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	Amazon.com: My Ishmael: Books: Daniel Quinn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Moving beyond his theories about Leavers and Takers, Ishmael presents a detailed critique of educational systems around the world, suggesting that their function is not to usefully educate but to regulate the flow of workers into a Taker society.
		Ishmael himself is reluctant to teach one so young.
		Ishmael shows what an innovation in human experience this tactic is, and how recently imposed.
	www.amazon.com /My-Ishmael-Daniel-Quinn/dp/0553379658 (2200 words)

	Ishmael - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ishmael, son of Abraham, is mentioned in both the Torah and the Qur'an.
		In the Qur'an, Ishmael is known as the first-born son of Abraham from his second wife Hagar, and an appointed Prophet of God (also mentioned in the Bible).
		According to Genesis 21, Ishmael became a skilled archer and lived in the desert; his mother obtained a wife for him from Egypt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ishmael (718 words)

	My Ishmael: A Sequel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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 so young, and convinces him to take her on as his next student.
		Ishmael knows he can't apply the same strategies with Julie that he used with his first pupil, Alan Lomax--nor can he hope for the same outcome.
	www.evolvefish.com /fish/product1237.html (222 words)

	Future Positive : Welcome
		My Ishmael is a sequel to the original novel, and reveals another side of the philosophizing gorilla that author Daniel Quinn’s readers have come to know and love.
		Ishmael began his course with Julie in his usual fashion, by teasing out her version of “the story”.
		Ishmael proposes that the crux of Taker (that is, industrialized) culture is based on one practice: the storage of food under lock and key.
	futurepositive.synearth.net /2001/12/31 (1317 words)

	My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
		Ishmael acquires a new student to learn about the cultural heritage of the Takers, the 10,000 year old, but very young culture that now pervades the world.
		Ishmael, the teacher, identifies two rules of thumb by which the people of that culture can be identified.
		Ishmael contends that the real innovation of the so-called agricultural revolution wasn't the growing of food, it was locking it up.
	maorinews.com /writings/books/myishmael.htm (612 words)

	ishmael
		Abraham brought her and her son Ishmael while she was suckling him to a place near the Kaba under a tree on the spot of ZamZam at the highest place in the mosque.
		Ishmael's mother was pleased with the whole situation, as she used to love to enjoy the company of the people, so they settled there, and later on they sent for their families who came and settled with them so that some families became permanent residents there.
		When he asked Ishmael's wife about him, she replied: "He has gone in search of livelihood." Then he asked her about their way of living and their condition, and she replied, "We are living in misery; we are living in hardship and destitution,' complaining to him.
	www.angelfire.com /on/ummiby1/ishmael.html (2947 words)

	Review of Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Yet Ishmael is none of these, and Ishmael is a strong character, with a powerful intellect and a serious purpose.
		Ishmael was sitting calmly, nibbling on a slender branch.
		Ishmael is a critic of human civilization, but not of the human species itself.
	www.ugcs.caltech.edu /~miles/works/Ishmael.html (920 words)

	Ishmael Community: My Ishmael (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ishmael chuckled and asked me what he could do that would be helpful.
		Instead, the original must be seen as a springboard for this new penetrating look into the machinery of our own culture, with all the drama and intrigue that a culture's history has to offer.
		My Ishmael, the sequel to Ishmael, is published by Bantam Books.
	www.ishmael.com /origins/My_ishmael (445 words)

	My Lai massacre - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about My Lai massacre
		Killing of 109 civilians in My Lai, a village in South Vietnam, by US troops in March 1968.
		An investigation in 1969 produced enough evidence to charge 30 soldiers with war crimes, but the only soldier convicted was Lt William Calley, commander of the platoon.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /My+Lai+Massacre (174 words)

	Daily Bible Study - Ishmael
		Ishmael, from the Hebrew word meaning God hears, was the son of Abraham and Hagar, the Egyptian maid of his wife Sarah.
		Ishmael was born at Mamre, when Abraham was 86, 11 years after Abraham's arrival in what would become the land of Israel (Genesis 16:3).
		Isaac and Ishmael apparently did not meet again until Abraham died: "Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre, the field which Abraham purchased from the Hittites.
	www.keyway.ca /htm2002/ishmael.htm (1305 words)

	My Ishmael -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		My Ishmael is a sequel to the novel ((Old Testament) the son of Abraham who was cast out after the birth of Isaac; considered the forebear of 12 Arabian tribes) Ishmael by (Click link for more info and facts about Daniel Quinn) Daniel Quinn.
		It's plot revolves around a telepathic ape named Ishmael who describes his (The rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics) philosophy on the virtues of tribal society to a 12 year old girl named Emily.
		Ishmael won the (Click link for more info and facts about Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award) Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/my/my_ishmael.htm (109 words)

