Book Review - period ended 9.1.2006

Book Review/Women/Thorp, Margaret/“Peace angel” takes flight/UQ News/Queensland/Australia/Oceania/28-Aug-06//... The book focuses on the early life of Ms Thorp – a Quaker dedicated to advancing the role of women, child welfare, safe working environments, Christian ...

Book Review/Quaker History/Walker, John/Cook, James/In the footsteps of Captain Cook/New Zealand Herald/Auckland/NZ/Oceania/15-Aug-06//... Another connected space is a museum in Whitby in the home of John Walker, the Quaker shipping merchant with whom Cook boarded while he was an apprentice seaman ...

Book Review/Quaker History/Slavery//Heralding clarity in a cluttered world of information/International Herald Tribune/Paris/France/E.U./20-Aug-06//... Tufte also champions unsung design heroes in "Beautiful Evidence," just as he did in his previous books. One is J. Hawkesworth for his 1823 engraving of The Vigilante slave ship for the Religious Society of Friends in London. Hawkesworth showed how cruelly the slaves were treated, crammed in the hold, shackled in pairs or squeezed together beside the captain's spacious wine locker. "Each detail makes the image more horrifying," Tufte observes. ...

Book Review/Quaker History/Business/Yerkes, Charles/Streetcars Named Desire/Wall Street Journal/New York/NY/USA/28-Aug-06//... When his father, a Quaker banker, married twice outside the faith -- Charles's mother died when he was five -- the Society of Friends expelled him.

Book Review/Quaker History/Austerity/Madison, Dolley/Vivacious First Lady who became an icon/Washington Times/Washington/DC/USA/20-Aug-06//... Originally she was of more austere Quaker stock, but she was not satisfied with basic black. She was a perfect companion to James Madison in so many ways. ...

Book Review/Medicine/Yoga/Weeder, Richard S./Beating cancer/Princeton Packet/Princeton/NJ/USA/22-Aug-06//... A lifelong Quaker who is affiliated with the Princeton Friends, he values meditation "from a religious point of view," and he began studying and practicing ...

Book Review/Medicine/Yoga/Weeder, Richard S./Surgeon's book educates, encourages cancer patients/Cranbury Press/Cranbury/NJ/USA/25-Aug-06//... A lifelong Quaker who is affiliated with the Princeton Friends, he values meditation "from a religious point of view," and he began studying and practicing ...

Book Review/Medicine/Yoga/Weeder, Richard S./Surgeon's book explores paradigm of a 'protective complex'/South Brunswick Post/South Brunswick/NJ/USA/24-Aug-06//... A lifelong Quaker who is affiliated with the Princeton Friends, he values meditation "from a religious point of view," and he began studying and practicing ...

Book Review/Conscience///The lovely absurdity of life/The Age/Melbourne/Australia/Oceania/18-Aug-06//... his mother, who is more irritable every day, about trouble in the office, about a naval captain who contemplates suicide but decides to turn Quaker instead. ...