Desert Father

In The Desert With Saint Anthony

BY JAMES COWAN
James Cowan's quest to understand the desert spirituality of St Anthony takes him to Egypt, to the monastery that still exists near the site of Anthony's hermitage, where he meets the monk who becomes his guide and mentor on the journey. He comes to regard Anthony and the colorful men and women who shared his lifestyle in the 4th through 7th centuries with affection and awe. Our modern efforts toward liberation may look different from theirs, he concludes, but the ultimate goal is no different, and Anthony remains a luminous model for anyone who passionately seeks to know God.

Shambala 2004 240 PP. Cloth

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Do Something

A Handbook For Activists

BY NANCY LUBLIN, OF DOSOMETHING.ORG
Here are 33 action plans, touching on areas such as the environment, human rights, poverty, animal welfare, education, disaster relief-plus worksheets, facts, and outlines to help socially conscious kids create their own projects, and, for inspiration, profiles of DoSomething.org grant winners. Additionally, DoSomething.org is setting up a separate website for this book's readers. As reviwed in May 20!! Friends Journal

Workman 2010 280 PP. Spiral Bound

$6.50 (in stock)

Do You Remember Me?

A Father, A Daughter, And A Search For Self

BY JUDITH LEVINE
When her already difficult father begins to show signs of Alzheimer's, after his 50th wedding anniversary celebration his daughter is plunged into a new learning. At the same time he is loosing his memories and previous character, she is coming to remember and understand him and his place in the world as she never had before. She finds she is asking the question "what makes our self" and grounded in the history, society and politics of his earlier life ,forgotten and remembered, she gropes to find some answers.

Free Press 2004 310 PP. Cloth

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Dogs

BY NANCY KRESS
Quaker Nancy Kress has written a book about terrorism and biological warfare - When all the neighborhood dogs suddenly begin to attack their owners it turns out a mutated flu virus is the cause. Combining hard science with thoughtful narrative, this chilling tale of science fiction explores the complex relationships between dogs and their owners.

Tachyon publications 2008 280 PP. Paper

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Dunant's Dream

War, Switzerland, And The History Of The Red Cross

BY CAROLINE MOOREHEAD
The first writer to gain access to the Red Cross archives, Moorehead traces its history and its relationship with some of the most barbaric regimes of the 20th century. A moving and authorised history by an author of real distinction that sheds light not just on the Red Cross but on the nature of humanity itself.

HarperCollins 1999 776 PP. Paper

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Early Morning

Remembering My Father, William Stafford

BY KIM STAFFORD
Writer, pacifist, teacher, and a literary mentor to many, William Stafford is one of the great American poets of the twentieth century. He published more than sixty-five volumes of poetry and prose. Before his death in 1993, he gave his son Kim the greatest gift and challenge: to be his literary executor. By piecing together a collage of his personal and family memories, and sifting through thousands of pages of his father's daily writing and poems, Kim illuminates a fascinating and richly lived life.

Graywolf Press 2002 296 PP. Cloth

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Eggs

SPINELLI
Eggs is a quirky and moving novel about two very complicated, damaged children. David has recently lost his mother to a freak accident, his salesman father is constantly on the road, and he is letting his anger out on his grandmother. Primrose lives with her unstable, childlike, fortuneteller mother, and the only evidence of the father she never knew is a framed picture. Despite their age difference (David is 9, Primrose is 13), they forge a tight yet tumultuous friendship, eventually helping each other deal with what is missing in their lives.

hachette 2007 4 HOURS Audio

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Ending The Us War In Afghanistan

A Primer

BY DAVID WILDMAN AND PHYLLIS BENNIS
In this easy-to-read volume of "frequently asked questions" (FAQs), analysts David Wildman and Phyllis Bennis examine a wide range of key issues regarding the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Is Afghanistan really going to become "Obama's war"? What was the history of the U.S. in Afghanistan before September 11? What role does NATO play in the Afghanistan war? Do Afghans want the U.S. troops to stay in their country? Who are the Taliban? What is al-Qaeda? And, finally, what are the steps needed to end the war?

