One Hundred Ways America Is Screwing Up The World

BY JOHN TIRMAN
At once serious-minded and satirical, John Tirman's 100 Ways America Is Screwing Up the World is an insightful, unabashed, entertaining, and distressing look at where we've gone terribly wrong-from the destruction of the environment to the promotion of abhorrent personal health and eating habits to the "wussification" of the free press-an alternately admonishing and amusing call to arms for patriotic Blue America.

HarperOne 2006 258 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

One More Time

Audio Cd

BY BILL HARLEY
Bill's second "Best of" recording, One More Time brings together some fan favorite songs along with some of Bill's. Like Play It Again this recording contains 1 new story: "Alicia and the Little Monster." This story has made the rounds at various storytelling festivals and Family Concerts, and has quickly become a favorite.

Round River Records 2006 CD Disk

$15.00 (low stock)

One Small Plot Of Heaven

Reflections On Family Life By A Quaker Sociologist

BY ELISE BOULDING
More than any other single book, this is an intelligent and sensitive manual for Quaker parenting and family life. Elise Boulding, noted sociologist and peace activist, talks about practicing peace making in family life and creating a colony of heaven, "a home of peace from which to help build a more peaceful world." Boulding speaks of children and solitude, the personhood of children, Friends testimonies in the home, families as centers of peace and love, Quaker foremothers as ministers and householders, reweaving the web of family life for lesbians and gays, the re-creation of relationship and the family as a small society. Boulding offers an inspiring vision for the family.

Pendle Hill 1989 225 PP. Paper

$12.50 (in stock)

One Thousand Tracings

Healing The Wounds Of World War Ii

WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY LITA JUDGE
When Lita Judge found hundreds of tracings of feet in her grandmother's attic, she was moved to discover the story behind them. One Thousand Tracings tells that story. In the aftermath of World War II, a family in America established contact with a family in Germany, and sent them a package of much-needed supplies, including shoes. The German family was extremely grateful and asked if their friends would help others in Europe. Soon foot tracings from all over the continent started pouring in to the modest Midwest farm. As the network of American families grew, hundreds of people were touched by this remarkable process. "A lovely book about generosity and compassion." - Karen Hesse

Hyperion Books 2007 40 PP. Cloth

$15.99 (in stock)

One World, Many Religions

The Ways We Worship

BY MARY POPE-OSBORNE
This book is a clear, fascinating introduction to world religions. "This exceptional handsome volume offers middle graders a thoughtful overview of major world religions..Points of controversy are met with candor and delicacy." - The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.

Alfred A. Knopf 1996 86 PP Cloth

$19.95 (low stock)

The One-straw Revolution

An Introduction To Natural Farming

BY MASANOBU FUKUOKA
Long out of print in the West - there was a limited availability edition from Friends Center in Rasulia India (whose ideas where much influenced by this book). This manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. Wendell Berry in his preface: "the book is valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical. It is an inspiring, necessary book about agriculture because it is not just about agriculture."

NYRB 2009 200 PP. Paper

$15.95 (low stock)

Oneness

Great Principles Shared By All Religions

BY JEFFREY MOSES
Reflecting the tenets of such world religions as Chrisitanity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Baha'i, this classic study gathers selections from the religious writings of the world to show the beliefs and universal truths they have in common.

Ballantine 2002 160 PP. Paper

$13.95 (low stock)

Only Passing Through

The Story Of Sojourner Truth

BY ANNE F. ROCKWELL, ILLUS. BY GREGORY CHRISTIE
"In this moving picture-book biography, Rockwell's quiet, searing words and Christie's dramatic full-page, acrylic paintings express the sorrow, anger, and strength of the woman who made herself Sojourner Truth."-Booklist

Dragonfly 2002 40 PP. Blank

$6.99 (low stock)

Open - Faith And Practice Of Freedom Friends Church

BY FREEDOM FRIENDS CHURCH
Freedom Friends Church in Salem Oregon is a "Uniting Meeting" founded in 2004. Since then it has received members by transfer from FGC, FUM and Evangelical Friends International, though a majority of its members are new to Quakerism. Their website says - "Teaching the ways of Friends is an important part of our mission. We set out to be Christ-centered, Quaker, and inclusive. We are semi-programmed, lightly pastoral and socially progressive. We believe in continuing revelation. Our Faith and Practice reflects all these things." The last 28 pages are a glossary.

