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1. Mistletoe and the Emerging Future of Integrative Oncology

2. Children of the Forest

3. Advent and Christmas Stories: A Treasury of Stories, Verses, and Songs

4. Autumn (board book)

5. Winter (board book)

6. The Yule Tomte and the Little Rabbits: A Christmas Story for Advent

7. Summer (board book)

8. Spring (board book)

9. Simplicity Parenting; Using the Power of Less to Raise Happy, Secure Children

10. Around the Year

11. Ollie's Ski Trip

12. Story of the Snow Children

13. Finger Strings: A Book of Cat’s Cradles and String Figures

14. Wonderful Adventures of Nils

15. Crafts through the Year: How to Make Traditional Gifts and Decorations for Every Season (2nd ed.)

16. The Christmas Angels

17. Story of the Butterfly Children

18. Elsa Beskow Gift Collection: Peter in Blueberry Land and Other Beautiful Books

19. Sun Egg (2nd ed.)

20. Peter and Lotta's Christmas (2nd ed.)

Marsha Post crossed the threshold of death early in the morning of July 8, 2022. She was hired by the late Gene Gollogly in 2005 as an in-house translator and editor, but her tasks and responsibilities soon proved to be far broader—answering phones, writing letters, organizing our archive of published books, serving as our liaison to US Waldorf Schools, and much more besides. In those early days at SteinerBooks, she also served on the General Council of the Anthroposophical Society in America.

Marsha ceased working full time in 2017 but continued up until very recently to translate. As her health continued to deteriorate these past years, she met each new challenge with calm and seemingly increasing equanimity, which served to make even more apparent the profound spiritual strength and fearlessness she had always carried within her. She was a deep and devoted student of anthroposophy, a loyal friend, and utterly inimitable in her style and bearing, which is as it should be. We will continue to hold her in our thoughts. —John-Scott

Educating Traumatized Children: Waldorf Education in Crisis Intervention

Reviewed by David Kennedy, Waldorf Today

Our book reviews are arranged many weeks in advance. I had no way of knowing that current events in Europe would make the review of Educating Traumatized Children all the more relevant. 

Teachers and parents will both sense the relevance of this book in the modern educational landscape. Trauma, much as we might hope to relegate it to the purview of special educators and therapists, has become a daily facet of life.

Gone are the days when only one or two children in a class were in need of "special help".

Bernd Ruf found his calling at the time of the 2006 Lebanon War. Since then he has facilitated the development of "Emergency Education". He and teams of teachers, doctors, psychologists, and therapists have taken part in crisis interventions around the world. They work with psychologically traumatized children and young people in war zones and disaster areas. 

Bernd Ruf presents an anthroposophical understanding of trauma itself. There is a an extensive examination of psychological trauma and healing the frozenness of trauma. The book contains many vignettes of their trauma work and concludes with emergency education as threshold education. 

Although the book is written primarily out of the experience of emergency educators in trauma situations, I would imagine that many classroom teachers and parents would find much they recognize in their "normal" world. 

Five stars. Great book.

READ AN EXCERPT: "EMERGENCY EDUCATION"

Mercury Press, an initiative of the Rudolf Steiner Fellowship Community in Spring Valley, New York, has been publishing interesting, unique, and useful books and pamphlets for more than fifty years. They include resources for teachers, children’s books, books on anthroposophic medicine, original translations of Rudolf Steiner's works, biographies, and much more.

As of December 15, 2021, Mercury ceased its mail-order operations and no longer publishes books. However, the fruits of this publishing initiative are not lost. Many of the titles published by Mercury are now or will soon be available through SteinerBooks as of 2022.

Our 2021 catalog is available for download. 

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