Lewis Mumford

A Life

BY DONALD MILLER
A great humanist and polyglot Lewis Mumford wrote 28 books and 1,000 or more articles on history, philosophy, literature, art, architectural criticism, and urban planning, peace and nuclear disarmament - always seeking to promote human values, community and his vision of a better tomorrow, This is a very full biography of a man whose personal life was perhaps not as well lived as it could have been.

University of Pittsburg Press 1989 625 PP. Paper

$4.50 (in stock)

Liberty And Conscience

A Documentary History Of The Experiences Of Conscientious Objectors In America Through The Civil War

EDITED BY PETER BROCK
Although the act of conscientious objection entered modern consciousness most strikingly as a result of the Vietnam War, Americans have long struggled to reconcile their politics, pacifist beliefs, and compulsory military service. While conscientious objection in the twentieth century has been well documented, there has been surprisingly little study of its long history in America's early conflicts, defined as these have been by accounts of patriotism and nation-building. In fact, during the period of conscription from the late 1650s to the end of the Civil War, many North Americans refused military service on grounds of conscience.

Oxford University Press 2002 194 PP. Paper

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Liberty, Equality, And Justice

Civil Rights, Women's Rights, And The Regulation Of Business, 1865-1932

ROSS EVANS PAULSON
studies social and intellectual changes in a critical period of American history--from the end of the Civil War to the early days of the Depression--and argues that attempts to achieve civil rights, women's rights, and the regulation of business faltered because so many Americans ranked liberty for themselves higher than equality with others and justice for all. He integrates the experiences of diverse populations--including African Americans, women, Asian immigrants, Native Americans, and working people--and offers a new interpretation of the ways in which social change and political events interact to reframe the many possibilities of American society.

Duke 377 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

The Librarian Of Basra

A True Story From Iraq

BY JEANNETTE WINTER
"When war seemed imminent, Alia Muhammad Baker, chief librarian of Basra's Central Library, was determined to protect the library's holdings. In spite of the government's refusal to help, she moved the books into a nearby restaurant only nine days before the library burned to the ground. When the fighting moved on, this courageous woman transferred the 30,000 volumes to her and her friends' homes to await peace and the rebuilding of a new library....Winter artfully achieves a fine balance between honestly describing the casualties of war and not making the story too frightening for young children.... It is in the illustrations ... that Winter suggests the impending horror." - SLJ

Harcourt 2005 32 PP. Cloth

$16.00 (in stock)

Lies My Teacher Told Me

Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

BY JAMES LOEWEN
After surveying 18 leading American history texts the author found not one made a good job of making history interesting or memorable. Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit almost all the ambiguity, passion, conflict, and drama from our past. In this revised edition, packed with updated material, Loewen explores how historical myths continue to be perpetuated in today's climate and adds an eye-opening chapter on the lies surrounding 9/11 and the Iraq War. Thought provoking, nonpartisan, and often shocking.

Touchstone 2007 444 PP. Paper

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Life Goes On

A Harmony Novel

BY PHILIP GULLEY
Squarely in the crosshairs of the Church's heresy hunters, can Pastor Sam survive? It's a madcap year in Harmony, Indiana, as Sam Gardner struggles through his fourth year as pastor of the Harmony Friends Meeting.

HarperOne 2005 256 PP. Paper

$12.95 (in stock)

Life In A Penal Battalion Of The Imperial Russian Army (522)

The Tolstoyan N. T. Iziumchenko's Story

EDITED BY PETER BROCK
SECONDHAND COPY-god condition. "The Tolstoyan N. T. Iziumchenko's Story" A unique account by a young peasant conscript in the Imperial Russian army who was sentenced to serve two years in a penal battalion as a result of his refusal to bear arms.

