Nuclear Terrorism

The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe

BY GRAHAM ALLISON
If policy makers in Washington keep doing what they are currently doing about the threat, a nuclear terrorist attack on America is likely to occur in the next decade. And if one lengthens the time frame, a nuclear strike is inevitable. But the surprising and largely unrecognized good news is that nuclear terrorism is, in fact, preventable. In these pages, Allison offers an ambitious but feasible blueprint for eliminating the possibility of nuclear terrorist attacks.

Times Books 2004 259 PP. Cloth

$2.50 (in stock)

Nudged By The Spirit

Stories Of People Responding To The Still, Small Voice Of God

BY CHARLOTTE FARDELMANN
Discernment is the spiritual practice among Quakers that empowers their service in the world. This anthology shares the stories of persons who have experienced a sense of call to ministry and how they moved forward into that work with support from their monthly meetings. Includes the stories of Will and Fran Taber, Lucy McIver, John Calvi, Elaine Bishop and Kathryn Damiano.

Pendle Hill 2001 288 PP. Paper

$17.00 (in stock)

The O Of Home

BY JENNIFER KAVANAGH
What does the word "home" mean to you? From a wide range of answers and her own experience, British Friend Jennifer Kavanagh explores our outer and inner identities. Home is not just four walls or the country we were born in. It is not a locked door, an investment, a legal address, or a nation with rigid borders. Home is where the heart is: a yearning for a precious past, a dream of something that has never been, or a present reality. In relationship - with our families, in community, and with the whole of creation. The qualities of home are reflected in the circle (O), an ancient symbol for safety, equality, inclusiveness, and eternity.

O Books 2010 198 PP. Paper

$24.95 (in stock)

O Wait For It - Limited Edition Print

BY EMILY BROWN
O WAIT FOR IT. "In an Edition of 13. In 2008 I made a suite of prints based on Friends testimonies, each with an extract of text from PYM's Faith and Practice. My hope was to convey visually some qualities commonly found in Friends' writings and practices. There are five prints in limited editions. They are 15 x 22 inches on sturdy archival paper, signed and dated on the reverse side. Each print has both an original line etching on gampi paper and a digital print on which it is set. They are for sale unframed. Very suitable for offices, hospitals, retirement communities, colleges, schools, social service agencies, and homes." - - Emily Brown's web site: www.emilybrown.net

Emily Brown 2008 PRINT Blank

$600.00 Availability checked Feb 8th 1:48pm EST

Obadiah

Four Lessons For First Day School

BY MERRIL DUTTON
Activities and lessons for young children based on Brinton Turkle's Obadiah stories that focus on Quaker history and testimonies.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1996 24 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Obadiah The Bold

BY BRINTON TURKLE
Obadiah Starbuck and his Quaker family live in Nantucket in the early 1800s. In this story, Obadiah learns an important lesson on the true nature of courage. A Quaker classic now reprinted and available again. Ages four and up.

Beautiful Feet Books 2004 37 PP. Paper

$7.95 (in stock)

Occasional Papers For Meeting For Worsh

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$1.00 (in stock)

Occupied With Nonviolence

A Palestinian Woman Speaks

BY JEAN ZARU
In this book Jean Zaru, the longtime activist and Quaker leader from Ramallah, brings home the pain and central convictions that animate Christian nonviolence and activity today. Yet even as Zaru eloquently names the common misunderstandings of the history, present situation, and current policies of the parties there, she vividly articulates an alternative: a religiously motivated nonviolent path to peace and justice in the world's most troubled region.

Fortress Press 2008 176 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

Of Lime, Stones, And Wood (716)

Historic Quaker Meeting Houses In The New York Ym Region

BY CLAIRE SIMON
SECONDHAND Video, rare video of some of the historic meeting houses in New York YM region.

Quaker Video 1996 50 MINS Video

$20.00 USED - availability checked Feb 8th 1:48pm EST

The Old Discipline

Nineteenth Century Friends' Disciplines In America

COMPILED BY QUAKER HERITAGE PRESS
What were the rules in 1806? How were they affected by the separations? This book reprints the disciplines of the eight oldest yearly meetings in America, and traces their revisions through the years.

