Lockdown America

Police And Prisons In The Age Of Crisis

BY CHRISTIAN PARENTI
Lockdown America not only documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the federalization of the war on crime, it also explains the political and economic history behind the massive crackdown. Written in accessible and vivid prose, Lockdown America will propel readers toward a deeper understanding of the links between crime and politics in a period of gathering economic crisis.

Verso Press 2000 320 PP. Paper

$17.00 (in stock)

The London Friends' Meetings

Showing The Rise Of The Society Of Friends In London

BY WILLIAM BECK , THOMAS BALL, SIMON DIXON, PETER DANIELS
Reprint of the 1869 classic history of Quakers in London, with a new introduction by Simon Dixon and Peter Daniels and new illustrations and index. The book affectionately known as "Beck and Ball" is a comprehensive survey which describes not only the buildings where the meetings took place, but also how they were organized and the personalities involved, with telling details of their lives as Londoners. To do this the authors made a systematic reading of all the minute books of the London meetings, combined with the writings of George Fox and others, plus their own extensive knowledge gathered from experience in various capacities.

Pronoun Press 2009 520 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

The Long Descent

A User's Guide To The End Of The Industrial Age

BY JOHN GREER
Greer believes that Industrial society is following a path into gradual decline, a much slower and more complex transformation than the sudden catastrophes imagined by so many social critics today. The roots of the crisis lie in the cultural stories that shape the way we understand the world. Since problems cannot be solved with the same thinking that created them, these ways of thinking need to be replaced with others better suited to the needs of our time. It is too late for massive programs for top-down change; the change must come from individuals.

New Society Press 2008 223 PP. Paper

$18.95 (in stock)

Long Walk To Freedom (622)

The Autobiography

NELSON MANDELA
SECOND HAND -paperback looking a little scruffy but quite readable in public.In classically elegant and engrossing prose, he tells of his early years as an impoverished student and law clerk in Johannesburg, of his slow political awakening, and of his pivotal role in the rebirth of a stagnant ANC and the formation of its Youth League in the 1950s. He describes the struggle to reconcile his political activity with his devotion to his family, the anguished breakup of his first marriage, and the painful separations from his children.

Back Bay 1995 634 PP. Paper

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The Lord Is My Shepherd

The Twenty-third Psalm

BY GENNADY SPIRIN
The Twenty-third Psalm, one of the world's most cherished prayers, is paired with some amazing illustrations in this inspirational picture book by "New York Times" Best Illustrator Gennady Spirin. For this new book format, illustrations on individual pages are taken from one large, magnificent painting. Examining this gives parents and children an opportunity to share the experience, making prayer time even more profound. A fold out insert in the back has the whole painting.

Philomel 2008 32 PP. Cloth

$17.99 (in stock)

Los Consejos Y Las Preguntas

Advices &

PACIFIC YEARLY MEETI
A translation into Spanish of the classic Britian Yearly Meeting Advices & Queries.

Pacific Yearly Meeting 2001 33 PP. Paper

$2.50 (in stock)

Losing Moses On The Freeway

The 10 Commandments In America

BY CHRIS HEDGES
This is an impassioned, eloquent call to heed the wisdom of the 10 Commandments. Celebrated for his courageous reporting on the crucial issues of our time, Hedges, who graduated from seminary at Harvard Divinity School, explores the challenge of living according to these moral precepts we have tried to follow, often unsuccessfully, for the past 6,000 years. The commandments, he writes, do not save us from evil. Instead they save us from committing evil. It is in the self-sacrifice championed by the commandments that integrity, commitment, and, finally, love are made possible.

Free Press 2006 224 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Losses And Healing

BY THE CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE AT YEARLY MEETING GROUP
Developed in response to the September 11, 2001 tragedy. Losses and Healings contains four chapters with religious resources and projects to help preschoolers, through middle schoolers heal from small losses, such as a move, or losing a friend, to large more devastating losses such as death and illness.

Philadelphia YM Religious Education 2002 21 PP. Looseleaf

$11.00 (in stock)

Lost In Wonder

Rediscovering The Spiritual Art Of Attentiveness

BY ESTHER DEWAAL
In Lost in Wonder, Esther de Waal uses the everyday circumstances of our lives - the restrictions and frustrations as well as the gifts and opportunities - as our own way to God. By teaching us how to be attentive to all the seemingly small and insignificant things, she shows how they become windows through which the light of God can shine to dispel darkness, illuminate our understanding, and speak to our deepest needs. As we recover the gift of childlike wonder we begin to see that spiritual fruitfulness does not depend on our anxious performance, but is a gift we may receive freely.