Sessions 2001 63 PP. Paper

$2.50 USED - availability checked Feb 8th 1:48pm EST

A Life Like Mine

How Children Live Around The World

BY DK PUBLISHING
"Presented in conjunction with UNICEF, DK's A Life Like Mine: How Children Live Around the World profiles 18 children and explores what life is like for them and other young people, spanning 180 countries. Organized into four sections-Survival, Development, Protection and Participation-the handsomely designed volume, with a bounty of photographs that transport readers to exotic lands, stems from the mission set forth by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Charts, maps and children's quotes add to the thoughtful and informative presentation." -Publishers Weekly

Dorling Kindersley 2002 127 PP. Cloth

$24.99 (in stock)

A Life On The Road Less Traveled

The Story Of Parry Jones

AS TOLD TO DAFYDD JONES
Parry Jones grew up in Wales, becoming a conscientious objector in WW2. He joined the Friends Ambulance Unit working in London during the Blitz, then in China for 4 years, and finally India for 2 years before coming to America. He was accepted at Swarthmore College , married, and started a family, afterwards working in Pakistan in the mid-1950's before starting a career in teaching that lasted for 20 years. This book is his life story as told to his sons during 3 years of interviews, with countless revisions, and 2 years of editing.

Infinity 2008 146 PP. Paper

$11.95 (in stock)

The Life With God Bible

EDITED, WITH NOTES, BY RICHARD J. FOSTER, DALLAS WILLARD, WALTER BRUEGGEMAN ET AL.
In this major new Bible, the foremost names in Christian spirituality and biblical scholarship, including Richard Foster, Dallas Willard, Eugene Peterson and Walter Brueggemann, come together to provide a unique study Bible that rediscovers Scripture as living and active text of spiritual formation. NRSV translation. Originally published as the Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible.

HarperOne 2009 2048 PP. Paper

$24.99 (in stock)

Life-work

A Career Guide For Idealists

BY WILLIAM CHARLAND
Bill Charland, career counselor and employment training consultant, shows how to find meaningful work today by asking the right questions and listening carefully for the answers. The author takes a look at work-its history, meaning, and current trends. Drawing on biblical texts, as well as writings from Quaker and other religious and literary works, he shares stories of those who have found personal satisfaction in their work and offers practical guidance for the search.

Friends United Press 1999 216 PP. Paper

$15.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Life's Companion

Journal Writing As A Spiritual Quest

BY CHRISTINA BALDWIN
Laying the groundwork for journeys and journals this book is a great support to the long-standing Friends practice of keeping personal spiritual journals.

Bantam 1990 350 PP. Paper

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Lifesongs, Readings For Milestones

BY PINKY AGNEW
The oddly named Pinky is a New Zealander (not a relation of Spiro T) and specializes in celebrating weddings This is a great selection of poems from all ages but with maybe more living poets. Would be much better if it wasn't silver print on white and a cover that looks scuffed before it even gets scuffed - BUT this is a great anthology for milestone celebrations. Naming baby, to funerals.

Random House - New Zealand 2006 205 PP. Cloth

$3.00 (in stock)

Lifetimes

The Beautiful Way To Explain

MELLONIE, BRYAN/ ING
A pet . . . a friend . . . or a relative dies, and it must be explained to a child. This sensitive book is a useful tool in explaining to children that death is a part of life and that, eventually, all living things reach the end of their own special lifetimes.

Random House 1983 40 PP. Blank

$14.00 (in stock)

Lift Up Thy Voice - Sale

The Grimke Family's Journey From Slaveholders To Civil Rights Leaders

BY MARK PERRY
"Sarah and Angelina Grimke were privileged [Quaker] white women from a powerful South Carolina slaveholding family who led the antislavery movement. Their nephews Archibald and Francis Grimke were former slaves who took the struggle into the twentieth century as the focus shifted to equal rights. Perry offers the fascinating family history of the Grimkes and the quintessential American racial pathologies that most slaveholders would have denied but which the Grimkes faced head-on. Using letters, speeches, diaries, and sermon s, Perry presents the personalities of messianic figures during a period of great religious and social foment."-Booklist

Penguin 2003 432 PP. Paper

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Lifting The White Veil

An Exploration Of White American Culture In A Multiracial Context

BY JEFF HITCHCOCK
This is an enlightening, and often revelatory work. The main focus is on the development and current characteristics of the white subculture in the United States. Hitchcock is white, married to a black woman, and worked many years in the field of diversity training and racial reconciliation. He gives white Americans the information they need to start to move beyond ingrained beliefs toward a clearer and more accurate understanding of our society and relations with other races. For those of us who would like to face and overcome the racial exclusiveness incorporated in our culture and traditions this book provides inspiration and tools to move that work forward.

