June-July 2023 Books

June-July 2023 Books

War By Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance

By Daniel Akst. Melville House, 2022. 368 pages. $28.99/hardcover; $16.99/eBook. An interview with the reviewer is included in our June…

Reviewed by Jean Parvin Bordewich

June-July 2023 Books

Friends and Comrades: How Quakers Helped Russians to Survive Famine and Epidemic

By Sergei Nikitin, translated by Suzanne Eade Roberts. Quacks Books, 2022. 385 pages. $15/paperback; $14.99/eBook. Reviewing Friends and Comrades was…

Reviewed by Steve Jenkins

June-July 2023 Books

Echoes from Wuhan: The Past as Prologue

By Gretchen Dykstra. Atmosphere Press, 2022. 414 pages. $18.95/paperback; $7.99/eBook. Many of us were not aware of the Chinese city…

Reviewed by Tom Head

June-July 2023 Books

Beyond Linear Thinking: Changing the Way We Live and Work (Third Edition)

By Linda Seger. Red Typewriter Press, 2022. 263 pages. $12.99/paperback; $7.99/eBook. An interview with Linda Seger is included in the…

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

June-July 2023 Books

What Woman That Was: Poems for Mary Dyer

By Anne Myles. Final Thursday Press, 2022. 60 pages. $14.95/paperback. I think the most startling revelation that came from this…

Reviewed by Michael S. Glaser

June-July 2023 Books

Lost for Words: The Poetry of Mindfulness and Non-Duality

By Martin Wells. Mantra Books, 2022. 104 pages. $14.95/paperback; $11.99/eBook. According to the author, these poems just appeared daily on…

Reviewed by James Foritano

June-July 2023 Books

In Brief: Finding Our Foundation: A History of Plumstead Friends Meeting

By Carol Ann Gray. Self-published, 2022. 218 pages. $21.99/paperback. Plumstead Meeting in Bucks County, Pa., is the focus of this…

Reviewed by Kathleen Jenkins and Sharlee DiMenichi

June-July 2023 Books

In Brief: Deborah Theado: A Life

By Theo Mace. Self-published, 2022. 149 pages. $8/paperback. As a combination biography and memoir written by the deceased subject’s former…

Reviewed by Kathleen Jenkins and Sharlee DiMenichi

June-July 2023 Books

In Brief: Friendly Leadership: Humanely Influencing Others

By Donn Weinholtz. Full Media Services, 2021. 88 pages. $9.95/paperback or eBook. Donn Weinholtz is a Quaker who drew upon…

Reviewed by Kathleen Jenkins and Sharlee DiMenichi

June-July 2023 Books

In Brief: Living Suns 

By Sara Cupp Smith, Sajjad Gheytasi, and Glen Smith. Self-published, 2022. 192 pages. $33/hardcover; $25/paperback; $3/eBook. Living Suns is a…

Reviewed by Kathleen Jenkins and Sharlee DiMenichi

June-July 2023 Books

In Brief: Where the Evidence Leads: A Realistic Strategy for Peace and Human Security

By Robert C. Johansen. Oxford University Press, 2021. 448 pages. $99/hardcover; $34.95/paperback; $23.99/eBook. This volume in the Studies in Strategic…

Reviewed by Kathleen Jenkins and Sharlee DiMenichi

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War By Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance

June 1, 2023

Friends and Comrades: How Quakers Helped Russians to Survive Famine and Epidemic

June 1, 2023

Echoes from Wuhan: The Past as Prologue

June 1, 2023