	My Ishmael: A Sequel by Daniel Quinn
		Winner of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, Daniel Quinn's Ishmael is an underground bestseller and a testament for a burgeoning spiritual movement.
		My Ishmael proves that even 12 year olds can have a desire to change the world.
		If you are interested in buying My Ishmael, and supporting Nature's Tapestry please use this link to Amazon.
	www.naturestapestry.com /myisseqbydan.html (257 words)

	My Ishmael - The Simple Living Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		When Ishmael places an advertisement for pupils with "an earnest desire to save the world," he does not expect a young child to answer him.
		Ishmael knows he can't apply the same strategies with Julie that he used with his first pupil, Alan Lomax -- nor can he hope for the same outcome.
		Daniel Quinn is the award-winning author of Ishmael, The Story Of B, My Ishmael and Beyond Civilization, and (with Tom Whalen) A Newcomer's Guide To The Afterlife.
	www.simpleliving.net /resources/resource.asp?sku=BMI (688 words)

	Powell's Books - My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
		"My Ishmael" is Julie's story of her encounter with one of the greatest teachers of the modern age.
		Ishmael soon realizes that adopting new methods means adopting new goals; the result is a far different journey for Julie, who becomes Ishmael's secret collaborator.
		Winner of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, Daniel Quinn's Ishmael is a bestseller and a testament for a burgeoning spiritual movement.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=0553379658 (470 words)

	The Story of B (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It was hard to continue with Quinn to My Ishmael, returning to the questioning format, after such a great plot.
		I first read Daniel Quinn's "Ishmael" over four years ago, and as a direct result my way of looking at the world has been forever changed.
		In "Ishmael," Quinn outlines inescapably what has gone wrong here on Earth, and that we civilized humans, far from being a doomed race, are simply a single culture with a dangerously deluded idea of ourselves.
	www.jemsfurniture.com /BookStore/isbn0553379011.html (576 words)

	Quinn's whole idea is ideas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		With questions and stories, Ishmael draws upon Julie's innate good sense and curiosity in order to lead her to some ideas about how humans can live without ravaging the earth and each other.
		Author Quinn, in Milwaukee last week to promote "My Ishmael," has an amazing story to tell, and not all of it is about a wise old lowlands gorilla.
		It is taught in middle school and colleges, in courses as diverse as the history of opera, police ethics and anthropology.
	www.jsonline.com /news/sunday/books/1123lois.stm (521 words)

	The Ishmael Companion: About Daniel Quinn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Quinn is best known as the author of Ishmael, the novel that in 1991 won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, established to encourage authors to seek "creative and positive solutions to global problems." Ishmael has been in print continuously since its publication in 1992 and is currently available in twenty languages.
		Thoroughout the U.S. and Canada and in other countries as well, Ishmael is used as a text in a broad range of classes that include anthropology, ecology, history, literature, philosophy, ethics, biology, and psychology, at age levels from middle school through graduate level.
		He followed Ishmael with an autobiography, Providence (1994), The Story Of B (1996), a novel that continues the philosophical and religious exploration begun in Ishmael; and My Ishmael: A Sequel (1997), in which it's learned that, unbeknownst to the narrator of Ishmael, Ishmael was working with another pupil, a twelve-year-old girl.
	www.ishmael.com /origins/DQ (367 words)

	My Ishmael (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As for the other six classes that are on my schedule I view all of those and a waste of time and pointless to go to other then to keep my GPA up.
		The best book is My Ishmael and it is plainly because of the questions asked by the simian, Ishmael.
		Kommentar: Having read Ishmael, Quinn's first and (I imagine) most widely-read book, I can safely say that, while My Ishmael builds off the same ideas as Ishmael and has more or less the same plot, it is not a sequel.
	www.top-produkte.ch /index.php?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0553379658 (576 words)

	Biblical people: Ishmael
		Ishmael was the half-brother of Isaac, who was the son of Abraham and Sarah.
		God blessed Ishmael and he became an expert archer, and his mother arranged a marriage for him with a girl from Egypt.
		Ishmael had twelve sons, and they became the founders of the twelve tribes that bore their names: Nebaioth, Kedar, Abdeel, Mibsam, Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedmah.
	www.aboutbibleprophecy.com /p141.htm (250 words)

	Ishmael (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Toxic pollution, global warming, species extinction--Daniel Quinn, through the teacher Ishmael, explains why our culture (and our culture only, not all of humanity) has played a role in creating the present environmental crisis.
		Ishmael, a gorilla who lives in a flat and is offering seminar lessons, expresses his view on humans.
		Kommentar: I was essentially forced to read Ishmael by a perpetually plastered attorney who was trying to teach me life lessons...
	www.top-produkte.ch /0553375407/Ishmael.html (706 words)

