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  Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

  by Daniel Quinn

  A novel that uses a continuing conversation between a gorilla and his pupil to examine mythology, its effect on ethics, and how that relates to sustainability. A Socratic style is used through out the book. The novel deconstucts the myth that humans are the end of evolution and that human supremacy is a myth that ourcurrent culture is enacting.
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  The Story of B

  An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

  by Daniel Quinn

  The Story of B combines Daniel Quinn's provocative and visionary ideas with a masterfully plotted story of adventure and suspense in this stunning, resonant novel that is sure to stay with readers long after they have finished the last page. Father Jared Osborne--bound by a centuries-old mandate held by his order to know before all others that the Antichrist is among us--is sent to Europe on a mission to find a... (more)
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  After Dachau: A Novel

  by Daniel Quinn

  The scion of one of America's wealthiest and most respected families, Jason Tull inhabits a world that is as close to paradise as anyone could desire. He's young, rich, and free to roam the earth in pursuit of his one great passion: to find a "Golden Case" of reincarnation--a case solid enough to impress even skeptics. When he hears about a young woman named Mallory Hastings who has wakened from a brief coma with... (more)
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  My Ishmael

  by Daniel Quinn

  Daniel Quinn's Ishmael was the winner of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, a prize honoring fiction that offers creative and positive solutions to global problems. This extraordinary novel has become an underground bestseller and a testament for a burgeoning spiritual movement. Mr. Quinn's new novel is a companion piece--not a story that follows the first but rather a story contemporaneous with the first. In... (more)
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  Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

  by Daniel Quinn

  In Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn thinks the unthinkable. We all know there's no one right way to build a bicycle, no one right way to design an automobile, no one right way to make a pair of shoes, but we're convinced that there must be only one right way to live -- and the one we have is it, no matter what. Beyond Civilization makes practical sense of the vision of Daniel Quinn's best-selling novel Ishmael.... (more)