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August 2017 Books
August 2017 Books
Face to Face: Early Quaker Encounters with the Bible
By T. Vail Palmer Jr. Barclay Press, 2016. 288 pages. $20/paperback. In Face to Face, T. Vail Palmer Jr. creates…
Reviewed by Tom Paxson
August 2017 Books
Moral Commerce: Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy
By Julie L. Holcomb. Cornell University Press, 2016. 252 pages. $39.95/hardcover or eBook. Those who know much about Quaker history…
Reviewed by Larry Ingle
August 2017 Books
13th
Written by Ava DuVernay and Spencer Averick, directed by Ava DuVernay. Netflix Documentary, 2016. 100 minutes. Public screenings are free…
Reviewed by David Etheridge
August 2017 Books
Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine
By Alice Rothchild. Just World Books, 2017. 283 pages. $19.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. In Steve Feldman’s book Compartments, the well-known dermatologist chronicles…
Reviewed by Max Carter
August 2017 Books
Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good
By Chuck Collins. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2016. 267 pages. $17.95/paperback or eBook. Once, when two Friends from Kenya were visiting,…
Reviewed by Mary Gilbert
August 2017 Books
How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation
By Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman. Avery, 2016. 288 pages. $26/hardcover; $17.99/paperback; $12.99/eBook. “Based on our scientific evidence, I…
Reviewed by Phila Hoopes
August 2017 Books
Meeting at the Center: Living Love and Reconciling One with Another
By Bruce Birchard. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 442), 2016. 32 pages. $7/pamphlet. In this pamphlet, based on a 2011 plenary…
Reviewed by Marty Grundy
August 2017 Books
You Will Not Have My Hate
By Antoine Leiris, translated by Sam Taylor. Penguin Press, 2016. 144 pages. $23/hardcover; $15/paperback; $11.99/eBook. Antoine Leiris began writing You…
Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee
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