Freedom Friends Church 2009 67 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Open Mind, Open Heart

The Contemplative Dimension Of The Gospel

BY THOMAS KEATING
In print since 1986 this remains one of the best introductions to a specifically Christian form of meditation. It gives an overview of what contemplative prayer both is and isn't, discusses the history of contemplative prayer in the Christian tradition and then explores step by step the process of Centering Prayer, briefly exploring its origins in the ancient church and then demonstrating its use as "a sign of one's intention" to surrender to God.

Continuum 1997 148 PP. Paper

$16.95 (low stock)

Opening Doors To Quaker Religious Education

BY MARY SNYDER
Religious educators will find these practical, tested ideas, based on current developmental and educational theories, invaluable to their work. The five sections of Opening Doors to Quaker Religious Education cover every age group from First Day School to adult curriculum, offering storytelling techniques and story, art and drama activities to make the substance of Quakerism alive.

Quaker Press of FGC 1999 144 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

Opening The Quaker Time Capsule

BY THOMAS HAMM
"The author chose `Opening the Quaker Time Capsule' as the subject of this 2001 Weed Lecture. His review of Quaker mores and thought at the turn of the 20th century holds insights and lessons, as well as amusing sidelights, on Quakerism for us as we begin the 21st. All manner of Friends can benefit from this survey of where we have been as we consider where we are and where we are going." - Hugh Barbour, from the Introduction

Beacon Hill Friends House 2004 27 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Opening The Scriptures

Bible Lessons From The 2005 Annual Gathering Of Friends

BY TOM GATES
By popular demand the Bible talks given at the 2005 Annual Gathering of Friends now appear in printed form, a booklet containing the text, footnotes and the readings handed to participants. Tom Gates explores the Bible through the eyes of early Friends and how their understanding can shed light on the Bible for contemporary Friends. "Tom Gates' presentations, delivered at the FGC Gathering 2005, are truly inspired illuminations of the thought and witness of George Fox. For those of us who were present, Tom `opened' George Fox to us in very much the same way that those who were contemporaries of George Fox said that he, George Fox, opened the scriptures to them." - Art Larrabee

Quaker Press of FGC 2005 64 PP. Paper

$9.95 (in stock)

Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed

BY EMILY PEARSON, ILLUSTRATED BY FUMI KOSAKA
Can one good deed from an ordinary girl change the world? It can when she's Ordinary Mary--an ordinary girl from an ordinary school, on her way to ordinary house--who stumbles upon ordinary blueberries. When she decides to pick them for her neighbor, Mrs. Bishop, she starts a chain reaction that multiplies around the world. Mrs. Bishop makes blueberrymuffins and gives them to her paperboy and four others--one of whom is Mr. Stevens, who then helps five different people with their luggage--one of whom is Maria, who then helps five people - and so on, until the deed comes back to Mary. BE WARNED THOUGH - This is a Strangely all White World.

Array 2002 32 PP. Cloth

$15.99 (in stock)

The Ordinary Radicals

A Conspiracy Of Faith On The Margins Of Empire

FEATURING SHAINE CLAIBORNE, CHRIS HAW, BRIAN MACLAREN
Traveling across the United States on a tour to promote the book "Jesus for President", Shane Claiborne and a rag-tag group of "ordinary radicals" interpret Biblical history and its correlation with the current state of American politics. Director Jamie Moffett examines this growing movement and interviews Becky Garrison, Shane Claiborne, Jim Wallis, Brian McLaren, Tony Campolo, John Perkins, Brooke Sexton, Michael Heneise, St. Margret Mckenna, Logan Laituri, Zack Exley, Aaron Weiss and many more Ordinary Radicals.

