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Born On A Blue Day

Inside The Extraordinary Mind Of An Autistic Savant

BY DANIEL TAMMET
Daniel Tammet has severe autism but can live an independent life. He sees numbers as shapes, colors, and textures, and he can perform extraordinary calculations in his head, speak new languages fluently, from scratch, in a week. In 2004, he memorized and recited more than 22,000 digits of pi, setting a record. He has savant syndrome, an extremely rare condition that gives him the most unimaginable mental powers, much like those portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the film Rain Man.

Free Press 2007 256 PP. Paper

$15.00 (low stock)

Bringing God Home

Exploring Family Spirituality - Php 362

BY MARY KAY REHARD
The L'Arche and Taize communities have influenced Quaker Mary Kay Rehard in her vocation as mother and religious educator. In this pamphlet, she writes of those influences and the insights and practices that help create healthy family environments and nurture the spirituality of children and their parents.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2002 39 PP. Paper

$6.50 (low stock)

Living With Oneself And Others

Working Papers On Aspects Of Family Life

BY NEW ENGLAND YEARLY MEETING MINISTRY & COUNSEL
Discussion, queries, and advices on marriage, family life, separation, divorce, remarriage, and living without a partner. Awaiting a reprint as of December 2007.

New England Yearly Meeting 2001 76 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Not Even Wrong

A Father's Journey Into The Lost History Of Autism

BY PAUL COLLINS
In Not Even Wrong, Paul Collins melds a memoir of his son's autism with a journey into this realm of permanent outsiders. Examining forgotten geniuses and obscure medical archives, and beginning to see why he himself has spent a lifetime researching talented eccentrics, Collins shows how these stories are relevant and even necessary to shed light on autism.

Bloomsbury 2005 256 PP. Paper

$14.95 (low stock)

Sex God

Exploring The Endless Connections Between Sexuality And Spirituality

BY ROB BELL
God and sex go together. Rob Bell believes one can't separate the two because the physical world is intimately linked to deeper spiritual realities. And so, in order to make sense of sexuality, at some point one must talk about God. Bell uses the Bible and real life examples in an aphoristic abbreviated style organized under humorous chapter headings such as "God Wears Lipstick" to argue that our physical relationships are really about spiritual relationships. A book that many Quakers are finding a fascinating theological read.

Zondervan 2008 200 PP. Paper

$14.99 (low stock)

Sexuality

A Part Of Wholeness

BY ELIZABETH WATSON
Questions and recommendations by a gifted Friend, for thoughtful consideration by inviduals and meetings. Searching proposals address our relationships with each other. Recommended to overseers.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1983 25 PP. Paper

$3.00 (in stock)

Unstrange Minds

Remapping The World Of Autism

BY ROY GRINKER
This global exploration of autism by an award-winning scientist-and father of an autistic child-shows that an apparent "epidemic" signals surprising new promise for better diagnosis and treatment.

Basic Books 2008 352 PP. Paper

$15.95 (low stock)

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