Liturgical Press 2003 160 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Lost Prophet

The Life And Times Of Bayard Rustin

BY JOHN D'EMILIO
"[Quaker] Bayard Rustin became famous for working behind the scenes. The tactics of public protest that became that became familiar in the 1960s - marches on Washington, Freedom Rides, sit-ins, passive resistance, civil disobedience - were pioneered and refined by Rustin two decades earlier. Indeed, through his decisive influence on Martin Luther King Jr., Rustin created the model for the social movements of post-World War II America - civil rights, antiwar, gay liberation, feminist." - Michael Anderson, New York Times

University of Chicago Press 2004 564 PP. Paper

$22.00 (in stock)

The Lost Religion Of Jesus

Simple Living And Nonviolence In Early Christianity

BY KEITH AKERS WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WALTER WINK
The author contends that there were many factions within early Christianity and that heresies were the norm in the first three centuries before Constantine. One of these factions was Jewish Christians, those that subscribed both to the teachings of Moses and Jesus. They believed that Jesus came to remind them of the fundamentals of Moses' law. Akers contends that it is in the writings of these Jewish Christians that the purist reflection of Jesus' teaching is witnessed and that his teaching was rooted in simple living and nonviolence. A thoughtful and provocative book.

Lantern Press 2000 256 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

Lost Scriptures

Books That Did Not Make It Into The New Testament

BY BART EHRMAN
SECONDHAND paperback, a bit suffed round the edges, but good reading copy. A companion volume to Bart Ehrman's Lost Christianities, this book offers an anthology of up-to-date and readable translations of many non-canonical writings from the first centuries after Christ--texts that have been for the most part lost or neglected for almost two millennia. Here is an array of remarkably varied writings from early Christian groups whose visions of Jesus differ dramatically from our contemporary understanding. Includes excerpts from many of the Nag Hammadi texts.

Oxford University Press 2005 342 PP. Paper

$8.00 (in stock)

The Lost Secret Of The Liberty Bell

BY SALLY RICKERMAN
Sally Rickerman looks at the evidence that the Liberty Bell, with its famous quotation was ordered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Penn's "Charter of liberties" (more correctly the Charter of privileges). Penn's ideas, his charter and the early history of the commonwealth are explored as they relate to the ordering and casting of the bell.

Troll Press 2009 24 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

The Lost Swords (102)

Endgame

BY FRED SABERHAGEN
Some nice Science Fiction hardbacks - not that quakerly - but these and murder mysteries are pretty popular among Friends!. These books are all in pretty good condition hardback with tidy dustjackets.

Various Publishers 1992 378 PP. Cloth

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Lost Voices Of The Edwardians (5190)

MAX ARTHUR
SECONDHAND COPY -hardback with dustjacket. An interesting collection of oral history mixed with pictures and early documentaries.No instant quaker conection I can see but some fascinating sories nonetheless.

HarperPress 2006 424 PP. Cloth

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Love Across Color Lines

Ottilie Assing And Frederick Douglass

BY MARIA DIEDRICH
In this nuanced, sympathetic interpretation of two extraordinary lives, Maria Diedrich acquaints us with an important and little-known relationship. Ottilie Assing, an intrepid German journalist, met and interviewed Frederick Douglass in 1856, and it was an encounter that transformed the lives of both. Diedrich reveals in fascinating detail their intimate twenty-eight-year relationship, their shared intellectual and cultural interests, and their work together on Douglass's abolitionist writings. Love across Color Lines is a profound meditation on nineteenth-century racial, class, and national boundaries, and offers new insights into the career of a preeminent American leader.

Hill and Wang 2000 512 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Love At The Heart Of Things

A Biography Of Douglas Steere

BY E.GLENN HINSON
A moving biography of Douglas Steere 1901-1995. It depicts his many-sided calling - as Quaker global minister, organizer of relief for war-torn Finland, ecumenical pioneer, peacemaker, Quaker visionary and guide, teacher of prayer, and existential realist philosopher.

Pendle Hill 1998 391 PP. Paper

$16.50 (in stock)

Love In Action

Writings On Nonviolent Social Change

BY THICH NHAT HAHN
Love in Action is a collection of more than two decades of Thich Nhat Hanh's seminal writings on nonviolence, peace, and reconciliation. Reflecting on the devastation of war--from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf--Nhat Hanh speaks in the tradition of Gandhi and King of the need for mindfulness, and altruistic love as the basis for political action.

Parallax Press 1993 154 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

Love Is...

Adapted From The Bible

BY WENDY ANDERSON HALPERIN
Celebrated illustrator Wendy Halperin lends her own artistic vision to I Corinthians I 3 and reasserts Paul's message - that the love we express can best be seen in our attitudes and actions - for generations to come.

Simon & Schuster 2003 28 PP. Paper

$6.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Love Is The Hardest Lesson

A Memoir By Margaret Hope Bacon

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
"[The author] gives us a vivid account of her experience working in a state psychiatric institution as the young wife of a conscientious objector during World War II. She portrays the insulated and dehumanizing world of Sykesville where patients lost their individuality and caregivers behaved abusively from their own fear. Margaret's personal story movingly illustrates the transformative power of love which casts out fear and restores to others their sense of humanity." - Lee Junker

Pendle Hill 1999 143 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

The Love Of Impermanent Things - Paperback

BY MARY ROSE O'REILLY
At midlife, Mary Rose O'Reilley reflects on her past and her hard-won sense of self. She tries to see the world through the eyes of the deer that stop outside her window and look in at her. As a wildlife rehabilitator, she feels a closer connection to this natural world as experienced by animals. As an apprentice potter, she sees in a Japanese tea bowl the ultimate balance of action and contemplation. As a Quaker, she can both sit still and sing. And as a writer, O'Reilley can speak clearly to readers at midlife who are expected to know it all, but don't.

