WWFOR Library of Books

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

Subject

Spirituality in Peace

Title

Author

The Tao of Peace

Diane Dreher

No Royal Road to Reconciliation

Gene Knudsen Hoffman

The Creative Family

Ikeda

Soul of a Citizen

Paul Rogat Loeb

Coming Back to Life

Joanne Macy, Molly Yang Brown

Journey into Compassion

James McGinnes

Heat Politics

Fran Peavey

Out of Weakness

Andrew Bard Schmookler

Solidarity and Suffering

Douglas Strum

Subject

Environmental Movement

Title

Author

The Green Lifestyle Handbook

Edited by Jeremy Rifkin

The Earth First! Li'l Green Song book

Johnny Sagebrush and Friends

Eyes of Fire

David Robie

Subject

Race Relations

Title

Author

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

The Children

David Halberstam

Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Parallel Time

Brent Staples

Prejudice: Japanese-Americans Symbol of Racial Intolerence

Carey McWilliams

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63

Taylor Branch

Freedom Ride

James Peck

Alien Child

Mona Lee

Subject

Nonviolence Pioneers

Gandhi the Man

Eknath Easwaran

Mohatma Gandhi, His Own Story

Edited by C. F. Andrews

The Moral and Political Thoughts of Mohatma Gandhi

Raghavan Iyer

Gandhi's Truth

Erik H. Erikson

Gandhi- His Life and Message for the World

Louis Fischer

The Essential Gandhi

Edited by Louis Fischer

Gandhi on Non-violence

Thomas Merton

Gandhi

Geoffrey Ashe

Nelson Mandela: The Man and the Movement

Mary Benson

The Words of Martin Luther King Jr.

Selected by Coretta Scott King

Strenght to Love

Martin Luther King Jr.

I Have A Dream

Edited by James M. Washington

Roots of Resistance

William D. Watley

Stride Toward Freedom

Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Spirit-led Profit

Richard Deats

Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?

Martin Luther King Jr.

Subject

Africa

Theology and Violence- The South African Debate

Edited by Charles Villa-Vicencio

Violence and Nonviolence in South Africa- Jesus' Third Way

Walter Wink

A History of Africa

Hosea Jaffe

Agribusiness in Africa

Barbara Dinham, Colin Hines

Africa in Crisis- The Causes, the Cures of Environmental bankruptcy

Lloyd Timberlake

Subject

Religion

Towards a Quaker View of "Russia"

Published by The Northern Friends Peace Board

The Quaker Way of Life

William Wistar Comfort

The Nonviolent Cross- A Theory of Revolution and Peace

James W. Douglass

Jesus, Gandhi, and the Nuclear Age- Lightning East to West

James W. Douglass

The Nonviolent Coming of God

James W. Douglass

Speak Truth to Power

American Friends Service Committee

The Universe Bends Toward Justice- A Reader on Christian Nonviolence in the U.S.

Edited by Angie O'Gorman

War Against the Poor- Low Intensity Conflict and Christian Faith

Jack Nelson-Pallmeyeor

Words of Conscience

The National Interreligious Service Board For Conscientious Objectors

War and The Gospel

Jean Lasserre

With Our Own Eyes

Don Mosley

Roots of Jewish Nonviolence

Jewish Peace Fellowship

Religion for the Hard Headed

Alice Franklin Bryant

Pilgrim to the Russian Church

Jim Forest

Disarmed and Dangerous

Murray Polner, Jim O'Grady

New Seeds of Contemplation

Thomas Merton

Harvey Cox on not Leaving it to the Snake

Harvey Cox

A Spectacle unto the World- The Chatholic Worker Movement

Robert Coles

The Wounded Healer

Henri J. M. Nouwen

Does Civilization Need Religion?

Reinhold Niebuhr

Religious Liberty and the Secular State

John M. Swomley

Communities

Jeanne Hinton

WCRP: A History of the the World Conference on Religion and Peace

Hormer A. Jack

Until Justice and Peace Embrace

Nicholas Wolterstorff

Subject

Revolution

Doing Democracy

Bill Moyer

Resource Manual for Living Revolution

Virginia Coover

The Progressive Movement

Richard Hofstadter

The Organizers Manual

O.M. Collective

Reflections on the Revolution of our Time

Harold J. Laski

The Eloquence of Protest- Voices of the 70's

Edited by Harrison E. Salisbury

Seeds of Liberation

Edited by Paul Goodman

Generation at the Crossroads

Paul Rogat Loeb

Powerful Peace Making- A Strategy for Living Revolution

George Lakey

How to Make the World a Better Place

Jeffrey Hollender

Revolution and Evolution in the 20th Century

James and Grace Lee Boggs

Labor Up-front

Gus Hall

Subject

Economics

The Unsettling of America Culture and Agriculture

Wendell Berry

The Overburdened Economy

Lloyd Jeffrey Dumas

Against the Stream

Gunnar Myrdal

The Sanctions Handbook

Joseph Hanlon

America, Inc.

Morton Mintz

Subject

World Peace

Hope in Hard Times

Paul Rogat Loeb

Waging Peace for a Living

Walt Taylor

A Common Sense Guide to World Peace

Benjamin B. Ferencz

The Anatomy of Peace

Emery Reves

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace

Gore Vidal

Subject

American Trends

American Power and the New Mandarins

Noam Chomsley

The Other America, Poverty in the United States

Michael Harrington

The Next America: The Decline and Rise of the United States

Michael Harrington

The New Politics of Inequality

Thomas Byrne Edsall

The Crimes of Patriots

Jonathan Rwitny

When Work Disappears

William Julius Wilson

The Rights we Have

Osmond R. Fraenkel

Danger on the Right

Arnold Forster, Benjamin R. Epstein

The Crucial Decade: America 1945-1960

Eric F. Goldman

Who Will Tell the People?

William Greider

The New Conservatives- An Article from the Left

Lewis A. Coser

The Lonely Crowd

David Reisman, Nathan Glazer, Revel Denney

Radicalism in America

Sidney Lens

Live and let Live, A Program for American

Stewart Chase

Subject

Middle East

Islam

Karen Armstrong

The Peace Terrorists, A Personal Story of the Middle East Crisis

Faye E. Williams

Blockade

Richard R. Taylor

Security and the Middle East

Ballantine Books

A Man to Match his Mountains, Badshah Kahn, Nonviolent Soldier of Islam

Eknath Easwaran

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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