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Very informative
Have been pleased with the quality and content of information; good resource guide for new Quaker parrot owners.

Good -- but not for experienced bird owner.
If you are researching the Quaker, as a previous bird owner, this may not be the book for you.However, if you are a first time bird owner, I would give it 5 stars.I would have preferred more specific species information.Thank you.

great seller
i ordered this book and received it long before i even expected. the book is in like - new condition. i recommend this seller to anyone who wants quick service and you get exactly what they are advertising.

Cute Pictures!
Great pictures, makes you want to run right out and purchase your parrot! Very informative also. I enjoyed it.

Simple but clear with all the essential info
If you are oriented towards a quaker but don't know much about parrots yet, this book is the best to have a quick resume of everything is important to know. Takes little time to read it all but at the end your ideas will be a lot clearer, you'll know the essential to make your decision about getting a companion quaker or not; and in case you've decided to go for it, the essential to take care of your quaker and make it healthy and happy. In a second time you can deepen in your knowledge with more complex (but potentially confusing for a novice) books on the subject.
The text is quite objective about the level of attention and cares they require but... *beware*, the photos are so endearing that you are not much likely to resist the urge to get one of this cute and intelligent birds right away and start cuddling it... ... Read more

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Shares an introduction to Quaker spirituality covering its history, significant voices, and its characteristic themes, including silent worship, the way of simplicity, prayer, discernment, and an emphasis on inner growth. ... Read more

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The Quakers in America is a multifaceted history of the Religious Society of Friends and a fascinating study of its culture and controversies today. Lively vignettes of Conservative, Evangelical, Friends General Conference, and Friends United meetings illuminate basic Quaker theology and reflect the group's diversity while also highlighting the fundamental unity within the religion. Quaker culture encompasses a rich tradition of practice even as believers continue to debate whether Quakerism is necessarily Christian, where religious authority should reside, how one transmits faith to children, and how gender and sexuality shape religious belief and behavior. Praised for its rich insight and wide-ranging perspective, The Quakers in America is a penetrating account of an influential, vibrant, and often misunderstood religious sect.

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The Quakers In America
Very informative but a bit dry and sometimes hard to follow.A real eye opener.

Learn About Your Neighbors!
It is important to realize that The Quakers in America by Tom Hamm is part of a series on religions in America, and isn't about all Quakers everywhere.It can be easy for non-Quakers in the U.S. to assume that it is a predominantly American religion.However, this is not the case, and therefore to get a true understanding of who Quakers are, it would be more prudent to read something from outside this series.Therefore, considering the confines of the topic, Hamm commendably realizes the necessity of starting the history with the beginning, even though the founder of Quakerism, George Fox, was an British.

In fact, Hamm does a thorough job of exploring everything a person would want to know about American Quakers.He takes special care to explore the diversity of the sects and divisions among Quakers based on differing beliefs and practices.He explains these tendencies both currently and throughout American history.Also in American history, Hamm explores the various ways Quakers both were influential and were influenced.The Quakers were heavily involved in the history of Pennsylvania, in abolitionism, in women's movements, and several key figures in American history were Quakers, such as Alice Paul, Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon.

Most of the book, however, focuses not on Quakers in the spotlight, but on the lives of more typical Quakers.In this way, Hamm invites the reader into the world of being Quaker in America.He has essentially created a guidebook for what one will find upon voyaging into the meetinghouses and listening to discussions of the internal politics or participating in the practices.

