Lucretia Mott - Photo Illustrated Biographies

BY LUCILLE DAVIES
A slim illustrated book which lays out Lucretia's life and work in a useful but basic fashion. A good school or Meeting library book.

Bridgestone Books 1998 24 PP. Cloth

$15.95 (in stock)

Lucretia Mott Speaking

Excerpts From The Sermons - Php 234

EDITED BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
The great Quaker was a leader in women's struggle for equality and a strong influence for social action in the Society of Friends.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet Paper

$7.00 (backorder)

Lugalbanda - The Boy Who Got Caught Up In A War

An Epic Tale From Ancient Iraq

BY KATHY HENDERSON
First preserved on Clay tablets and probably the oldest written story in the world. Retold by Kathy Henderson it tells of Lugalbanda youngest of 8 sons of King Enmerkar. All the other sons go to war, and despite illness he tries to as well, but falls gravely ill. A tale with many twists but ultimately telling of healing and understanding.

P.Candlewick 2006 80 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (low stock)

The Lunar Men

Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed The World

BY JENNY UGLOW
In the 1760s a group of amateur scientists met and made friends in the English Midlands. Together they would change the world. Among them were the toymaker Matthew Boulton and his partner James Watt, of steam-engine fame; the potter and Quaker Josiah Wedgwood; Erasmus Darwin, physician, poet, inventor,. Later came Joseph Priestley, discoverer of oxygen and a radical. With a small band of allies they formed the Lunar Society (so called because it met at each full moon) and kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Many Quaker connections.

FSG 2002 588 PP. Paper

$22.00 (in stock)

M. L. K.

The Journey Of A King

BY TONYA BOLDEN
Tonya Bolden brings words and pictures together to tell the life story of one of America's greatest figures: Martin Luther King, Jr. or M.L.K. Central to the story is King's belief that agape-the selfless love for one's neighbor-is the rope that binds all peoples together. This philosophy came forward in his sermons, in his daily practice, and especially in his support of nonviolent protests. More than 80 photographs of M.L.K. are juxtaposed with images of his wife and family, of his fellow protestors, and of other leaders of the day. A tribute to a great human being, M.L.K. will surely inspire young readers. Not just another book on Martin Luther King, Jr., but a great book about him.

Abrams 2005 128 PP. Cloth

$19.95 (low stock)

Made In God's Image

BY ANN THOMPSON COOK
A resource for dialogue about the church and gender differences. A booklet from the United Methodist church at Dumbarton that many Friends have found helpful. Considers transgendered people with tenderness and acceptance.

Dumbarton United Methodist Church 2003 24 PP. Paper

$5.95 (in stock)

The Magic Of Conflict

Turning A Life Of Work Into A Work Of Art

THOMAS CRUM
This set of simple techniques, including meditation, breathing exercises, openness, and play--Aiki--leads gently to a reordered state of mind. From overcoming apathy to understanding how conflict doesn't have to mean contest, Aiki turns mind-body integration principles into powerful tools.

Touchstone 1998 256 PP. Paper

$7.50 (in stock)

The Magic Pillow

BY DEMI
Based on a famous Chinese folktale, "The Magic Pillow" tells the story of a poor boy named Ping who is given a magic pillow by a mysterious magician. Ping sees what a lifetime of wealth and power would be like, and discovers that the riches of family and freedom are much more valuable. Ping finds that peace in his heart is much more valuable to him than gold.

Simon & Schuster 2008 40 PP. Cloth

$19.99 (in stock)

Magnificent Healing

BY EARTH MAMA
We live in a time that cries out for healing - healing of ourselves, our communities and our earth. I offer this music as accompaniment for your spirit-led journey towards healing and peace. 8 songs about such healing 1. All I do Today 2. Bless Our Steps 3. How Would We Live? 4. Just To Be 5. Mending Song 6. Oh Earth 7. Mending Song II - Instrumental 8. Under the Rainbow - Instrumental.

Rouse House 2003 CD Disk

$10.00 (in stock)

The Making Of An Elder Culture

Reflections On The Future Of America's Most Audacious Generation

BY THEODORE ROSZAK
The author, a very early proponent of a green and sustainable future says that the counter culture hippies of the 60's can now in their retirement be more effective agents for change. Though elder culture is not a new idea to Quakers! Part demographic study, part history; part critique and part appeal, an interesting tome.

New Society Press 2009 320 PP. Paper

$18.95 (low stock)

Making Peace

One Woman's Journey Around The World

BY JAN PHILLIPS
This book is the journal of Quaker Jan Phillip's peace pilgrimage around the world in 1983. Many Friends have found her prose and photographs inspiring and very special as she recounts her spiritual transformation moving from Western to Eastern culture - and then back to the West. Here are encounters with relatively unknown peace activists and institutions in many countries.

