How We Win author George Lakey witnesses against mountain-top removal with the Earth Quaker Action Team in 2010. | Image credit: WagingNonviolence.org
“Books That Have Changed Us” is the fascinating theme of Friends Journal’s annual book review issue this month.
How We Win offers activist George Lakey’s nonviolent strategies for direct action, for example, while The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism presents a comprehensive look at Quakerism, historically and as it is today.
Explore the rest of our featured titles from Friends Journal's November issue here.
In the Light,
Audrey Greenhall, Manager for QuakerBooks
Featured Titles for November 13th, 2018
How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning
by George Lakey
Today’s new direct action campaigns require a new, down-to-earth guide to effective campaigning. George Lakey’s How We Win is that timely guide. The Women’s March of January 21, 2017 was estimated at four million people — the largest assembly of activist protest in U.S. history. Many of those assembled were in the streets for the first time, or returning after a period of inactivity.
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The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism
By Stephen Angell and Pink Dandelion
The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism offers a fresh, up-to-date, and accessible introduction to Quakerism. Quakerism is founded on radical ideas and its history of constancy and change offers fascinating insights into the nature of non-conformity. In a series of eighteen essays written by an international team of scholars, and commissioned especially for this volume, the Companion covers the history of Quakerism from its origins to the present day.
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