Liberty, Equality, And Justice

Civil Rights, Women's Rights, And The Regulation Of Business, 1865-1932

ROSS EVANS PAULSON
studies social and intellectual changes in a critical period of American history--from the end of the Civil War to the early days of the Depression--and argues that attempts to achieve civil rights, women's rights, and the regulation of business faltered because so many Americans ranked liberty for themselves higher than equality with others and justice for all. He integrates the experiences of diverse populations--including African Americans, women, Asian immigrants, Native Americans, and working people--and offers a new interpretation of the ways in which social change and political events interact to reframe the many possibilities of American society.

Duke 377 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

Lifesongs, Readings For Milestones

BY PINKY AGNEW
The oddly named Pinky is a New Zealander (not a relation of Spiro T) and specializes in celebrating weddings This is a great selection of poems from all ages but with maybe more living poets. Would be much better if it wasn't silver print on white and a cover that looks scuffed before it even gets scuffed - BUT this is a great anthology for milestone celebrations. Naming baby, to funerals.

Random House - New Zealand 2006 205 PP. Cloth

$3.00 (in stock)

Lift Up Thy Voice - Sale

The Grimke Family's Journey From Slaveholders To Civil Rights Leaders

BY MARK PERRY
"Sarah and Angelina Grimke were privileged [Quaker] white women from a powerful South Carolina slaveholding family who led the antislavery movement. Their nephews Archibald and Francis Grimke were former slaves who took the struggle into the twentieth century as the focus shifted to equal rights. Perry offers the fascinating family history of the Grimkes and the quintessential American racial pathologies that most slaveholders would have denied but which the Grimkes faced head-on. Using letters, speeches, diaries, and sermon s, Perry presents the personalities of messianic figures during a period of great religious and social foment."-Booklist

Penguin 2003 432 PP. Paper

$1.50 (in stock)

Listening Below The Noise

A Meditation On The Practice Of Silence

BY ANNE LECLAIRE
Part memoir, part philosophical inquiry - the book is a reflection on how silence can help us attend to the world around us, expand our awareness, and achieve inner peace. In eighteen chapters that include calming, beautiful and symbolic black and white photographs. I describe my personal experiences of silent Mondays. I explore the soul's yearning for quiet, the ego's resistance to it, the intrusion of society, the lessons silence holds, and the healing it can effect. Finally I offer practical means of achieving peace and solace in a world in which these qualities are hard to come by.

Harper 2009 226 PP. Cloth

$6.25 (in stock)

Listening For God

Religion And Moral Discernment

BY HOWARD LESNICK
After an autobiographical examination, the author explores issues of how religion can be thought of in a world that has often used religion to justify inhuman acts. Professing a profound respect for other traditions, as well as atheists, he discusses how religious language, metaphor, and images can serve as an aid to finding moral truth, rather than a metaphysical system. A reflection on the power and meaning of religious faith by one who travelled from complete alienation to religion to a reengagement with Judaism.

Fordham 1998 248 PP. Paper

$7.50 (in stock)

Literature And The Crime Against Nature

At the outset of the third millennium, one problem towers above all others: how are we (as a species living what we think of as a civilized life) to survive? This book attempts to reassert the essential relationship between imagination, nature and human survival. Keith Sagar demonstrates, by close readings of major works by seventeen of the greatest writers, from Homer to Whitman, that literature has a central contribution to make in our efforts to discover what are the laws of nature and human nature, and to live within them.

Chaucer Press 2005 394 PP. Cloth

$5.50 (in stock)

The Little Book Of Peace

EDITED BY PATRICIA CHUI
This great little book gathers together over 400 quotes of wisdom from political and spiritual leaders. The words are thought-provoking and comforting, advocating world and inner peace alike. Contributors include Gandhi, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Anne Frank, Vaclav Havel, Buddha, Joan Baez, Martin Luther King, Jr. and many, many more. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the American Friends Service Committee.

