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Social Entrepreneurs And The Power Of New Ideas
BY DAVID BORNSTEIN David Bornstein's How to Change the World is the first book to study a remarkable and growing group of individuals around the world - what Bornstein calls social entrepreneurs. These men and women are bringing innovative, and successful, grass roots approaches to a wide variety of social and economic problems, from rural poverty in India to discrimination against gypsies in Central Europe; from industrial pollution in the United States to child prostitution in Thailand. Like business entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs are creative, driven, and adventurous. They embrace change, exploit new opportunities, and think big. Bornstein provides vivid profiles of many such individuals.
Oxford Press 2007 368 PP. Paper
$15.95 (in stock)
BY BOB GRAHAM "No one saw the bird fall." In a city full of hurried people, only young Will notices the bird lying hurt on the ground. With the help of his sympathetic mother, he gently wraps the injured bird and takes it home. In classic Bob Graham style, the beauty is in the details: the careful ministrations with an eyedropper, the bedroom filled with animal memorabilia, the saving of the single feather as a good-luck charm for the bird's return to the sky. Wistful and uplifting, here is a tale of possibility - and of the souls who never doubt its power. "Poignantly told and visually rich, this narrative flies high." - Publishers Weekly
Candlewick 2007 40 PP. Cloth
$16.99 (in stock)
BY DAMALI AYO A satirical look at race relations, premised on the renting of a token negro for events or occasions to gain white folks credibility as racially aware. The book gives insights for both the rental and the rentee based on the authors 30 years of experience. The most awful standard racial gaffes and insensitive comments are illuminated in a novel and memorable way. There are photo dramatizations (The expression on the rentals face as the rentee says "I was black in a previous life" is priceless…)and there are special tip boxes.
Lawrence Hill 2005 196 PP. Paper
$14.95 (in stock)
20th Anniversary Edition
BY ADELE FABER AND ELAINE MAZLISH How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk provides all the know-how required for happier, more constructive parent-child relations. Enthusiastically praised by parents and professionals around the world, the down-to-earth, respectful approach of Faber and Mazlish makes interaction with children of all ages less stressful and more rewarding. The Christopher Award-winning authors share their latest insights and suggestions based on feedback they've received over the years. Their real-world methods offer tips on handling children's negative feelings, expressing anger without being hurtful, setting firm limits, and how to resolve family conflicts peacefully.
Quill 1982 286 PP. Paper
$14.95 (low stock)
BY LORNE PEACHEY, ADDITIONAL MATERIAL BY ANNE MEYER-BYLER How can parents instill a peacable lifestyle in their children? Do children learn more by words or by actions? How to Teach Peace to Children speaks to issue that are front and center for parents-building family relationships, teaching care for others in the neighborhood and around the world. Guiding children in the way of nonviolence. Anne Meyer Byler provides suggestions to help families pattern their lives after Jesus' words and actions while dealing with modern stresses.
Herald Press 2003 48 PP. Paper
$8.99 (in stock)
And The Struggle For Social Justice In The South 1904-1977
BY ROBERT FRANCIS MARTIN Born in Virginia in 1904, Howard Kester was raised by his father, a merchant tailor and Klansman, and his religious mother. On a trip to Poland as a college student he saw a connection between the treatment of the Jews there and the treatment of minorities in America. His experience led him to become an activist and organizer, helping to start the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) in 1934, and to working with many groups on racial equality. His work was inspired by a combination of radical Christianity, Niebuhr's social gospel, and elements of Marxism (although he remained opposed to communism).
University Press of Virginia 1991 200 PP. Cloth
$5.00 (in stock)
The Mystic As Prophet
BY LUTHER SMITH When Howard Thurman spoke, he filled the entire room with compassion, truth, keen intellect, and joy. To be in his presence was to experience the drama of life itself-with all its attending conflicts-and to be carried beyond these realities to the rcality of a gracious God whose will is life and wholeness. Howard Thurman's close relationship to Quakers dates back to 1929 when he began independent study at Hav erford College with Rufus Jones. He first discovered Jones through his book, Finding the Trail of Life. "When I finished [the book] I knew that if this man were alive, I wanted to study with him," wrote Thurman in his autobiography. A biography of this great man.