Essentially, what this book is perfect for is finding out more about the pacifist users of consensus who value silence, who may or may not be Christian, who believe that God speaks through everyone, and are your neighbors.

a book about diversity
In his book, The Quakers in America, Thomas Hamm attempts to balance unity with diversity, a task as daunting in the writing of a book as in the actual practice of Quakerism. Hamm sets out to write a "scholarly work that trie[s] to describe and explain contemporary American Quakerism in its considerable diversity" (Hamm, vii). His challenge lay in expressing the incredible diversity of a group that is commonly collected and understood (at least from the outside) under a single term. Hamm approaches American Quakerism as a single "it" that can be both described and explained, but he constantly opposes the concept of a "typical" Friend. Hamm writes a detailed and sufficiently objective account of Quakerism in America, orchestrating a careful counterpoint between commonality and divergence in past and present manifestations of American Quakerism.
Although the book focuses on Quakerism as it is today, Hamm believes that any understanding of contemporary Friends necessitates an overview of the movement's history. He dedicates two chapters to the development of Quakerism, from its roots in England in the 1640's through its many divisions after 1800. His history devotes many pages to the Pennsylvania colony.Hamm's discussions of Quaker governmental roles in Pennsylvania provide a precedent for future examinations of the ways in which Friends deal with government and the peace testimony.The history also establishes the origins of certain characteristic practices such as quietism.Hamm examines the divisions that led to the diversity of Quaker groups now in existence.
The Quakers in America is a catalogue of Quaker beliefs, practices, and institutions.No group is missing from Hamm's exhaustively researched work. The chapter entitled "Quaker Faiths and Practices" focuses on the diversity of Quakerism. He details, among other beliefs and practices, worship style of both pastoral Friends and unprogrammed Friends. Following this chapter is a discussion of contemporary Quaker debates. Hamm treats the varying convictions held by contemporary Quakers about such controversial issues as sexuality and leadership. Hamm also examines the question: "how have some Quakers concluded that [Quakerism] is not necessarily Christian?" (Hamm, 122) Those Friends who argue that it is not comprise a relatively small portion of the whole, but Hamm, after the style of consensus seeking, grants them various pages.
Thomas Hamm's main arguments are compounded by the topics he chooses for his introductory chapter and his afterword. His book begins with a tour of four different congregations bearing few similarities to one another.He then asserts that they are all Quaker.He writes: "neat categories for these Friends are difficult to create, and labels can be confusing" (Hamm, 9). Hamm ends his book with a list of "important" Quakers.He writes that they "are not intended as a listing of the fifteen best known Quakers in American history...None can be considered a `typical American Friend.' As a group, they exemplify the diversity of American Quakerism, past and present" (Hamm, 203). Thus, Hamm may be attempting above all to portray Quakerism in a way that does justice to all its diversity, while maintaining a degree of unity and perhaps looking towards future reconciliation.
The strongest areas of The Quakers in America are, ironically, some of the weaker areas also.Hamm's emphasis on diversity provides an extremely wide base of understanding for the newcomer to Quakerism.It may also broaden the knowledge of those more familiar with only some groups of Friends. Hamm dispels stereotypes by showing the great and often unrecognized variety within Quakerism.However, Hamm's attention to diversity sometimes leaves the reader wondering if there is anything that can unite American Friends.Some paragraphs feel like a series of switchbacks and conceptual hairpin turns as Hamm is cautious of absolutes and careful to show how divergent Quaker ideologies compare to one another.
Hamm is a historian. As such, the book is filled to the brim with specifics: names, dates, and acronyms.Hamm has based his book upon an amazing degree of research.The wealth of information allows Hamm's book to be used as a reference if needed.The information feels very reliable, and Hamm is successfully objective.Readers who do not familiarize themselves with Hamm's background may have a hard time guessing his personal perspectives. Hamm's attention to detail requires a close reading, and the book may not give up all its treasures even after a couple readings.
While Hamm's book is quite readable for Quakers and non-Quakers alike, it does merit a fairly close reading, as it is replete with Quaker acronyms, Quaker terminology, names and dates. The Quakers in America provides an incredible amount of well-documented information; it is not a fast read.However, for those who desire to learn something of Quakerism, Hamm's book allows one to take from the reading what they will. The Quakers in America is an effective portrayal of the diversity within Quakerism.

