NEW!
Seattle Chapter purchased several books about race and racism for the WWFOR library: "Creating a World that Works for All" by Sharif Abdullah, "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James W Loewen, "Uprooting Racism" by Paul Kivel, "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" by Beverly Daniel Tatum.Please call the Seattle office, 206-789-5565 to arrange to come in and browse or to borrow books, or if it is inconvenient to come in, to have books mailed.
This list is imcomplete, lots more books for people to browse through in person.Books on Spirituality in Peace || Environmental Movement || Race Relations || Nonviolence Pioneers || Africa || Religion || Revolution || Economics || World Peace || American Trends || Middle East
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Spirituality in Peace |
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Author |
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The Tao of Peace |
Diane Dreher |
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No Royal Road to Reconciliation |
Gene Knudsen Hoffman |
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The Creative Family |
Ikeda |
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Soul of a Citizen |
Paul Rogat Loeb |
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Coming Back to Life |
Joanne Macy, Molly Yang Brown |
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Journey into Compassion |
James McGinnes |
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Heat Politics |
Fran Peavey |
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Out of Weakness |
Andrew Bard Schmookler |
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Solidarity and Suffering |
Douglas Strum |
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Environmental Movement |
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Author |
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The Green Lifestyle Handbook |
Edited by Jeremy Rifkin |
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The Earth First! Li'l Green Song book |
Johnny Sagebrush and Friends |
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Eyes of Fire |
David Robie |
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Race Relations |
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Author |
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The Fire Next Time |
James Baldwin |
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The Children |
David Halberstam |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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Parallel Time |
Brent Staples |
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Prejudice: Japanese-Americans Symbol of Racial Intolerence |
Carey McWilliams |
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 |
Taylor Branch |
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Freedom Ride |
James Peck |
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Alien Child |
Mona Lee |
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Nonviolence Pioneers |
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Gandhi the Man |
Eknath Easwaran |
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Mohatma Gandhi, His Own Story |
Edited by C. F. Andrews |
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The Moral and Political Thoughts of Mohatma Gandhi |
Raghavan Iyer |
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Gandhi's Truth |
Erik H. Erikson |
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Gandhi- His Life and Message for the World |
Louis Fischer |
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The Essential Gandhi |
Edited by Louis Fischer |
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Gandhi on Non-violence |
Thomas Merton |
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Gandhi |
Geoffrey Ashe |
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Nelson Mandela: The Man and the Movement |
Mary Benson |
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The Words of Martin Luther King Jr. |
Selected by Coretta Scott King |
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Strenght to Love |
Martin Luther King Jr. |
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I Have A Dream |
Edited by James M. Washington |
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Roots of Resistance |
William D. Watley |
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Stride Toward Freedom |
Martin Luther King Jr. |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Spirit-led Profit |
Richard Deats |
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Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? |
Martin Luther King Jr. |
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Africa |
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Theology and Violence- The South African Debate |
Edited by Charles Villa-Vicencio |
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Violence and Nonviolence in South Africa- Jesus' Third Way |
Walter Wink |
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A History of Africa |
Hosea Jaffe |
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Agribusiness in Africa |
Barbara Dinham, Colin Hines |
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Africa in Crisis- The Causes, the Cures of Environmental bankruptcy |
Lloyd Timberlake |
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Religion |
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Towards a Quaker View of "Russia" |
Published by The Northern Friends Peace Board |
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The Quaker Way of Life |
William Wistar Comfort |
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The Nonviolent Cross- A Theory of Revolution and Peace |
James W. Douglass |
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Jesus, Gandhi, and the Nuclear Age- Lightning East to West |
James W. Douglass |
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The Nonviolent Coming of God |
James W. Douglass |
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Speak Truth to Power |
American Friends Service Committee |
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The Universe Bends Toward Justice- A Reader on Christian Nonviolence in the U.S. |
Edited by Angie O'Gorman |
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War Against the Poor- Low Intensity Conflict and Christian Faith |
Jack Nelson-Pallmeyeor |
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Words of Conscience |
The National Interreligious Service Board For Conscientious Objectors |
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War and The Gospel |
