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We search for publishers’ remainders of Quaker and Quaker related titles, as well as occasionally reducing books from our own stock. Listed here are many inexpensive treasures. New books are constantly being added, so check regularly for some wonderful bargains. Remember, once we sell out of these we are likely to be unable to get more.
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A Global History
BY JOHN WILLS An unusual approach to History - The author tries to give a whole world history for the year 1688 -an important one at the beginning of Quakerism's life. It is a useful guide to the world in which Quakerism developed, amidst all the other intellectual, political and spiritual movements of those days. It is a bit Euro/US centered, but the Middle East, India, S America, Australasia are all covered as well.
Granta 2002 330 PP. Paper
$6.50 (in stock)
Poems
BY NIKKI GIOVANNI A collection of eighty all new poems, Acolytes is distinctly Nikki Giovanni, but different. Not softened, but more inspired by love, celebration, memories and even nostalgia. She aims her intimate and sparing words at family and friends, the deaths of heroes and friends, favorite meals and candy, nature, libraries, and theatre. But in between, the deep and edgy conscience that has defined her for decades shines through when she writes about Rosa Parks, hurricane Katrina, and Emmett Till's disappearance, leaving no doubt that Nikki has not traded one approach for another, but simply made room for both.
Morrow 2007 144 PP. Cloth
$7.50 (in stock)
An A-z Reference Of The Movement That Changed America
BY KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH AND HENRY GATES An A-Z reference to the civil rights movement that changed America, with entries on the participants, key ideas and events. Much useful information - though surprisingly little on Quakers (just a few paragraphs on Bayard Rustin).
Running Press 2004 528 PP. Paper
$9.50 (low stock)
The Story Of America's Peace Makers
BY MILTON MELTZER Revised from the 1985 edition Meltzer explores the long list of Americans who have refused to kill from colonial days to the present and includes concerns about nuclear arms and terrorism. The book is a good alternative history of America and the conflicts in which it has engaged. The book is full of inspiring life stories of conscientious objectors, some little known these days. A shiny library cloth edition of this great resource.
Random House 2002 304 PP. Cloth
$7.00 (in stock)
BY JOHN FRYER Rather a fun book, John Freyer decides to sell everything he owns on ebay -right down to his sideboards. The book shows all his exciting and mundane items, what they sold for and he tells who bought them. He ignores his carbon footprint and heads off to visit some of his possessions again and see who their new owners are and what they have done with them.
Bloomsbury 2002 210 PP Cloth
$6.50 (low stock)
Stories Of War And Deliverance In Congo
BY BRIAN MEALER Not for the faint of heart. Bryan Mealer travelled extensively in the Congo after the bitter wars that spilled in from Rwanda. He searches for hope and does find some in ordinary courageous people, but he also found madness and senseless slaughter and greed. Its one mans attempt to find what is the truth and the cause as literally millions are overlooked and die in fighting massacres and neglect in the middle of Africa. These are stories that rarely play upon our attention, that should.
Bloomsbury 2008 296 PP. Cloth
BY MARY OLIVER Fifty early poems - primitive in the sense of wilderness, the special American wilderness, and themed on nature, and human yearning and love set in that primitive wilderness.
Back bay Books 1983 88 PP. Paper
$6.00 (in stock)
Native American Social Systems Through Time
BY JULIAN GRANBERRY The Americas That Might Have Been is a professional but layman-accessible, fact-based, nonfiction account of the major Native American political states that were thriving in the New World in 1492. Granberry considers a contemporary New World in which the glories of Aztec Mexico, Maya Middle America, and Inca Peru survived intact. He imagines the roles that the Iroquois Confederacy of the American NE, the powerful city-states along the Mississippi River in the Midwest and SE, the Navajo Nation and the Pueblo culture of the Southwest, the Eskimo Nation in the Far North, and the Taino Arawak chiefdoms of the Caribbean would play in American and world politics in the 21st Century.
Univ of Alabama 2005 204 PP. Paper
$8.50 (in stock)
BY JOSEPHINE POOLE What was Anne Frank like as a small girl, at home with her family and friends; at play and at school? And how did an ordinary little girl come to live such an extraordinary and tragically short life? In the first half of the book, we meet Anne growing up with her family in Germany. Then, we follow her flight to Holland to escape the Nazis; the German invasion and the gradual isolation, then outright persecution, of the Jewish population which forces the family into hiding; the years in the Secret Annex; and her last heart-breaking journey.
Red Fox 2006 40 PP. Cloth
Inscribing Spirituality And Sexuality
BY DENISE DE COSTA De Costa approaches Anne Frank largely from a psychoanalytical perspective and emphasizes the act of writing as a function in the development of adolescent self-identity. For Etty Hillesum her focus is on how writing establishes a philosophy of life-a faith-that grows from a position of duality and paradox. The author's assessments of the written legacy of two victims of genocide makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how the Holocaust affected individual lives.
