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Peace Pilgrim
Her Life and Work in Her Own Words (compiled by some of her friends)
Peace Pilgrim
$16
ISBN: 978-0-943734-29-3
224 pages, perfectbound
Photographs, appendix, index
Here is the best-selling account of a most remarkable and determined American woman. Peace Pilgrim walked alone and penniless, with just the clothes on her back, as an engaging and compelling witness for peace from 1953 until 1981. “Walking until given shelter and fasting until given food,” she carried a simple yet powerfully enduring message of peace. She walked through every state, as well as in Canada and Mexico, speaking in classrooms and churches, encouraging others to find the inner peace she so clearly lived every moment of every day.
A few of her friends later gathered her writings and talks into this first-person account of Peace’s experiences and beliefs. Peace Pilgrim is now published in 18 languages, with over half a million copies in print. Included are photographs, news accounts of her journey, and a large section of questions and answers.
“Here is an American saint who transcended all national, religious, or sectarian bonds. Her life was her teaching.”
— Dan Millman, author of Way of the Peaceful Warrior
“A wonderful lady, a wonderful book! It should be read by everybody who loves peace and the simple life.”
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“A unique book by a unique woman. Highly recommended.”
— Library Journal
Peace Pilgrim's Wisdom
A Very Simple Guide
Compiled by Cheryl Canfield
$17 (new edition)
ISBN: 978-0-943734-55-2
224 pages, Perfectbound, line drawings
An authentic American sage, Peace Pilgrim walked the highways and byways of our land continually for nearly three decades. Cheerfully penniless, she carried into schools, churches, homes, and lives her simple message about attaining peace. Cheryl Canfield, one of the compilers of the original Peace Pilgrim book, has gathered 365 of Peace’s profound reflections—one for every day of the year—for people who want to integrate simple and potent spiritual truths into their lives.
Canfield suggests opening your morning with one of these passages, to set the tone for the day and again to reflect on it before retiring at night. She provides space with each to add your own inspirations. Peace Pilgrim’s Wisdom is a powerful companion for spiritual growth.
Gandhi's Seven Steps to Global Change
Guy de Mallac
$16
ISBN: 978-0-943734-16-3
96 pages, perfectbound. Bibliography, chronology, resources list.
Mahatma Gandhi's remarkably simple principles apply to today's worldwide challenges of injustice, poverty and exploitation, just as they did in India's successful struggle for independence. Here for the first time the Gandhian steps are spelled out simply and precisely.
Guy de Mallac was a student of Mohandas K. Gandhi's methods and principles as perhaps no other scholar. In this book for the first time the Gandhian steps are spelled out clearly and precisely, with sample problems and suggestions for action.
Explained are the principles of Selfless Service, Fair Labor, Nonviolence, Conciliation, Shared Government, Education, and Resource Sharing. These are the practical heart and soul of the Gandhian way.
Included are a chronology of the Mahatma's life, a history of nonviolent action, as well as suggested personal and public goals.
Mikhail Gorbachev "A Road to the Future"
Complete Text of the December 1988 UN Address
Mikhail Gorbachev
$5.95
ISBN: 978-0-943734-13-3
48 pages, paperbound
This dynamic head of state astonished the world with his visionary and wide-ranging United Nations address on December 7, 1988. Here is the complete text in English.
"In what may be the most important speech ever delivered before the General Assembly, Gorbachev put on a bravura performance of new political thinking, and set an agenda for a post-Cold War political order."
—Time Magazine
"A blueprint for the 21st Century." — Santa Fe New Mexican
Peace Like a River
A Personal Journey Across America
Sue Guist
$8.95
ISBN: 978-0-943734-17-0
224 pages, perfectbound
Photographs and drawings
Find what it was like to walk across America--20 miles a day for nine months, in good weather and bad, with companions as diverse as Buddhist monks, Vietnam vets and teenage anarchists. Motivated by her desire to help free the world from a nuclear wasteland Sue Guist headed out across the Mojave Desert on the Great Peace March of 1986, at an age when many people have put their most adventuresome years behind them.
Learn what she discovered about peacemaking with strangers, patience, endurance, the magic of life's simplest pleasures, and trusting in the road's next bend.
The Great Peace March: An American Odyssey
Franklin Folsom and Connie Fledderjohann
$10.95
ISBN: 978-0-943734-14-9
208 pages, perfectbound, size: 7.5” x 9”
100 photographs, drawings, appendices
The Great Peace March began as a noble dream: Hundreds walking enmasse across America to demand an end to the nuclear arms race. It began in March 1986 in Los Angeles with 1,200 marchers--old and young, from nearly every state and ten countries--and nearly ended two weeks later in the rain and cold of the Mojave Desert with the financial collapse of its sponsor.
But the press underestimated the hardiness and fierce determination of these marchers. After an incredible nine-month odyssey of hardships, new friendships, learning, teaching and growing, the marchers reached their goal and a tumultuous welcome at Lincoln’s Monument in Washington, D.C.
Here is their fascinating story: How they did it, people they encountered along the way, and what their accomplishment achieved for the American peace movement. Written by two distinguished march leaders and illustrated with many photographs and drawings.
Steps Toward Inner Peace
Harmonious Principles for Human Living
Peace Pilgrim
$8
ISBN: 978-0-943734-24-8
64 pages, Quality perfect binding
Between 1953 and 1981, Peace Pilgrim walked more than 25,000 miles across North America. She "walked until given shelter and fasted until given food," bearing a simple yet profound message of peace. This is the gift edition of the little booklet she shared with people she encountered along the way.
In her simple blue tunic, Peace Pilgrim carried all her worldly possessions, vowing to "remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace."
She met and talked with people along dusty roads and city streets, to church and college groups, on TV and radio, covering the entire peace picture: peace among nations, groups and individuals — and the very important inner peace. Her message was disarmingly simple:
"Overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love."
Gandhi Through a Child's Eyes
An Intimate Memoir
Narayan Desai
$8
ISBN: 978-0-943734-23-1
64 pages, perfectbound
photos, index
Narayan Desai grew from young boyhood in Mahatma Gandhi's household. Here is a rare, intimate and revealing portrait of one of history's great people. "Gandhi was father to the ashram, leader of the nation, Mahatma to the common Indian, but to us children he was simply a friend.”
Victories Without Violence
Ruth A. Fry
$6 (ISBN: 978-0-943734-06-4)
88 pages, perfectbound
Can the weak overcome the strong? Can music “soothe the savage beast?” Can an unarmed innocent confront brutality and prevail? Across the centuries, the weak have been attacked by the strong, and yet through meek and wise means they have often prevailed! In these accounts you will find inspiring evidence that physical force is not the last word in human affairs.
Learning from these true stories gathered by A. Ruth Fry you will discover how to better handle all kinds of conflict situations, using principles that endure throughout time.
When I Listen
to the Voice of God’s Love
Marilyn Gatlin and Mary Lou Cook
$9.50 (ISBN: 978-0-943734-34-7)
66 pages, perfectbound
A beautifully calligraphed inspiring gift book
This delightful, hand-calligraphed little treasure is to be read as a meditation, gently inviting you into the sanctuary of peace and divinity you find within. With its gold-embossed cover and each quietly artful page, here is the perfect gift for someone you love — or for yourself.
“There can be nothing more important than he silence of our minds, to trust in God, and to listen to His voice. When I Listen contains the music of God's love, which can be heard when we stop and listen.”
— Jerry Jampolsky
"A book of light--a pure meditation—enriching food for eye and soul."
— Hugh Prather