Lyons Press 2002 233 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

The Lives Of Agnes Smedley

BY RUTH PRICE
Was she a selfless political activist? A feminist heroine? A gifted writer who rose from poverty to become a leading journalist and author of the cult classic Daughter of Earth? A spy for the Soviet Union? Fermenter of armed rebellion? It seems she was all these things. This vibrant book brings to life one of the twentieth century's most fascinating women on her unlikely trajectory from Quaker lineage in a small Missouri town to the coal country of Colorado; to Berkeley, to Berlin, Moscow, and China. Fueled by a fury at injustice, Smedley threw herself headlong into the issues of the time, from Indian independence to birth control, women's rights, and the revolution in China.

Oxford U P 2004 497 PP. Cloth

$5.00 (in stock)

Living With Nature's Extremes

The Life Of Gilbert Fowler White.

BY ROBERT HINSHAW
Quaker Gilbert White has been called the most internallionally renown geographer of the twentieth century, and one who personified the ideal of a natural resources scientist committed to stewardship of our planet. He has educated the nation and the world on how to change the ways we manage water resources, mitigate natural hazards, and assess the environment. What was less obvioius was Gilbert's very human approach to life. He worked best at resolving differences behing the scenes, holding a deep belief in the dignity and worth of each individual. This book is both biography and memoir - it s a tribute to a scientist who changed the scientific community and the world.

Johnson Books 2006 338 PP. Paper

$7.50 (in stock)

The Loud Book

BY DEBORAH UNDERWOOD
There are lots of LOUD, and this book illustrates them well. Perfect complement to the Quiet Book that can help explain how to behave in Meeting for Worship.

Houghton Mifflin 2010 32 PP. Cloth

$6.50 (in stock)

Love Life Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is often remembered only as a figure of literary genius, author of The Sorrows of Young Werther and Faust. Yet Goethe was driven by much more than the desire for literary success: he wanted (much the same as us) to live life well. In Love, Life, Goethe, John Armstrong tells the dramatic life story of this great poet--a representative man akin to Wordsworth in England or Emerson in America. I, Armstrong explores the main themes of our lives through the life of Goethe, and helps us learn how to live.

FSG books 2006 474 PP. Cloth

$4.50 (in stock)

Lovelock & Gaia

Signs Of Life

BY JON TURNEY
A small paperback sized hardback that looks at Lovelock's idea that the Earth is almost a self regulating superorganism, That from bacteria in rain clouds, or deep in the earth to Glaciers and huge forest fires the Earth is a fantastically complex planet that adjusts to keep its biosphere optimized. Now the trouble is that it is optimized for "life" -not for Humanity. Lovelock remains a scientific outsider, but Gaia is now a more mainstream theory.

Columbia University Press 2003 154 PP. Cloth

$5.50 (in stock)

Mable Riley

A Reliable Record Of Humdrum, Peril, And Romance

BY MARTHE JOCELYN
It's the year 1901, and fourteen-year-old aspiring writer Mable Riley is on her way to fulfilling her dreams, or so she hopes. She's sure that moving with her sister to a faraway town will bring adventures full of peril and romance to write about! At first, it seems that life in the new town is as humdrum as the one she left behind. But then Mable meets a real writer, one who wears daring fashions and enjoys shocking the townsfolk by sharing her opinions. Designed as a vintage journal including diary entries, letters, poems, and Mable's own "Romantic Novel," MABLE RILEY is a reliable record of a young girl's coming of age at a time of women's early struggles for independence .P, Candlewick

2004 268 PP Cloth

$5.00 (in stock)

Magdalene Moment

MANNING
In recent years, scandals involving sexual abuse, politics, money, and morality have rocked mainstream Christianity. At the same time, The Da Vinci Code spent over two years on the bestseller lists and sparked massive interest in Mary Magdalene. Joanna Manning argues that this is no coincidence, and that Christianity's future depends on a fundamental shift toward the issues of today. She explores some of those issues here, including women's roles, erotic and sexual diversity, the environment and the new cosmology, and religious pluralism.

Raincoast Books 2006 230 PP. Cloth

$5.50 (in stock)

Magnificent Healing

BY EARTH MAMA
We live in a time that cries out for healing - healing of ourselves, our communities and our earth. I offer this music as accompaniment for your spirit-led journey towards healing and peace. 8 songs about such healing 1. All I do Today 2. Bless Our Steps 3. How Would We Live? 4. Just To Be 5. Mending Song 6. Oh Earth 7. Mending Song II - Instrumental 8. Under the Rainbow - Instrumental.

