Encounter With Silence

Reflections From The Quaker Tradition

BY JOHN PUNSHON
"John Punshon has written a small and excellent essay on Quaker tradition. He presents the uniqueness of Quaker faith and practice while also relating it to the tradition of Christian spirituality. (His section on silence and the cross, for example, is superb.) The grace of Punshon's message is matched by the grace of his writing style. I hope this book will find its way into many hands, and minds, and hearts."-Parker J. Palmer, author of To Know As We Are Known

Friends United Press 1987 131 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Encountering The Light

A Journey Taken

BY MARTIN LYNN
Irish Friend Martin Lynn expressed the Quaker message deeply within his life and these papers document part of his spiritual journey. As an historian, Martin Lynn starts with his challenging message of early Friends and stresses that by looking to 'the light within' everyone can encounter God. In this precious legacy of Quaker papers delivered to Friends Meetings in Ireland, Martin Lynn urges modern Quakers to confidently reconnect with the living light experienced by early Friends. Speaking from is own experience he guides us to find ways to listen to the message of our Quaker forebears.

Sessions of York 2007 92 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

Encuentro Con Las Escrituras

Como Los Primeros Amigos

BY MICHAEL BIRKEL, TRANSLATED BY DINORA UVALLE-VAZQUEZ
This is an abridged translation of Engaging Scripture: Reading The Bible With Early Friends, in which Michael Birkel invites readers into the meditative way early Friends read the Bible through a close study of early Quaker writings. His own experience encourages contemporary readers to enter scripture through this contemplative Quaker approach, which - like the ancient practice of lectio divina - challenges the reader to be not only informed, but transformed.

Friends United Press 2007 67 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

The End Of Days (812)

Essential Selections From Apocalyptic Texts - Annotated & Explained

ANNOTATION BY ROBERT CLOUSE
With insightful and broad knowledge of the historical, religious and contemporary contexts of these writings Robert Clouse guides you through the world of apocalyptic literature. He examines key verses from Christian and Hebrew scriptures; visionary writings from Augustine and other Church Fathers; accounts of radical millennial movements of the 1600s; bold sermons from preachers such as Jonathan Edwards and Dwight Moody; and popular books circulating in our own day, including the mega-bestselling Left Behind novels.SECONDHAND COPY that looks brand new.

Skylights 2008 188 PP. Paper

$16.99 USED - availability checked Feb 8th 9:01am EST

The End Of Life Handbook

A Compassionate Guide To Connecting With And Caring For A Dying Loved One

BY DAVID FELDMAN AND ANDREW LASHER
This book address both the emotional and psychological issues associated with death and dying and the practical and medical realities typically dealt with at this time - unusual among titles in this subject area. The authors bring an emphasis on hope, inspiration, meaning, and human connection at the end of life to the book. As medical technology progresses and life expectancies edge upward, families are being faced with ever-more-complicated choices as death approaches. This book offers readers much-needed guidance and support for making these often difficult decisions.

New Harbinger Publications 2008 200 PP. Paper

$17.95 (in stock)

The End Of Poverty

Economic Possibilities For Our Time

BY JEFFREY SACHS
Rather than deliver a worldview to readers from on high, Sachs leads them along the learning path he himself followed, telling the remarkable stories of his own work in Bolivia, Poland, Russia, India, China, and Africa as a way to bring readers to a broad-based understanding of the array of issues countries can face and the way the issues interrelate. He concludes by drawing on everything he has learned to offer an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that most frequently hold societies back. In the end, he leaves readers with an understanding, not of how daunting the world's problems are, but how solvable they are.