Quaker Heritage Press 1999 480 PP. Cloth

$20.00 (in stock)

Old Turtle

BY DOUGLAS WOOD, ILLUSTRATED BY CHENG KHEE CHEE
A glorious book to challenge children of all ages to think about God, our responsibility to the earth, and to the creatures on it. Our 2007 catalog describes this as having a CD but this was a special anniversary edition that is no longer available.

Scholastic 1992 48 PP. Paper

$17.95 (in stock)

Old Turtle And The Broken Truth

BY DOUGLAS WOOD AND TOM MASON, ILLUSTRATED BY JON MUTH
Earth is full of suffering and war until one little girl seeks Old Turtle, who tells her about a "broken truth" and how mending it will help her community to understand the common bond of all humanity.

Scholastic 2003 64 PP. Cloth

$17.95 (in stock)

The Omnivore's Dilemma

A Natural History Of Four Meals

BY MICHAEL POLLAN
This book has three parts, one for each of the food chains that sustain us: industrialized food, organic food, and food people grow or hunt themselves. Pollan follows the food chain literally from the ground up to the table, & concludes each section by sitting down to a meal--at McDonald's, at home with his family sharing a dinner from Whole Foods, and in a revolutionary farm in Virginia. He traces the provenance of everything consumed, revealing the hidden components we unwittingly ingest and explaining how our taste for particular foods reflects our environmental and biological inheritance.

Penguin 2007 464 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

The Omnivore's Dilemma For Kids

The Secrets Behind What You Eat

BY MICHAEL POLLAN
A version of Pollans classic work on how our food gets to us, what is in it, and how it is grown. Among his detective work he tracks animals and plants through the system. Very good value, with a new introduction and a Q & A section with the author, AND the text is divided up into bite sized segments with illustrations, fact boxes and explanatory diagrams. I think this is even better than the "adult" version.

Penguin 2009 298 PP. Paper

$9.99 (in stock)

On Angel Wings

BY MICHAEL MORPURGO, ILLUSTRATED BY QUENTIN BLAKE
"I bring you news of great joy. For tonight, in Bethlehem, a child has been born, a savior who is Christ the Lord." When the shepherds are invited to follow the star to visit the child, one young boy is told to stay and mind the flock. But the Angel Gabriel returns for him, taking the boy on a magical, memorable flight to be the first to witness the Christmas miracle. With a gently wry narration by Michael Morpurgo and expressive illustrations by the extraordinary Quentin Blake, this inviting, uplifting story is destined to become a holiday tradition.

Candlewick 2007 48 PP. Cloth

$8.99 (in stock)

On Being A Christian (723)

HANS KUNG
SECONDHAND BOOKin good condition with dustjacket, looks alittle aged I guess. If you like your theology intense, and in huge chunks then this is the book for you - a real doorstop of book. One of the leading catholic thinkers till the pope excomunicated him. The Proust of theologians.

P<Doubleday 1974 719 PP. Cloth

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On Being Grafted Into The Root

Beacon Hill Friends House Listen! Series

BY DEBBIE HUMPHRIES
Debbie Humphries talk began a series, with the theme the call to ministry. In the lecture she explored images of grafting and the growth of olive trees in both the Bible and the Mormon texts she grew up with. She uses these texts to illuminate her experience of the call to ministry.

Beacon Hill Friends House 2007 23 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

On Death And Dying

What The Dying Have To Teach Doctors, Nursers, Clergy, And Their Own Families

BY ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS
One of the most famous psychological studies of our time, this classic grew out of one of the author's interdisciplinary seminars on death. Sample interviews and conversations provide a better understanding of the effects which imminent death has on patients and their families.

Scribner 2003 284 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

On Doing Good (9217)

The Quaker Experiment

BY GERALD JONAS
SECONDHAND COPY - Good condition book, but poor dust jacket. A look at Quaker work with Native Americans and with slavery, an early attempt to look at Quaker contributions in these areas subsequently reexamined in Fit for Freedom. He then looks at the work of AFSC in more recent years.

Scibners 1971 175 PP. Cloth

$10.00 USED - availability checked Feb 8th 1:48pm EST

On Food Justice

Ladonna Redmond's 2011 Gathering Plenary

BY LADONNA REDMOND
This is an audio mp3 file of LaDonna Redmond's Plenary address at the 2011 FGC Gathering in Grinnell, Iowa. LaDonna is a long-time community activist who has successfully worked to get Chicago Public Schools to evaluate junk food, launched urban agricultural projects, started community grocery stores, and worked on federal farm policy to expand access to healthy food in low-income communities. "Stream this presentation free until September 15 at http://www.fgcquaker.org/quakerpress."