Milkweed Editions 2008 320 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

Love Poems From God

Twelve Sacred Voices From The East And West

TRANSLATED BY DANIEL LADINSKY
In this transcendent collection, Daniel Landinsky - best know for his gifted and best-selling translations of Sufi and Hafiz - brings together the timeless work of twelve of the world's finest spiritual writers, six from the East and six from the West. Once again, Landinsky reveals his talent for creating inspiring, profound, and playful versions of classic poems for a modern audience. Rumi's joyous, ecstatice poems; St. Francis's loving observations of nature; Kabir's wild, freeing humor; St. Teresa's sensual verse - these and other writers considered to be "conduits of the divine" make up this rich and luminous collection.

Penguin 2002 380 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Love, Stargirl

BY JERRY SPINNELLI
Picks up a year after Stargirl ends and reveals the new life of the beloved character who moved away so suddenly at the end of Stargirl. The novel takes the form of "the world's longest letter," in diary form, going from date to date through a little more than a year's time. In her writing, Stargirl mixes memories of her bittersweet time in Mica, Arizona, with involvements with new people in her life. ages 9-12 or 105.

Knopf__________________________________________ 2009 274 PP. Paper

$8.99 (in stock)

Love Stargirl Hardback Secondhand (032)

BY JERRY SPINELLI
Picks up a year after Stargirl ends and reveals the new life of the beloved character who moved away so suddenly at the end of Stargirl. The novel takes the form of "the world's longest letter," in diary form, going from date to date through a little more than a year's time. In her writing, Stargirl mixes memories of her bittersweet time in Mica, Arizona, with involvements with new people in her life. ages 9-12 or 105. SECONDHAND COPY IN A1 condition with dustjacket.

Knopf 2007 288 PP. Cloth

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Lovelock & Gaia

Signs Of Life

BY JON TURNEY
A small paperback sized hardback that looks at Lovelock's idea that the Earth is almost a self regulating superorganism, That from bacteria in rain clouds, or deep in the earth to Glaciers and huge forest fires the Earth is a fantastically complex planet that adjusts to keep its biosphere optimized. Now the trouble is that it is optimized for "life" -not for Humanity. Lovelock remains a scientific outsider, but Gaia is now a more mainstream theory.

Columbia University Press 2003 154 PP. Cloth

$5.50 (in stock)

Low Carbon Diet

A 30 Day Program To Lose 5000 Pounds

BY DAVID GERSHON
A fifty day program, in the weightwatchers style, to reduce the amount of CO2 you are emitting. Simple steps and easy to achieve goals. Lots of tables and checklists. Then at the end, steps to take along with others to reduce carbon emissions in your workplace, school or Meeting house. Recommended by Pat McBee who has done a lot of work 'greening Friends Center in Philadelphia.

Empowerment Institute 2007 76 PP. Paper

$12.95 (in stock)

Lucasville

The Untold Story Of A Prison Uprising

BY STAUGHTON LYND
In 1993 prisoners took control of the maximum-security prison in Lucasville, Ohio. Their 11-day ordeal started with a dispute between the warden and Muslim prisoners and ended with a negotiated settlement, but only after nine prisoners and one hostage had been killed. In the months that followed, leaders of the uprising were singled out by the state, tried, and sentenced to death despite compelling evidence of their innocence. Lucasville tells the inside story of the uprising, the subsequent trial and sentencing. Eminent historian and lawyer (and Friend) Staughton Lynd brings the full power of evidence to bear as he retells the Lucasville story.

Temple University Press 2004 244 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

Lucky Beans

BY BECKY BIRTHA, ILLUSTRATED BY NICOLE TADGELL
Like so many people during the Great Depression of the 1930s, Marshall Loman's dad has lost his job. There's little money, but there are plenty of beans-in fact, Ma cooks them for supper every single night! Beans start looking better when Marshall sees the contest posted in the furniture store window. HOW MANY BEANS ARE IN THE JAR? WIN THIS BRAND NEW SEWING MACHINE! Quaker Becky Birtha's engaging story, based on her grandmother's memories of Depression years in the African American community, is illustrated by Nicole Tadgell's expressive paintings. Ages 4 & up.

Albert Whitman 2010 32 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

Lucretia Mott - Biography

BY DOROTHY STERLING
A reprint of the 1964 biography revised in 1992 - a biography of this most notable of Friends. This biography offers a clear portrait of a remarkable woman, her times and associates. It gives insight into two great movements of the 19th century, the abolition of slavery and the women's movement. Ages 9-16.

Feminist Press 1999 240 PP. Paper

$4.95 (in stock)

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

$10.00 (in stock)