Icky Sticky, Hairy Scary Bible Stories

BY JONATHON SCHKADE, TUESDAY MOURNING
his collection of poems shows how God works in the ugly, icky, gross world we live in. The poems are short funny takes of Bible stories interspersed with paraphrases of biblical wisdom.

Concordia 2011 125 PP. Cloth

$14.99 (in stock)

That Of God

A Documentary

PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY CHANDA CHEVANNES
This lyrical documentary explores Quaker principles through the personal spiritual journey of Canadian Quaker Jane Orion Smith. Starting with her Quaker marriage ceremony the film follows 5 years of her life, along the way other Quakers (Marc Forget, Janet Ross, Beverley Shephard, and Carol Leigh-Wehking) explore their experiences and perceptions of Quakerism.

PPCINC ltd 2011 53 MIN Disk

$20.00 (in stock)

Walk In The Light Sterling Silver Necklace

FROM HAGUIT RUBENSTEIN-TOWLER, AARON RUBENSTEIN & HANNI
"Gems of Quaker Wisdom" is a line of Jewelry highlighting famous Quaker thoughts. Conceived by Eileen & Erin Bagus, The first, "Walk in the Light", is a pendant necklace, sterling silver, a three quarter inch disc on an 18 inch chain. A collaborative effort by Haguit Rubenstien-Towler, Aaron Rubenstien and Michigan artist Hanni. Each piece is individually cast by the lost wax method and signed by the artist.

Gems of Quaker Wisdom 2011 PENDANT Boxed

$65.00 (in stock)

The Boy Who Changed The World

BY ANDY ANDREWS
"The Boy Who Changed the World" opens with a young Norman Borlaug playing in his family's cornfields with his sisters. One day, Norman would grow up and use his knowledge of agriculture to save the lives of two billion people. Two billion! Norman changed the world! Or was it Henry Wallace who changed the world? Or maybe it was George Washington Carver?

Thomas Nelson 2010 40 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (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

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The King And The Seed

BY ERIC MADDERN AND JOHN HESS
Compare with Demi's "Empty Pot". Old King Karnak is worried. He doesn't have long to live, and there is no heir to the throne. To find one, the King holds an unusual competition. Knights and lords flock to the palace and the King gives each of them a tiny seed to grow. Watching the competition is Jack, the farmer's son. Jack gets his hands on a seed, plants it, waters it, and waits for it to sprout.

Frances Lincoln 2009 32 PP. Cloth

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Luz Sees The Light

BY CLAUDIA DAVILA
One minute, Luz and her friends are snacking on chocolate bars and getting rides to the mall. The next, Luz's mom can't afford to gas or groceries, and the city is dimmed by blackouts. Luz sets her heart on transforming her fossil-fueled world. But how much can one twelver-year-old do? Told in graphic novel format.

Kids Can Press 2011 95 PP. Cloth

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No One But You

BY DOUGLAS WOOD
Christopher Medal-winning author Wood and celebrated illustrator Lynch offer a moving look at how each person's experiences in the world are gloriously unique.

Candlewick Press 2011 32 PP. Cloth

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Ruth And The Green Book

BY CALVIN RAMSEY
Ruth and the Green Book is the story of one black familys trip from Chicago to Alabama by car in the late 1940s. Along the way they encounter prejudice, but they also discover The Green Book, a real guide to accommodations which was published for decades to aid African-American travelers as they faced prejudice on the roads across the country.

Carolrhoda 2010 32 PP. Cloth

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Chocolate Wars

The 150-year Rivalry Between The World's Greatest Chocolate Makers

BY DEBORAH CADBURY
As chocolate companies raced to compete around the globe, Quaker capitalism met a challenge that would eventually defeat it. In 2000 Cadbury's was the world's largest confectionary company. But before long it faced a threat to its very survival, and the chocolate wars culminated in a multi-billion pound showdown pitting independence and Quaker tradition against the cut-throat tactics of a corporate leviathan. Featuring a colorful cast of savvy entrepreneurs, brilliant eccentrics and resourceful visionaries, 'Chocolate Wars' is the story of a uniquely alluring product and of the evolution, for better and worse, of modern business.

Public Affairs 2011 346 PP. Paper

$15.99 (in stock)

Forge

A Novel

BY LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON
In this sequel to "Chains," Anderson shifts perspective from Isabel to Curzon and brings to the page the tale of what it takes for runaway slaves to forge their own paths in a world of obstacles. Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.

