Jared Osborne is a priest sent to investigate a radical itinerant preacher, the mysterious B. When he finds him, the profound simplicity of his teaching seems to offer a path to salvation, and Jared is faced with having to betray his own church.
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. This book, like its predecessor, is essentially a lecture, by a wise and compassionate gorilla, on how to live.
Quinn propounds a simple anthropology, which, building on the premises of his earlier books, ISHMAEL and MY ISHMAEL, transcends the failings of civilization through the tribal society.
In a powerful novel of reincarnation and a deadly alternate future, the bestselling author of "Ishmael" explores alternative realities within the mainstream, in this case a dystopian future in which Hitler has won World War II and all non-Aryans have been eliminated.
International competitive pressures, the increasing size and complexity of organizations, the changing values, career concerns, and demography of the work force -- these and a host of other factors have made the modern corporation's traditional approach to personnel management permanently obsolete. Developed and proven over the last half decade at ...
In his bestselling book Ishmael, Quinn takes readers on a powerful, life-changing spiritual adventure. Now, with Providence, he tells the story of his won journey of self-discovery which led him ultimately to a personal rediscovery of the world's only universal religion.
At the risk of losing everything good in his seemingly stable life, David Kennesey is driven to revisit a scene from his past. He must find out what happened one summer night 20 years ago when he followed--or was it stalked--a mysterious woman through a wasteland beside the Scioto River near Columbus, Ohio.
The author of "Ishmael" and "The Story of B" now offers this volume that includes never-before-published essays in which Quinn elucidates the methods behind his own thought processes, challenging and ultimately empowering readers to view the world for themselves in creative, perhaps even revolutionary ways.
In a series of lively essays, this pioneering book proves that US slang has its strongest wellsprings in nineteenth-century Irish America. "Jazz" and "poker," "sucker" and "scam" all derive from Irish. While demonstrating this, Daniel Cassidy simultaneously traces the hidden history of how Ireland fashioned America, not just linguistically, but ...
Traveling from a dream in an Omaha boarding house to a mysterious encounter in the hills of Kentucky as a young Trappist monk to disenchantment with organized religion, and finally to a personal rediscovery of humankind's first and only universal religion, the bestselling author of Ishmael tells the story of his personal, spiritual voyage to a ...
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 ...
"Work, Work, Work" is the story of an industrious gopher whose lifework is to burrow from dawn to dusk under an enchanted land that he never sees. While he grumbles about his unceasing labors, all manner of magical happenings are going on above.
In a society where times moved backward--people are removed from graves and wake up in hospitals where their lives begin--one man is growing younger much more slowly than everyone he knows, all of whom are engaged in a search for their mothers, whom they must find before the "end" of their lives.
Ever since the publication of "Ishmael in 1992, "readers have yearned for a glimpse into a dimension of spiritual revelation the author only hinted at in that and later books. Now at long last they have it in seven profound but delightfully simple tales that illuminate the world in which humans "became" humans. This is a world seen through ...
The time has come for American managers to rethink the traditional relationship between management and workers. The personnel practices of the past are an obstacle today, blocking the higher productivity and quality levels your firm will need to succeed in the competitive environment of the 1980s and beyond. While U.S. corporations have become ...
Power and the Self deals with an important but neglected topic: the ways in which power is experienced by individuals, both as agents and as objects of the exercise of power. Each contributor presents a series of case studies drawn from a variety of cultural contexts, including the analysis of the appeal of Japanese superhero toys for American ...
The product of an exhaustive study of American management practices, here is an authoritative account of the skills and personal and professional characteristics that managers need if they are to succeed in today's highly competitive, internationalized environment. The book addresses the needs, interests and aspirations of the "new breed" of ...
This Companion offers a wide-ranging and innovative introduction to one of the most exciting and important periods in British theatrical history. The scope of the volume extends from the age of Garrick to the Romantic transformation of acting inaugurated by Edmund Kean. It brings together cutting-edge scholarship from leading international ...
Millions lost fortunes in the Internet collapse -- and, according to conventional wisdom, they only have themselves to blame for being greedy, shortsighted, and ignorant of business fundamentals. But is that the real story? In this riveting book, Harvard Business School Professor Daniel Quinn Mills argues that the Internet bubble and subsequent ...
Are emotions innate or learned? Are they the same everywhere, or culturally variable? Research on the emotions tends to be polarised between neo-Darwinian and culturalist perspectives. In this volume, biological and cultural anthropologists attempt to transcend the traditional oppositions, proposing various strategies for integrating biological ...
This book is a compilation of the presentations held at the Sixth International Meeting on Cholinesterases and Related Proteins. The volume describes recent investigations on the structure, catalytic and potential non-catalytic functions of acetylcholinesterase (AChE), butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE), and related proteins. Studies on the molecular ...
In the pursuit of continuing growth and bigger profits, American companies have tried a multitude of new management approaches in recent years. From Total Quality Management to customer partnerships, teams, and reengineering, organizations have employed a blinding array of initiatives in pursuit of growth and improved bottom line results. In the ...
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