Potter Street Records 2008 100 MINS Dvd

$20.00 (low stock)

Orville

A Dog Story

BY HAVEN KIMMEL
A big, ugly dog is happy to meet a farmer and his wife who decide to give him a name and a home, but not so happy when they chain him to the barn. All Orville can do is bark to tell the world how unhappy he is, and the more he barks, the more he is left alone. But everything changes when Sally MacIntosh moves into the little house across the road and Orville falls in love. The beautifully crafted text by Quaker author Kimmel blends wry humor with the poignant twang of a country-and-western song and is accompanied by dreamy, spare watercolor-and-ink illustrations for a fresh, original picture book that will resonate with anyone who has ever felt lonely or misunderstood.

Clarion 2003 32 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

The Other Bible

EDITED BY WILLIS BARNSTONE
Gathered here for the first time in one comprehensive volume are excerpted ancient holy texts from Judeo-Christian traditions that were excluded from the official canon of the Old and New Testaments. The Other Bible is a unique sourcebook of essential selections from Jewish Psudepigrapha, early Kabbalah, Haggadah, Midrash, Christian Apocrypha, and Gnostic scriptures.

HarperSF 1984 742 PP. Paper

$29.95 (in stock)

Other Lands Have Dreams

From Baghdad To Pekin Prison

BY KATHY KELLY
In 2004, human rights activist Kathy Kelly, was sent to Pekin Federal Prison for leading a protest at the School of the Americas. While in prison, Kelly's organization, Voices in the Wilderness, was targeted by a US State Department lawsuit charging that Kelly violated US sanctions when she took humanitarian aid to Iraq during numerous visits over the last five years.Here Kelly recounts such trips to Iraq, tells the largely unknown story of the School of the Americas, and describes daily life inside a federal prison where America's poor are warehoused.

AK Press 2005 173 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Other People's Children

Cultural Conflict In The Classroom

BY LISA DELPIT
Too often Children of color, other minorities and poor children become victims of a school system that somehow sees them as damaged and dangerous. Lisa Delpit in this now classic book shows a way for teachers to actually celebrate not just acknowledge diversity, to build on their children's home cultures to educate and equip them for the world.

The New Press 2006 223 PP. Paper

$17.95 (backorder)

The Other Side

BY JACQUELINE WOODSON, ILLUSTRATED BY EARL LEWIS
Clover has always wondered why a fence separates the black side of town from the white side. But this summer when Annie, a white girl from the other side, begins to sit on the fence, Clover grows more curious about the reason why the fence is there and about the daring girl who sits on it, rain or shine. And one day, feeling very brave, Clover approaches Annie. After all, why should a fence stand in the way of friendship? Beautifully rendered in Earl B. Lewis's striking illustrations, Jacqueline Woodson gives us a moving, lyrical narrative told in the hopeful voice of a child confused about the fence someone else has built in her yard and the racial tension that divides her world.

Putnam 2001 32 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

The Other Side Of The Coin

The Emerging Vision Of Economics And Our Place In The World

BY DAVID ORRELL
"Comprehensive look at the new understandings in economics and how we think about money" -Keith Helmuth. The author forges what is ultimately a new science of money. Part economic theory, part science, part popular history, and part manifesto. He is inspired to do this by new sciences such as complexity and network theory, science-related movements like environmentalism, and social movements like feminism.

Key Porter Books 2008 376 PP. Paper

$26.95 (low stock)

The Other Way To Listen

BY BYRD BAYLOR
The book features a young person who tells about learning to listen to nature from an older man who can hear "wildflower seeds burst open, beginning to grow underground." The narrator tells of practicing this kind of listening and of the gradual awakening she experiences in moments of hearing the earth singing "the oldest sound in the world." In this book Byrd Baylor offers up a spare and accessible portrait of deep listening and an excellent tool for talking about what kind of inner experiences one can have in the silence of worship. This book is a selection of Philadelphia Yearly Meeeting's project One Book, One Yearly Meeting.