Rouse House 2003 CD Disk

$10.00 (in stock)

Mahboba's Promise

How One Woman Made A World Of Difference

BY MAHBOBA RAWI
An Afghani refugee who found a new life in Australia only to lose her son in a tragic accident, today she is the driving force behind 'Mahboba's Promise', a groundbreaking internationally recognized aid organization that is one of the few that delivers desperately needed food, shelter, medical attention, education and hope to thousands of children and women whose lives have been destroyed by war in her native Afghanistan.

Bantam Books (Australia) 2005 272 PP. Paper

$5.50 (in stock)

The Making Of Luke-acts

BY HENRY J CADBURY
Henry J. Cadbury's analysis of the making of Luke-Acts is organized around four principal factors that affected that final form: the materials that were accessible to the author; the language and genre in which the author was writing; the author's own individual personality, often expressed unconsciously; and the author's conscious purpose in composition. The Making of Luke-Acts was first published in 1927 and has remained a mainstay in Lucan studies ever since. This edition includes a new introduction by Quaker Paul Anderson, George Fox University.

Baker Academic reprint of Hendrickson edition 1927 385 PP. Paper

$7.50 (in stock)

Making Peace

One Woman's Journey Around The World

BY JAN PHILLIPS
This book is the journal of Quaker Jan Phillip's peace pilgrimage around the world in 1983. Many Friends have found her prose and photographs inspiring and very special as she recounts her spiritual transformation moving from Western to Eastern culture - and then back to the West. Here are encounters with relatively unknown peace activists and institutions in many countries.

Friendship Press 1989 120 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Making Peace

Poems

BY DENISE LEVERTOV
Three decades of poems inspired by thinking of peace during times of war. A voice from the dark called out,The poets must give us imagination of peace, to oust the intense, familiar imagination of disaster. Peace, not only the absence of war.

New Directions 2006 64 PP. Paper

$3.00 (in stock)

Manifesto For A New World Order

BY GEORGE MONBIOT
George Monbiot, a noted British journalist on environmental issues has been persona non grata in seven countries, was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment in Indonesia, has been shot at, beaten up by military police, shipwrecked, and stung into a coma during 7 years of investigative journeys across Africa, Asia, and the Americas. In this book he puts forward his ideas that could get us through our current crises, and improve the lifes of all the worlds people.

Free Press 2003 274 PP. Cloth

$5.50 (in stock)

Maria Mitchell And The Sexing Of Science (sale)

An Astronomer Among The American Romantics

BY RENE BERGLUND
Born and raised on Nantucket, Quaker Maria Mitchell apprenticed with her father, an amateur astronomer. In 1847, thanks to her diligent "sweeps" of the sky, Mitchell discovered the eponymous comet that would catapult her to international fame. Soon she was hired as the "computer of Venus," a sort of human calculator, for the U.S. Nautical Almanac. Mitchell later joined the founding faculty at Vassar, where she sadly watched opportunities for her students vanish as science morphed from a private pursuit to a public profession, and the increasingly male scientific establishment closedranks. Was $30 now $10

Beacon Press 2008 300 PP. Cloth

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Martin Luther King Jr

FRADY, MARSHALL
Re-creating the life and turbulent times of the civil rights movement's inspirational leader, the author offers fascinating insights into his subject's magnetic character and explores the complexities of King's relationships with other civil rights leaders, the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover.