Penguin 2006 398 PP. Paper

$17.00 (in stock)

The End Of The Long Summer

Why We Must Remake Our Civilization To Survive On A Volatile Earth

BY DIANNE DUMANOSKI
"A splendid book. We cannot now stop global change, but we can adapt and survive. Crucial to survival is the need to understand our planet, and Dianne Dumanoski's powerful book is the best guide that I have seen. It is a delight to read and clearly written in the best tradition of great American journalism." James Lovelock

Crown a division of Random House 2009 311 PP. Cloth

$25.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The End Of Words

Issues In Contemporary Quaker Theology Republished Together With Creeds And The Search For Unity

BY REX AMBLER
A re-issue of two important essays grappling with what Quakers believe. In The End of Words the author explores the meaning of Quaker faith and practice. He takes up these issues with admirable clarity, setting them in their wider context, and looking for ways to resolve them. Creeds and the Search for Unity is intended mainly as a guide for Quakers wrestling with questions about membership of inter-church bodies.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2004 79 PP Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Endeavours To Mend

Perspectives On British Quaker Work In The World Today

EDITED BY BRIAN PHILLIPS, JOHN LAMPEN
From William Penn's time to now, Quakers have been influential with a continuing tradition of work for justice and peace in the world, arising out of their religious experience. This book's contributors represent a wide range of experience as Quakers at work. Together they suggest there is still a crucial gap to be filled by projects such as theirs, and offer some criteria for running them.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2006 127 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Ending Slavery

How We Free Today's Slaves

BY KEVIN BALES
In his 1999 book, Disposable People, British Quaker author Kevin Bales brought to light the shocking fact of modern slavery and described how, nearly two hundred years after the slave trade was abolished (legal slavery would have to wait another fifty years), global slavery stubbornly persists. In Ending Slavery, Bales again grapples with the struggle to end this ancient evil and presents the ideas and insights that can finally lead to slavery's extinction. Recalling his own involvement in the antislavery movement, he recounts a personal journey in search of the solution and explains how governments and citizens can build a world without slavery.

University of California 2007 274 PP. Cloth

$24.95 (in stock)

Ending The Iraq War

A Primer

BY PHYLLIS BENNIS
Phyllis Bennis analyses the causes and course of the war She looks at Iraq its opportunities and divisions, and it's terrible problems outlining various course of action that can help end the war. Small fomat, but big on useful information, and with an informed and clear voice.

Olive Branch Press 2009 219 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Ending The Us War In Afghanistan

A Primer

BY DAVID WILDMAN AND PHYLLIS BENNIS
The authors examine the war in Afghanistan and question its reputation as a "good" or justified war to Americans who were against the war in Iraq. This primer provides a helpful timeline of Afghanistan's history, and provides the reader with an alternative and forthright view of the reasons for conflict through a question-and-answer format. Among the questions posed and briefly answered are "What does the war look like on the ground?" and "What role have oil and natural gas played in the war?" A helpful and up-to-date introduction for the reader curious about this issue.

Olive Branch Press-Interlink Publishing Group, Inc Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Endless Crusades

Women Social Scientists And Progressive Reform

BY ELLEN FITZPATRICK
This book examines the lives and careers of four American women--Sophonisba Breckinridge, Edith Abbott, Katharine Bement Davis, and Frances Kellor--who played decisive roles in early twentieth-century reform crusades. Breckinridge and Abbott used their educations in political science and political economy to expose the tragic conditions endured by the urban poor. Davis became the first superintendent of the New York State Reformatory at Bedford Hills and was a leading figure in prison reform. Kellor's sociological training gained her admittance to the smoke-filled rooms of national party politics and eventually to a high-ranking position in the Progressive Party.

Oxford University Press 1990 270 PP. Paper

$4.50 (in stock)

Enduring Hope

The Impact Of The Ramallah Friends Schools

BY PATRICIA EDWARDS-KONIC WITH MAX CARTER
"Enduring Hope" explores the impact of the Ramallah Friends Schools on students, alumni, teachers, staff, parents, the community, the Religious Society of Friends, and the wider world through first-person interviews and testimonies. The school is widely considered the best in Palestine and is a small beacon of hope in a desperate situation.