Too Much for a Beginner
The Quakers in America, by Thomas Hamm, gives a detailed look at the current state of affairs of Quakers in the United States. The book gives a brief history of the Quaker tradition, then goes on to touch on a variety of topics relevant to Friends today, from the American Friends Service Committee to political tendencies to homosexuality, looking at the different viewpoints expressed by various groups of Friends. The focus is on the diversity of Quaker thought and tradition in America today, stressing the idea that Quakers cannot be lumped together under any single heading or even set of beliefs. The book is very representative of all different types of Friends and aspects of the Quaker tradition, but is too specific for someone who does not have a general understanding of Quakerism to benefit from.
The Quakers in America is too focused and does not provide enough background knowledge to be of much use to someone who does not already have a fundamental grasp of the Quaker tradition. The history of the religion is covered quickly, as are the basic tenets of Quakerism. The book gives only the briefest outline of the building blocks of Quakerism, and then launches in to a more analytical view of the different branches of Quakerism and how they differ. For a beginner who is looking for the general sense of the religion, the central ideas and what they mean, this book is very confusing. It goes into some detail on specific meetings and movements that don't have much meaning for someone who knows very little about Quakerism. For the more advanced reader, however, the specific information is sure to be interesting. The focus on not putting any single label on the entire group of Friends is helpful and provides a lot of food for thought on what the essence of the Quaker tradition is, what defines a Quaker, what beliefs are the most important to the religion, and what direction the religion is taking, as well as more pragmatic issues such as if and how to boost the population of Friends. A newcomer to the ideas of Quaker faith is going to want to look at it in a much broader and looser sense. The specific nature of the book makes it more attractive to those who have deeper background knowledge.
The range of topics covered in the book is both a blessing and a curse. It is good in that it provides a very comprehensive look at the religion, but also bad because on every topic there is so much difference of opinion that the overlying impression left after reading the book is more a sense of the divisiveness of the religion rather than specific knowledge about which branches of Quakers fall on which side of an issue. By covering so many different issues each one is given less attention and explained less thoroughly. Prominent issues such as leadership, identity, and sexuality are covered in only a few pages, which is not nearly enough to do them justice or even to completely explain why groups of Friends have different ideas on each issue. The result is that the reader is left with a jumbled sense of what he or she has just read, with the impression that it is so much diverse information condensed into such a small space that he or she has learned a little about a lot, but a lot about nothing. The good part about including so many topics is that it really drives home the idea that Quakers, in many ways more than other religions, cannot be simply defined and do not all agree on any single idea, even something as central to the tradition as the peace testimony. Reading about the differing viewpoints on each topic makes this idea very apparent.
The Quakers in America gives enough diversity of opinion on a wide range of issues to be interesting and informative for the slightly more advanced reader of Quaker texts, but is too focused on the more political side of the religion to be very useful for a beginner. Someone with no or very limited knowledge of what Quakerism means would come away from this book with a stronger impression of how divided Friends in America are, without getting a strong enough sense of the foundations and basics of the religion to really understand how or why these divisions came about and what they mean. For someone who is more grounded in the basic aspects of the faith, this focus on division, why it happens, what it means, and if and how to stop it, is much more interesting and really forces thought on these issues. Overall it is a well-researched, honest, and unbiased view of Quakers in America today that leaves the reader with much to think about, both about Quakerism and religion in general. ... Read more

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IN 1661, the year after Charles II was restored to the throne of England, William Penn was a seventeen- year-old student at Christ Church, Oxford. His father, a distinguished admiral in high favor at Court, had abandoned his erstwhile friends and had aided in restoring King Charlie to his own again. Young William was associating with the scions of the aristocracy and was receiving an education which would fit him to obtain preferment at Court. But there was a serious vein in him, and while at a high chureh Oxford College he was surreptitiously attending the meetings and listening to the preaching of the despised and outlawed Quakers. Thcre he first hegan to hear of the plans or a group of Quakers to found colonies on the...