Simon and Schuster 1997 32 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

Our Messages And Our Message-bearers

KENWORTHY, LEONARD S

1984 Paper

$0.50 (in stock)

Our Nest

BY REEVE LINDBERGH, ILLUSTRATED BY JILL MCELMURRY
"This cozy rhyming story makes a complete circle as it looks at different types of `nests' in nature. It opens with a young boy at bedtime, then moves out into the world to describe how a mouse nestles in an old garden glove, a chipmunk sleeps in a brush pile, fish rest in brooks and oceans, boats find safety in the harbor, and space makes a nest for the stars and planets. The focus returns to the boy's bedroom where his mother gives him a goodnight kiss...." - School Library Journal

Candlewick 2004 32 PP Cloth

$15.99 (low stock)

Out Of Hitler's Reach

The Scattergood Hostel For European Refugees, 1939-1943

BY MICHAEL LUICK-THRAMS
From 1939 to 1943, close to 185 refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe found refuge at Scattergood, a temporary hostel in what had been (and now is) a Quaker boarding school near West Branch, Iowa. Telling the stories of the refugees' backgrounds, their flight from Europe, and their lives in the United States, this book is a fascinating history.

Luick-Thrams 1996 321 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

Out Of The Silence

Quaker Perspectives On Pastoral Care And Counseling

BY BILL RATLIFF
This anthology of Quaker perspectives on caregiving will aid pastors, chaplains, seminary teachers and students as well as health counselors, psychologists, social workers and psychiatrists. The theory of Quaker practice is wedded to the experience of the professional caregiver to present a relationship-centered model for caregiving.

Pendle Hill 2001 320 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Outreach Ideabook

Suggestions For Attracting And Nurturing Newcomers And Enriching Quaker Meetings

BY THE OUTREACH COMMITTEE OF PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING
This is a collection of materials for meetings, which offer suggestions on how to be a welcoming community. This manual includes pieces which examine how to make the meeting known locally, practices of other Meetings and common stumbling blocks in developing a considered approach to outreach and responding to new attenders.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1986 77 PP. Looseleaf

$18.00 (in stock)

Over The Highest Mountains

A Memoir Of Unexpected Heroism In France During World War Ii

BY ALICE RESCH-SYNNESTVEDT
"Heroism took many forms during the Holocaust. The ordinary decency of a few people - exhibited in the most difficult circumstances - was a flickering flame of light in a world of all-consuming darkness. This moving, almost exuberant memoir of one young Norwegian woman who worked with the Quakers from 1939 to 1945, gives us an outsider's glimpse into the transit camps and the deportation trains that was the world the Jews in France during the Shoah. She guides us through the religious integrity and human solidarity that led her to side with the victims, and not with their oppressors. One is grateful for such a memoir, more grateful for such a person." - Micheal Berenbaum

Intentional Productions 2005 268 PP. Paper

$17.95 (in stock)

Overcoming Our Racism

The Journey To Liberation

BY DERALD WING SUE
"This uncompromising anti-racist manifesto written for a white audience is concerned less with Klansmen and skinheads than with the white woman clutching her purse when minority teenagers draw near; the white man flinching at getting in an elevator full of black men; even the well-meaning but patronizing liberal teacher in a ghetto school. Sue, a Chinese-American psychologist, argues that the countless daily slights inflicted by such `unconscious and unintentional racists,' do more harm to minorities than the occasional hate-crime. The book includes a seven-phase program for reconstructing a non-racist white identity." - Publishers Weekly

Jossey Bass 2003 297 PP. Cloth

$22.95 (low stock)

Owning The Lord's Prayer

BY PAUL BUCKLEY
This is a selection of the author's personal reflections on individual passages from the Lord's Prayer. It is his "best effort at letting the prayer speak" to him. In each section, a few words from the prayer are presented alongside a scriptural passage that seems related to the words from the prayer. These are followed by some of the author's thoughts that have arisen in his meditations on the prayer. He invites readers, in a group or alone, to meditate on the prayer as they read these mediations and create his or her own petitions.

Buckley 2005 27 PP. Paper

$3.00 (in stock)