Friends United Press 2008 121 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

The Enemy - A Book About Peace

BY DAVIDE CALI, ILLUSTRATED BY SERGE BLOCH
In this moving picture book, award-winning collaborators Davide Cali and Serge Bloch present a fable for our time about two lonely soldiers facing each other across a barren battlefield. What each discovers, as the story unfolds, is that the enemy is not a faceless beast, but rather a real person with family, friends, and dreams. "Poignant, thought-provoking, and powerful in its frankness and simplicity, this short piece will prompt discussion on war and other means of resolving conflict." - School Library Journal

Schwartz and Wade 2009 40 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

Enemy Pie

BY DEREK MUNSON, ILLUSTRATED BY TARA CALAHAN-KING
It was the perfect summer. That is, until Jeremy Ross moved into the house down the street and became neighborhood enemy number one. Luckily Dad had a surefire way to get rid of enemies: Enemy Pie. But part of the secret recipe is spending an entire day playing with the enemy! In this funny yet endearing story, one little boy learns an effective recipe for turning your best enemy into your best friend. Accompanied by charming illustrations, Enemy Pie serves up a sweet lesson in the difficulties and ultimate rewards of making new friends.

Chronicle Books 2000 40 PP. Cloth

$15.95 (in stock)

Energy Island

How One Community Harnessed The Wind And Changed Their World

BY ALLAN DRUMMOND
Hold onto your hats! It's windy on the Danish island of Samso. Meet the environmentally friendly people who now proudly call their home Energy Island. At a time when most countries are producing ever-increasing amounts of CO2, the rather ordinary citizens of Samso have accomplished something extraordinary--in just ten years they have reduced their carbon emissions by 140% and become almost completely energy independent.

FSG 2011 40 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

Engage - Exploring Nonviolent Living

A Study Program For Learning, Practicing And Experimenting With Nonviolence

BY LAURA SLATTERY, KEN BITIGAN, VERONICA PELICARIC, KEN PRESTON-PILE
Full of stories, exercises and resources, Engage is a workbook to learn study and practice the nonviolent options available to us. It offers a guide for groups on how to take action for justice and peace in the midst of war, injustice and environmental destruction. Engage is ideal for advocacy organizations, religious communities, citizen action leagues, campus networks and any group seeking to work together to create a society committed to justice, democracy, peace, sustainability and equality.

Pace Bene 2005 302 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

Engaging Scripture

Reading The Bible With Early Friends

BY MICHAEL BIRKEL, FOREWORD BY BASIL PENNINGTON
In Engaging Scripture, Michael Birkel invites readers into the meditative way early Friends read the Bible through a close study of early Quaker writings. His own experience encourages contemporary readers to enter scripture through this contemplative Quaker approach, which-like the ancient practice of lectio divina-challenges the reader to be not only informed, but transformed.

Friends United Press 2005 152 PP. Paper

$12.00 (in stock)

Engaging The Powers

Discernment And Resistance In A World Of Domination

BY WALTER WINK
"For years now Wink has been relentlessly Naming, Unmasking, and now Engaging those artful spiritual dodgers, the principalities and powers. . . . One grows lighthearted amid the riches. His social and political analysis of the braggadacio, the sheer, horrid `normalizing' of domination and death in America in the '90s, is devastating. The exegesis of Revelation 13 is masterfully to the point of our social and political derangement. But there is more, and better: a solid hope of liberation. . . . Extraordinary work." - Daniel Berrigan.

Fortress Press 1992 424 PP. Paper

$23.00 (in stock)

Enlivened By The Mystery, Quakers And God

Giving Form To Faith Series

EDITED BY KATHY HYZY
"How have you experienced God or the Divine?" With this query, Western Friend magazine invited Friends across the West to share their stories through art, poetry, fiction and essays. The contributions of nearly fifty Friends are gathered in this testament to the breadth and depth of spiritual experience in the Religious Society of Friends. Thematic sections are framed by simple queries designed to encourage readers to reflect on the ways in which the Spirit moves in their own lives.

Friends Bulletin Corporation 2009 140 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Enough Blood Shed

101 Solutions To Violence, Terror And War

BY MARY-WYNNE ASHFORD, GUY DAUNCEY
Enough Blood Shed confronts the reality of a world awash in weapons and the belief that war is inevitable, with people powerless to change the system. It provides an alternative perspective based on solutions known to be successful because they have been used already. power of ordinary people to make a difference and packed with effective nonviolent success stories - often in a setting of hate and provocation - the book provides guidance, inspiration, hope and empowerment that peace is not only possible, but can be fun along the way.

