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In Search Of Ecological Gu Idance

BY KEITH HELMUTH
Helmuth's agrarian, woodland childhood, Mennonite culture of community service, encounters with stone age tools, environmental education, family economics, farming business and career in community development combine with the Quaker ethos to create his ecological world view. Equity, peace and the integrity of Creation become a single, multi-faceted vision that brings the conundrum of economics into full view. He talks of religion and the market economy being in dialogue. He speaks of fatalism and acknowledges that for him pondering the beauty of the cosmos and the nurturing earth renew faith. For the author Quaker testimonies gain new focus within the ecological worldview.

Argenta Friends Press 2004 44 PP. Paper

$4.00 (backorder)

The Art And Science Of William Bartram

BY JUDITH MAGEE
This book brings together for the first time, sixty-eight drawings by the Quaker naturalist Bartram along with works by some of the other most well-known natural history artists of the 18th & 19th centuries. The volume explores Bartram's writings and artwork and reveals how influential he was in American science of the period. Bartram was an inspiration to a whole generation of scientists and naturalists. He was an authority on the birds of North America and on the lifestyle of the indigenous people of the regions through which he traveled. His work influenced Wordsworth, Coleridge, and other writers and poets throughout the past two hundred years. 110 color illustrations.

Penn State Press 2007 276 PP. Cloth

$45.00 (low stock)

The Art Of Power

Paperback

BY THICH NHAT HANH
Power is one of the central issues in our lives. From work to personal relationships, the struggle for power plays a pivotal role and more often than not prevents us from attaining freedom and happiness. The bottom-line mentality in our culture seeps unnoticed into every other part of our lives. Thich Nhat Hanh illustrates how our current understanding of power leads us on a never ending search for external markers like job title or salary. This me-first approach to life may have originated in the business world, but the stress, fear, and anxiety it causes are being felt by all of us everyday. Hanh teaches us that true power comes from within and that what we seek we already have.

HarperCollins Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

Arthur Morgan Of The T V A

F D R 's Utopian

BY ROY TALBERT
Arthur Morgan is a now rather overlooked Humanist Quaker, a member of the Yellow Springs meeting in Ohio. My goodness he did a lot of things: He helped found the still lively Celo community in N Carolina and was a keen Utopian, founding several other organizations to promote true community. Best known as President of the TVA, close associate of Roosevelt and promoter of many cooperative schemes, notably the town of Norris in Tennessee. He later worked for AFSC.

University Press of Mississippi 1987 218 PP. Cloth

$7.50 (in stock)

Assimilation Blues

Black Families In White Communities - Who Succeeds And Why?

BY BEVERLY DANIEL-TATUM
An exploration of racial identity and family, as seen through the lens of 10 Black families living in a predominantly white, affluent community What does it mean to be Black in a white, middle-class community? Is it the ultimate symbol of success? Or will one pay in isolation, alienation, rootlessness? What price must one pay for paradise? Is the price too high? Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism and author of Why are all the Black Kids sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, interviewed black families in depth to identify the sacrifices and achievements necessary to survive and prosper in a white community.

Basic Books 2000 139 PP. Paper

$14.00 (low stock)

At Home With Friends

A History Of Friends Homes In Greensboro, North Carolina

BY DAVID STANFIELD
A history of Friends Homes in Greensboro NC: The first fifty years.

2006 123 PP. Paper

$12.00 (low stock)

At Work In Life's Garden

Writers On The Spiritual Adventure Of Parenting

EDITED BY SARAH CONOVER AND TRACY SPRINGBERRY
In these vivid personal essays, Barbara Kingsolver, Anne Lamott, Alexandra Fuller, Scott Russell Sanders, Beth Kephart, Barry Lopez and many other prominent writers, an amazingly ecumenical group, explore the endless surprise and spiritual enrichment that parenthood offers, even at its most difficult. "All parents are on their own hike, with their own children, with their own lessons to learn. 'At Work in Life's Garden: Writers on the Spiritual Adventure of Parenting' is a wonderful companion on the journey." - Mimi Doe

423423 2005 241 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

An Attender At The Altar

A Sacramental Christian Responds To Silence - Php 280

BY JAY ROCHELLE
The interplay between scarament and silence.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1988 32 PP. Paper

$6.50 (low stock)

Attention Games

101 Fun, Easy Games That Help Kids Learn To Focus

BY BARBARA SHER
If you want to focus children's attention, you first have to capture their interest. Attention Games is filled with interesting and child-tested activities that can help children of all ages become better at focusing and paying attention. From the author of Spirit Games.

Jossey-Bass 2006 184 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

Augustus And His Smile

WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY CATHERINE RAYNER
Augustus the tiger was sad. And he had lost his smile. So he did a huge tigery stretch and set off to find it. Stunning illustrations celebrate the beauty of the world and the simple happiness it brings us when we open our eyes to it.

