Struggle And Hope

The 46th Barnard Walton Lecture

BY MARY ELLEN MCNISH
How do Friends stay in that place of generosity? How does a Quaker organization working for peace justice and human rights stay in that place of generosity? In a world gone mad what can we do as an individual and in a group. Mary Ellen talks about her own spiritual journey, and of being general secretary of AFSC.

SEYM 2009 23 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Students Resolving Conflict

Peer Mediation In Schools (2nd Edition)

BY RICHARD COHEN
The second edition of this great resource by Quaker Richard Cohen. His experience is that if you give students the power to take control of situations and some training they can resolve even large scale conflicts peacefully. This is a step by step guide to designing, implementing, and operating a successful peer mediation program at school.

Goodyear Books 2005 283 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Studies In Mystical Religion Qhs

RUFUS JONES
excellent condition. age makes somewhat fragile, some pencil markings at back. book plate in fron from arch st meetingno other presentation marks. classic work by rufus jones from his studies.

1923 512 PP. Cloth

$35.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Studs Terkel Touch And Go (88)

STUDS TERKEL
SECONDHAND fair condition in Dustcover. Memoir of the greta man-nuff said.

New Press 2007 268 PP. Cloth

$7.50 USED - availability checked May 19th 3:40am EDT

Studying Joy Together

BY PAUL LACEY
In this short booklet, Paul Lacey explores the origins of joy, which he describes as spiritual and a manifestation of grace. Lacey discusses his own experiences with joy, and also draws from the writings of George Fox and several poets, to unfold joy as a restorative gift, a source of trustworthy energy and insight, an experience of transcending for a time my personal limitations and sorrow. 44400

South Central Yearly Meeting 2009 17 PP. Paper

$3.00 (in stock)

Stuff White People Like

BY CHRISTIAN LANDER
A mix of new material and pieces previously published on the humor website Stuff White People like. This book takes a playful but pointed look at race by examining the things white people like - or profess to like - from The Daily Show and "the idea of soccer" to "being an expert on "your" culture."

Random House 2008 211 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

Sufferings Of Early Quakers - Yorkshire

BY JOSEPH BESSE
"Ever since it appeared in 1753, Joseph Besse's Collection of Sufferings of the People called Quakers has been the first port of call for anyone interested in 17th century Quakerism at a local level. . . . Besse drew together the most interesting or indicative examples of what individual Quakers had suffered for the Truth between approximately 1650 and 1689." - Michael Gandy.

Sessions 2001 176 PP. Paper

$38.00 (in stock)

Sufferings Of Early Quakers - Westmorland

Cumberland, Durham & Northumberland, Isle Of Man, Lancashire

BY JOSEPH BESSE
"Ever since it appeared in 1753, Joseph Besse's Collection of Sufferings of the People called Quakers has been the first port of call for anyone interested in 17th century Quakerism at a local level. . . . Besse drew together the most interesting or indicative examples of what individual Quakers had suffered for the Truth between approximately 1650 and 1689." - Michael Gandy. Four volumes available.

Sessions 2001 330 PP. Paper

$30.00 (in stock)

Sufferings Of Early Quakers - America

New England And Maryland, West Indies And Bermuda

BY JOSEPH BESSE
"Ever since it appeared in 1753, Joseph Besse's Collection of Sufferings of the People called Quakers has been the first port of call for anyone interested in 17th century Quakerism at a local level. . . . Besse drew together the most interesting or indicative examples of what individual Quakers had suffered for the Truth between approximately 1650 and 1689." - Michael Gandy. Four volumes available.

Sessions 2001 391 PP. Paper

$40.00 (in stock)

Sufferings Of Early Quakers - London

And Middlesex 1655 To 1690

BY JOSEPH BESSE
Ever since it first appeared in 1753 Besse's collection of sufferings of the people called Quakers has been the first port of call for anyone interested in seventeenth century Quakerism. Contains the most interesting or illustrative examples of what individual Quakers suffered in ways like fines or imprisonment for their Quaker faith. Sessions are reprinting the original text by area. Indexed by Place and name.

Sessions 1753 176 PP Paper

$30.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Sufi Flights

Poems Of Yunus Emre

BY YUNUS EMRE TTANSLATED BY JUDITH REYNOLDS
An inspiring collection of work by the 14th century Turkish poet Yunus Emre. This new translation into English by Judith Reynolds Brown offers an affirmation of Emre's mystic Sufism and deep humanism which is as timely today as it was when written.

Judith Reynolds Brown 2010 124 PP. Paper

$24.99 (in stock)

Sugar Changed The World

A Story Of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, And Science

BY MARC ARONSON, MARINNA BUDHOS
When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives. The trail ran like a bright band from religious ceremonies in India to Europe's Middle Ages, then on to Columbus, who brought the first cane cuttings to the Americas. Sugar was the substance that drove the bloody slave trade and caused the loss of countless lives but it also planted the seeds of revolution that led to freedom in the American colonies, Haiti, and France. With songs, oral histories, maps, and over 80 archival illustrations.

