystical Jewish movement which swept through Eastern Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Told through stories of imagination and spirit, together with Buber's own unique insights, The Way of Man offers us a way of understanding ourselves and our place in a spiritual world.

Citadel Press 1966 48 PP. Paper

$12.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Way Of The Cross

The Gospel Record - Php 260

BY MARY MORRISON
A long-time teacher of the Gospels sees the heart of their message as a center that is everywhere, inclusive, yet highly individual.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet Blank

$6.50 (in stock)

Way Opens

A Spiritual Journey

BY PATRICIA WILD
Patricia Wild was a high school student in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1962 when the school was desegregated. Following a concern to find what happened to the African American students who joined the school, she tracks down Lynda Woodruff, now a college professor, and Owen Cardwell, a Baptist preacher. Gently guided by Lynda and Owen, her Quaker meeting, and the people she meets along the way, Patricia examines her white privilege and learns history lessons never taught in her segregated high school.

Way Opens Press 2008 198 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Waymaker

BY TRIBE1
Led by Niyonu Spann, creator of Beyond Diversity 101, Tribe 1 sings songs of peace and transformation in the spirit of Sweet Honey in the Rock. The group brought down the house at the 2008 Gathering of Friends. This CD includes 'Workin' at the Roots,' 'I am Looking,' 'Waymaker,' 'Prayer,' and 'Be My Friend.'

Tribe1 2004 9 SONGS Audio

$18.00 (in stock)

Ways To Live Forever

BY SALLY NICHOLS
A harrowing but inspiring first novel from a young British Quaker writer. For children 9+. My name is Sam, I am eleven years old, I collect stories and fantastic facts, I have leukemia, By the time you read this, I will probably be dead. Living through the final stages of leukemia, Sam collects stories, questions, lists, and pictures that create a profoundly moving portrait of how a boy lives when he knows his time is almost up.

Arthur Levine 2008 212 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

We Are Loved Let Us Love

Quakers And The Covenant Of Cosmopolitanism

BY BEN PINK DANDELION
Ben Pink Dandelion starts out with "our covenantal call to realizing community and how our understanding of that demands of us a particular way of viewing the world. It is a challenge to us in our personal and Meeting lives and it is challenge to a world which tends to view people in terms of hierarchical varieties of 'them' and 'us.'" The response he offers, using the concept of cosmopolitanism, outlines a clear, and clearly Quaker, way we should live.

Beacon Hill 2010 32 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

We Are Mesquakie, We Are One

BY HADLEY IRWIN
Based on actual events, a Mesquakie Indian girl grows to adulthood during the 1840's when her people are forced to move from their home in Iowa to a reservation in Kansas where her people face malnutrition, small pox, alcoholism and depression and are encouraged to adopt the white culture. Eventually they can begin to buy back some of their stolen land and return to live on it. Age 8+

Feminist Press 1980 115 PP. Paper

$11.95 (in stock)

We Are One

The Story Of Bayard Rustin

BY LARRY DANE BRIMNER
Bayard Rustin was a Quaker, African American civil rights activist, and leader, (1912 - 1987). Here his personal story is set against the history of segregation in his time and focuses on his leadership role, in the struggle for civil rights. On each page, the clearly written, informal text is accompanied by eloquently captioned archival photos that include disturbing images of racist violence, as well as pictures of Rustin in protest mode, passing out antiwar leaflets, advising Dr. Martin Luther King on peaceful protest, organizing the triumphant 1963 March on Washington, and more. Rustin's gay identity gets only passing mention - Booklist

Calkins Creek Books 2007 48PP. Cloth

$18.95 (in stock)

We Are The Weather Makers

The History Of Climate Change

BY SALLY WALKER, TIM FLANNERY
First published for an adult readership, THE WEATHER MAKERS got kudos for its solid science and powerful message. Now this accessible edition speaks directly to young adults, offering a clear look at the history of climate change, how matters will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future. Newly featured are twenty-five practical tips for living a greener lifestyle-at home, in school, in the community, and ultimately, on Earth.

Candlewick 2010 320 PP. Paper

$9.99 (in stock)

We Do (823)

A Celebration Of Gay And Lesbian Marriage

BY AMY RENNERT; FOREWORD BY GAVIN NEWSOM
When San Francisco's mayor, Gavin Newsom, ordered City Hall to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples on February 12th, thousands of gays and lesbians from around the world lined up to take their vows, inspiring other cities to follow suit. As intense public debate continues, We Do is an intimate portrait of these history-making weddings. The result is a touching album of happy couples, from the two lesbians who've been together 51 years to dads with babes in arms. A joyful celebration, We Do stands witness to the fact that we are all created equal in love.SECONDHAND COPY in almost new condition.

Chronicle Books 2004 143 PP. Paper

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We Felt Their Kindliness

An American Family’s Afghan Odyssey (1949-1951)

EDITED BY OS CRESSON
Rebecca & Osborne Cresson lived in Afghanistan for 2 years with their daughter, Wetherill (8) and son, Os (7). Osborne taught math in high school and Rebecca taught elementary school. They believed that a practical way to build world peace is for families to go and live among people whose ways differ from their own. While teaching and homemaking, visiting and traveling, Osborne recorded the scene with a camera and Rebecca with pen and paper. This is a glimpse of the Afghan people, only a few years after their country started to admit foreigners. Although the materials are over 50 years old, the culture described is still present in Afghanistan today.

EPP 2002 252 PP. Paper

$7.50 (in stock)

We Want Peace

Aceh After The Tsunami

BY AFSC
A useful resource on AFSC's work in Aceh in the immediate aftermath of the Tsunami, and the rebuilding of livelihoods and communities afterwards. Then staying to pursue long term reconciliation and recovery. See this video in three parts on Youtube on AFSC Videos Chanel.

AFSC 2009 11 MINS Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

We Welcome Families To Our Meeting

BY ELIZABETH FERRY
$0.75 each (fewer than 10). $0.60 each (10-49). $0.40 each (50 or more).

Quaker Press of FGC 1987 LEAFLET Tract

0-10 $0.75, 10-50 $0.60, 50 or more $0.40 (in stock)