Friends United Press 2007 252 PP. Paper
$25.00 (low stock)
BY HOWARD THURMAN Howard Thurman (1899 - 1981) was an influential American author, philosopher, theologian, educator and civil rights leader. He was Dean of Theology at Howard and Boston universities for more than two decades, wrote 20 books, and in 1944 helped found the first racially integrated, multicultural church in the United States. A huge inspiration to martin Luther King Jnr.
Orbis 2006 174 PP. Paper
$16.00 (low stock)
Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-colonel On The Staff Of His Excellency George Washington.
BY WEIR MITCHELL SECONDHAND. Two matching hardback volumes, in gray cloth stamped in red, gilt and dark gray. 306pp., and 261 pp., Illustrated frontispieces by Howard Pyle. Top edge gilt, others uncut. First Edition. Printed by the De Vinne Press. Good condition, but volume one has last two pages torn and repaired with tape. Top and bottom of spines shows wear. Much reprinted in book on demand format. The life of Hugh Wynne -a free Quaker who fought in the civil war.
New Century 1897 Cloth
$55.00 USED - availability checked Mar 15th 3:40am CDT
The Beginnings Of World War Ii, The End Of Civilization
BY NICHOLSON BAKER This is an extraordinary testament to pacifism from Quaker novelist and essayist Nicholson Baker. Here in a staccato, chronological chain of newspaper and diary reports, with brief comments or context of his own, Baker covers the period from 1842 to 1941. Was it inevitable that wars would occur? Could events have transpired peacefully or at least differently? Baker provides contemporary reports of events and leaves it to the reader to decide. Many Quakers (and their work for peace) are included. "In Human Smoke, Nicholson Baker turns his unrivaled literary talents to pacifism....Baker's book is truly original." - Chalmers Johnson
Simon and Schuster 2009 566 PP. Paper
$16.00 (in stock)
THORPE This is a modern edition of a biography from the late 1890's of Humphry Davy, renowned chemist and accomplished poet,who is famous primarilly for his role in the isolation of iodine and discovery of the Davy Lamp. Throughout his life he used poetry to express his emotional landscape, demonstrating a romantic spirit that was evident in his vision of science as well. Davy acquired his taste for experimental science as a youth , mainly due to his mentor, a Quaker named Robert Dunkin, a saddler and a man of original mind and of the most varied accomplishments.
Nonesuch Books 1896 190 PP. Paper
$7.50 (in stock)
The Case For A More Joyful Christmas
BY BILL MCKIBBEN Many dread the approach of the holidays, a season that should be the most relaxed, intimate, joyful time of year. McKibben shows how to rethink Christmastime, so that our obsession with present-buying becomes less important than the many other possible traditions & celebrations. Working with their churches, Bill and his colleagues found people were hungry for a more joyful Christmas. Trying to limit the money they spent at Christmas to about $100 per family was a spur to creativity - and an anchor against the onslaught of commercials & catalogs that try to say Christmas is only Christmas if it's store-bought. McKibben shows us how to return to a simpler, more enjoyable holiday.
Simon and Schuster 1998 96 PP. Paper
$12.99 (in stock)
A Father's Journeys
BY SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS The book begins with a hiking trip in the Rockies meant to ease the strife between the author and his teenage son. On their first day, Jesse lashes out: " You look at any car, and all you think is pollution, traffic, roadside crap. You say fast food's poisoning our bodies and TV's poisoning our minds....You make me feel the planet's dying, and people are to blame, and nothing can be done about it. There's no room for hope. Maybe you can get along without hope, but I can't." Sanders sets out to accumulate, in a narrative threaded with the moving remainder of the father-son trip, his own reasons for facing the future with hope.