Quaker Press of FGC 2011 Audio

$5.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

On Hallowing One's Diminishments

Php 292

BY JOHN YUNGBLUT
A lifelong student of mysticism shares the experience of contemplative prayer in facing many forms of diminishment: birth defects, natural disasters, aging, and death itself.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1990 27 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

On Killing

The Psychological Cost Of Learning To Kill In War And Society

BY DAVE GROSSMAN
The good news, according to Grossman - drawing on dozens of interviews, first-person reports, and historic studies of combat, ranging from Frederick the Great's battles in the eighteenth century through Vietnam - is that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to kill. In World War II, for instance, only 15 to 25 percent of combat infantry were willing to fire their rifles. The provocative news is that modern armies, using Pavlovian and operant conditioning, have learned how to overcome this reluctance.

Back Bay Books 1996 400 PP. Paper

$15.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

On Living With A Concern For Gospel Ministry

BY BRIAN DRAYTON
"Brian Drayton has studied A Description of the Qualifications Necessary to a Gospel Minister by Samuel Bownas, and many Friends journals, internalizing their teaching and applying it to his own life and ministry. He is called to minister to ministers, to encourage, help, and yes, even admonish Friends who feel a gift for ministry arising within. Here is a book full of wisdom and advice on how to cherish, live with, and grow into the gift of ministry. It is well aimed at the specific temptations and opportunities of our own day, while incorporating those timeless truths with which a minister of any era must grapple."

Quaker Press of FGC 2005 196 PP. Paper

$19.00 (in stock)

On Meadowview Street

BY HENRY COLE
Caroline lives on Meadowview Street. But where's the meadow? Where's the view? There's nothing growing in her front yard except grass. Then she spots a flower and a butterfly and a bird and Caroline realizes that with her help, maybe Meadowview Street can have a meadow after all. Grades k-2.

GreenWillow 2007 32 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

On Noah's Ark

BY JAN BRETT
Jan Brett's intricate illustrations against a beautiful papyrus background make a stunning picture book of a favorite story, this time featuring Noah's granddaughter. As the floodwaters rise, she helps take the animals onto the ark and get them settled down. But it's not easy when giraffes are sleeping next to pandas and lions are curled up with turkeys. Finally the gentle rocking of the ark lulls them all to sleep until the waters recede and Grandpa Noah, his family, and all the animals leave the ark. This simple telling, combined with extraordinary illustrations of every animal imaginable, makes On Noah's Ark perfect for young and old.

Putnam 2003 32 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

On Retiring To Kendal (and Beyond)

A Literary Excursion - Php 368

BY PETER BIEN
Retiring to Kendal is obviously one's final move before "and beyond." This leads the author to wonder whether death is an unmitigated calamity. Would it be better to live forever? Not, presumably, if debility were included. But what about eternal youthfulness and health? Guided by literary passages from Homer and Shakespeare to Kazantzakis and Cavafy, the author concludes, strangely, that death actually enhances life rather than negating it.

Pendle Hill 2003 27 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

On Sitting Still

BY MARY C. TEST
Sometimes the most wonderful things in the world, like the rising and setting of the sun, happen in stillness. This small book introduces children to the special quiet of meeting for worship.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 2003 15 PP. Paper

$3.50 (in stock)

On Stepping Out Of The Boat

BY TRAYCE PETERSON
Walking on water. That's not an image most of us think about often. Trayce Peterson opens up the challenges and possibilities of responding to the Light's invitation to walk away from our safe, comfortable boat using art and experience to illustrate her ideas.

Beacon Hill Friends House 2009 17 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

On The Contrary

A Reflection On The Universal Light Of Childhood

BY JOHN HEMMIMG
A meditative reflection on the universal light of childhood and our journey to wholeness.

Quaker Universalist Group (UK) 1996 25 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

On The Vocal Ministry

BY RUTH PITMAN
A helpful explanation of vocal ministry in the Quaker meeting for worship for those new to Quaker meeting.

Tract

$0.10 (out of stock but can be backordered)