Penquin Books 2005 216 PP. Paper

$3.50 (in stock)

Means And Ends In American Abolitionism

Garrison And His Critics On Strategy And Tactics 1834-1850

BY AILEEN KRADITOR
Focuses on arguments over the role of women in the Anti-Slavery Society, over religion, and over political action. She sees a struggle between "respectability" and radical action which continues to reverberate. "From first to last this lucid, important book challenges preconceptions. Obviously Professor Kraditor intends to provoke critical reexamination of many points she raises, and in this she is brilliantly successful.... Her book is a fruitful exploration into the history of a great movement."--Harold M. Hyman, Book World. "Original, perceptive, provocative."--American Historical Review

Ivan Dee 1989 311 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Memories

My Life As An International Leader In Health, Suffrage, And Peace

BY ALETTA JACOBS
A pioneering Dutch feminist, the first woman to gain a medical degree in Holland, she visited America and worked closely with Jane Addams and others. She was with Quakers in Berlin after WW1 helping start the relief efforts for the starving. An organizer of the 1915 Hague conference, world traveler under a concern for birth control and health reforms for prostitutes and the poorer women.

Feminist Press 1996 248 PP. Paper

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Milton, Poet Pamphleteer And Patriot 1608-1674

BY ANNA BEER
The blind poet Milton was a contemporary of the early Quakers, and a great Friend of Thomas Ellwood who would read to him in Latin most afternoons. It was while escaping the plaque in London in a house arranged by Ellwood that he began Paradise lost. A fascinating tale of a great man, and a glimpse into England at time of the beginnings of Quakerism.

Bloomsbury UK 2008 458 PP. Cloth

$6.00 (in stock)

Mind The Light

Learning To See With Spiritual Eyes

BY BRENT BILL
This profound little book invites readers to see both their inner and outer lives with spiritual eyes. "To mind the light" is a Quaker practice of learning to see God's light both around and inside us. Depending on its strength, tone, and slant light changes how we perceive the world and other people. Depending on how we respond to it, illumination can help us grow in appreciation of the soulful things of life. Minding the Light invites readers of all backgrounds to explore the connectedness between inner vision and outer perception, between the life of the soul and the every day of life before us.

Paraclete Press 2006 152 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

Miracles

Wonders Jesus Worked

BY MARY HOFFMAN, ILLUS. BY JACKIE MORRIS
From the successful author/illustrator team of Parables: Stories Jesus Told comes a compelling new companion. Miracles: Wonders Jesus Worked, like its predecessor, is especially written to introduce young readers to stories of the Bible in language they can understand and relate to. Soft, lush watercolors by Jackie Morris beautifully illustrate these simple retellings of nine miracles that Jesus performed during his lifetime. each story is related in accessible language and includes a brief introduction for each miracle, encouraging children to see how their lives and needs are not so different from those of people living 2,000 years ago. Ages 4-9.

Penguin 2001 32 PP. Cloth

$4.00 (in stock)

Mirrors Stories Of Almost Everyone

EDUARDO GALLEANO
He uses the past to comment on the present: juxtaposing the origin of the Hindu caste system and the untouchable class, whose members were responsible for cleaning up the wreckage of the 2004 tsunami, revealing how the casualties of the invasion of Iraq were not only human but memory itself, embodied by the destruction of priceless artifacts from the birthplace of writing. These vignettes embrace the exalted and the humble, and consistently privilege the narratives of the dispossessed--indigenous people, women and accounts from the global south.

FSG 2009 400 PP. Cloth

$6.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Mission

Waging War And Keeping Peace With Americas Military

BY DANA PRIEST
With interviews, access and insight at all levels of the American military Dana Priest looks at the new role of the US military. Fighting a "war" on "terrorism", and peace keeping in the most difficult situations. Mostly unprepared, unequipped and unable to talk with or understand the locals and with unclear aims. A useful book to understand the present day US armed forces.

Norton 2003 425 PP. Paper

$2.00 (in stock)

Natural Conflict Resolution

BY FRAN DE WAALS, FILLIPO AURELI
Aggression and competition are often assumed to be the natural state of affairs in both human society and the animal kingdom. Yet, as this book demonstrates, our speciesand others rely heavily on cooperation for survival. Inclu des essays by 52 authors with backgrounds in both human andanimal behavoir, as well as brief discussion of Quaker inf luence on arbitration in colonial America. Also addresses the cultural, ecological, cognitive, emotional and moral p erpectives of conflict resolution. "It makes one see conflict resolution among humans through a new and fascinating lens. This is a landmark contribution!" - William Ury

University of California Press 2000 409 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)