A Quaker farm woman and a young man raised in the Panama Canal zone joined forces at the University of Iowa in 1939 and set out to make the world more peaceful. They have participated fully in this, their authorized biography.

A Biography of Lillian and George Willoughby: Twentieth-century Quaker Peace Activists

Barnes, Gregory A.

Religion & Spirituality

Edwin Mellen Pr

Teaching Matters: Skills and Strategies for International Teaching Assistants

Travel

Pica, Teresa

Specialty Travel

Heinle & Heinle Pub

English Communication Skills for Professionals

Provides practical strategies for interacting successfully in professional situations. Covers preparing and delivering speeches, using audiovisual aids, chairing meetings, reading for comprehension, preparing conference presentations, and writing business letters, formal reports, research papers, and journal articles. Deals with nonverbal communication such as body language and personal space. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Reference

NTC Pub. Group

Provides practical strategies for interacting successfully in professional situations. Covers preparing and delivering speeches, using audiovisual aids, chairing meetings, reading for comprehension, preparing conference presentations, and writing business letters, formal reports, research papers, and journal articles. Deals with nonverbal communication such as body language and personal space. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

English as a Second Language

Passport Books

Communication Skills for the Foreign-Born Professional (Professional Writing Series)

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Isi Pr

American University: A World Guide

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

American University

Devised in 1917 as a means of providing young Quaker males and other pacifists alternate wartime service, the American Friends Service Committee has gone on to become, in the 21st century, a major peace-building and community-building organization. Part 1 of this centennial history explores its early and occasionally heroic service in rebuilding France and feeding German and Russian children at the climax of World War I, followed by its unprecedented feeding in Spain of refugees on both sides of that country's civil war and similar relief efforts in Depression-torn Appalachia; it concludes with a description of renewed feeding programs across Europe in the aftermath of World War II and more significantly for its future work, attempts to build good relations with Japan. Part II explores the AFSC’s often-controversial efforts in the period 1950-1990 to bring justice to the underserved both overseas and in domestic arenas, with special reference to work with Martin Luther King in matters of civil rights. The concluding Part III focuses on the modern organization's shift in focus to work behind the scenes in lessening ethnic and other tensions, such as work on immigrants’ rights at home, alternative-to-violence projects in Africa, youth exchanges between Cuba or Puerto Rico and the United States, and service in "unlikely places" such as North Korea in an effort to defuse political animosities. Pervasive themes in the book have to do with the AFSC's standing in the larger, sometimes impatient community of the Religious Society of Friends and the organization's own growing sensitization to the power of diversity in its ranks--such that today it may be considered a model of Affirmative Action. The major activities of the book are complemented by maps, photos, and a bibliography. A thorough index appears in the published copy.

A Centennial History of the American Friends Service Committee

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The seven stories of this collection are all set during the early nineteen-sixties, a dynamic age of transition from colonial rule to independence. They show the complex lives of a diverse population: a villager fallen on hard times who laments the means by which he feeds his family; an expatriate couple confronting a headless staircase and their own existential crises; a leper who survives another day of beggary; a British colonial officer and a traditional chief both of whom fear a diminished status as they confront a dramatic change in their chiefdom; and of course the beautiful young Sierra Leonean who alarms her community by her drastic action.

The Beauty Queen of Bonthe and Other Stories of West Africa

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Philadelphia's historic Quaker meeting house on Arch Street has seen dramatic developments in the history of the city and the Quaker community that uses it as a place of worship, decision making, and service. This book tells the story of the people connected with the building, from the time William Penn deeded the land to Quakers in 1688 for use as a burial ground to the present day.

Philadelphia's Arch Street Meeting House: A Biography

Americas

QuakerPress of FGC

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