Pavement

Reflections On Mercy, Activism & Doing "nothing" For Peace

BY LIN JENSEN
Every day, Lin Jensen plops down a meditation cushion on the streets of Chico, CA, and sits 'peace vigils' to protest the U.S. Iraq invasion - his effort to change the world. From his knee-level spot, Jensen encounters a bracing array of what he calls 'uprights': a heartbreakingly generous homeless man; hostile passersby who scream obscenities; 'White Wolf,' who punctuates every shout with a sharp poke to Lin's chest; compassionate soldiers - all amid rain, sun, exhaust, and the scent of azaleas. Jensen shares his struggles and helps us all learn more about humility, generosity, and what it really means to love our neighbors.

Wisdom Publications 2007 128 PP. Paper

$12.95 (in stock)

Peace

A World History

BY ANTONY ADOLF
This is what the title suggests - a look at how Peace has been striven for across the world and from the earliest days - once the author can say for certain Peace does have such a history. Much of the book though looks at recent ideas and techniques that have made Peace a reality and that could hopefully work in other situations. The author is at pains to show the peace is much more than the absence of war. Much information not easily found elsewhere.

Polity 2009 285 PP. Paper

$27.95 (low stock)

Peace

Spiritual Paths

BY JAY VICKERS
This simply illustrated three inch square compilation brings together quotes from the world's great spiritual traditions. Each chapter -there are eight - deals with a different aspect of Peace: Peace with God, Peace in nature, Peace and war, creating Peace, Peace with others, Peace of mind, Peace and love, Peace in our lives.

Andrew McMeel Publishing 2004 463 PP. Paper

$4.00 (low stock)

Peace Be With You

A Study Of The Spiritual Basis Of The Friends Peace Testimony

BY SANDRA CRONK
A study of the biblical and spiritual basis of the Friends_Peace testimony. A very useful summary.

Tract Association 1984 32 PP. Paper

$1.00 (in stock)

Peace Begins Here

Palestinians And Israelis Listening To Each Other

BY THICH NHAT HAHN
Nobel Peace Prize nominee and Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh demonstrates how a real peace process is based on spiritual not Political strength. He offers the idea that peace in oneself is the basis of peace in the family, society, and the world. Based on an ongoing Buddhist retreat project for Israelis and Palestinians, this book suggests practical ways to handle strong emotions and misperceptions. If we bring peace into ourselves, we have a clearer understanding of ourselves and others. The book includes stories from individual Israelis and Palestinians trying to make sense of the conflict. Coming in November!

Parallax Press 2004 180 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

Peace Begins With You

BY KATHERINE SCHOLES, ILLUSTRATED BY ROBERT INGPEN
Award-winning author Katherine Scholes succeeds in explaining clearly and simply how and why peace has a place in all our lives.

Sierra Club 1994 38 PP. Paper

$9.99 (low stock)

Peace Book - Paperback Version

BY TODD PARR
"Todd Parr's The Peace Book is a timely explanation of the term for young readers living in a sometimes uneasy world. In the neon-hued, cartoon landscape, peace can be anything from `keeping the water blue for all the fish' to `wearing different clothes' (the picture shows two girls, one in funky bellbottoms, the other in a traditional burqa) to `having enough pizza in the world for everyone.'" - Publishers Weekly

Little, Brown 2009 32 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

A Peace Cantata

On Writings By Early Quakers - Audio Cd

MUSIC BY MICHAEL MILLER, PERFORMED BY THE FREDERICTON CHORAL SOCIETY
A Peace Cantata is 20 minutes long in six movements in a contemporary classical style. The text consists entirely of testimonies by 10 early Quakers relating to inner and outer peace. Miller is clerk of New Brunswick (Canada) Monthly Meeting.

Miller 2002 20 MINUTES Audio

$15.00 (in stock)

Peace Is A Struggle

BY DAVID JOHNSON
Based on his experiences of peace activism and his own spiritual journey.David reminds us that the struggle for internal peace is as important, if not more important, than the struggle for peace in the world.

Australia Yearly meeting 2005 55 PP. Paper

$12.50 (in stock)

Peace Is Every Step

The Path Of Mindfulness In Everyday Life

BY THICH NHAT HANH
This book includes commentaries, meditations, personal anecdotes and stories about reawakening to peace and contentedness in everyday actions.

Random House 1991 134 PP. Paper

$14.00 (low stock)

Peace Is The Way

Writings On Non-violence From The Fellowship Of Reconciliation

EDITED BY WALTER WINK
These original and classic essays cover the theory, practice, and spirituality of nonviolence, and document the struggle for racial justice and reconciliation. Contributors include Mahatma Gandhi, Dorothy Day, Thich Nhat Hanh, Martin Luther King, Jr., Howard Thurman, Joanna Macy, and many others.