	Ishmael Community: Excerpt from My Ishmael -- Less Is Not Always More (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ishmael chuckled and asked me what he could do that would be helpful.
		But my task, Julie, is to show you that this isn't the case.
		It's my bizarre theory that, given a choice between destroying the world and having the things they really, deeply want, they'll chose the latter.
	ishmael.org /origins/My_ishmael/excerpts (2036 words)

	EcoFuture: Ishmael by Daniel Quinn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1992 the novel Ishmael was awarded the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship -- an award for authors whose fiction helps produce solutions to global problems.
		The gorilla, Ishmael, proves to be a genuine teacher of immense wisdom.
		Ishmael tells the history of the world in a way that never appeared in any school textbook.
	www.ecofuture.org /pk/pkar9504.html (1233 words)

	Ishmael Community: My Ishmael (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Unbeknownst to the narrator of Ishmael, a second pupil responded to the ad in the paper ("Teacher seeks pupil.
		Instead, the original must be seen as a springboard for this new penetrating look into the machinery of our own culture, with all the drama and intrigue that a culture's history has to offer.
		My Ishmael, the sequel to Ishmael, is published by Bantam Books.
	www.ishmael.org /Origins/My_Ishmael (392 words)

	My Ishmael - The Ishmael Community: Meet Ishmael.. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The sequel to Quinn's earlier novel, Ishmael, which won Ted Turner's $500,000 prize for a work of fiction that proposed the best solution to the problems of today's world.
		Ishmael's Home Page Quick dispatch, if you are here for: Engineering work Shape Note Singing Norumbega Harmony The Black Jokers Pipe and Tabor The Other Morris WA1VRB Pages here may be continually under...
		Ishmael A multi-purpose tool for spectrograms, localization, recording, call recognition, etc. By Dave Mellinger Ishmael is a multi-purpose sound analysis tool.
	www.hotdealsrock.com /hot/my-ishmael-3035004-osk (378 words)

	SustainableWays.com - Crash Course on Sustainability
		This is Part II of the Daniel Quinn's Ishmael series, and out of all of his books, it's my personal favorite.
		While it barely ever mentions Ishmael, The Story of B presents all of the concepts in a new, provocative way.
		My Ishmael also discusses new applications of the ideas presented in the previous books, some of which (like Ishmael's take on education) left a lasting impression on me.
	www.sustainableways.com /books/crash.html (413 words)

	Powell's Books - Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
		Thursday, November 10th 2005 07:30 PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside, Portland, OR Ishmael author Daniel Quinn returns with seven profound but delightfully simple tales that illuminate the world in which humans became humans.
		Ishmael is a creature of immense wisdom and he has a story to tell, one that no other human being has ever heard.
		Daniel Quinn's first book, Ishmael, won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, a prize for fiction presenting creative and positive solutions to global problems. He is also the author of Providence, The Story of B, and My Ishmael.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0553375407-3 (325 words)

	Comments on 10013 \| Ask MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Preferable, though not necessary, for my own pleasure would be something that intertwines religion and science with nature (from a negative or positive standpoint) into the book.
		My Ishmael is written from the perspective of a 16 year-old girl, and uses the Taker/Leaver scenario to denounce the modern education system.
		My Ishmael is parallel to the one you read, and The Earth Abides somewhat puts it into practice.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/10013 (726 words)

	my ishmael: essaysstation.com- a one-stop station for essays, research papers, book reports, term papers
		For Ishmael, the telepathic philosopher gorilla who is also a student of human behavior, modern people could be divided into two main groups.
		According to Ishmael, Takers are enacting a story where humans are the pinnacle of creation, where the needs of the rest of the world take a backseat to human needs.
		essaysstation.com is a website that has a wealth of free essay abstracts on my ishmael.
	www.essaysstation.com /term-papers/3470/my-ishmael.html (364 words)

	My Ishmael (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		While these groups meet some of the criteria for so- called tribal communities, the fact that these societies are overwhelmingly destructive to many of the individuals they serve makes them antithetical in nature to the possibility of an harmonious world.
		I loved Ishmael and The Story of B and found the ideas therein to be both challenging and intelligent.
		I have always thought along similar lines as the philosophy set out in these books, but now find that they are shaking my foundations: I am a teacher and have started to question the whole educational system as a result of reading this book.
	www.armchairfans.co.uk /books/0553379658 (524 words)

	Ishmael Katz: Musician, Teacher, Singer,Songwriter
		His gifted presentation of his music, along with his skillful weaving of tunes bring his voice to the foreground.
		If you don't know Ishmael, you're going to enjoy getting to know him through his music.
		Ishmael Katz lives in Sarasota Florida, where he pursues a career in music, both performing and teaching.
	www.ishmaelkatz.com (119 words)

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