Friendship Press 1989 120 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Making Peace - Healing A Violent World

EDITED BY CAROLYN MCCONNELL AND SARAH RUTH VANGELDER
Peace isn't just the absence of violence. A prison inmate, a divorced parent, a pastor, a diplomat, a farmer and others tell stories of creating peace. From the pages of YES! magazine, stories of peacemakers.... Joanna Macy, Wendell Berry, Thomas Berry, Troy Chapman, Walter Wink, Jamal Rahman, Michael Nagler, Quaker Peter Morse and others write on alternatives to violence, hate and domination. These stories suggest we needn't stand by as violence permeates our media, homes, schools, and international affairs. There is a better way.

Postive Futures Network 2003 92 PP. Paper

$7.50 (in stock)

Making Peace - Poems

BY DENISE LEVERTOV, EDITED BY PEGGY ROSENTHAL
Making Peace collects Levertov's finest poems about war and peace, subjects which she addresses with passion and nuance. Spanning the last three decades of her life, their subjects range from Vietnam to the death-squads of El Salvador to the first Gulf War. Often brutally vivid-in "The Certainty" she writes, "war / means blood spilling from living bodies"-Levertov's poems always have at their core her love for humanity, even as she registers her horror at what humans do to one another.

New Directions 2006 96 PP. Paper

$9.00 (low stock)

Making Peace With Conflict

Practical Skills For Conflict Transformation

EDITED BY CAROLYN SCHROCK-SHENK AND LAWRENCE RESSLER
A thoughtful, clear and spiritually grounded overview of the various techniques needed to address conflict productively. "The authors [of these essays] are vigorous in their representation of conflict as an important part of our spiritual journey, calling on us to respond with a willing and faithful practice of our best abilities. . . . Making Peace with Conflict offer[s] the most comprehensive, [the] most relevant to Friends, and [the] overall best nonacademic conflict resolution overview within a single cover." - Chel Avery for Friends Journal

Herald Press 1999 199 PP. Paper

$14.99 (in stock)

Making The Peace

A 15-session Violence Prevention Curriculum For Young People

BY PAUL KIVEL AND ALLAN CREIGHTON
Making the Peace is written to help high school students break away from violence, develop self-esteem, and regain a sense of community. Drawing from years of experience in violence prevention, the authors outline a 15-session program that is grouped into three units. Part One explains basic concepts and establishes a framework of safety and respect within the class. Part Two looks at the forms that violence takes. Part Three focuses on healing from the past and introduces individual and group activities that can help to make the peace. The opening chapter, "Before You Begin," offers guidelines to teachers for doing violence prevention work with young people.

Hunter House 1996 180 PP. Paper

$29.95 (low stock)

Mama Panya's Pancakes

A Village Tale From Kenya

BY MARY CHAMBERLIN
On market day, Mama Panya's son Adika invites everyone he sees to a pancake dinner. How will Mama Panya ever feed them all? This clever and heartwarming story about Kenyan village life teaches the importance of sharing, even when you have little to give, and illustrates east African life.

Barefoot Books 2006 32 PP. Paper

$7.99 (in stock)

Mama's Milk

BY MICHAEL ELSOHN ROSS, ILLUSTRATED BY ASHLEY WOLFF
Celebrating the warm and loving bond between mammal mamas and their babies, this lushly illustrated, lyrical book shows little ones doing what comes naturally: nursing. A perfect choice for cuddling up with a breast-feeding child or the older sibling who wonders how the new baby gets fed.

Tricycle Press 2007 32 PP. Cloth

$12.95 (low stock)

The Man Who Named The Clouds

BY JULIE HANNAH
Quaker Luke Howard was a boy with his head in the clouds. When he was ten he began keeping a weather journal. Eventually, he joined a club whose members wanted to learn about science. They did experiments and wrote reports. Luke wanted to classify clouds, though many others had failed at this. At last, using the Linnaean classification as inspiration, Luke successfully created a system for naming the clouds which is still in use today. This story of Luke Howard is interspersed with the weather journal of a modern-day child working on a science project.

Albert Whitman 2006 40 PP. Cloth

$15.95 (in stock)

The Man Who Would Be King

The First American In Afghanistan

BY BEN MACINTYRE
Afghan warlord and a Quaker? Well not at the same time, but this is an extraordinary biography of an extraordinary man born near Philadelphia in 1799 to Quaker parents. Soldier, spy, doctor, traveler and writer, a failed love affair took him to Afghanistan and there he eventually forged his own kingdom, before being expelled by the British. Kipling based his book "The Man who would be King" on his life.

Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2005 365 PP Paper

$14.00 (low stock)

Manneken Pis

A Simple Story Of A Boy Who Peed On A War

BY VLADIMIR RADUNSKY
Inspired by a statue in Brussels, this is the story of a little boy who has a loving family, but who gets separated from his parents when war happens to the town. As he looks for them, he is overwhelmed by the scenes of violence, but also needs to pee, so, he does, right on the war. The soldiers burst into laughing and forget why it was they were fighting in the first place.