Orbis 2000 295 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

Peace Is The Way - Tote Bag

BY QUAKERBOOKS
A classic cotton box tote with the quote "There is no Way to Peace. Peace is the Way" and Religious Society of Friends in a box below. Tote includes durable cotton webbing handles for carrying heavy items, an open front pocket, and a 12" handle drop height, which allows for shoulder or hand carry. Dimensions are H 16.53" x W 12.99" x L 14.96". Screen printed at a non-profit shop that provides employment to people who are very low-income, formerly homeless, or have recently completed a substance abuse recovery program.

QuakerBooks of FGC 16.5X13X15" Blank

$10.00 (in stock)

The Peace Kit

Everyday Peacemaking For Young People

BY JOHN LAMPEN
Do you have problems with losing your temper? Friends who quarrel? Being bullied? Helping children who are unpopular? Understanding your feelings? Family arguments? Not knowing how to relax? Getting into trouble? Standing up against unfairness? This book, written for young people of 10 and upwards, may help you with new ideas and suggestions. Includes chapters on feelings, caring and listening, building bridges, meeting fear and prejudice, putting things right, and becoming a more peaceful person.

Britain Yearly Meeting 1992 63 PP. Paper

$12.00 (backorder)

Peace Prayers

Meditations, Affirmations, Invocations, Poems, And Prayers For Peace

EDITED BY CARRIE LEADINGHAM, JOANN MOSCHELLA, AND HILARY VARTANIAN
Peace Prayers is a compilation of prayers, reflections, affirmations, poems, and quotes on peace. From ancient Rome to modern Vietnam, from Africa to Australia, the writers, thinkers, poets, politicians, religious figures, and even warriors all express the urgent need for a true and lasting peace that only can come from a just and cooperative world community. Contains selections from figures such as Maya Angelou, Harold Kushner, Vaclav Havel, Albert Einstein and Martin Luther King, Confucius, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Helen Caldicott, and Annie Dillard. Was $10.

HarperSanFrancisco 1992 144 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Peace Symbol Pendant - Sterling Silver On Fused Glass

CRAFTED BY LIZ PERCH
The iridescent quality of this fused glass pendant cause the color to shift from deep blue to sparkly purple. Sterling silver peace symbol charm, 18 silver snake chain. US postage included.

Liz Perch PENDANT Boxed

$27.00 Availability checked Mar 16th 10:24am CDT

Peace Tales

World Folktales To Talk About

BY MARGARET READ MACDONALD
This book is a truly multicultural collection of proverbs and stories which explore the devastation and perils of war and the possibilities and promise of peace. The stories are many-layered and appropriate for a wide range of ages. Included are stories about a king who spills honey, and then says it is not his problem until it causes a war; some sandpipers and whales who get into a foolish fight that almost destroys their homes; a man who thinks that a gun makes him strong; and some monkeys who follow their leader into water that's too deep.

August House 2005 136 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Peace Talks

EUGENE FM
Inspired to record these important words in the face of the militaristic pageantry surrounding teh invasion of Iraq, this DVD features over 20 interviews with conscientious objectors from Eugene Meeting talking about their experiences resisting war and working for peace.

Eugene Friends Meeting 2003 DVD Dvd

$10.00 (in stock)

Peace Testimony Poster (qhs)

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$8.00 (in stock)

Peace Works

Young Peacemakers Project Book Ii

BY KATHLEEN FRY-MILLER
Peace Works, the second in the Young Peacemakers Project Book series, continues the work of introducing preschool through elementary age children to the idea of everyday peacemaking. Activities include an introduction to solar, wind, and water power as well as seasonal activities, fun with toys including substituting peace toys for war toys, people games, and celebrative expressions. First volume not currently available.

Bretheren Press 1989 120 PP. Paper

$9.95 (in stock)

The Peaceable Classroom

BY MARY ROSE O'REILLEY
This Quaker teacher and author defines a pedagogy of nonviolence and examines its application in several contemporary teaching techniques. Teachers can inspire future generations to work for peace and justice.