Beacon Press 1998 200 PP. Paper
$15.00 (in stock)
BY MARGARET ELPHINSTONE Sidony Redruth is a young English woman who, after fraudulently winning a writing competition, is sent by her editor to write the first-ever travel book on Hy Brasil, a near mythical island somewhere in the Atlantic whose very existence has been a matter of debate as late as the nineteenth century. Elphinstone's plot takes the island location as its starting point, throws in some old-fashioned priracy, a lost treasure, modern-day drug smuggling, political intrigue, an active volcano and a tragic love affair. Told through Sidony's notes for her book, Hy Brasil is a compelling and magical adventure story. The author is a British friend.
McArthur 2002 438 PP. Paper
BY SANDY EISENBERG SASSO This simple book will help you and your child explore spirituality interactively through colors, songs and dance. Your child will delight in turning the sturdy pages to see the beautiful colors of God's world. For children of all faiths, all backgrounds.
Skylight Paths 2009 24 PP. Paper
$7.99 (in stock)
BY FELICE BLANC A young Friends explains the beliefs and practices of her faith. Ages 3-8.
Rosen 1999 24 PP. Cloth
$12.95 (in stock)
Four Women's Stories Of Race, Faith, And Friendship
BY JO KADLECEK, PAMELA TOUSSAINT Four women - two black and two white - tell of their personal journeys toward self discovery, understanding, healing, and justice, and conclude with the story of their friendships. Through vulnerable, vivid story-telling, these women confront the personal challenges, corporate injustices, and religious hypocrisies that ironically have led them toward a passionate commitment for racial reconciliation and healing on the most personal level.
Broadman & Holman Publishers 1999 246 PP. Paper
$8.00 (low stock)
A Treasury To Inspire Our Children
EDITED BY MARIAN WRIGHT-EDELMAN, ILLUSTRATED BY BARRY MOSER Edelman has compiled inspiring quotations, stories, poems and songs related to values of compassion, peace, and justice. She has organized the book according to principles, which she illuminates with introductions and quotations. Each selection illustrates how to make a difference "by loving myself and others as God loves us," "by being courageous," "by caring and serving," "by being honest and telling the truth," "by being grateful for the gift and wonders of life," "by being nonviolent and working for peace," or "by being faithful and struggling for what I believe." The stories and quotations are many-layered, metaphorical and rich.
Amistad 2005 112 PP. Cloth
$19.99 (in stock)
Sojourns In The Land Of Memory
BY PATRICIA HAMPL Memoir has become the signature genre of our age. In this timely gathering, Patricia Hampl, one of our most elegant practitioners, "weaves personal stories and grand ideas into shimmering bolts of prose" (Minneapolis Star Tribune) as she explores the autobiographical writing that has enchanted or bedeviled her. Subjects engaging Hampl's attention include her family's response to her writing, the ethics of writing about family and friends, St. Augustine's Confessions, reflections on reading Walt Whitman during the Vietnam War, and an early experience reviewing Sylvia Plath. The word that unites the impulse within all the pieces is "Remember!" This book is required for Workshop #70.
W. W. Norton Paper
BY CHRIS HEDGES Hedges observes that there are two especially polarized sides to the debate on faith and religion in America: the fundamentalists who see religious faith as their prerogative, and the new atheists who brand all religious belief as irrational and dangerous. The new atheists do not make moral arguments about religion. Rather, they have created a new form of fundamentalism about the omnipotence of human reason. He makes an impassioned, intelligent case against religious and secular fundamentalism, which seeks to divide the world into those worthy of moral and intellectual consideration and those who should be condemned, silenced and eradicated.
Free Press 2008 224 PP. Cloth
WRITTEN AND READ BY CHRIS HEDGES The author argues that there are two radical and dangerous sides to the debate on faith and religion in America, Christian fundamentalists and New Atheists, who brand all religious belief as irrational. Too often, the majority, those committed to tolerance and compassion as well as their faith, are caught in the middle. He accuses both sides of generating a simplified worldview of us vs. them, intolerance toward certain behaviors, and of utilizing false myths of human progress or moral superiority. He makes way for new, moderate voices to join the debate.
