DANIEL QUINN

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A rare moral thriller in the tradition of Fahrenheit 451, this stunning work from the author of Ishmael is set in a white-washed alternate world where Nazis won the war (Village Voice) Daniel Quinn, well known for Ishmaela life-changing book for readers the world overonce again turns the tables and creates an otherworld that is very like our own, yet fascinating beyond words. Imagine that Nazi Germany was the first to develop an atomic bomb and the Allies surrendered. America was never bombed, occupied, or even invaded, but was nonetheless forced to recognize Nazi world dominance. The Nazis continued to press their campaign to rid the planet of mongrel races until eventually the worldfrom Capetown to Tokyowas populated by only white faces. Two thousand years in the future, people dont remember, or much care, about this distant past. The reality is that to be human is to be Caucasian, and what came before was literally ancient history having nothing to do with those then living. Now imagine that reincarnation is real, that souls migrate over time from one living creature to another, and that a soul that once animated an American black woman living at the time of World War II now animates an Aryan in Quinns new worldand that due to a traumatic accident, memories of this earlier incarnation assert themselves. Compared by readers and critics alike to 1984 and Brave New World, After Dachau is a new dystopian classic with much to say about our own time, and the dynamics of human history.

The award-winning author ofIshmaelshares his advice on how to challenge your own thought processes so you can see the world in new, creative, revolutionary ways In Ishmael, Daniel Quinn offered new ways of seeing and understanding human history, and our collective future. His message was transformative for millions of people, and Ishmael continues to attract tens of thousands of new readers each year. Subsequent works, such as The Story of B and My Ishmael, expanded upon his insights and teachings, but only now does he finally tackle the one question he has been asked hundreds of times but has never taken on: How do you do what you do? In If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways Quinn elucidates for readers the methods behind his own thought processes, challenging and ultimately empowering them to view the world for themselves in creative, perhaps even revolutionary ways. If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways also includes Quinns never-before-published essays The New Renaissance and Our Religions. There is a scientific consensus that global warming is approaching a tipping point beyond no return faster than had previously been predicted. Quinn has long portrayed humans as a species of beings, which, while supposedly rational, are destroying the very planet they live on. So what are we to do? There has never been a plan for the futureand there never will be. But something extraordinary will happen in the next two or three decades; the people of our culture will learn to live sustainablyor not. Either way, it will be extraordinary. The sooner we understand this reality, the greater the chances that human society will transform itself so that the human race might have a future.

One of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author. A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our species on the planet . . . laid out for us with an originality and a clarity that few would deny.The New York Times Book ReviewTeacher Seeks Pupil.Must have an earnest desire to save the world.Apply in person.It was just a three-line ad in the personals section, but it launched the adventure of a lifetime.So begins an utterly unique and captivating novel. It is the story of a man who embarks on a highly provocative intellectual adventure with a gorillaa journey of the mind and spirit that changes forever the way he sees the world and humankinds place in it. In Ishmael, which received the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship for the best work of fiction offering positive solutions to global problems, Daniel Quinn parses humanitys origins and its relationship with nature, in search of an answer to this challenging question: How can we save the world from ourselves? Explore Daniel Quinns spiritual Ishmael trilogy:ISHMAEL MY ISHMAEL THE STORY OF BPraise for IshmaelAs suspenseful, inventive, and socially urgent as any fiction or nonfiction you are likely to read this or any other year.The Austin ChronicleBefore were halfway through this slim book . . . were in [Daniel Quinns] grip, we want Ishmael to teach us how to save the planet from ourselves. We want to change our lives.The Washington PostArthur Koestler, in an essay in which he wondered whether mankind would go the way of the dinosaur, formulated what he called the Dinosaurs Prayer: Lord, a little more time! Ishmael does its bit to answer that prayer and may just possibly have bought us all a little more time.Los Angeles Times

From the author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning bestseller Ishmael and its sequel, My Ishmael, comes a powerful novel with one of the most profound spiritual testaments of our time A compelling humantale that will unglue, stun, shock, and rearrange everything youve learned and assume about Western civilization and our future.Paul Hawken, author of The Ecology of Commerce Father Jared Osborne has received an extraordinary assignment from his superiors: Investigate an itinerant preacher stirring up deep trouble in central Europe. His followers call him B, but his enemies say hes something else: the Antichrist. However, the man Osborne tracks across a landscape of bars, cabarets, and seedy meeting halls is no blasphemous monsterthough an earlier era would undoubtedly have rushed him to the burning stake. For B claims to be enunciating a gospel written not on any stone or parchment but in our very genes, opening up a spiritual direction for humanity that would have been unimaginable to any of the prophets or saviors of traditional religion. Pressed by his superiors for a judgement, Osborne is driven to penetrate Bs inner circle, where he soon finds himself an anguished collaborator in the dismantling of his own religious foundations. More than a masterful novel of adventure and suspense, The Story of B is a rich source of compelling ideas from an author who challenges us to rethink our most cherished beliefs. Explore Daniel Quinns spiritual Ishmael trilogy: ISHMAEL MY ISHMAEL THE STORY OF B