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CONTENTS; I THE BIRTH OF PENNSYLVANIA; II PENN SAILS FOR THE DELAWARE; III LU'E IN PHILLADELPHHIA; IV TYPES OF THE POPULATION; 1; 17; 36; V THE TROUBLES OF PENN AND HIS SONS·~ 6S; VI THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR '" 86; VII THE DECLINE OF QUAKER GOVERNMENT; ~ 108; VIII THE BEGINNINGS OF NEW JERSEY '" l~; IX PLANTERS AND TRADERS OF SOUTHERN; JERSEY; X SCOTCH COVENANTERS AND OTHERS; ,~ 15S; IN EAST JEHSEY ?? 168; XI TJII~ UNITED JERSEYS ~ 180; XII LITTLE DEL<',AHE ' 197; xUI THE gr-;GLISII CO~QUEST; ,; ~15; BIBLIO(; RAPH Y t ~Sl; INDEX ?? ~35

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Quakers -Searching for the inner light
This book is a compilation of writings from Quaker mystics. Goes from George Fox in 1600s England to more modern authors in their quest to understand God and social justice. Many members of the "Friends" today are agnostic and interested in only social programs, this book should be required reading for all who aspire to be a good "Quaker" and Christian.

good reading, but not complete
This is an excellent book, and I think anybody with a serious interest in Quakerism should find a copy. The early coverage is very good, and the excerpts from George Fox's journals are excellent; there is also a really stunning excerpt from the journal of a Quaker who visited John Brown.

I confess I am a little disappointed by the coverage of the 20th century, which is a little light, and does not, to me, fully address contemporary spiritual concerns from a Quaker perspective. In other words, West has done a wonderful job, but there is still a pressing need for a compilation of 20th century Quaker writing.

Quakerism 101
It isn't easy to find information telling you what Friends believe.Our history is traced primarily through the words of George Fox and John Woolman. Later, here in the US, there were splits dividing believers into liberal and conservative groups.

This book does a very good job of giving the reader an understanding of the Quaker faith by offering the reader essays and journal bits from William Penn (a well-known Pennsylvania Friend!) and others, both inside the faith and out.

For those interested in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), those newly convinced, or for those who just like to read about the beginnings and progress of Quakers, The Quaker Reader is a basic for their library.

For other books about Quakers, be sure to read Robert L. Smith's A Quaker Book of Wisdom; and The Quakers by Jean Kinney Williams

A Rich and Artful Historical Overview
This book provides a fairly thorough history of the Quaker faith and its evolution over time. While some of the essays are by external observers, the book is mostly writings by Quakers, often in the form of journalexcerpts. Pithy and insightful commentary by the editor introduces eachwriter, the time in which they lived and the issues facing the ReligiousSociety of Friends during that era.

I loved this book.It led me to myfirst Quaker meeting and a faith that is right for me. However, even if youdo not find stories or concepts in this book that resonate with your ownexperience of God, it is worth reading. William Penn (who was a Quaker) andmany others less well-known played a far more significant role in thehistory of the United States than their numbers would suggest.

An Excellent Series of Essays on Quaker Theology and Conduct
This books contains a variety of short essays on Quaker theology and conduct.It also contains important excerpts from the Journal of George Fox.

The book specifically and fairly acknowledges the scarcity ofFriends' "theology" as an historical matter.However, this isamply supplanted by readings from the works of William Penn and others whowere in a position to speak about the conduct of the Quakers and theireffect on those around them.This 'third-person' perspective provides aunique insight into the lives of those known as the 'Quiet Rebels' in earlyAmerican history and provides for a stimulating and educational readingexperience.The editor should be credited with her fine selection ofQuaker readings.

In short, the book is an excellent survey of Quakerthoughts and actions throughout history.By the time one reaches the endof this book, the reader should find themselves in the rather enjoyableposition of feeling as though they know a 'Quaker'. ... Read more

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Prepared over a period of nearly 10 years, it is the distillation of the thoughts of around a thousand Quakers with an interest in spiritual subjects.

It includes inspirational writings and personal stories about challenge and opportunity, which reflect on the geography and social history of Australia.