Clarion 2010 166 PP. Cloth

$20.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Sum

Forty Tales From The Afterlives

BY DAVID EAGLEMAN
At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives - each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In another version, you work as a background character in other people's dreams. Or you may find that God is a married couple, or that the universe is running backward. With a probing imagination and deep understanding of the human condition, acclaimed neuroscientist David Eagleman offers wonderfully imagined tales that shine a brilliant light on the here and now.

Vintage Books 2008 110 PP. Paper

$13.00 (in stock)

Support For Our True Selves

Nurturing The Space Where Leadings Flow - The 2007 Backhouse Lecture

BY JENNY SPINKS
Jenny Spinks speaks about nurturing leadings and growing into her individual potential. She argues that if we can be our true selves, open to being led minute by minute by the Spirit, we will live in a way that cares for the earth. Often there is clutter that gets in the way and blocks connection. This lecture looks at ways Quakerism offers to consciously/actively support our true selves and nurture the space where leadings flow and at how the freedom to express emotion in committed spiritual F/friendships helps clear the clutter and nurture leadings. The author contends that the Religious Society of Friends' role is to uphold and support us in nurturing this process.

Australia Yearly Meeting 2007 54 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

Surfing On The Sea Of Faith

The Ethics And Religion Of Don Cupitt

BY NIGEL LEAVES
Surfing is divided into three parts. The first looks at Cupitt on 'Ethics after God', the second 'Cupitt's Idea of Religion' and the third 'The Sea of Faith Networks'. The first two parts will be useful reading for those who never got round to reading beyond The Sea of Faith. In the 3rd section he gives a potted history of the origins and development of SoF movement around the world especially in the writings of David Hart, Stephen Mitchell, Anthony Freeman, Lloyd Geering, Graham Shaw, Hugh Dawes and John Spong.

Polebridge 2005 194 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Survivors Manual

Surviving In Solitary

A MANUAL WRITTEN BY AND FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN CONTROL UNITS, AFSC
The federal penitentiary in Marion, Illinois, went on permanent lock down in 1983. This created the first "control unit." Now some forty states have built these "maxi-maxi" prisons - representations of the angry and cruel repression that grips our country today. Human beings are put alone in a small cell with double steel doors and no window for 23 hours a day. No program, no work, no education, meals alone, and maybe one hour by oneself in a bare dog-run outside. A religious task force calls such conditions psychological pain and agony tantamount to torture, now, in the following pages, people who are captives in these cells write about what goes on and how you can survive.

AFSC 2012 88 PP.. Paper

$3.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Sustainability Toolkit

Becoming A Low-carbon, Sustainable Community

BY BRITAIN YEARLY MEETING
A British resource but still useful in America. The aim of this toolkit is to support Quaker meetings on their journeys to becoming low-carbon, sustainable communities. Our commitment identifies meetings as having particular tasks in realizing this vision: meetings are asked 'to consider how truth prospers with regard to sustainability, taking care to relate this to all our testimonies - peace, truth, simplicity, equality and care for the environment' and 'to practice speaking truth to power at a local level'.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2012 80 PP. Spiral Bound

$15.00 (in stock)

Sustaining Our Spirits

Women Leaders Thriving For Today And Tomorrow

BY DARLYNE BAILEY, KELLY MCNALLY KONEY, MARY ELLEN MCNISH, RUTHMARY POWERS, AND KATRINA UHLY
A handbook for the life journey of women who are leaders. Based on responses to a wide ranging survey, the authors share tales and techniques learned in real life by women striving to lead satisfying lives as women and successful leaders. Rooted in research and with perspectives rarely examined in such depth.

NASW Press 2008 132 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Sustaining Peace Witness In The 21st Century

EDITED BY CHUCK FAGER
Papers from the 1997 Quaker Peace Roundtable.

Pendle Hill 1997 369 PP. Paper

$11.95 (in stock)

Swan

Poems And Prose Poems

BY MARY OLIVER
"Joy is not made to be a crumb," writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be "made out of the dust of stars," we are of the world she captures here so vividly: the acorn that hides within it an entire tree; the wings of the swan like the stretching light of the river; the frogs singing in the shallows; the mockingbird dancing in air. Swan is Oliver's tribute to "the mortal way" of desiring and living in the world, to which the poet is renowned for having always been "totally loyal."

Beacon Press 2010 96 PP. Cloth

$20.70 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Sweet Clara And The Freedom Quilt

BY DEBORAH HOPKINSON, ILLUSTRATED BY JAMES RANSOME
Sweet Clara is a young seamstress and slave who transfroms her dreams of freedom into reality by piecing together a Freedom Quilt with a map of the Underground Railroad. Ages 6 and up.