Olive Branch Press 2010 216 PP. Paper

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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

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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

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Evangelical Disenchantment

Nine Portraits Of Faith And Doubt

BY DAVID HEMPTON
looks at evangelicalism through the lens of well-known folk who once evangelical, but who later repudiated it. Recounts the faith journeys of 9 artists, social reformers, and public intellectuals including such diverse figures as George Eliot, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Vincent van Gogh, and James Baldwin. Within their highly individual stories, Hempton finds not only clues to the development of these particular creative men and women but also myriad insights into the strengths and weaknesses of one of the fastest growing religious traditions in the modern world.

Yale 2008 230 PP. Cloth

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Every Last Cuckoo - Paperback

BY KATE MALOY
This new novel by Quaker writer Maloy explores the landscape and Quaker faith in the life of 75-year-old Sarah. Overcome by her husband's death, Sarah finds her house becoming a refuge for wayward souls. "The motley assortment of characters, many of whom have been touched by violence, deliver passionate apostrophes on peace and justice, and together Sarah and her boarders discover unseen beauty in the landscape, uncover hidden talents and develop a nurturing, healing community. Maloy's wordplay and startling nature imagery enchant." - Publishers Weekly

Algonquin Books 2009 304 PP. Paper

$5.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Facing Evil

Confronting The Dreadful Power Behind Genocide, Terrorism, And Cruelty

ED. BY PAUL WOODRUFF AND HARRY WILMER
The problem of evil in our world is considered by philosophers, poets, therapists, and social scientists. This anthology includes contributions by Maya Angelou, M. Scott Peck, holocaust expert Raul Hilberg, Rollo May, and others. Also included are historical texts from the ancient Greeks, Jung, Christianity, and an annotated bibliography.

Open Court 1988 297 Paper

$5.75 (in stock)

Faith Between Us

BEBERGAL
Scott Korb and Peter Bebergal, two young progressives, share a secret: They believe in God. One is a former wannabe Catholic priest, the other a failed Jewish mystic, and they formed a friendship that's shaped by their common belief. In The Faith Between Us, they engage in a dialogue that ranges widely, from the mundane to the divine.

Bloomsbury USA 2007 240 PP. Cloth

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Falling To Heaven

A Novel

BY JEANNE PETERSON
In 1954 Emma and Gerald Kittredge leave their secure Quaker community for a Tibetan town. Their neighbors are Dorje and Rinchen, and their sons. The arrival of Maoist soldiers shatters everything. Gerald is captured by the soldiers, leaving a pregnant Emma to rely on her Tibetan neighbors. Told in three distinct voices rich in their respective spiritual traditions, Falling to Heaven is ultimately a novel about faith: losing it and rediscovering it in places you'd never expect.

Thomas Dunne 2010 326 PP. Cloth

$9.00 (in stock)

Fear And Yoga In New Jersey

BY DEBRA GALLANT
Nina a New Jersey yoga teacher, should be calmly guiding her high powered students through their savasanas and their chakras. Instead she is worried about...everything: the leaking fountain that caused a litigious students to slip and fall; her husband's job was outsourced to the Phillipines; and a hurricane is bearing down on her parents home in Florida. To complicate matters, her teenage son Adam is showing an interest in having a Bar Mitzvah-even though Nina, never a fan of her Jewish heritage, signed the family up at the local Unitarian Church.

St Martins 2008 256 PP. Cloth

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Feminist Family Values Forum

BY GLORIA STEINUM, ANGELA DAVIS, MARIA JIMENEZ, MILIANI TRASK
A forum given on Mothers day 1996, many contributions from Feminists well known and little known on family values from a feminist perspective.