Chapters are arranged under subject headings such as Experiences of the Spirit, Images of God, Silence and stillness, Faith in action, Prayer, Truthfulness and integrity, Simplicity and peace, Life stages and challenges and Indigenous people.

This book can be used for personal study and meditation, for group work or just for inspiration.

Includes an extensive glossary, sources, index and history of the Quaker movement in Australia. ... Read more

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In this long-awaited paperback edition, food historian William Woys Weaver revises and expands the lengthy material that supplements a reprint of Elizabeth Ellicott Lea's 1845 cookbook Domestic Cookery. In his introduction, Weaver reveals new information on Lea, her Quaker world, and her cookbook. A glossary traces the origins and histories of the foods in Lea's book, placing them in cultural context. The cookbook is a quintessential example of rural American folk cookery of the nineteenth century, representing a mingling of southern Pennsylvania and Tidewater cuisine. Modern kitchen conversions are included. ... Read more

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This book chronicles for the first time the military activities of Indiana Quakers during America’s bloodiest war and explores the motivation behind the abandonment, at least temporarily, of their long-standing testimony against war. ... Read more

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A nice addition to American historical work
The book Indiana Quakers confront the Civil War looks into how Quakers within the state of Indiana dealt with the Civil War.This is obvious.But what is not obvious is what the author, Jacquelyn Nelson, investigates.While Quakers are generally pacifists, many Quakers actively supported the war, up to and including becoming soldiers for the Union Army.How Quakers dealt with their fellow Quakers getting so involved with the War is also covered.I think the author did a good job covering the subject, but she seemed determine to repeat herself throughout the book, as if she was deliberately writing just to increase the page count.
On the subject of Indiana Quakers, the books divides the chapters as Quaker Background, Quaker Military Service, Why the Quakers Fought, How the Quakers Dealt with Army Life, the Home Front, and Opposition to the War.She mostly worked with examples, although she did include a few narratives, mostly as an appendix to the book.In fact, the appendixes are more than half of the book, as it includes primary sources as well as brief biographies of each Quaker found to serve in the War.There was no problem with the content within the book.
The book offers an interesting thesis: that Quakers were not entirely pacifistic during the Civil War and in fact, many actively participated in the War as the evidence of the Indiana Quakers shows.The author believes that most have overlooked the Quakers in Civil War study due to the fact that Quakers are such known pacifists that most historians simply concluded that the Quakers were not involved in the War so there was no need to study their actions during the War.This is a significant contribution to preexisting work.Never before had the subject of Quakers in the War been so thoroughly looked upon, and thus this book was a needed addition to history.However, the author does tend to try making certain details bigger than they are; there is little difference between six Quakers out of sixty in a Quaker community going to war and thirteen out of a community of 118 going to war, but the author seems to fail in her mathematics in treating this as a large difference.I did like that she gave details into why many Quakers fought; that it was mostly due to Christian patriotism and less to do with national patriotism.I also appreciated the all-too-brief comparisons between Quakers in the Civil War to those who experienced the American Revolution first hand.
Jacquelyn S. Nelson was certainly interested in this subject; it is unclear whether or not she was a Quaker or not.She was definitely sympathetic to all the Quakers in the book.However, she needed to look at the broader prospective of Quakers as a whole, in order that she could show whether or not Indiana Quakers were typical of other Quakers, or this was a simply an occurrence that happened in Indiana.
I have few complaints about the author's writing style.I had feared it would be much like other scholarly work: rather unreadable with its pompousness.Instead, the flow in reading this book was undisturbed; I just wish she did not repeat herself as much.There was little reason to separate the last two chapters in the book, as half of each was the same as the other chapter.
There is a sizeable audience for this book.Those who will find it the most useful are genealogists who will love the detailed listing of every Quaker the author found while doing her research on those who fought in the War.Professors and grad students who specialize in studying religious groups in the United States will be the most interested academics in this book.Civil War historians might see merit in this book, but they will probably wish for more frontline experiences for Quakers rather than so much homefront details.
In conclusion, Indiana Quakers confront the Civil War does a good job in relating its thesis to the reader.However, I think the author could have gone much deeper than she did; repeating how pacifistic Quakers are usually does not cover up the lack of depth of Quakers during the Civil War as a whole.Still, a worthwhile book this is. ... Read more