Crandall, Dostie 2002 262 PP Cloth

$22.95 (in stock)

Light In Their Consciences

MOORE, ROSEMARY
This book is a new history of the early Quaker movement. Rooted firmly and deeply in the pamphlet and manuscript sources of the period, this study embodies a masterful exploration of early Quaker life and thought. In its lucidity and depth, Rosemary Moore's book clearly deserves an honored place among the first rank of studies of Quaker origins. No one interested in the topic can afford to pass this fine book by. Let's call it what it is: history at its finest. - H. Larry Ingle

Penn State University Press 2000 328 PP. Paper

$24.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Light Of Nature And The Law Of God

Antislavery In Ontario 1833-1877

BY ALLEN STOUFFER
From its beginnings in the early 19th century, the Canadian anti-slavery movement was centered in Ontario, they sought to enlist public support in the growing international crusade by organizing antislavery societies, and, through other institutions such as the Elgin Association, Canadian abolitionists responded to the immediate needs of the often destitute fugitive slaves who crossed the border. He shows that the leaders of Canadian anti-slavery were mostly immigrants from Britain who had been deeply involved in antislavery in their homeland. Much mention of Canadian (and US) Quakers.

Louisiana State Univ Press 1992 267 PP. Cloth

$8.50 (in stock)

The Light Of The World

The Life Of Jesus For Children

BY KATHERINE PATERSON, ILLUSTRATED BY FRANCOIS ROCA
Katherine Paterson retells the life of Jesus in simple, beautiful language for all ages, making the story new again through her trademark generosity and compassion. When the people looked at all the sadness and evil in the world, they had trouble believing that God was in charge. God's kingdom, said Jesus, is as tiny as the smallest of seeds, but when it is planted it grows into such a huge tree that the birds make their nests in its branches.

Arthur A Levine Books 2008 48 PP. Cloth

$17.99 (in stock)

A Light That Is Shining

An Introduction To The Quakers

BY HARVEY GILLMAN
This is Harvey Gillman's 2005 revision of his introduction to British Quakers. It arose out of an experience the author had telling a group of non-Friends about Quakers. It includes chapters entitled `The Foundation: God within the Heart,' `Worship: A Quiet Waiting,' `Origins and Development: The Growth of the Quaker Outlook,' `From Conviction to Practice: Faith into Action,' `Quaker Organisation: Meetings and meetings,' `Quakers Today: Respect for Diversity,' and `Being Part of a Community: Membership and Commitment.' Also included is a bibliography for further reading.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2003 96 PP. Paper

$12.50 (in stock)

Light To Live By

An Exploration In Quaker Spirituality

BY REX AMBLER
REPRINTING AS OF MAY 2011, WE DONT KNOW WHEN WE CAN GET MORE COPIES -APOLOGIES. Rex Ambler describes a "personal practice of meditation which I discovered in early Friends" and tells "the story of my attempts to use the practice and develop it in my own personal life." Ambler sees Fox, in a tract of 1653, clearly describing a meditative process which Ambler describes in detail, relating it to his own personal exploration and spiritual development. In the appendix the author outlines the stages of meditation, based on the practice of early Friends but given present day relevance. This book is an explication of Ambler's famous 'experiment with Light' process.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2002 60 PP. Paper

$11.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Light Within And Selected Writings

BY ISAAC PENINGTON
This little book is a collection of works by one of Quakerism's early adherents, who speaks here eloquently of his experiences of the Divine. Includes `The Worship of the Living God,' `The Light Within,' `Divine Love,' and `Silent Meetings.'

Tract Association 1998 69 PP. Paper

$3.50 (in stock)

Lighting Candles In The Dark Study Guide

Questions And Activities For Teachers And Parents Of Children, 2nd Grade - High School

BY DONNA BISSET, ROBIN WELLS, MARLOU CARLSON, FRIENDS GENERAL CONFERENCE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
An easy to use study guide of a most beloved book. Useful to parents and teachers. Each story's teaching points are made explicit through sensitive questions, crafts, service projects and Bible verses.