Plain View Press 1996 130 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

The Fire Of His Genius

Robert Fulton And The American Dream

BY KIRKPATRICK SALE
From a leading environmentalist thinker, chairman of the Schumacher Society . Set against a brilliant portrait of a dynamic period in history, The Fire of His Genius tells the story of the fiercely driven man whose invention of the steam boat opened up America's interior to waves of settlers, created and sustained industrial and plantation economies in the nation's heartland, and facilitated the destruction of the remaining Indian civilizations. Probing Fulton's genius but also laying bare the darker side of the man -- and the darker side of the American dream -- Kirkpatrick Sale tells an extraordinary tale with deftness, zest, and unflagging verve.

Touchstone 2002 242 PP. Paper

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Fixing Climate

What Past Climate Changes Reveal About The Current Threat - And How To Counter It

BY WALLACE S. BROECKER
A collaboration between an earth scientist and a science writer. Fixing Climate takes an unconventional approach to the vitally important issue of global warming. Wallace Broecker warned about the possible consequences of global warming decades before the concept entered popular consciousness. The time to reduce carbon emissions has already passed in his opinion, and large and small scale projects to reduce carbon dioxide directly are needed. Told by skilled science journalist Robert Kunzig, Fixing Climate is a timely and informative story that makes for riveting reading.

Hill and Wang 2008 272 PP. Cloth

$6.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Four Gospels

AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIE
Here is the life and teachings of Jesus, as found in the four Gospels in the New Testament--now available in an affordable, important new collection. These Gospels are the foundation of Christianity, the bedrock of our culture. In them you find the birth of Jesus, his extraordinary life, and the story of his death and triumphant resurrection. Now thesebeloved Gospels are available in Tarcher's Cornerstone Editions in the popular Contemporary English Version (CEV) translation, from the American Bible Society.

Tarcher 0009 285 PP. Paper

$5.50 (in stock)

The Fragmentation Of The Church And Its Unity In Peacemaking

EDITED BY JEFFREY GROS AND JOHN D. REMPEL
SECONDHAND COPY -Good condition looks unread. Over the centuries churches have divided over the specific place of this peacemaking imperative in their lives and teachings. This volume offers deep, ecumenical discussion of the relationship of the church to its peacemaking mission from the standpoints of history and the contemporary context. Contributors representing ten major faith traditions address this crucial topic from the perspective of their own churches and explore pathways that could lead to the reconciliation of existing differences. One chapter is "The Peace Testimony of the Religious Society of Friends" by Thomas Paxson.

Eerdmans 2001 230 PP. Paper

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From The Ends Of The Earth

Passionate Plant Collectors Remembered In A Cornish Garden

BY CHRISTIAN LAMB
This is a beautiful and detailed book that should appeal to any gardener, quite quirky, but only occaisional references to the great Quaker plant collectors though it is dedicated to Joseph Bamks. Very English- or should I say Cornish.

Bene Factum 2004 223 PP. Cloth

$5.50 (in stock)

The Geneva Convention

The Hidden Origins Of The Red Cross

BY ANGELA BENNETT
This is the story of how two unknown young men who loathed each other founded the Red Cross, an organisation that has done more for mankind than any other. Why did the crowned heads of sixteen states meet in Geneva in 1864, on the invitation of these virtual nobodies, to sign a world-changing convention? Angela Bennett gives us the full story of the Convention. She reveals the frustrations and complications that nearly destroyed it in the early years, the bitter antagonism between the brilliant administrator Moynier and the flamboyant Dunant, and probes the bank scandal for which Dunant was convicted.

