Our Final Hour (933)

A Scientist's Warning: How Terror, Error, And Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future In This Century--on Earth And Beyond

BY MARTIN REES
SECONDHAND hardback with nice jacket, if alittle garrish. A scientist known for unraveling the complexities of the universe over millions of years, Sir Rees now warns that humankind is potentially the maker of its own demise--and that of the cosmos. With clarity and precision, he maps out the ways technology could destroy the species and foreclose the potential of a living universe whose evolution has just begun.

Basic Books 2003 225 PP. Cloth

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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 (in 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 (out of stock but can be backordered)

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 (in 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)

Oxford Study Bible

Revised English Bible With The Apocrypha

EDITED BY M. JACK SUGGS, KATHERINE DOOB SAKENFELD, AND JAMES R. MUELLE
A one-volume resource to introduce readers to the Bible by giving a complete overview of biblical history and scholarship as well as direct commentary on the text. Its features include 23 indispensable articles on the history, literary background, and cultural influences of the Bible, the complete text of the acclaimed Revised English Bible with the Apocrypha, fully revised and updated page-by-page textual annotations, a special index to people, places, and themes in the Bible, and full color Bible maps with index.

Oxford University Press 1992 1824 PP. Paper

$34.99 (in stock)

Parallel Communities

The Underground Railroad In South Jersey

BY DENNIS RIZZO
For slaves escaping on the Underground Railroad, names like Springtown and Snow Hill promised sanctuary and salvation. Under the pressures of racial prejudice, free blacks, runaway slaves and even many Native Americans formed island communities on the periphery of many South Jersey towns. These primarily African American communities preserved traditions, acted like extended families and created a social bond between diverse peoples; together they formed parallel communities based on, but independent of, the larger towns and villages.

The History Press 2008 160 PP. Paper

$19.99 (in stock)

Passage

BY ANDY GOLDSWORTHY
"`I don't know what will happen but look forward to whatever changes occur,' writes sculptor Goldsworthy, a statement that can stand as his credo. An artist who works with nature in nature, he creates astonishingly subtle, ephemeral, seemingly impossible, and elegantly mysterious works out of stone, sticks, leaves, stalks, ice, and sand, constructions vulnerable to sun, wind, storms, tides, and time. . His newest [book] covers many recent works--including Garden of Stones, a Holocaust memorial in New York City and the subject of an essay by Simon Schama--and tracks his ongoing involvement with an ancient tradition, the building of cairns." - Booklist, starred review

Abrams 2004 168 PP Cloth

$54.00 (in stock)

Pastoral Care Of Children And Young People

BY THE COMMITTEE ON ELDERSHIP AND OVERSIGHT OF BRITAIN YEARLY MEETING
Pastoral care of children and young people has its own particular difficulties and rewards. This booklet offers advice for the spiritual care and guidance of the young.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2001 46 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

A Patch Of White (32161)

BY ARUN GANDHI
SECONDHAND BOOK, Margaret Hope Bacons copy. Hardback copy in pretty good condition, with dustjacket. Scarce book, first printing from Bombay 1969. Born in 1934 in Durban, South Africa, Arun is the fifth grandson of India's legendary leader. Like many Indians, he was demeaned by Europeans for not being white, ostracized by Africans for not being black, and subject to racially motivated violence from extremists in both groups. Gandhi considers himself to be a Hindu but expresses universalist views A patch of white is about life in prejudiced South Africa

Thackers 1969 191 PP. Cloth

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Path Of Beauty

Photographic Adventures In The Grand Canyon

BY CHRISTOPHER BROWN
From sweeping vistas to intimate details of life along the Colorado River, master printer and photographer Christopher Brown takes readers on a beautiful, powerful journey through a previously undiscovered Grand Canyon. As reviewed in Friends Journal November 2011.

