Peacemaking Circles And Urban Youth

Bringing Justice Home

BY C BOYES-WATSON

Paper

$20.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Peacemaking Under Fire

A Vietnam War Memoir

BY JOHN ARNOLD
By the fall of 1968, the Vietnam War was tearing apart America as well as Vietnam. But what could a 17-year-old college freshman do to stop such a conflict? As he walked to class one day pondering that question, John Arnold suddenly heard an answer in his thoughts as clearly as if someone had spoken it: "You can't stop a war if you aren't where the war is." His first reaction was, "You're kidding, right?" But 1968 was not a time for kidding. People were dying. Thousands of people, every week. So after considering the matter for a few minutes, John dumped his books in a trash can, dropped out of college, and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps.

CreateSpace 2012 221 PP. Paper

$9.95 (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

$20.00 (in stock)

Peacework Quilt

365 Meditative Offerings

BY JUDITH PERRY CARPENTER
A collection of poetic meditations on her spiritual journey. "I enjoyed reading this wise and gentle book. Judith Carpenter's warm-hearted approach to the spiritual life both nourishes your spirit and invites you to go deeper. This book will be helpful to anyone looking for soulful accompaniment on the journey towards a deeper peace" Catherine Whitmire Quaker and author of Plain living: A Quaker Path To Simplicity

Seafire Press 2009 243 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

Peanut Butter Jellyfish

BY PEANUT BUTTER JELLYFISH
Lisa Wildman Denise Mitkus David McCullough The musicians of Peanut Butter Jellyfish use their experience as parents and educators to choose songs promoting tolerance, caring for the earth and its creatures, fun kids' favorites, and soothing lullabies. Peanut Butter Jellyfish brings you family-friendly music for children of all ages. Some of us are also members of Group W

PBJF 2006 17 TRACKS Disk

$15.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

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

$25.00 (in stock)

Peculiar Power

A Quaker Woman Preacher In Eighteenth-century America

BY CRISTINE LEVENDUSKI
Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713-1755) wrote "Remarkable Experiences". In it she recorded her religious search but also told of the highly unusual events that had shaped her life: eloping at 14, being kidnapped, preventing a shipboard mutiny, enduring a harsh term of indentured servitude, and suffering relentless religious persecution. Her experiences as an English immigrant, a servant, an itinerant, a Quaker, and a woman placed her far outside the colonial cultural mainstream, but drawing power from her marginalized position she became in her thirties a respected leader among Quakers, thereby breaking the "suffer and be still" silence imposed on 18C women.

Smithsonian 1996 171 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

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)

Pennsylvanias Black History (17234)

CHARLES BLOCKSON
SECONDHAND COPY, fair condition in sligtly torn dust jacket. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Great history with many biographies of Pennsylvanias African American residents down the ages.

Portfolio editions 1975 150 PP. Cloth

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Pennterra

BY JUDITH MOFFETT
A Quaker colony in space! But it is a strange planet they have landed on, and complications arise as more colonists arrive from Earth unwilling to accept the empathic warnings of the planets native life, the Hrossa. But be warned there is a strange sexual subtext to the book although that is all explained at the end. This is a reissue of the long out of print original edition

Fantastic Books 2009 288 PP. Paper

$15.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

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)

People Once Were Welcome Here

BY STEVE DEASY
Steve Deasy is the Detroit-based performing songwriter who brought down the house at this year's FGC Gathering; A socially conscious writer in the tradition of Dylan and Seeger, but with the contemporary musicality of new folk, classic rock, pop, and jazz influences. This album, his newest, includes songs of peace, protest, and a tribute to John Woolman.

Red Cedar River Records 2010 11 TRACKS Disk

$15.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

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 2011 370 PP. Paper

$14.99 (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 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

$4.00 (in stock)

A Persistent Peace

One Man's Struggle For A Nonviolent World

BY JOHN DEAR
A Persistent Peace, John Dear's autobiography, invites readers to follow the decades-long journey and spiritual growth of this nationally known peace activist, and to witness his bold, decisive, often unpopular actions before government officials, military higher-ups, and even hostile representatives of the Church. With heroes such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela, it should come as no surprise that John's activism has taken him to many places including war zones all over the world.

Loyola Press 2008 440 PP. Cloth

$15.95 (in stock)

Peruginos Path, Renaisance Painter (84)

NANCY CLOUSE
SECONDHAND COPY-as new. A look for mid school kids at a renaisance painters world in Italy. Lots of painting for popes...

Eerdmans 1997 32 PP. Cloth

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Pessimist Optimist

The Optimist's / Pessimist's Handbook is a charming companion piece for both the cynic and the believer in each of us. This handbook is filled with quotes and bits of wisdow that can apply to many of life's little ups and downs.

Simon and Schuster INC 2008 WHO CARES Cloth

$5.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Phenomenon Of Man

BY PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
Visionary theologian and evolutionary theorist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin applied his tremendous intellect and his great spiritual faith to building a philosophy that would reconcile religion with the scientific understanding of evolution. In this timeless book, Teilhard argues that just as living organisms sprang from inorganic matter and evolved into ever more complex thinking beings, humans are evolving toward an "omega point" defined by Teilhard as convergence with the Divine.

Harper 1959 319 PP. Blank

$14.99 (in 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)

Philadelphia, Holy Experiment (1280)

BURT, STRUTHERS
SECONDHAND COPY. Hardback in fair condition. A biography of one of the world's great cities by a novelist who sets down its essential character as he would that of a living hero. Informal, witty, discursive, it traces the rise of Philadelphia from William Penn's holy experiment to the books publication in 1945, when it was a giant metropolis noted for its corrupt politics, bright personalities, and great wealth. Includes many great old photographs and illustrations.

Doubleday, Doran, & Co. 1945 380 PP. Cloth

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Philadelphia's Arch Street Meeting House

A Biography

BY GREGORY A. BARNES
Greg Barnes has deeply researched Philadelphia's historic meeting house at the intersection of Fourth and Arch Streets in the Olde City district. Here Quaker history unfolded, Quaker characters wielded influence, and the story of William Penn's Holy Experiment led its course from the early colonial days to the present. A delightful and informative book.

QuakerBridge Media of FGC 2013 377 PP. Paper

$25.00 (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 LEFèEVRE, 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 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Picasso's War

The Destruction Of Guernica And The Masterpiece That Changed The World

BY RUSSELL MARTIN
In Picasso's War, Russell Martin weaves politics, history, art, and science into a stirring narrative of the monumental canvas that was to become the most important artwork of the 20th century. Pablo Picasso, enraged by Hitler's bombing of Guernica in Northern Spain on April 26, 1937, responded to the devastation in his homeland by beginning work on Guernica. In Picasso's War, Martin follows Guernica, the renowned masterwork, across decades and continents, crafting an engrossing story of a its impassioned creation and the struggle to find hope in the face of unspeakable acts of terror.

Plume 2002 274 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

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

$2.00 (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)

The Pigment Of Your Imagination

Mixed Race In A Global Society

BY JOY M. ZAREMBKA
Throughout the world arbitrary racial notions are used to define who is '"black" and who is "white" but the lines become blurred with people of mixed racial heritage. Friend Joy Zarembka and her brother Tommy -- who are featured on the front cover of the book -- share the same parents and have striking physical similarities, yet were labelled at birth with very different racial designations; Joy was described as "black" and her brother as "white." After extensive research in Britain, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Jamaica, Joy Zarembka explores the vastly divergent interpretations of racial identity. Zarembka leads us to a new understanding of racial identity.

Madera Press 2007 312 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)