Rutgers University Press 1998 304 PP. Paper
$8.50 (low stock)
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)
The Life Of Outsider Artist Antonio Ligabue
BY KARIN KAVELIN JONES Antonio Ligabue is well known in Europe, considered almost the Italian Van Gogh, but this small tome is the first book in English. With both physical and mental problems he was torn from his mother in Switzerland at the age of 20 and expelled to Italy where he knew no one and did not even speak the language. In a hut by the banks of the Po River he painted and sculpted, enduring deprivation and cruelty - as well as kindness till eventually with a Dr Valenti he was understood and came to understand himself.
Capra Press 1997 136 PP. Cloth
$4.50 (in stock)
Alternatives To War - Audio Cd
COMPILED BY DAVID FREUDBERG Alternatives to War. Antiwar voices describe why they oppose using military force -- how nonviolence can be successful in promoting justice and even overthrowing dictators. An eye-opening proposal for truly "global education" is advanced by former UN Assistant Secretary General Robert Muller who emphasizes the many branches of our international human family. Lastly a look at decision-making among Quakers who do not follow "majority rules" but who try to reach consensus after reflecting deeply on spirit.
Human Media 2003 1 HOUR Audio
What War Really Means - Audio Cd
BY DAVID FREUDBERG Is warfare a necessary evil -- or is it total madness? The true human costs of war are described by patients in a veterans hospital, the author of a history of bombing, a NY Times war correspondent and others Also The Quaker conscience: the social and political witness offered by members of the Society of Friends. Here Friends discuss pacifism and social equality and lastly Viktor Frankl, the late author of "Man's Search for Meaning" who recognized that only by clinging to a higher life purpose could he survive such an atrocity.
BY KAREN ARMSTRONG In this seminal account, acclaimed historian Karen Armstrong discusses the conception, gestation, life, and afterlife of history's most powerful book. Its contents have changed over the centuries, it has been transformed by translation and, through interpretation, has developed manifold meanings to various religions, denominations, and sects. Armstronganalyzes the social and political situation in which oral history turned into written scripture, how this all-pervasive scripture was collected into one work, and how it becameaccepted as Christianity's sacred text, and how its interp retation changed over time.
Grove Press 2008 302 PP. Paper
Audio Cassettes
BY VARIOUS ARTISTS The Big Book for Peace edited by Ann Durrell is sadly out of print, but here on audio are recorded most of its poems and stories about many kinds of peace, peace among people living in different lands, among next-door neighbors, among people of different races, and among sisters and brothers. Understanding among those separated by their beliefs, and those separated by generations. Combined with the ecological stories and poems in Big Book for the Planet. Graet value for 3 hours of listening.
Media Books 1999 2 TAPES Audio
BY ARNO KARLEN This is the story of Borellia burgdorferi (Bb for short), the bacterium responsible for Lyme disease, a disease many Quakers seem to have contracted! Arno Karlen tells the story from the germ's point of view; it must first reside in three different creatures -deer tick, mouse, and deer - before it is ready for said Friend. He shows how Bb and humans, which coexisted for millions of years on earth without meeting, became entangled through changes in human habits, technology, and land use.
Phoenix Books (UK) 2001 178 PP. Paper
$5.00 (backorder)
Origins And History Of The Passions Of War
BY BARBARA EHRENREICH Nickel and dimed author Barbara Ehrenreich examines the human attraction to violence: What draws our species to war and even makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking? Looking at violence and war from prehistory to the present day she sees its origins not in a killer instinct but in the blood rites early humans performed to reenact their terrifying experience of predation by stronger carnivores. Brilliant in conception, rich in scope, Blood Rites is a monumental work that will transform our understanding of the greatest single threat to human life.
Owl Books 1997 292 PP. Paper
Dinosaurs, Greed And The Greatest Scientific Feud Of The Gilded Age
BY DAVID RAINS WALLACE The tragic story of the competition for fame and natural treasure between (Quaker) Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, two leading paleontologists, remains prophetic of the conquest of the west as well as a watershed event in science. David Rains Wallace charts in fascinating detail the unrestrained rivalry between Cope and Marsh and their obsession to become the first to explain and make available to the world the abundant, unknown fossils of the western badlands.
Mariner Books 1999 366 PP. Paper
Why Faith Is Always Personal But Never Private
BY JIM WALLIS Faced with a growing gap between the rich and poor, bombarded by national security alerts that ratchet up our stress levels, taxed by a government that spends billions of dollars on war - where do we find hope? In this revised and updated edition of his classic, Jim Wallis insightfully critiques contemporary culture and politics, inspiring us with stories to convert our way of thinking and point to a solution to our current social and political dilemmas.
HarperCollins 2005 224 PP. Paper
A Black Quaker's "voice From Within The Veil"
BY PAUL CUFFE, EDITED BY ROSALIND WIGGINS Paul cuffe was one of the few black Quakers of his day. Editor Rosalind Wiggins has collected this remarkable man's correspondence and ship's logs. She presents original manuscripts that tell the story of Cuffe's efforts to undercut the slave trade by forming a trading cooperative in Sierra Leone, thus linking the United States, England, and small West African nations. Wiggins shows the obstacles Cuffe faced: the War of 1812, a trade embargo, the network of African American organizations that provided him with help; and his concern for education within the black community.