An extraordinary and startlingly original sequel to Ishmael Enthralling, shocking, hope-filled, and utterly fearless, Daniel Quinn leads us deeper and deeper into the human heart, history, and spirit. In My Ishmael, Quinn strikes out into entirely new territory, posing questions that will rock you on your heels, and providing tantalizing possibilities for a truly new world vision.Susan Chernak McElroy, author of Animals as Teachers & HealersWhen Ishmael places an advertisement for pupils with an earnest desire to save the world, he does not expect a child to answer him. But twelve-year-old Julie Gerchak is undaunted by Ishmaels reluctance to teach someone so young, and convinces him to take her on as his next student. Ishmael knows he cant apply the same strategies with Julie that he used with his first pupil, Alan Lomaxnor can he hope for the same outcome. But young Julie proves that she is ready to forge her own spiritual path and arrive at her own destination. And when the time comes to choose a pupil to carry out his greatest mission yet, Ishmael makes a daring decisiona choice that just might change the world. Explore Daniel Quinns spiritual Ishmael trilogy: ISHMAEL MY ISHMAEL THE STORY OF B

The guide of choice for anyone who plans to die someday--are YOU ready for the AFTERLIFE?To find out, take this simple quiz:1. Like Earth, the Afterlife has celebrities, outcasts, deadheads, losers, and busybodies. TrueFalse2. Is there an Afterlife after the Afterlife? Yes No3. When you first arrive on "the Other Side," you will be given: a) a set of wings b) a toaster c) a copy of A Newcomers Guide to the AfterlifeDont worry if youre not sure how to respond. A Newcomers Guide to the Afterlife has answers to these questions and more--and if youre lucky, some of them may turn out to be right!An irreverent, one-of-a-kind compendium from the award-winning author of Ishmael, A Newcomers Guide to the Afterlife can be read as a parable, an allegory, a work of fiction--or exactly what it claims to be: a helpful handbook for the recently deceased. It is filled with uncommon wisdom, bizarre imaginings, uncanny perceptions, and unexpected humor. Is it fantastic escapism or a seminal event in human history? Read it and find out....Face it. The Afterlife is the ultimate test. You might as well study.

They knew us before we began to walk upright. Shamans called them guardians, mythmakers called them tricksters, pagans called them gods, churchmen called them demons, folklorists called them shape-shifters. Theyve obligingly taken any role weve assigned them, and, while needing nothing from us, have accepted whatever we thought was their due love, hate, fear, worship, condemnation, neglect, oblivion. Even in modern times, when their existence is doubted or denied, they continue to extend invitations to those who would travel a different road, a road not found on any of our cultural maps. But now, perceiving us as a threat to life itself, they issue their invitations with a dark purpose of their own. In this dazzling metaphysical thriller, four who put themselves in the hands of these all-but-forgotten Others venture across a sinister American landscape hidden from normal view, finding their way to interlocking destinies of death, terror, transcendental rapture, and shattering enlightenment.

Providence is Quinns fascinating memoir of his life-long spiritual voyage. His journey takes him from a childhood dream in Omaha setting him on a search for fulfillment, to his time as a postulant in the Trappist order under the guidance of eminent theologian Thomas Merton. Later, his quest took him through the deep self-discovery of psychoanalysis, through a failed marriage during the turbulent and exciting 60s, to finding fulfillment with his wife Rennie and a career as a writer. In Providence Quinn also details his rejection of organized religion and his personal rediscovery of what he says is humankinds first and only universal religion, the theology that forms the basis for Ishmael.Providence is an insightful book that address issues of education, psychology, religion, science, marriage, and self-understanding, and will give insight to anyone who has ever struggled to forge and enact a personal spirituality.

O que sabemos da humanidade e de seu comportamento? A história oficial, vista por olhos humanos, é um desfilar de nossas grandes conquistas e, ao mesmo tempo, contraditoriamente, a angústia de reconhecer a ameaça de uma iminente extinço da especie. Todos compartilhamos dessa angustia e procuramos meios de interferir para que esse futuro sombrio no se concretize. Todos temos um desejo sincero de salvar o mundo! E gostariamos de encontrar um professor disposto a nos acolher como discipulos para nos ensinar a satisfazer esse desejo. O narrador dessa fabula teve essa oportunidade. Respondendo a um anuncio de jornal, foi ao encontro do professor que procurava alunos com o desejo sincero de salvar o mundo. Esse professor, para espanto do narrador e dos leitores, e um gorila.Ismael e uma criatura de imensa sabedoria, com uma historia para contar a todos nos. Uma historia que nenhum ser humano jamais ouviu. Com este livro, Quinn penetra na alma, no espirito e na historia da humanidade. Leitura necessaria e urgente para todos aqueles, jovens e adultos, que tem desejo sincero de salvar o mundo. Amplamente adotado em escolas e universidades, inspirou tambem o filme Instinto, estrelado por Antony Hopkins e Cuba Gooding Jr.

In Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn thinks the unthinkable. We all know theres 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 were 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 Quinns best-selling novel Ishmael. Examining ancient civilizations such as the Maya and the Olmec, as well as modern-day microcosms of alternative living like circus societies, Quinn guides us on a quest for a new model for society, one that is forward-thinking and encourages diversity instead of suppressing it. Beyond Civilization is not about a "New World Order" but a "New Personal World Order" that would allow people to assert control over their own destiny and grant them the freedom to create their own way of life right now -- not in some distant utopian future.