Sutton Publishing Ltd. 2005 236 PP. Cloth

$6.50 (in stock)

The Genial Gene

Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness

BY JOAN ROUGHGARDEN
Joan Roughgarden forcefully rejects these and other ideas that have come to dominate the study of animal evolution. Building on her brilliant and innovative book Evolution's Rainbow, in which she challenged accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation, Roughgarden upends the notion of the selfish gene and the theory of sexual selection and develops a compelling and controversial alternative theory called social selection. This scientifically rigorous, model-based challenge to an important tenet of neo-Darwinian theory emphasizes cooperation, elucidates the factors that contribute to evolutionary success in a gene pool or animal social system>

Univ of California 2009 255 PP. Cloth

$7.00 (in stock)

Gentleman Volunteers

The Story Of The American Ambulance Drivers In The First World War

BY ARLEN HANSEN
They left Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Michigan, and Stanford to drive ambulances on the French front, and on the killing fields of World War I they learned that war was no place for gentlemen. The tale of the American volunteer ambulance drivers of the First World War is one of gallantry amid gore; manners amid madness. Arlen J. Hansen 's Gentlemen Volunteers brings to life the entire story of the men and women who formed the first ambulance corps, and who went on to redefine American culture. Some were to become legends Ernest Hemingway, e. e. cummings, Malcolm Cowley, and Walt Disney but all were part of a generation seeking something greater and grander than what they could find at home.

Skyhorse 1996 253 PP. Paper

$5.50 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Gilded Dinosaur

The Fossil War Between Cope And Marsh And The Rise Of American Science

BY MARK JAFFE
The second half of the 19th century - the so-called Gilded Age -was also when scientists began finding dinosaur fossils across the western half of the nation. Could the answer to the history of life and the proof of evolution be found in these bones? That was the question two young American paleontologists - Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh - set out to answer. But what began as a friendly contestsoon turned into a bitter rivalry that would spill over into American science and politics and rage relentlessly for three decades. And despite his Quakerism, Edward Drinker Cope, like many of his colleagues, would prove to be ruthlessly competitive.

Three Rivers Press 2000 424 PP Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

The Global Citizen's Handbook

Facing Our World's Crises And Challenges

BY THE WORLD BANK
Not all Friends are fans of the World Bank but this book does have authoritative statistics on current global challenges such as AIDS, poverty, migration, CO2 emissions, and population pressures. Country comparisons, key social development indicators, including economic growth, life expectancy, infant mortality, safe water, population below the poverty line, and energy efficiency They are presented in clear maps, graphs, and photographs, the hard facts you need to know about the critical issues of our time and the consequences of inaction.

Collins 2007 144 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

God Is All Around

A Collection Of Inspirational Writings And Drawings

BY NANCY MCCORMICK AND ELLEN THOMAS
A collection of inspirational thoughts, prayers, stories, poems, pictures and songs from Nancy McCormick of Good News associates, an organization supporting individuals, who are called to non-institutional ministries in the arts and religion. Connected to North Western Evangelical Friends. Comes with a CD of thirteen songs.

Good News Associates 2006 48 PP.50 MIN Disk

$6.50 (in stock)

The Great Awakening

Seven Ways To Change The World

BY JIM WALLIS
Written and read by Jim Wallis. What will it take to solve the biggest issues of our time: extreme and needless poverty, global warming and environmental degradation, terrorism and the endless cycle of violence, racism, human trafficking, health care and education, and other pressing problems? While Washington offers only the politics of blame and fear, Jim Wallis, the man who changed the conversation about faith and politics, has traveled the country and found a nation hungry for a politics of solutions and hope. He shows us that a revival is happening, as people of faith and moral conviction seek common ground for change.

HarperAudio 2008 11 DISCS Disk

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Handbook Of Nonviolence

Including Aldous Huxley's An Encyclopedia Of Pacifism

BY ROBERT SEELEY AND THE FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION
In 1937 Aldous Huxley published his Encyclopedia of Pacifism, which was extremely influential at the time and is still a central document of the peace movement. It is reprinted here as the first 108 pages. Robert Seeley has then expanded on this to bring ideas, concepts and challenges up to date as of 1986. This is the hardback at paperback price.

Lawrence Hill 1986 348 PP. Cloth

$8.95 (in stock)