Howard University Press 1996 528 PP. Cloth
$10.00 (in stock)
Timberman, Forest Conservationist, And Pioneer In Forest Education
BY ALEXANDRA EYLE Charles Lathrop Pack (1857-1937) made his fortune from ruthlessly exploiting inherited forests in Michigan, then suddenly in 1908 he changed his spots and became a conservationist, donating large sums to preserving forests and studying them. As president of the American Forestry Association his methods were still a bit dictatorial and he left to found and fund the American Tree Association. He also founded what was to become the "Victory Garden" movement. A fascinating tale of a contradictory man.
Syracuse University Press 1994 312 PP. Cloth
$9.00 (in stock)
Eyewitness Accounts From An Observer In Israel-palestine
BY KATHERINE MAYCOCK Katharine Maycock went to the West Bank in October 2002 as a volunteer international observer based in Bethlehem for Quaker Peace and Social Witness, and she continued working there for a humanitarian agency into 2004. These are her luminous reports of being with people who live under military occupation, as they struggle with curfews, checkpoints, and sudden losses of home and livelihood.
Britain Yearly Meeting 2005 128 PP. Paper
TRANSLATED BY HENRY TAYLOR, ROBERT BROOKES Translated by Quaker poet Henry Taylor this is a play about war and the effects of war within the state. Herakles, the legendary hero cursed from birth, was never permitted a triumphant homecoming. Here, his descendants continue the effort to return home, seeking asylum from the persecution of the king who had imposed on Herakles the famous twelve labors. While it pursues concepts of deep moral grandeur, it ends with a denouement of astonishing physical and ethical brutality, and affords Euripides a severe comment on what he believed was the decline of the Athenian character.
1981 83 PP. Cloth
$5.50 (low stock)
A History
BY BAMBER GASCOIGNE This book was written to accompany a BBC history of Christianity TV program back in the 1970's. But it stands well by itself as a comprehensive and readable introduction with no axes to grind. He mixes humor at the claimed number of foreskins of Jesus you could found in European cathedrals in the 14th century with more serious looks for instance at Celtic spirituality and Christians in the abolitionist movement. Well worth the full price and great value as a publishers remainder.
Carroll & Graf 1986 229 PP. Paper
$7.00 (low stock)
Sharing Our Experience Of Hearing, Responding To, And Living Out God's Call
BY LYNNE-MARIE TROWMANS Developed from a weekend workshop on call and discernment led by Lynee Marie Tromans and Ben Pink Dandelion, this booklet contains a series of sessions to help participants explore what God's call may sound like and how to respond to it. Session 4 requires a tape, of which we only have a few and sessions 6 and 7 are based on the film It's a Wonderful Life, which is readily available to rent. Was $12.00, Now $2.00
Britain Yearly Meeting 1995 58 PP Paper
$2.00 (backorder)
How To Stop The Partisan War That Is Destroying America
BY CAL THOMAS AND BOB BECKER Conservative Cal Thomas and liberal Bob Beckel unmask the hypocrisy of the issues, organizations, and individuals that have created and deepened the horrific partisan divide now at the center of American politics, and make a strategic case for why this bickering must stop. Thomas and Beckel explain how bipartisanship and consensus politics are not only good for the day-to-day democratic process but also essential for our nation's future well-being. Entertaining, informative, funny and healing.
Harper 2007 272 PP. Paper
Face-to-face With Modern-day Slavery
BY E. BENJAMIN SKINNER, FOREWORD BY RICHARD HOLBROOKE There are more slaves in the world today than at any time in history. With years of reporting in such places as Haiti, Sudan, India, Eastern Europe, The Netherlands, and even suburban America, he has produced a vivid testament and moving reportage on one of the worst evils of our time. "A great storyteller, Skinner brings the whole underworld of traffickers and their victims to life. At the same time, he shows how complex the phenomenon really is, and why the solutions of would-be abolitionists in this country have proven misguided or simply futile." -- Frances Fitzgerald
Free Press 2008 328 PP. Cloth
NOLA TURKINGTON Bau knows as many dances as there are seeds in a calabash rattle but she does not know the magic rainbull dance - only the rainmaiden knows that. Then drought seizes the land, a drought so terrible that Bau's grandmother sends her to the Tsodilo Hills in search of the reain maiden, for now Bau must dance as she has never deanced before, to bring rain to the Kalahari people.
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BY ELISA KLEVEN A hunter thinks his fortune is made when he captures a dancing deer. Back at his house, however, the poor creature can't dance but she can talk. She tells him that, to dance, she needs birdsong. The hunter captures some birds, but they won't sing without the whistling of the pines, and the pine branches he brings won't whistle without sea breezes, and so on. Learning finally that all things have a place in nature, the hunter agrees to let everything he has captured go free but only if the deer will give him dancing lessons. For readers 4 - 8.
Dutton 2002 32 PP. Cloth
Notes From An Exhibition
Speaking Of Faith - Sale
The Great Transformation, Unmarked Remainder Edition
The Bible _ Publishers Remainder
Islam - A Short History
The Florist's Daughter
William Morris
Green Turtle
Charles Lathrop Pack
Lewis Mumford