Good Books 2006 28 PP. Cloth

$16.00 (in stock)

Authority And The Early Quakers

BY JACK DOBBS
Early Quakers recognized neither the bible, nor the church , and certainly not the state, as their supreme authority. They claimed the spirit of Christ, the inward light, as the authority in which they placed their absolute trust. They believed that if only they could understand it, that spirit could give unity to a Quaker meeting as it jointly searched for the will of god. Dobbs looks at these ideas and how they began and changed in the early years of Quakerism.

Martin Hartog 2006 269 PP. Paper

$35.00 (backorder)

Authority, Leadership And Concern

A Study In Motive And Administration In Quaker Relief Work - Swarthmore Lecture 1949

BY ROGER WILSON
From 1940 to 1946, Roger Wilson was General Secretary of the Friends Relief Service. Soon after his wartime experience, in 1949 he delivered the Swarthmore Lecture, and applied his clear thinking and his understanding of Quaker processes to examine how a religious concern can be made manifest in practical work, and what needs to be considered so that this can be organized. 'The true "concern" is a gift from God, a leading of his Spirit which may not be denied.' How is the authority for this held by a human organization? What kind of people does it need to lead and carry out its work?

Britain Yearly Meeting 2007 92 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

The Authority Of Our Meetings Is The Power Of God

Php 365

BY PAUL LACEY
The author holds in creative tension the individual and corporate responsibilities in our monthly meetings to witness to the power and authority of God.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2003 40 PP. Paper

$7.00 (low stock)

Autobiographical Writings Of Early Quaker Women

EDITED BY DAVID BOOY
While writings by early modern Quaker women have been discussed and quoted fairly extensively, relatively few of their texts are readily or widely available. The chief purpose of this edition is to rectify this state of affairs in one central area - that of autobiographical writing. The edition contains substantial excerpts from a range of self-writings by Quaker women, composed between the 1650s and circa 1710: letters, testimonies, memoirs, accounts of spiritual development, narratives of persecution and imprisonment. This volume includes many excerpts not available in other editions including writings by Elizabeth Hooten, Alice Curwen, Elizabeth Stirredge, Anne Docwra, and Alice Hays.

Ashgate 2004 230 PP. Cloth

$45.95 (low stock)

An Autobiography

The Story Of My Experiments With Truth

BY MOHANDAS GANDHI
Translated by Mahadev Desai and with a New Preface. In his autobiography Gandhi recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which inspired his own and so many other social change movements. All royalties earned on this book are paid to the Navajivan Trust, founded by Gandhi, for use in carrying on his work.

Beacon 1957 526 PP. Paper

$15.00 (low stock)

Autumn's Brightness

BY DAISY NEWMAN
Recently widowed, Diligence (Dilly) finds herself confronted with a friendship she is not sure she is ready to continue with even though he, Durand, is attentive, attractive and someone she cannot forget. Another Kendal novel that will capture the reader as 52-year-old Dilly's life unfolds.

Friends United Press 1991 250 PP. Paper

$12.00 (low stock)

Awakening To Earth

Natural Awareness As A Spiritual Practice

BY BILL CAHALAN
A collection of essays and activities designed to help the reader to practice natural awareness.

FCUN 2001 24 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Awakening Universe, Emerging Personhood

The Power Of Contemplation In An Evolving Universe

BY MARY COELHO
Written from her solid grounding in the latest scientific understandings of the natural world, a thorough knowledge o philosophy and religion Quaker Mary Coelho sets forth the basis for a new paradigm of human action. Using her own spiritual and scientific journey she explains and links the historic western tradition with emerging scientific theory. This book is a work of significant scholarship that brings materials from diverse disciplines together in a coherent story. Practically every page contains fresh insights into the nature of humans as totally at one with the universe while totally unique.

Wyndham Hall 2003 417 PP. Paper

$28.00 (backorder)

Awbury Memories, Elizabeth Stewardson Cope And Margaret Cope

Recollections

BY ELIZABETH STEWARDSON COPE, MARGARET COPE
Elizabeth Stewardson Cope (1848-1937) and Margaret Cope (1856-1948) were Quaker cousins who wrote of their lives at Awbury, in Germantown Philadelphia. These are selections from their journal that paint a picture of life as a privileged Quaker child in those early days.

Awbury Arboretum 1994 35 PP. Paper

$12.00 (backorder)

The Back Bench

A Novel

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
It's 1837, and fourteen-year-old Quaker Myra Harlan's mother has died, forcing her to leave her home and family in the country to live in Philadelphia. Shocked by the racism she sees all around her and caught in the aftermath of the Orthodox-Hicksite split in the Religious Society of Friends, Myra longs for her mother and struggles to make friends until she finds the Female Anti-Slavery Society, Lucretia Mott, Sarah Douglass, and - ultimately - herself.