Random House 1993 32 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

Sweet Fruit From The Bitter Tree

61 Stories Of Creative And Compassionate Ways Out Of Conflict

BY MARK ANDREAS
These are fascinating stories of how real people dealt with conflict situations - from wartime to the broken down car - by responding in unusual and creative ways that most of us would never think of. Some stories are intensely moving, some funny, some startling or surprising. They take place in the community, the workplace, the schoolyard, and the backyard. These stories show how each person came face-to-face with a challenge and found their own unique way to meet it. There are no recipes here, no set of steps-just raw experience unfolding with a richness that will keep you on the edge of your seat through the last page.

Real People Press 2011 302 PP. Paper

$16.50 (in stock)

Sweet Tooth

The Bittersweet History Of Candy

BY KATE HOPKINS
Kate Hopkins has come to the conclusion that being an adult means having the means to buy all the candy you want but no longer wanting to. To recapture the joy candy once held for her, Kate set out to let her inner child romp through European and American candy stores. But in writing a fun-filled, informative, and colorful book about candy and its history, Kate encounters some of the bitter aspects in the story of the billion dollar industry built on sugar.

St. Martin's 2012 309 PP. Cloth

$25.99 (in stock)

T-shirt, Bamboo Mens Short Sleeve

QUAKERBOOKS
MENS SHORT SLEEVE. Made from bamboo in China (that's got to be the best place make things from bamboo), and hand printed in New Jersey with George Fox's words:"Walk Cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone" George Fox, Quaker (1624-1691). Picture is by Quaker artist Fritz Eichenberg. Bamboo requires little water to grow, and produces more oxygen than trees when growing. It also produces an exceptionally soft fabric. Available in Olive Green, dark blue and Black. S, M, L, XL, XXL. Please reply to your confirmation with size and first and second choice of color.

Onno SLV T SHIRT SHT Blank

$25.00 (in stock)

The Table Where Rich People Sit

BY BYRD BAYLOR, ILLUSTRATED BY PETER PARNALL
Beautiful pictures and words gently teach about proper use of the world's resources and about what it truly means to be rich.

Simon & Schuster 1998 32 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

Taking A Stand

A Guide To Peace Teams And Accompaniment Projects

BY ELIZABETH BOARDMAN
Putting your body in the way of violence is a dramatic way of taking a stand. Taking a Stand describes the work done by peace teams and accompaniment projects - who runs them, what is involved in joining, and the social and emotional challenges and rewards from such experience. Accessible and conversational, the book describes who runs the peace programs, how to get information, the variety of people currently participating, and what to expect in terms of fear and exhilaration, resistance and support. The author is clerk of San Francisco Friends Meeting.

New Society 2005 176 PP. Paper

$10.95 (in stock)

Taking Root / Echando Raices

Immigrant And Refugee Communities In California, Texas, And Iowa.

AFSC
A study book & video. The 1st section focuses on 3 groups in California: the Latinos, the Hmong community from Laos and Vietnam; and the Guatemalans. The second section concerns the immigrants in Houston. The third section, "Midwest Migration," concerns the new meat packing plant in Iowa that recruited Latino immigrants for $6 an hour without providing English classes, medical compensation, or safety features. In English and Spanish. Workbook in English only. Production is excellent. Stories and reflections from immigrants and refugees are woven together with scenes of community life and a vibrant musical score. Also included are perspectives from scholars and activists.

AFSC 2003 BK AND CD Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Tales Of Strynmouth

KUENNING, LICIA
In my stories there's a ghost who made some mistakes in hislifetime that caused much more harm than he could fairly b e blamed for. Like the rest of us, he couldn't foresee the consequences of his actions. He has to sort out which of his behaviors were morally wrong, which were merely errors, and which were good actions that unpredictably had bad results. In the process he sets more causes into motion, which in turn have effects of their own. - L. Kuenning

Second Printing Cloth

$5.00 (in stock)

Tall Poppies

Supporting Gifts Of Ministr Y And Eldering In The Monthly Meeting - Php 347

BY MARTHA PAXSON-GRUNDY
This pamphlet describes the traditional Quaker understanding of power and spiritual authority and God's gifts in relation to them. Focusing on gifts more traditionally understood as ministry and eldering, it suggests to monthly meetings how to support and nurture ministry and the individual Friends through whom it comes.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2000 32 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Tar Sands

Dirty Oil And The Future Of A Continent: Revised And Updated

BY ANDREW NIKIFORUK
The Alberta tar sands could make Canada the world's second greatest oil exporter by 2050. U.S., Asian, and European investors are pouring billions of dollars into the megaproject. Andrew Nikiforuk argues that to extract the world's most expensive hydrocarbon, we are polluting our air, poisoning our water, destroying vast forest area, and undermining democracy itself. In this new edition, Nikiforuk assesses recent developments, refutes industry's claim that steam plans are a "greener" way to extract bitumen, and argues that it is a folly to stake our future on dirty oil.

Greystone Books 2010 268 PP. Blank

$17.95 (in stock)