Atheneum 2011 304 PP. Cloth

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Let Your Life Speak Story Materials

For Faith And Play

FROM FAITH AND PLAY CREATIONS
The materials for telling Let your lives Speak. "When we listen, deep down, we know what is right. Sometimes what is right can be hidden and hard to discern. At other times, what is right may be clear, but following through may be, for some reason, difficult. When Friends both listen for what is right and live in ways that reflect that truth, they are showing INTEGRITY. The word integrity means whole, complete, undivided, and that's the way it feels when we live with integrity." F& P Creations

2011 SET Boxed

$72.00 (in stock)

A Worker Justice Reader

Essential Writings On Religion And Labor

EDITED BY JOY HEINE
Based in Chicago, the national organization Interfaith Worker Justice has brought together key writings that identify and explain essential labor and economic issues from a religious perspectives, including Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Muslim. Designed for educational use, whether in traditional courses or community outreach, this is an indispensable resource for those concerned with contemporary labor issues and workers rights. With sidebars, tables, illustrations, and suggested readings, A Worker Justice Reader offers a wide range of data and detail for study, reflection, and action.

Orbis 2010 215 PP. Paper

$24.00 (in stock)

The Empowerment Manual

A Guide For Collaborative Groups

BY STARHAWK
"The Empowerment Manual "is a comprehensive manual for groups seeking to organize with shared power and bottom-up leadership to foster vision, trust, accountability, and responsibility. This desperately needed toolkit provides keys to Understanding group dynamics, Facilitating communication and collective decision-making, Dealing effectively with difficult people. Drawing on four decades of experience, Starhawk shows how collaborative groups can generate the cooperation, efficacy, and commitment critical to success.

New Society Press 2011 285 PP. Paper

$24.95 (in stock)

How Does Societal Transformation Happen?

Values Development, Collective Wisdom, And Decision Making For The Common Good

BY LEONARD JOY
This study by Leonard Joy, a veteran of international economic and social development work, is aimed directly at the kind of societal transformation we need. His insights are both necessary and timely. With increasing recognition and implementation, they might also be sufficient.

Quaker Institute for the Future 2011 85 PP. Paper

$9.00 (in stock)

Sharp's Dictionary Of Power And Struggle

Language Of Civil Resistance In Conflicts

BY GENE SHARP
In nearly 1,000 entries, the Dictionary defines those ideologies, political systems, strategies, methods, and concepts that form the core of nonviolent action as it has occurred throughout history and across the globe, providing much-needed clarification of language that is often mired in confusion. Entries discuss everything from militarization to censorship, guerrilla theater, pacifism, secret agents, and protest songs. In addition, the dictionary features a foreword by Sir Adam Roberts, President of the British Academy; an introduction by Gene Sharp; an essay on power and realism; case studies of conflicts in Serbia and Tunisia; and a guide for further reading.

Oxford University Press 2011 368 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Uprooting Racism

How White People Can Work For Racial Justice (revised And Expanded) (3rd Ed.)

BY PAUL KIVEL
"Uprooting Racism "offers a framework for understanding institutional racism. It provides practical suggestions, tools, examples, and advice on how white people can intervene in interpersonal and organizational situations to work as allies for racial justice. Completely revised and updated, this expanded third edition directly engages the reader through questions, exercises, and suggestions for action, and takes a detailed look at current issues such as affirmative action, immigration, and health care. It also includes a wealth of information about specific cultural groups such as Muslims, people with mixed-heritage, Native Americans, Jews, recent immigrants, Asian Americans, & latinos.

NewSociety 2011 324 PP. Paper

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Seeking Inner Peace

Presence, Pain, Wholeness Php 414

BY ELIZABETH DE SA
"Our souls strive toward union with the Divine. In our lives, we gravitate toward the inner peace that is the fruit of such union, and the power and prayer of living authentically." Elizabeth De Sa describes her own quest for a life of spiritual authenticity and inner peace in an essay that probes deeply into the lessons learned and the rewards reaped in such a search.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2011 32 PP Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Oppose And Propose

Lessons From Movement For A New Society

BY ANDREW CORNELL
Where do the tactics, strategies, and lifestyles of today's activists come from? Many ways of doing radical politics pioneered by Movement for a New Society in the 1970s and 1980s have become central to anti-authoritarian social movements: consensus decision making, spokescouncils, communal living, unlearning oppressive behavior, and co-operatively owned businesses. Andrew Cornell's important contribution to US political history uses this story to raise crucial questions for activists today. "Oppose and Propose" is an engaging and accessible study, every page offers new insights.

AK Press 2011 200 PP. Paper

$12.00 (in stock)

Abundant Simplicity

Discovering The Unhurried Rhythms Of Grace

BY JAN JOHNSON
Which activities give you energy and connect you with God? Simplicity is about choosing the engaging, relational life we were meant to live. It means shedding obligation and pretension. It means spending time energy & money in ways that help us become clear-headed. It means being intentional about what we do and how we live. These choices allow God's power to move through us and bless others as we have space to do good. In each chapter Jan Johnson provides small experiments with simplicity as well as questions for discussion or reflection to get you started. Come and discover the unhurried rhythms of grace.

