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63 matches found, viewing page 3 of 4, goto page < 1 2 3 4 > next page Search Again| Peace DVD Mennonite Media 2005 Ages: 13-18 | 
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- Designed for 6 sessions, this DVD has 24 segments that look at peace with God; in the community, nation, earth, relationships; the role of service; peace between cultures; where to draw the line on conscience; and related public policies. The website and study guide supply study questions, activities, and way to put beliefs into actions. In one segment, Calling for Peace, two women with vastly different opinions and on different sides of the Iraq war conflict begin to see each other as friends even though they don't agree. Youth are challenged to brainstorm solutions for conflicts they've experienced. Website: www.PeaceDVD.com
| Peace Tales: World Folktales to Talk About MacDonald, Margaret Read 1992 100 p. Ages: 4-12 ISBN: 0208023291 | 
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- Stories and plays from around the world.
| Peace is the Way: Writings on Nonviolence from the Fellowship of Reconciliation Wink, Walter 2000 295 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 1570753156 |
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- An inspiring collection from the past 85 years that provides helpful glimpses into various peacemaking contexts, providing a sense of loving and thoughtful continuity for peacemakers today. Included are: Gandhi, A. J. Muste, Thomas Merton, Shelley Douglass, Martin Niemoeller, Martin Luther King, Jr., Lanza del Vasto (leader of nonviolent movement in France), Andre and Magda Trocme, Thich Nhat Hanh, Danilo Dolci (known as the Gandhi of Sicily), Vincent Harding, and more. Sections include: The Vision of Peace, Witnesses for Peace, Spirit of Peace, Interracial Justice, Nonviolence in Action, and the Path of Reconciliation.
| Peace is....women imagine a peaceful world deGroot, Jennifer 2001 62 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0968838510 |
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- This volume includes words and images gathered in India, Chad, Niger, Senegal, South AFrica, Lesotho, and Uganda between Jan. and July 2000. Colorful photos set off quotes from the women. Notes at the end give more personal information about the women included.
| The People Who Hugged the Trees: An Environmental Folktale Rose, Deborah 1990 32 p. Ages: 9-12 ISBN: 1879373505 |
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- Based on a classic folk tale from India, this haunting story gives an insight into India's history and culture while teaching that environmental protection is everyone's concern.
| The Princess and the Admiral Pomerantz, Charlotte 1974 48 p. Ages: 7-9 ISBN: 1558610618 |
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- Suggested by a 13th-century incident involving Kublai Khan'sinvasion of Vietnam, this fable tells of a princess who outwits an admiral and has him escorted back to his own land after his forces threaten to sabotage the Tiny Kingdom's
| The Red Comb Pico, Fernando 1991 Ages: 5-8 ISBN: 0816735409 |
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- A young girl, Vitita, and her elderly neighbor, Sina Rosa, plot to save a runaway slave.
| The Return Levitin, Sonia 1987 213 p. Ages: 10-14 ISBN: 0449702804 |
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- Desta and other members of her family, Jews suffering discrimination in Ethiopia, finally flee the country and attempt the dangerous journey to Israel.
| Rhythms of Peace Around the World 2001 39 min. Ages: 7-10 |
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- Stories from Cuba, Jamaica, and Bulgaria deal with prejudice, ethnic differences, and daily life in other cultures.
| Sacred Places Sturges, Philemon 2000 38 p. Ages: 6-Adult ISBN: 0399233172 |
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- This remarkable book, with intricate illustrations, begins with a 2-page "Note to the Reader" that introduces the five major religions that are highlighted here: Hinduism, Buddhism, and the three religions whose followers, as "People of the Book," believe in the God of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The text begins: "People all over the world have made special places where they gather to worship, celebrate, meditate, and hope....."
Featured are churches and cathedrals (e.g. California and France); Muslim mosques and the Dome of the Rock (Turkey and Jerusalem); Jewish synagogues and temples (Germany and Canada); Buddhist shrines and temples (Korea and Tibet); and Hindu temples and Ganges River Ghat in India. The description of the significance of the Muslim Kaaba in Mecca, and the history of Jerusalem as holy to Jews, Christians, and Muslims are well done, and will aid anyone's understanding of the issues that are the basis of so much conflict in today's world.
| Sami and the Time of Troubles Heide, Florence Perry 1992 Ages: 6-10 ISBN: 0395720850 |
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- A 10-year-old Lebanese boy describes his life in the midst of a civil war. Rich illustrations.
| The Secret Grove Cohen, Barbara 1985 30 p. Ages: 5-8 ISBN: 0807403180 |
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- Two young boys, Isreali and Jordanian, meet one afternoon in an orange grove separating their two border villages and make a secret pact.
| The Serpent Slayer: And Other Stories of Strong Women Hyman, Trina Schart 2000 113 p. Ages: 5-12 ISBN: 0316387010 |
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- These stories are about women and girls who find themselves in difficult circumstances and respond in brave, clever, and thoughtful ways. "A heroine’s experience is different from that of a hero’s, for woman’s experience of life through the ages has been different from man’s... These are stories that remind us how to be strong, adventuresome, creative women. They teach us how to survive enormous suffering and come out alive with our eyes shining and our feet kicking... It is also a book for women to read to the men who love them and to the boys they love, so that people everywhere remember the courage, strength, ingenuity, and intelligence that is every woman’s heritage."
| The Stonecutter: A Japanese Folktale McDermott,Gerald 1975 31 p. Ages: 3-8 ISBN: 0140502890 |
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- Not even the mightiest mountain is immune to a determined stonecutter.
| Transforming Violence: Linking Local and Global Peacemaking Herr, Robert and Judy Zimmerman Herr ed. 1998 256 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0-8361-9098 |
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- Drawing on rich traditions and experiences, noted writers from Africa, Asia,Europe, and North America ponder peacemaking in local and global settings.
| Twenty and Ten Bishop, Claire Huchet 1956 76 p. Ages: 7-10 ISBN: 0140310762 |
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- Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis occupying France during WWII.
| Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th century Practice and 21st Century Potential Gene Sharp 2005 598 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0875581625 |
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- "Senior scholar at the Albert Einstein Institution of Boston, Massachusetts Gene Sharp and his team of like-minded researchers apply 50 years of history, academics, and practical experience to present Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential, a meticulous accounting of how nonviolent methodologies can combat dictatorships, war, genocide, and oppression. Waging Nonviolent Struggle is particularly valuable in its use of logic and close analysis of specific historical cases of nonviolent struggle to debunk common myths concerning the practice. Such myths include the contention that nonviolence is ineffective against dictatorships and genocide, or that nonviolent methodologies rely upon an appeal to the moral character of the opponent ....."--Midwest Book Reviews www.midwestbookreview.com
| Walking with Jesus: Stories About Real People Who Returned Good for Evil Meyer, Mary, ed. 1992 87 p. Ages: 4-10 ISBN: 0836135741 |
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- Twenty real-life situations from several countries.
| War Preventin Works: 50 Stories of People Resolving Conflict Dylan Mathews 2001 110 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 095113616X |
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- Fifty brief, but informative, concrete, documented examples of peacemaking in violent contexts around the globe--before the violence, in escalating violence, full-blown violence, contained violence, and after the violence...
| Welcoming Babies Welcoming Babies 1994 40 p. Ages: 4-8 |
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- Celebrates the many different ways and traditions of welcoming babies all over the world. See also Talking Walls by author.
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