Quaker Press of FGC 2007 127 PP. Paper

$13.00 (in stock)

Back To Africa

Benjamin Coates And The Colonization Movement In America, 1848-1880

EDITED BY MARGARET HOPE BACON AND EMMA LAPSANSKY
Benjamin Coates was one of the best-known white supporters of African colonization in 19th century America. A Quaker from Philadelphia, he was committed to helping Black Americans relocate to West Africa. At the heart of the volume is a collection of over 150 recently recovered letters, either written by Coates or addressed to him between 1848 and 1880. Lapsansky and Bacon have provided a far-reaching essay that places them in the context. They led a team of young scholars who annotated the letters. This book provide new insight into the alliances and divisions within the antislavery movement, making it essential reading for every student of black studies or Quaker history.

Penn State Press 2005 385 PP. Cloth

$50.00 (low stock)

Bad Man Ballad

BY SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS
First published in 1986, here the Quaker novelist writes of Ohio in 1813, a thickly wooded, hilly, creek-carved highway of western settlement. Wolves still howl at midnight on village greens. Each log cabin is a fortress, and no one travels without a knife and gun. Through this armed and fearful countryside, three people - Ely Jackson, a 17-year-old backwoods boy; Owen Lightfoot, a lawyer from Philadelphia with a romantic view of the frontier; and Rain Hawk, a girl living on her own in the wilderness - search for an awesome quarry, a mysterious giant-like figure who is on the run for murder.

Indiana University Press 2004 252 PP. Paper

$14.95 (low stock)

Badger's Parting Gifts

BY SUSAN VARLEY
All the woodland creatures love old Badger, and when he dies, they are overwhelmed by their loss. Then, they begin to remember, and through their memories, the animals find healing. An ageless story of death, love, and comfort. Ages 4-8.

William Morrow 1992 25 PP. Paper

$7.99 (in stock)

Bag In The Wind

BY TED KOOSER, BARRY ROOT
This book follows a plastic bag on its journey from a landfill into a series of townspeople's lives- a can-collecting girl, a homeless man, a store owner - not that all of them notice. Renowned poet Ted Kooser fashions an understated yet compassionate world full of happenstance and connection, neglect and care, all perfectly expressed in Barry Root's tender illustrations. True to the book's earth-friendly spirit, it is printed on recycled paper.

Candlewick Press 2010 48 PP. Cloth

$17.99 (low stock)

The Baghdad Blog

BY SALAM PAX
In 2002, a young Iraqi calling himself Salam Pax began posting accounts of everyday life in Baghdad on to the Internet. Written in English, these blogs contained everything from musings on his CD collection to open criticism of Saddam's regime. Salam Pax's incisive and sharply funny diary entries soon attracted a worldwide readership. As the US-led force gathered to invade Iraq, Salam's diary became an extraordinary record of that event. The Baghdad Blog tells the story of the war in Iraq from inside that besieged country. It provides a gripping and wholly unique perspective on the conflict and its aftermath.

McArthur and Company 2003 206 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Barack Obama

Son Of Promise, Child Of Hope

BY NIKKI GRIMES
Ever since Barack Obama was young, "Hope" has been part of him. From the beaches of Hawaii to the streets of Chicago, from the jungles of Indonesia to the plains of Kenya, he has held on to what became the theme of his campaign. A biography that actually goes beyond the usual cliché (i.e. hope) to explain the new presidents life story and ideology to children.

Simon and Schuster 2008 32 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

Barclay's Apology In Modern English

EDITED BY DEAN FREIDAY
Classic systematic statement of Quaker faith by the first Quaker theologian, edited and re-written in modern English.

Barclay Press 1991 465 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Barclays Apology On Tape

BY ROBERT BARCLAY
17th-century theologian and quaker convert Robert Barclay wrote his Apology for the True Christian Divinity as a clearexposition of Quaker faith and practice. Cassette audio.

Audiologos 1990 80 MINUTES Audio

$5.00 (in stock)

The Barefoot Book Of Earth Tales

BY DAWN CASEY, ILLUSTRATED BY ANNE WILSON
In this beautiful anthology of folktales, young readers will learn about the way different cultures around the world live in harmony with the rhythms and patterns of nature. They will discover how to tread lightly on our precious Earth by following the easy eco-tips and by trying out some of the fun and creative activities that accompany each story. Children will discover how the residents of the Kingdom of Benin deep within the Nigerian rainforest consume less and conserve more; how the Comanche Indians respect Mother Earth by giving more than they receive; among Bali's coral reefs and volcanic mountain peaks is the lesson that everything in nature is connected.

Barefoot Books 2009 96 PP. Cloth

$19.99 (in stock)

The Barn At The End Of The World

The Apprenticeship Of A Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

BY MARY ROSE O'REILLEY
"Deciding that her spirituality needed to be grounded in the real world, Mary Rose O'Reilley, a Quaker with a Catholic past and a Buddhist future, embarked on a year of tending sheep, whom she called her 'two hundred spiritual teachers.' In this poetic, irreverent spiritual autobiography, O'Reilly takes the reader into a working barn, where she learns to 'flip' sheep, inoculate them, and help them lamb (among other, earthier things)." -Paul Lacey

Milkweed Editions 2001 344 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)