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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)

Penn (13000)

ELIZABETH JANET GRAY
Secondhand hardback with damaged dust jacket.1962 edition of a book first published in 1938. A good simple nonacademic biography of William Penn. SECOND HAND BOOK

Viking Press 1962 298 PP. Cloth

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Penningtons Letters (10031)

BY ISAAC PENNINGTON
SECONDHAND. Fair copy, reads easily, but some water staining to bottom quarter inch. Small clothbound edition, with really tiny type, especially the preface. XXX1X letters.

Book Association of Friends, Philadelphia 1879 125 PP. Cloth

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The Pennsylvania Colony

BY MARTIN HINTZ
A nicely illustrated but brief introduction to the founding of Pennsylvania. It is well illustrated and a good starting point for very young folks, though some ideas (i.e That Quakers only meet once a month for worship) need an adult correction.

Capstone Press 2006 32 PP. Paper

$7.95 (low stock)

The People Called Quakers

BY ELTON TRUEBLOOD
This volume is more philosophical than historical. It is an effort to depict a people who represent one element in radical Christianity and their ideas and insights. The book attempts to sum up the many avenues Quakerism has explored and to see it as an entire movement containing contrasting and complementary emphases. The author sees this book as especially valuable to those of other faiths interested in exploring Quakerism.

Friends United Press 1966 298 PP. Paper

$17.00 (in stock)

A People's History Of The United States

1492-present

BY HOWARD ZINN
Consistently lauded for its lively, readable prose, this revised and updated edition of A People's History of the United States turns traditional textbook history on its head. Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American Indians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into this thorough narrative that spans American history from Christopher Columbus's arrival to an afterword on the Clinton presidency. "One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth." - Howard Zinn

Harper Perennial 2003 730 PP. Paper

$18.95 (in stock)

A People's History Of Christianity

The Other Side Of The Story

BY DIANA BUTLER BASS
In the same spirit as Howard Zinn's groundbreaking work The People's History of the United States, Butler Bass's A People's History of Christianity brings to life the movements, personalities, and spiritual disciplines that have always informed and ignited Christian worship and social activism. . In A People's History of Christianity, historian and religion expert Diana Butler Bass reveals an alternate history that includes a deep social ethic and far-reaching inclusivity: "the other side of the story" is not a modern phenomenon, but has always been practiced within the church. Quakers arrive on page 220.

HarperOne 2009 353 PP. Cloth

$9.50 (in stock)

A Perfect Freedom

Religious Liberty In Pennsylvania

BY J. WILLIAM FROST
Frost uses a wide variety of historical sources to trace the development of religious freedom in Pennsylvania from the founding of the colony up to World War II. Quakers figure prominently throughout. "Given the importance of the Pennsylvania story to the development of religious liberty in America, it is surprising-as J. William Frost notes-that this story has received so little attention. Here, at last, we have the vital narrative offered in impressive and illuminating detail."-Edwin S. Gaustad, American Historical Review

Pennsylvania State Press 1990 220 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

The Pesharim And Qumran History

Chaos Or Consensus?

BY JAMES CHARLESWORTH
Discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls, the writers of the Pesharim believe that scripture is written on two levels, the surface for ordinary readers with limited knowledge, the concealed one for specialists with higher knowledge. They are today the main source for what we know of the so called "Teacher of Righteousness." Charlesworth demonstrates that these 16 books contain real historical allusions and relates these to a synopsis of the history of the Qumran community. The tradition continued in Gnosticism, and is still seen today among certain fundamentalist Muslim and Christian groups.

Eerdmans 2002 188 PP. Paper

$12.50 (low stock)

Pete Seeger At 89

BY PETE SEEGER
Well Pete Seeger is actually 90 now -Amazing! This album is composed of new recordings of many of his classic songs interspersed with Pete giving his personal reflections on them and the world in general from a life still in progress.

Appleseed 2008 32 TRACKS Disk

$15.95 (low stock)

Philadelphia Friends Schools

BY FRIENDS COUNCIL ON EDUCATION WITH JANET CHANCE
In 1689, William Penn established a Friends Public School in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This book includes well annotated images from the 10 Friends schools founded in or near Philadelphia before the 20th century: Abington Friends School, Frankford Friends, Friends Central, Friends Select, George School, Germantown Friends, Greene Street Friends, Plymouth Meeting, William Penn Charter, and Westtown. Philadelphia Friends Schools tells the photographic story of an educational philosophy rooted in three centuries of faith and practice.