IVP 2011 172 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Practicing The Art Of Compassionate Listening

BY ANDREA COHEN WITH LEAH GREEN, SUASN PAERTNOW
This practical "how to" book provides a step-by-step approach to helping you implement the practices of Compassionate Listening into your daily life. Whether you're challenged by self-judgments - or by conflicts in your family, workplace or community, the practices of Compassionate Listening can provide a solid foundation upon which to bring greater peace, understanding and healing into your world. The exercises in this book are based on the core practices of Compassionate Listening as taught in our Basic Intensive training.

Compassionate Listening 2011 84 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Ghost Road

BY PAT BARKER
The Ghost Road is the shattering conclusion of Pat barker's brilliant World War I trilogy. Set in the final months of the war, The Ghost Road focuses on Dr. William Rovers, the compassionate psychiatrist of Regeneration and Lt. Billy Prior, last seen as a domestic intelligence agent in The Eye in the Door. "A triumph of imagination".--Publisher's Weekly.

Plume 1996 288 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

Beirut Blues

BY HANAN AL-SHAYKH
Asmahan writes letters - to make sense of her life and to preserve her fond memories of Beirut as it existed before civil strife destroyed it forever. Evocative, sensual, funny, and poignant, the letters - which are unlikely to ever reach their destinations - conjure up, with passion and disarming honesty, a woman's life and loves in a ravaged city, as well as her sense of being a hostage in her own country.

Anchor 1996 382 PP. Paper

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The Book Of Embraces

BY EDUARDO GALEANO
In an enchanting book of wonders, Uruguayan writer Galeano applies the collage-like technique of "Memory of Fire" to his own life and the contemporary scene. Galeano's surreal drawings complement the text, blending wild imagination, pointed satire and old-fashioned charm. "An extraordinary series of stories and reflections about what it is to be human"- Joseph Gerson, Cambridge.

Norton 1992 288 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

Imperial Life In The Emerald City

Inside Iraq's Green Zone

BY RAJIV CHANDRASEKARAN
The Green Zone, Baghdad, 2003: in this walled-off compound of swimming pools and luxurious amenities, Paul Bremer and his Coalition Provisional Authority set out to fashion a new, democratic Iraq. Staffed by idealistic aides chosen primarily for their views on issues such as abortion and capital punishment, the CPA spent the crucial first year of occupation pursuing goals that had little to do with the immediate needs of a postwar nation: flat taxes instead of electricity and deregulated health care instead of emergency medical supplies.

Vintage 2007 295 PP. Paper

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The Last Of The Just

BY ANDRE SCHWARZ-BART
In 1885 in the old English city of York, the Jews were brutally massacred. As legend has it, God blessed the only survivor of this pogrom, Rabbi Yom Tov Levy, as one of the 36 Just Men of Jewish tradition, a blessing which extended to one Levy of each succeeding generation. This terrifying Legacy is traced over 8 centuries, from the Spanish Inquisition, to expulsions from England, France, Portugal Germany, and Russia, and to the small Polish village of Zemyock, where the Levys settle for two centuries in relative peace. It is in the then that Ernie Levy emerges, the Last of the Just, in 1920s Germany, as Hitter's sinister star is on the rise and the agonies of Auschwitz loom on the horizon.

Overlk 2000 374 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

Birdsong

A Novel Of Love And War

BY SEBASTIAN FAULKS
This novel is at once a magnificently erotic love story and a savagely powerful evocation of the carnage of World War I. A young Englishman, devastated by his tragic love affair with a married Frenchwoman, joins the army in 1916 and finds himself behind German lines, transformed into both death's agent and its dispassionate witness.

Vintage 1993 482 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

First They Killed My Father

A Daughter Of Cambodia Remembers

BY LOUNG UNG
One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge was destroyed.

Harper 2006 238 PP. Paper

$13.99 (in stock)

Gravitys Rainbow

BY THOMAS PYNCHON
In the mid-1960s, the publication of Pynchon's V and The Crying of Lot 49 introduced a brilliant new voice to American literature. Gravity's Rainbow, his convoluted, allusive novel about a metaphysical quest, published in 1973, further confirmed Pynchon's reputation as one of the greatest writers of the century.

penguin Classic 2005 768 PP. Paper

$19.00 (in stock)

The Places In Between

BY RORY STEWART
In January 2002, Rory Stewart survived a walk across Afghanistan by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. In this memoir, he writes about heroes and rogues, tribal elders and teenage soldiers, Taliban commanders and foreign-aid workers as he makes tangible the forces of tradition, ideology, and allegiance.

Harcourt 2004 299 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)