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Lacking Creativity
I bought a little booklet, years ago, probably had as many or probably more recipes for oatmeal as this one does.I think I got that little book from a special offer off of the Quaker Oatmeal Box.In comparison this little book is disappointing.Recipes which have mixins for a bowl of hot cereal is not what I am exactly after.I think most of us can figure that out so needless to say, I was not impressed with the breakfast section of this book.Some of the cookie and muffin recipes sound good.I did not like the fact that there did'nt seem to be any recipes using ground oats or oat flour.I think oat flour should have been vital in a book devoted to oatmeal.Oatmeal is pretty healthy and I feel there could of been a lot more creative ways to use it in this book. ... Read more

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Publisher's Note for the 2007 reprint by Clearfield Publishing:
In this classic study Dr. Hull explores the historic background to the Dutch Quaker migration and William Penn's mission to Holland and Germany in 1677, which has been credited with touching off the large Dutch and German emigration to Pennsylvania. The movement began, of course, with the Krefelders' settlement led by Francis Daniel Pastorius at Germantown in 1683. Hull's scholarly study of the Dutch Quaker immigration to Pennsylvania (and incidentally the German Quaker immigration) contains a number of appendices that give the names of all the settlers in Germantown during the years 1683-1709, with brief genealogical notices, including place of origin. These settlers originated from places as diverse as Holland, Germany, Finland, Hungary, Silesia, Switzerland, Transylvania, and Great Britain. Other appendices include names from a 1693 tax list and names of Germantown residents naturalized in 1691 and 1709. The author gives both the Dutch and the German forms of the names cited. ... Read more

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"A serious and contemporary story of a soul," says Matthew Fox in the foreword to this book. "It provides guidance both for the puzzled first-time visitor to a Meeting and the seasoned Friends," says Parker Palmer. ... Read more

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THE SILENCE SPEAKS
THE WRITER IS PERSONAL AND NOT AFRAID TO BARE HIS SOUL.HE TRAVELS US THROUGH HIS "FINDING" HIMSELF AND THE QUAKER RELIGION AND GROWING THROUGH HIS DISCOVERIES.
I AM ENJOYING THE BOOK, HAVING A HERITAGE OF QUAKERISM WITHOUT THE UPBRINGING NOR EXPERIENCE.

An excellent read, if not original
"Encounter With Silence" is a most impressive, if not original, outline of the Quaker tradition which dates back to the middle seventeenth century.

The book, written by Quaker John Punshon and controversial theologian Matthew Fox (who gives a useful introduction from his experience of Quakers), aims to outline the distinctive practices involved in Quakerism and does so most effectively because Punshon is able to write so well from the experience of his own life. He shows how silence aims to produce recollection in those who encounter it and the existence of historical precendents for the Quakers before the seventeeth century. Punshon understands effectively how the first Friends saw convincement (being reborn as a Quaker).

Punshon then focuses on unprogrammed Quaker worship and the manner in which it occurs through believers coming together in silence to pray. He is very effective in focusing on the enviroment created by the simplicity of worship so evident in Quakerism, and he does a useful job of understanding the way in which Quakerism has evolved into the present.

The next part of the book looks at the Quaker testimony and the way in which Punshon was attracted to Quakerism and the meaning of this "Testimony" which is expressed, Punshon feels, through one's life rather than though the Testimony's words.

The remainder of the book aims to deal with the way in which Quaker ethics can be expressed in everyday life. Punshon shows very well who a Quaker meeting can be used to avoid distractions from everyday life, but he spends a lot of the book explaining how one still has to "know how to feel". The book then turns to the meaning of ministry and the rhythm of the unprogrammed meeting.