Arcadia 2009 127 PP. Paper

$21.99 (in stock)

Philena's Friendship Quilt

A Quaker Farewell To Ohio

BY LYNDA SALTER CHENOWETH
Fabric archeologist Chenoweth discovers the story behind a Quaker signature quilt made in Ohio, in 1853 to reveal not only the identity of the quilt recipient and details of her life and community but also the hidden design element created by the deliberate placement of names on the quilt's surface. The final chapter tells of the life of Philena Evaline Cooper born in Clearfield County, Pa, in 1822, until her death in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1915.

Ohio University Press 2008 104 PP. Paper

$22.95 (in stock)

The Phoenix Trip (10090)

Notes On Aquaker Mission To Haiphong

BY ELIZABETH JELINEK BOARDMAN
SECONDHAND. Paperback in reasonable condition. In March 1967, members of AQAG (A Quaker action Group) sailed to North Vietnam in the yacht Phoenix, carrying medical supplies for North Vietnamese wounded by American bombing. The protest generated wide media coverage. In the early seventies, AQAG, having abandoned its goal of transforming the Society of Friends, evolved into the Movement for a New Society, a self-styled "transformational network" which would play key role in the anti-nuclear movement of the 1970s.

Celo Press 1985 173 PP. Paper

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The Photographer

Into War-torn Afghanistan With Doctors Without Borders

BY DIDIER LEFčEVRE, EMMANUEL GUIBERT, FREDERIC LEMERCIER
A unique and literally stunning book, mixing contemporary black and white photos, with a comic strip. The book looks at the work of Doctors without Borders in Afghanistan in 1986, the period when the Russians tried to control the country. The relentless mountain scenery, the difficulty of movement or communication and ever present corruption and danger are portrayed only too well. A reminder of how complex the situation was and still is over there. 14 inches by 12 inches.

First Second 2009 267 PP. Paper

$29.95 (backorder)

Picking Up The Pieces From Portugal To Palestine

Quaker Refugee Work In World War Ii - A Memoir

BY HOWARD WRIGGINS
As a conscientious objector prior to World War II, author Howard Wriggins joined the American Friends Service Committee. A young idealist who left his graduate studies in political science to assist refugees fleeing Hitler's madness, Wriggins batted out daily letters on an ancient Underwood portable to describe the cruel events he witnessed. He shares his experiences as he came to know numberless refugees and prisoners in Europe and the Middle East. Professor Wriggins has used his letters to tell a riveting personal story about the horrors of governmental persecution and the war to end it, in the midst of which idealism nevertheless persisted.

University Press of America 2004 258 PP. Paper

$48.50 (in stock)

Pictures From An Expedition

BY DIANE SMITH
Told through the reminiscences of scientific illustrator Eleanor Peterson, Pictures from an Expedition is set in 1876 and tells of a diverse band of adventurers heading west to the desolate badlands of Montana to work on a dinosaur fossil dig. The story recounts the experiences of this field crew as they argue over theories of evolution and contend with rival scientists. I thought Quakers featured in the book, but haven't spotted any yet - however it is a good book!

Penguin 2002 276 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

A Piece Of Forever

BY LAUREL LEE GUGLER
A Piece of Forever begins where Catching Forever ended, with the story of Rose and her experiences being of Mennonite faith in a public school. In A Piece of Forever, Rose is forced to address the issue of warfare, and to examine her own feelings about violence and peace for the upcoming Remembrance Day assembly. While doing research for a school project, Rose learns how the effects of war have touched everyone around her. A member of Toronto Meeting.

Lorimer 2008 164 PP. Paper

$8.95 (in stock)

Pilgimage Towards (304)

SECONDHAND COPY. As new, appears unread. A personal and conversational autobiography of a devoted pacifist. The work is self-described as "a straightforward description of my reaction to the whole concept and experience of war," and an argument against the Just War Theory. The author was a lecturer in education and religious studies at public schools and Leicester College in Britain.

Sessions of York 2006 337 PP. Paper

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