Simon & Schuster 2002 32 PP. Cloth

$15.95 (in stock)

A Manual On Nonviolence And Children

Includes: For The Fun Of It, Selected Cooperative Games For Children And Adults

COMPILED AND EDITED BY STEPHANIE JUDSON
An invaluable resource for creating an atmosphere at home & at school where children and adults can resolve problems nonviolently. Has sections on affirmation, meeting facilitation, parent support groups and more. Contains over 100 exercises, games & agendas used or developed by Friends Committee on Nonviolence & Children based in Philadelphia

New Society Press 1984 152 PP. Paper

$9.95 (in stock)

Map Showing North American Yearly Meeting Boundaries

BY SALLY RICKERMAN
A color map that shows the Shows the geographical areas of the Quaker Yearly Meetings in N America. Useful asit is on thick card for the Meeting noticeboard or walls Also available as a set of two with The Four Branches of Quakerism.

Troll Press 2010 MAP 11"X 17" Blank

$5.00 (backorder)

The Maquiladora Reader

Cross Border Organizing Since Nafta

EDITED BY RACHAEL KAMEL AND ANYA HOFFMAN
A maquiladora or maquila is a factory that imports materials and equipment on a duty-free and tariff-free basis for assembly or manufacturing and then re-exports the assembled product, usually back to the originating country. Through more than two dozen readings from a variety of sources, this work reveals the determination and creativity of Maquiladora workers as they seek to improve their wages and working conditions, protect their communities from health and environmental hazards, and build cross-border relationships with unions, religious groups, community organizers, and others.

American Friends Service Committee 1999 131 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Margaret Fell

Mother Of Quakerism

BY ISABEL ROSS
A comprehensive, well-researched biography of the Mother of Quakerism, which includes historical documents, reproductions and photographs. First published in 1949, this is a reprint of the second edition from 1984.

Sessions of York 1996 421 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

Margaret Fell And The End Of Time

The Theology Of The Mother Of Quakerism

BY SALLY BRUYNEEL
This book unusually looks at Margaret Fell as a religious author or theologian in her own right. Sally Bruyneel systematically analyzes Fell's writings on both Quaker and orthodox Christian subjects, ranging from the Inward Light to eschatology to the Trinity. In doing so she demonstrates that Fell was deeply influenced by Biblical apocalyptic literature and the strong eschatological expectations of her time, which became central to her work with the Jews, for her defense of the spirituality equality of women, and for her promotion of the Quaker testimony of peace.

Baylor Univ Press 2010 227 PP. Cloth

$39.95 (in stock)

Maria Mitchell And The Sexing Of Science

An Astronomer Among The American Romantics

BY RENEE BERGER
Born and raised on Nantucket, Quaker Maria Mitchell apprenticed with her father, an amateur astronomer. In 1847, thanks to her diligent "sweeps" of the sky, Mitchell discovered the eponymous comet that would catapult her to international fame. Soon she was hired as the "computer of Venus," a sort of human calculator, for the U.S. Nautical Almanac. Mitchell later joined the founding faculty at Vassar, where she sadly watched opportunities for her students vanish as science morphed from a private pursuit to a public profession, and the increasingly male scientific establishment closed ranks.

Beacon Press 2008 320 PP. Cloth

$29.95 (low stock)

Maria Mitchell

Soul Of An Astronomer

BY BEATRICE GORMLEY
"This fine biography details the life of America's first female astronomer, who was born in 1818 on Nantucket. Gormley explores Mitchell's early years, her struggles with the Quaker doctrines with which she grew up, her discovery of the comet that was named after her, and her careers as a librarian and astronomy instructor. Known for her honesty as well as her nonconformity, Mitchell comes across here as a great seeker who truly loved God and sang his praises." - Booklist

Eerdmans 2003 166 PP. Paper

$12.00 (in stock)

Maria's Comet

BY DEBORAH HOPKINSON, ILLUSTRATED BY DEBORAH LANINO
"A fictionalized, first-person story of the childhood of Maria Mitchell, America's first female astronomer, is recounted in quietly poetic text. Maria longs to 'sweep the sky' with a telescope as her father does, instead of sweeping the floor with a broom. An afterword provides more information." - Horn Book

Simon & Schuster 2003 32 PP. Paper

$7.99 (in stock)

Marriage

A Spiritual Leading For Lesbian, Gay And Straight Couples - Php 308

BY LESLIE HILL
This is a delightful account of how Putney Monthly Meeting evolved a minute on same-sex marriage and married John and Marshall.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1995 31 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Marriage And Commitment

Includes Sections On Separation And Divorce

BY SOUTHEASTERN YEARLY MEETING
A statement of the Quaker belief in inclusiveness, SEYM takes into consideration the total range of couplings, consideration for children, concern for step-children, first and consecutive marriages, same-sex and different-sex unions, separations and divorce. SEYM was the first yearly meeting affiliated with FUM (2006) to be so inclusive. FGC Friends have applauded this section, as have some American Conservative Friends. SEYM feels blessed to have a wealth of experience that includes the vibrancy of new Friends and the wisdom of old Friends from the FGC, Conservative and FUM traditions. Excerpted from SEYM Faith and Practice.

Southeastern Yearly Meeting 2006 28 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)