Punshon does an effective job at remembering what he has learnt throughout the book, especially with repect to the various pieces of Quaker ministry. He does a very good job about explaining how ministry comes to people, and how harmony comes to a religious community.

The next piece focuses on the way in which Quaker principles are applied outside of worship, with examples relating to decision making and being faithful ("if you are faithful in little you will be faithful in much"), and how Friends do not seek to avoid conflict in their opinions. The last few chapters of the book are focused on how Quaker principles are applied in daily life.

Whilst none of Punshon's these are original, they are still a very good read.

Inspiring
An excellent apologetic for the Quaker approach to faith.Although Punshon is not well known, he is an outstanding and eloquent writer -- one of the best writers on religious issues I've encountered since Thomas Merton.He makes a strong case for an approach to faith that is groundedboth in contemplation and prophetic action; two areas thatare often seenas mutually exclusive.

The book is succinct and to the point and willenhance your understanding of Christianity even if Quakerism is not yourinterest.Punshon takes a common sense approach to much of much ofChristian doctrine and even manages to make sense of the sometimesmystifying (to the nonChristian) belief in the divinity of Christ. Especially recommended to agnostics or struggling Christians although itshould be noted that Punshon is equally critical of the liberal andconservative wings of the Quaker movement. END ... Read more

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In 1676, shortly after the English seized the territory from the Dutch, New Jerseywas divided into the colonies of East and West Jersey. Under the Duke of York--the originalproprietor--East Jersey was settled predominantly by small landowners and entrepreneurs, whileWest Jersey was settled by Quakers, and was in fact the first Quaker colony in America,preceding Pennsylvania by six years. Organized by a group of Quaker proprietors in London in1676/7, West Jersey was governed initially by nine commissioners who held court at Burlington.Besides its legislative authority over the colony, the court at Burlington had jurisdiction overlocal matters and served as the court of appeals for Salem and other towns in West Jersey after1683.Quaker justices continued to hold court in Burlington until May 1703, losing their right to selfgovernment following the end of proprietary rule and the creation of the united Province of NewJersey under royal charter the previous year. While non-Quakers would eventually overshadowthe Quaker inhabitants of West Jersey, Burlington remained a Quaker stronghold throughout theperiod of proprietary rule.The minutes of the Burlington court, transcribed and published originally by the AmericanHistorical Association in 1944, and now available in this facsimile reprint, contain the day to dayminutiae of Quaker temporal life, just as the meeting records illuminate Quaker spiritual life.While they reflect virtually all facets of life in West Jersey, the majority of the court minutesconcern property rights, civil suits, grievances involving slaves, servants, and Indians, and allmanner of domestic complaints. They constitute not only the most important judicial record ofthe colony of West Jersey but are a goldmine of clues about the early inhabitants of West Jersey.A mirror of the life and times of this almost forgotten colony, the minutes of the Burlingtoncourt offer rare possibilities for genealogical research, for many of the cases brought before thecourt, such as inquests, petty civil suits, and criminal cases, give the names of spouses, children,and other related individuals. Since the majority of the persons named in The Burlington CourtBook were Quakers, researchers may be able to profit even further from the clues it contains byprobing among New Jersey Quaker meeting records for the same period.With an index containing over 15,000 references, this little known work is sure to attract theattention of all researchers with an interest in early New Jersey. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Astonishingly Poor Edition
This edition reads like a scanned original manuscript that has had rudimentary OCR performed on it.Littered with typographical errors and odd formatting, it is nearly unreadable.An example from the first page:
"yo American Novel fiat ever commanded to wide-spread an interest, at (his work.It has been made
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I'm shocked Amazon would sell this text.Publishers who take public domain works and re-sell them in such a shoddy fashion = weak.