New Society Publishers 2006 288 PP. Paper

$21.95 (in stock)

Envisioning A Moral Economy - Php 405

BY TOM HEAD
What is the place of moral values in the way we structure our economy? Should the teachings of Jesus and other faith traditions be considered when we address such questions as: How is work fashioned? Where do we live? What do we own? Quaker economist Tom Head explores how we might think about our economy-and its purposes-in new ways by including religious sources of wisdom and morality in our vision of a just and humane economic future.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2010 35 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Ephraim Bowles (8351)

His Quaker Heritage

JOANNA BOWLES MOTT
SECONDHAND copy hardback with no Dust Jacket. Looks as if this was privately written and printed for the family by his daughter with the sort of typescript student thesis came in back then. Corrected in places by the author in Ink. A brief family history starting with George Fox Bowles (1796-1875), the dtails of Ephraim himself. Has a collection of his writing: mainly poems and letters at the end. With genealogical charts and a few illustrations. Obviosly a work prepared with much love.

J J Newlin 1954 250 PP. Cloth

$28.00 USED - availability checked Feb 8th 9:01am EST

Equality

36th Annual J Barnard Walton Lecture 2nd Edition 2006

BY DEBORAH ANN SAUNDERS
"Don't go home the way you came." The 1999 Walton Lecture challenges Friends to live our testimonies, especially the testimony of equality. The author describes a personal and dynamic path inviting us to move out of our comfort zone and truly make our meetings reflect diversity.

Southeastern Yearly Meeting 2006 36 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Essays On Salvation By Christ

BY JOB SCOTT
Also including: Luke Howard's "Letter to a Friend in America" , Benjamin Ferris's reply to Luke Howard and an anonymous reply to Ferris. The material written by Job Scott was transcribed from The Works of that Eminent Minister of the Gospel, Job Scott, late of Providence Rhode Island (Philadelphia: John Comly, 1831, 2 volumes). The three controversial pamphlets, all independently published, were found in Haverford College Library's Quaker Collection.

Quaker Heritage Press 1993 Cloth

$10.00 (in stock)

Essays On The Quaker Vision Of Gospel Order

BY LLOYD LEE WILSON
Essays address facets of Quaker faith and practice, articulating the ways in which Gospel order has shaped lives and beliefs of Friends. Wilson gives the reader both a historical perspective and a contemporary understanding of basics like meeting for worship and for business, spiritual gifts, leadings and ministry. Seasoned Friends and those new to Quakerism will find much to ponder.

Quaker Press of FGC 2002 200 PP. Paper

$17.00 (in stock)

The Essential Gandhi

An Anthology Of His Writings On His Life, Work And Ideas

EDITED BY LOUIS FISCHER, PREFACE BY EKNATH EASWARAN
Introduces Gandhi's thoughts on politics, spirituality, poverty, suffering, love, nonviolence, civil disobedience and includes reflections on his own life. Offers the clearest, most thorough portrait of one of the greatest spiritual leaders the world has known.

Vintage Spiritual Classics 2002 338 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

The Essential Rumi

TRANSLATED BY COLEMAN BARKS WITH JOHN MOYNE
A collection of the ecstatic poetry of the well known thirteenth century Islamic mystic. "Perhaps the world's greatest spiritual poet - the gold of Rumi pours down through Coleman's words. The words leap off the page and dance!" -Jack Kornfield

HarperCollins 1996 310 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

The Essential Writings Of Christian Mysticism

BY BERNARD MCGINN
This volume presents nearly one hundred selections, from the writings of Origen of Alexandria in the third century to the work of twentieth-century mystics such as Thomas Merton, uniquely organized by subject rather than by author. Part one examines the preparation for encountering God through biblical interpretation and prayer; the second part focuses on the mystics' actual encounters with God; and part three addresses the implications of the mystical life, showing how mystics have been received over time, and how they practice their faith through private contemplation and public actions.

Modern Library 2006 582 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)