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Broken and Shared: Food, Dignity, and the Poor on Los Angeles' Skid Rowby Jeff Dietrich Book Information: ISBN: 978-0-9839616-2-8 | Format: 6” x 9”, paperback, 62 Illustrations, 450 pages | Price: $29.95 The essays that make up Broken and Shared were originally published bi-monthly over a forty year period in the newspaper of the Los Angeles Catholic Worker, The Catholic Agitator. Collected together for the first time in this book, these essays constitute Jeff Dietrich’s witness to poverty on Los Angeles’ Skid Row. |
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Turpentine Jake: a play in two actsby Linda Bannister and James E. Hurd, Jr. Book Information: ISBN: 978-0-9839616-0-4 | Format: Paperback, 129 pages | Backmatter: 16 Illustrations, 8 Songs | Price: $14.95 American history tells us Slavery ended in 1865. But deep in the swamps and pine forests of Florida and Georgia, tens of thousands of Blacks were held in debt servitude until the 1970s. More than 100 years after the last cotton plant was plucked by an unpaid Black hand, turpentiners tapped the longleaf pines, harvesting pine gum fourteen hours a day. Because they earned less each week than they were forced to spend on food and clothing in the company store, the turpentiners were virtually enslaved to their bosses. |
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In Praise of Mother Earth: The Pṛthivī Sūkta of the Atharva Vedaby O.P. Dwivedi and Christopher Key Chapple Book Information: ISBN: 978-1-59907-054-4 | Format: paperback, Illustrations, 90 pages | Price: $19.95 About the Book: The Pṛthivī Sūkta of the Atharva Veda describes the beauty of the earth as poetic, mystical, and very real. Its hymns give praise to medicinal plants, to inter-human relationships, and to Mother Earth. When meditating upon this text, and the striking photographs from around the world that accompany each verse, we witness the Hindu tradition of reverence for nature and all forms of life... |
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A Journey into Love: Meditating with Piers Plowmanby Sr. Mary Clemente Davlin, OP Book Information: ISBN: 978-1-59907-031-5 | Format: paperback, Illustrations, 170 pages | Price: $14.95 A Journey into Love: Meditating with Piers Plowman is a small gathering of passages from the fourteenth-century poem, Piers Plowman, with brief commentary and thoughtful questions for private meditation or group discussion, and with beautiful photographic illustrations from art and architecture which are from the poet's own time... |
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Panim el Panim: Facing Genesis, Visual Midrashby Debra Linesch & Evelyn Stettin Book Information: ISBN: 978-1-59907-032-2 | Format: paperback, Illustrations, 40 pages | Price: $9.95 Panim el Panim is a response to the Hebrew Bible undertaken by art therapy professor Debra Linesch and artist Evelyn Stettin. It is based in a commitment to scripture and a belief in the potential for imagery to explore ambiguity. Panim el Panim offers twelve weekly responses to Torah, beautiful works of art and inspired affirmations of the potential for Visual Midrash. As a companion on a journey of self-discovery, the imagery becomes a guide for mediation... |
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