Sensationally wicked masterpiece!
A best-seller in its day, Quaker City is a violent and surreal look at the life of the citizens of Philadelphia in the 1840s. Anyone who likes Edgar Allen Poe or the Marquis de Sade will find this an interesting read; written off by critics as blatantly pulp, before such a term existed, they considered its mass appeal a sign of weakness, and by 1900, it had vanished from most lists of important American novels. I'm glad that critics are reconsidering its position, and I look forward to more of Lippard's novels coming back to print. Devil-bug, the mastermind of evil, is a great villain, and he looks ahead to Jarry's Pere Ubu, Faulkner's Popeye and many of the great surreal or superreal villains of the twentieth century.

America's first best-seller.
Anybody who enjoyed Matthew Lewis' 'The Monk' will appreciate George Lippard's "You ain't seen nothin' yet" style. The plot revolvesaround an American version of England's famous 'Hellfire Club' located inPhiladelphia's Southwark region (Historians differ on rather or not 'MonkHall' actually existed. Some claim that such a club did exist from the late1700's until the 1820's. Other claim that the club sprang from Lippard'svery fertile imagination) and features such goodies as white slavery, trapdoors, and wanton booze & oyster abuse (now you know why theRepublicans picked Philly for their convention). This is one wild read.Lippard once attempted to produce it as a play, but angry protestersthreatened to burn down the theater.'The Monks of Monks Hall' wasAmerica's first, real best seller. Read, no doubt, by people who keptuttering "Immoral...shocking...filth..." as they eagerly turnedeach page. Pick up this piece of history now.

A Peculiar, Enticing Novel
This is a long, sprawling, peculiar novel, but one that I always enjoy going back to.Iforget, every time I reread it, how wonderful and strange an adventure it is!Lippard is a minor figure in American letters,inspired by early American masters such as Charles Brockden Brown andpopular French novelists such as Eugen Sue.The Quaker City is certainly aflawed work, but it is only more human, engaging and approachable becauseof this fact.Lippard was no master of plot structure or narrativetechnique; in fact, he wasn't much of a craftsman at all, regarding thenuances and fine textures of language.However, he was a writer giftedwith a dizzingly original, and sometimes grotesque, imagination.TheQuaker City is the kind of book that you can't pot down, although part ofyou sometimes wants to.His tale of the intrigues and iniquities lurkingbeaneath the surface of Victorian Philadelphia will shock and amaze.Iespecially recommend this novel for fans of Caleb Carr, Egdar Allan Poe,and Robertson Davies. ... Read more

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Mr. Dobson continues with his series of booklets pertaining to unexplored aspectsof Scottish genealogy. The first of these new titles is his Scottish Quakers and Early America,the aim of which is to identify members of the Society of Friends in Scotland prior to 1700 andthe Scottish origins of many of the Quakers who settled in East Jersey in the 1680s.

Quakerism came to Scotland with the Cromwellian occupation of the 1650s. Scottishmissionaries eventually spread the faith to various locations throughout the country, includingAberdeen in the Northeast, Edinburgh and Kelso in the southeast, and Hamilton in the west. TheSociety of Friends never grew to large numbers in Scotland, however, owing to its persecutionby both the Episcopal and Presbyterian churches, as well as civic authorities. Understandably, anumber of Scottish Quakers ultimately emigrated to the North American colonies; for example,there were some Scottish Quakers among the landowners of West Jersey as early as 1664, andbetween 1682 and 1685 several shiploads of emigrants left the ports of Leith, Montrose, andAberdeen for East Jersey.

Drawing upon research conducted in both Scotland and the United States in manuscript and inpublished sources, David Dobson has here amassed all the genealogical data that we know ofconcerning members of the Society of Friends in Scotland prior to 1700 and the origins ofScottish Quakers living in East New Jersey in the 1680s. While there is great deal of variation inthe descriptions of the roughly 500 Scottish Quakers listed in the volume, the entries typicallygive the individual's name, date or place of birth, and occupation, and sometimes the name of aspouse or date of marriage, name of parents, place and reason for imprisonment in Scotland,place of indenture, date of death, and the source of the information. Without a doubt this is aground-breaking work on the subject of Scottish emigration to North America during thecolonial period. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more