Highbridge 2008 5 HOURS Disk
$12.50 (low stock)
BY MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. This large format book features the full text of the famous "I have a Dream" speech with illustrations by fifteen award winning and well known artists. There is also a brief biography of Dr King and short notes on how the speech inspired the illustrators.
Scholastic 2007 40 PP. Paper
$6.99 (in stock)
And Now, Thanks To The Religious Society Of Friends, I Am - Php 350
BY CLAIRE GORFINKEL The author's story of her spiritual journey through Quakerism home to Judaism.
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2000 32 PP. Paper
Poems Of Hope And Joy
BY HAFIZ, TRANSLATED BY DANIEL LADINSKY Hafiz captures the many forms and stages of love. His poetry outlines the stages of the mystic's path of love-a journey in which love dissolves personal boundaries and limitations to join larger processes of growth and transformation. With this collection, Ladinsky has succeeded brilliantly in translating the essence of one of Islam's greatest poetic and spiritual voices. If you haven't yet had the delight of dining with Daniel Ladinsky's sweet, playful renderings of the musings of the great saints, I Heard God Laughing is a perfect appetizer.
Penguin 2006 112 PP. Paper
52 Activities To Help You And Your Kids Discover The Wonders Of Nature
BY JENNIFER WARD AND SUSIE GHAHREMANI Packed with activities to help kids discover the wonders of nature, this collection offers alternatives to electronic games and gets kids and caregivers outside. Each activity presents a project meant to promote exploration, stimulate imagination, and heighten a sense of wonder. "There may be no better way to ensure the well-being of the natural world tomorrow than to introduce children to its many small wonders today. Through a series of accessible activities designed to engage young minds and all five senses, this book reminds us of - even celebrates - the magic to be found right outside our own back doors." - Todd Christopher
Trumpeter Press 2008 153 PP. Paper
$14.00 (low stock)
And Other Inappropriate Longings Of My Indiana Childhood
BY PHILIP GULLEY We are transported to 1970's Danville, Indiana, the everyone-knows-your-business town where Gulley still lives today, to witness the uproarious story of Gulley's young life, including his infatuation with his comely sixth-grade teacher, his dalliance with sin-eating meat on Friday and inappropriate activities with a mannequin named Ginger - and his checkered start with organized religion.
HarperOne 2009 200 PP. Cloth
$21.99 (in stock)
BY MOURID BARGHOUTI Mourid Barghouti spent thirty years in exile shuttling among the world's cities; separated from his family for years at a time; never certain whether he was a visitor, a refugee, a citizen, or a guest. As he returns home to Palestine for the first time since the 6 day war, Barghouti crosses a wooden bridge over the Jordan River into Ramallah and is unable to recognize the city of his youth. A tour de force of memory and reflection, lamentation and resilience, I Saw Ramallah is a deeply humane book, essential to any balanced understanding of today's Middle East.
Vintage 2003 208 PP. Paper
$12.95 (low stock)
The Life Of Abby Kelley Foster
BY MARGARET HOPE BACON SECONDHAND COPY. Slightly torn jacket. Good condition Written in the lively and accessible style well known to readers of Bacon's books Abbey Foster comes alive as the prototypical Quaker activist, strong enough to discipline even her fiery anti-clerical husband Stephen Foster (not the song writer). After her first important speech on slavery the hall was burned down, but she continued on to a life of uninterrupted and principled work on behalf of the rights of African Americans and women.
Thomas Y Crowell Co 1974 235 PP. Cloth
$12.00 USED - availability checked Mar 15th 3:40am CDT
BY DAISY NEWMAN Serenity discovers love and her Friendly heritage.
FUP 1975 314 PP. Paper
$20.00 (low stock)
BY BILL HARLEY Get ready to shake, rattle, roll, strum, howl and sway with Bill as he serenades kids and families with his characteristic silliness, hilarity, and poignancy on his newest musical recording "I Wanna Play". The 12 new songs on "I Wanna Play", including the long-awaited and much-loved Barbie's Head is Missing, are hilarious, sweet, silly and touching, and have a world music feel.
Round River Records 2007 48 MIN Disk
$15.00 (low stock)