St Martins Press 2010 115 PP. Cloth

$39.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Paths To Quaker Parenting

Using Quaker Beliefs, Testimonies And Practices

EDITED BY HARRIET HEATH
Parents ask questions: How should I respond to my three-year-old's whining for a cookie at 5:30? Should my nine-year-old have both an IPod and a cell phone, or neither? How do I deal with my anger when my teenager rolls his eyes and doesn't move after I've asked him to take out the trash? As Quakers parents look to their faith for guidance. How does my belief, that there is a Way, impact my parenting? How will I parent following the Peace Testimony especially when I am angry? This book is the sharing of a group of parents who have struggled with concerns such as these, have looked to their Quaker faith and found there strength and guidance.

Conrow Publishing house 2009 122 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Patience & Determination

Tools For Ending Torture

COMPILED AND EDITED BY CHUCK FAGER
This new study booklet from Quaker House is for those working to end torture and hold torturers accountable or seeking encouragement in the effort. It was produced because, despite an initial flurry of reform, the new administration in Washington has left in place many of the interrogation policies and programs of its predecessors. It has also turned aside efforts to hold accountable those who planned and carried out illegal torture policies and programs.

Quaker House 2010 54 PP. Paper

$3.00 (in stock)

Patriotism And The American Land

NELSON, RICHARD/ LOP

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$5.00 (in stock)

Patterns And Examples

Experiencing The Spirit Of Other Faiths

EDITED BY PETER JARMAN
A collection of writings by 14 Quakers describing their thoughts and experiences of other faiths, including Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism. In the quest for spiritual fullfilment following the advice of George Fox to "be patterns, examples in all countries, then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in every one," Jonathan Fryer, Peter Jarman, Jennifer Kavanagh, Alison Leonard, John A. McConnell, Judy Moody-Stuart, lhsam R. Rasmy acknowledge the jewel of Love and Truth at the heart of all beings through their experience of the Spirit of other faiths.

Sessions of York 2005 155 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

Patterns Of Eldership And Oversight

BRITAIN YEARLY MEETING COMMITTEE ON ELDERSHIP AND OVERSIGHT
British guide to eldership in monthly meetings, offering case studies and suggesting exercises and additional resources to study these practices.

Britain Yearly Meeting 1997 30 PP. Paper

$10.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Paul Among The People

The Apostle Reinterpreted And Reimagined In His Own Time

BY SARAH RUDEN
Looks at the letters of Paul against the background of ancient Greek and Roman literature, especially the bawdy and comic works Biblical scholars tend not to know. Quaker scholar & Poet Sarah Ruden translates passages from these works and sets them beside famous and controversial passages of Paul and some modern interpretations. Using the early texts to explain important words, ideas, customs and institutions, she shows what Paul was likely reacting against and trying to say on such subjects as pleasure, homosexuality, women, slavery, the state, and love. She makes Paul real in his own world.

Pantheon 2011 214 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

Paul Robeson

Singer And Actor

BY SCOTT EHRLICH
A thoughtful biography of the athlete, scholar, actor and activist. Ages 9-13.

Chelsea House 1988 105 PP. Paper

$9.95 (in stock)

Paul Robeson

BY ELOISE GREENFIELD
From his father's escape from slavery to Robeson's celebrity, as footballer and actor and singer, his suffering under McCarthyism and his powerfully expressed opinions in the civil rights movement. Ages 7 and up.

Lee and Low 2009 40 PP. Paper

$7.95 (in stock)

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

$7.50 (in stock)

The Peabody Sisters Of Salem (1)

BY LOUISE HALL THARP
Secondhand Copy. Hardback in poor condition, a loose front cover and just a few annoying underlinings. Hand written note on cover page addressed "to Marie with love from Miss Peabody from Milton". Illustrated. A biography of the three sisters (not Quakers), one of whom married Hawthorne, another Horace Mann, but who were well known in their own right as, in Sophia's case, a painter, and as educators and intellects at the center of Massachusetts intellectual society. With notes and index.

Little Brown 1950 372 PP. Cloth

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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 (in 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 (in stock)

Peace Book

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. Cloth

$9.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)

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)