Quaker Press of FGC 2001 80 PP. Looseleaf

$17.00 (in stock)

Lighting Candles In The Dark Study Guide .pdf

Questions And Activities For Teachers And Parents Of Children In 2nd Grade Through High School

BY DONNA BISSETT, ROBIN WELLS AND MARLOU CARLSON
An easy to use study guide of a most beloved book. Useful to parents and teachers. Each story's teaching points are made explicit through sensitive questions, crafts, service projects and Bible verses. This is a downloadable .pdf version of this publication. When you purchase this title, after confirming your order, we will send you a limited time web link to download the file.

Quaker Press of FGC 2001 80 PP. Blank

$8.00 (in stock)

Lighting Candles In The Dark

Stories Of Courage And Love In Action

BY THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION COMMITTEE OF FRIENDS GENERAL CONFERENCE
These stories from many authors and lands are offered in the hope that they will light candles of understanding. These are stories of courageous people who used nonviolent and creative action in difficult and dangerous situations. Some of the stories are taken from Quaker history, others focus on helpfulness, fairness, the power of love, and care of the earth. "These stories illustrate our Quaker values and testimonies so well, describing actions of peace, simplicity, and responsibility that are very important to life." - Virginia Wood

Quaker Press of FGC 2001 215 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Limbo

Blue Collar Roots, White Collar Dreams

BY ALFRED LUBRANO
In Limbo, award-winning journalist Alfred Lubrano identifies and describes an overlooked cultural phenomenon: the internal conflict within individuals raised in blue-collar homes, now living white-collar lives. These people often find that the values of the working class are not sufficient guidance to navigate the white-collar world, where unspoken rules reflect primarily upper-class values. Torn between the world they were raised in and the life they aspire too, they hover between worlds, not quite accepted in either. Himself the son of a Brooklyn bricklayer, Lubrano informs his account with personal experience and interviews with other professionals living in limbo.

Wiley 2005 256 PP. Paper

$19.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Limits To Power

Some Friendly Reminders. Second Edition

BY NEWTON GARVER
This much-expanded collection of twenty of Quaker Philosopher Newton Garver's Buffalo Report essays on war, power, ethics, truth and justice in the US during the Bush years, and the recent struggle for human rights and political decency in Bolivia, is the best kind of moral and political journalism. Limits to Power also includes an Invocation that puts new meaning into "God bless America," a phrase that has been pounded into triteness by cynical politicians, and an Epilogue, "Heraclitus's Reply," in which nearly everything is revealed.

Center Working Papers 2007 156 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Limits To The Leadings Of The Light

1993 Weed Lecture

BY HUGH BARBOUR
"After talking about leadings, and about the validity of intuition, I go on to put leadings into the larger setting of ideas on ethics, then to discuss our sense that God is the source of our leadings, and finally to look more carefully at three major limits to leadings of the Light." "The three major limits or confounding factors in discernment which he explores are (A) the limits of our culture and times, (B) 'the ambiguity of the ego,' and (C) the tensions that arise from our calling to be perfect, when we know we are imperfect. Hugh's reflections on these matters are careful, acute, realistic, and challenging." - Brian Drayton

Beacon Hill Friends House 2006 23 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Lincoln And Douglass

An American Friendship

BY NICKI GIOVANNI
Lincoln was tall and skinny and notoriously stern-looking. He also had some very strong ideas about abolishing slavery, ideas which brought him into close contact with another very visible public figure: Frederick Douglass. Douglass was born a slave but escaped in 1838 and became one of the central figures in the American abolitionist movement. This book offers a glimpse into the unusual friendship between two great American leaders. At a time when racial tensions were high and racial equality was not yet established, Lincoln and Douglass formed a strong bond over shared ideals and worked alongside each other for a common goal.

Henry Holt 2008 40 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

The Lion Encyclopedia Of World Religions

BY DAVID SELF
Combining accurate and concise information with elements of storytelling and discovery, this one-stop guide to the world's most prominent religions is the perfect resource for young, inquiring minds. The fundamental beliefs and tenets of all Abrahamic, Eastern, East Asian, and modern religions-including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, and the Baha'i faith-are addressed in full, and details of the religions' stories, prayers, and people are also included. Lavishly illustrated and entirely unbiased in content, this is an engaging look at religions past and present. Ages 8-12 and up

Lion (UK), 2008 128 PP. Cloth

$19.95 (in stock)