Jean Lasserre |
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With Our Own Eyes |
Don Mosley |
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Roots of Jewish Nonviolence |
Jewish Peace Fellowship |
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Religion for the Hard Headed |
Alice Franklin Bryant |
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Pilgrim to the Russian Church |
Jim Forest |
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Disarmed and Dangerous |
Murray Polner, Jim O'Grady |
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New Seeds of Contemplation |
Thomas Merton |
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Harvey Cox on not Leaving it to the Snake |
Harvey Cox |
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A Spectacle unto the World- The Chatholic Worker Movement |
Robert Coles |
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The Wounded Healer |
Henri J. M. Nouwen |
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Does Civilization Need Religion? |
Reinhold Niebuhr |
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Religious Liberty and the Secular State |
John M. Swomley |
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Communities |
Jeanne Hinton |
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WCRP: A History of the the World Conference on Religion and Peace |
Hormer A. Jack |
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Until Justice and Peace Embrace |
Nicholas Wolterstorff |
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Revolution |
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Doing Democracy |
Bill Moyer |
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Resource Manual for Living Revolution |
Virginia Coover |
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The Progressive Movement |
Richard Hofstadter |
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The Organizers Manual |
O.M. Collective |
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Reflections on the Revolution of our Time |
Harold J. Laski |
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The Eloquence of Protest- Voices of the 70's |
Edited by Harrison E. Salisbury |
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Seeds of Liberation |
Edited by Paul Goodman |
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Generation at the Crossroads |
Paul Rogat Loeb |
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Powerful Peace Making- A Strategy for Living Revolution |
George Lakey |
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How to Make the World a Better Place |
Jeffrey Hollender |
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Revolution and Evolution in the 20th Century |
James and Grace Lee Boggs |
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Labor Up-front |
Gus Hall |
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Economics |
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The Unsettling of America Culture and Agriculture |
Wendell Berry |
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The Overburdened Economy |
Lloyd Jeffrey Dumas |
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Against the Stream |
Gunnar Myrdal |
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The Sanctions Handbook |
Joseph Hanlon |
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America, Inc. |
Morton Mintz |
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World Peace |
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Hope in Hard Times |
Paul Rogat Loeb |
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Waging Peace for a Living |
Walt Taylor |
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A Common Sense Guide to World Peace |
Benjamin B. Ferencz |
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The Anatomy of Peace |
Emery Reves |
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace |
Gore Vidal |
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American Trends |
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American Power and the New Mandarins |
Noam Chomsley |
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The Other America, Poverty in the United States |
Michael Harrington |
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The Next America: The Decline and Rise of the United States |
Michael Harrington |
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The New Politics of Inequality |
Thomas Byrne Edsall |
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The Crimes of Patriots |
Jonathan Rwitny |
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When Work Disappears |
William Julius Wilson |
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The Rights we Have |
Osmond R. Fraenkel |
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Danger on the Right |
Arnold Forster, Benjamin R. Epstein |
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The Crucial Decade: America 1945-1960 |
Eric F. Goldman |
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Who Will Tell the People? |
William Greider |
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The New Conservatives- An Article from the Left |
Lewis A. Coser |
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The Lonely Crowd |
David Reisman, Nathan Glazer, Revel Denney |
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Radicalism in America |
Sidney Lens |
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Live and let Live, A Program for American |
Stewart Chase |
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Middle East |
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Islam |
Karen Armstrong |
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The Peace Terrorists, A Personal Story of the Middle East Crisis |
Faye E. Williams |
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Blockade |
Richard R. Taylor |
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Security and the Middle East |
Ballantine Books |
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A Man to Match his Mountains, Badshah Kahn, Nonviolent Soldier of Islam |
Eknath Easwaran |
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Ropes of Sand, America's Failure in the Middle East |
Wilbur Crane Eveland |
Great thanks to Abe Keller Peace Education Foundation interns, Natasha, Brian, Sierra, and Alena who categorized and arranged the books, and did all the data entry, among many other useful projects, with guidance from mentors Marcia Mullins and Mike Yarrow.
Updated 5/9/2004, web posted by Jean Buskin Email: bb369@scn.org
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