Daniel Quinn
1) Ishmael
Author
Series
Ishmael trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
2) After Dachau
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
230 p. ;hardcover 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jason Tull, who has devoted his life to finding proof of reincarnation, believes that Mallory Hastings is the case for which he has been searching. 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...
Author
Series
Ishmael trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
263 p.
Language
English
5) My Ishmael
Author
Series
Ishmael trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
274 p. ;hardcover 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A novel on Ishmael, a gorilla-philosopher. He advertises for a pupil interested in saving the world and Julie Gerchak, 12, answers. The lessons center on the educational system, which according to Ishmael is not really doing its job.When 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 Ishmael's reluctance to teach someone...
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
202 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Argues that if humankind is to survive, it must move beyond an exploitation of the planet and its resources, other species, and other human beings to an enlightened future that emphasizes sustaining rather than consuming the world.
7) The holy
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
413 p. : ill. ;hardcover 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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. Throughout time, they've played many roles and accepted inreturn 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...
8) Instinct
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Anthropologist Ethan Powell (Anthony Hopkins), who is in prison for the criminally insane is set to be examined by a young psychiatrist Theo Caulder (Gooding). Caulder will risk his life to get to the truth.
9) I am
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Don't know who Tom Shadyac is? As a writer and a director, Shadyac first unleashed Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Nutty Professor remake on the world, and then a string of film fiascoes, but that's all behind him now. A bike accident left him with a host of debilitating maladies and brought him to the verge of suicide, so he took stock of his life and set out on a quest to answer some of life's greatest questions. What's wrong with the world?...