Heinimann 1993 184 PP. Paper

$22.50 (low stock)

Peaceable Kingdom Lost

The Paxton Boys And The Destruction Of William Penn's Holy Experiment

BY KEVIN KENNY
William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" in which Europeans and Indians could live together in harmony. In this book, historian Kevin Kenny explains how this Peaceable Kingdom--benevolent, Quaker, pacifist--gradually disintegrated in the eighteenth century, with disastrous consequences for Native Americans. "Kenny concludes that the Boys' attitude toward the Indians and their attacks on the ruling powers presaged the military and political activities of the American Revolution and the new nation's mistreatment of the Indians." - Publishers Weekly

Oxford University Press 2009 304 PP. Cloth

$29.95 (in stock)

The Peaceable Kingdom

Lessons For All Ages To Assist In Exploring The Friends Peace Testimony

EDITED AND UPDATED BY CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AT YEARLY MEETING GROUP
A new curriculum exploring the peace testimony and adapted from "Blessed are the Peacemakers," an older Philadelphia Yearly Meeting curriculum. This packet includes activities for teachers in First-day schools to use in creating lessons about peace for children, as well as for intergenerational gatherings. The activities are planned to begin with the inward search for peace, to envision peace in the home and community, and to explore peacemaking in the world.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 2003 35 PP. Looseleaf

$11.00 (backorder)

Peaceful Heroes 1

Fourteen One-act Plays

BY ROSALIE REGEN
A wonderful collection of fourteen plays about Friends including "The Man in Leather Breeches", "Master John", and "Rufus Jones and the Gestapo". For junior and senior high students and adults. Adaptable for younger children.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1962 189 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Peaceful Heroes 2

Ten One-act Plays

BY ROSALIE REGEN
Ten more plays about Friends, this volume including "The Wedding of William Penn", "Prudence Crandall", and "Richard and the Runaway Slave".

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1988 88 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Peaceful Piggy Meditation - Paperback

BY KERRY LEE MACLEAN
The author brings experiences as a meditation therapist to this storybook guide, and her bright, gently whimsical paintings show how this simple ritual can do so much for children and their families. "There's nary a lotus blossom or a Bodhisattva to be found in the bright paintings of disarming piggies who tease their siblings, get mad, play video games, but also 'know when to take a break, find a quiet spot adn just breathe, breathe, breathe.'" - Booklist

Albert Whitman 2006 32 PP. Paper

$6.95 (in stock)

Peaceful Piggy Yoga

BY KERRY LEE MACLEAN
Kerry Lee MacLean brings her experience as a yoga instructor and children's meditation therapist to this unique guide, along with the bright, amusing piggy paintings that have become her trademark in Peaceful Piggy Meditation. This fun and informative picture book guide shows kids (and piggies) n classic yoga poses, complete with instructions.

Whitman 2008 32 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

Peacejam

A Billion Acts Of Peace

BY IVAN SUVANJIEFF AND DAWN GIFFORD ENGLE
The Dalai Lama, the Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Costa Rican president Oscar Arias and political rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi are just some of the Nobel Peace Laureates who have joined the PeaceJam Foundation in their Global Call to Action. This book profiles all of these laureates and their work with teens around the world as they combine forces to help stop the spread of disease, promote women's rights, provide equitable access to food and water, and more. Combining profiles of the laureates- including personal bios-heartwarming tales of the youth and their projects, and tips on how readers can get involved, this is a comprehensive guide to the PeaceJam Foundation.

Penguin 2008 208 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

Peacework

Prayer, Resistance, Community

BY HENRI NOUWEN
Henri Nouwen wrote this book twenty years ago as his personal response in a time of heightening Cold War tensions. Its publication now, in a new era of fear and violence, is particularly timely. On the one hand Peacework represents a passionate call to all Christians to embrace Jesus' ethic of peacemaking as an "unconditional, unlimited, and uncompromising" demand. But Nouwen goes on to show that peacemaking is more than a matter of carrying placards or opposing war. "Nobody can be a Christian without being a peacemaker. . . What we are called to is a life of peacemaking in which all that we do, say, think or dream is part of our concern to bring peace to our world." -From the book

Orbis 2005 256 PP. Cloth

$16.00 (in stock)

A Peculiar People

The Rediscovery Of Primitive Christianity

BY JOSEPH JOHN GURNEY
Gurney (1788-1847), Elizabeth Fry's brother, was a birthright Friend and a recorded minister. He traveled extensively in America, and Europe working for peace, penal reform, and the abolition of slavery. But he was divisive in America, his view that Quakers had forsaken the Bible for the Inner light led to a major split in Quakerism that persists to today. This book presents his views on the radical nature of Quakerism.

Friends United Press 2008 508 PP. Paper

$30.00 (in stock)

Penn

BY ELIZABETH GRAY VINING
Penn's life emerges from this classic biography as a story of courage, honesty and faith.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1986 298 PP. Paper

$9.00 (in stock)