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Later Adam said, "Sometimes there's no way to move alongside the elements and survive, or the way may be blocked. Then it's time to open yourself to death in the same way you opened yourself to the cold in the little hills. After that, if you survive, you will never again have to be afraid of death, just as now you never will again have to be afraid of the cold." The Tales of Adam

New book from Daniel Quinn! If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways "One of the most troublesome questions I've been asked--and it's been asked hundreds of times--is: 'Where do these strange ideas of yours come from?' In the beginning, I thought it was just the usual where-do-you-get-your-ideas? question that all authors receive. My readers soon set me straight. Read more ... Excerpt 1 Excerpt 2 Excerpt 3

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Here are a few of the courses that have used Ishmael or other Quinn books or tapes:

• Advanced Literature (eighth grade--My Ishmael)
  
• African American History
  
• Allied Health
  
• Alpha Seminar First Year Experience Program
  
• Alternative Educational Unit programs
  
• Alternative Vision of Humanity
  
• American Indian Education
  
• American Indian History
  
• American Indian Women
  
• American Literature
  
• American Studies: The Simple Life
  
• Ancient Civilizations
  
• Ancient History
  
• Ancient Society
  
• Animal Behavior
  
• Animal Voice-Human Vision
  
• Anthropology (physical & cultural)
  
• Anthropology of the Future
  
• AP Environmental Science
  
• AP Human Geography
  
• Art and Life
  
• Artist's Hazards
  
• Big Questions for a Small Planet
  
• Biology
  
• Biosocial Psychology (grad)
  
• Business and Environment
  
• Business Ethics
  
• Capstone Seminar in Public and Community Service Studies
  
• Chemistry
  
• Chemistry in the Community
  
• Civics
  
• Classics
  
• Community Service: A Study in Making a Difference
  
• Comparative World Studies
  
• Composition
  
• Conservation Biology
  
• Constitutional Jurisprudence
  
• Contemporary Ethical Dilemmas
  
• Contemporary Issues Seminar
  
• Contemporary Literature
  
• Creating a New Story
  
• Creating a Sane Society
  
• Creating Sustainable Communities
  
• Critical Thinking
  
• Cross-cultural Education
  
• Cross-cultural Psychology
  
• Cultural Dynamics of Technology
  
• Cultural Geography
  
• Culture, Racism, and Human Nature
  
• Depth Psychology
  
• Dialogue Process
  
• Dinosaurs and Disasters
  
• Doctrine of Creation
  
• Earth Community/Earth Ethics
  
• Ecological Ethics
  
• Ecology & the Environment
  
• Ecology and Evolution
  
• Ecology, Ethics, Wilderness
  
• Economics
  
• Economy-Ecology-Ethics
  
• Ecopsychology
  
• Ecosystem Health
  
• Effective Writing
  
• Enduring Questions in Contemporaary Contexts
  
• English 150
  
• English 4 Honors
  
• English-Biology Core
  
• English-History Core
  
• Environment and Mankind
  
• Environment and Society
  
• Environment and Values
  
• Environmental Biology
  
• Environmental Economics
  
• Environmental Ethics
  
• Environmental Issues and Actions
  
• Environmental Literature
  
• Environmental Philosophy
  
• Environmental Policy-making
  
• Environmental Politics
  
• Environmental Psychology
  
• Environmental Science
  
• Environmental Sociology
  
• Environmental Studies
  
• Environmental Theory
  
• ESL (English as a Second Lanugage): Turkey
  
• Essential Daniel Quinn Reader
  
• Ethical Practice
  
• Ethics
  
• European History
  
• EXCO (Experimental College)course
  
• Fantasy Novels
  
• Federal Indian Law
  
• First Nations
  
• First Nations and Cross-cultural Education
  
• Folklore
  
• Foundations of Organizational Service
  
• French
  
• General Communication & Counseliing Theory
  
• Genetics
  
• Geography and Environment
  
• Geography: Resources, Poopulation, and Conservation
  
• Geology
  
• Global Civic Responsibility
  
• Global Futures: Ecology, Feminism, and Religion
  
• Global Humanities
  
• Global Insights
  
• Global Perspectives
  
• Global Problems
  
• Global Understanding and Environmental Ethics (BC)
  
• Global, Political, and Economic Development
  
• Government
  
• Green Architecture
  
• Hazardous Materials Policy Regulation
  
• Health and Pollution
  
• History of Opera
  
• Honors Capstone Seminar
  
• Human Environment
  
• Human Ethology
  
• Human Modifications of Natural Environments
  
• Humanities
  
• Humanities Interdisciplinary Program
  
• Ideas in Western Literature
  
• Independent Future Studies
  
• Indigenous Studies
  
• Influence of Technology on Culture and Society
  
• Inquiry 101
  
• International Baccalaureate Program
  
• International Studies
  
• Interpersonal Multicultural Communications
  
• Introduction to Archaeology
  
• Introduction to Criminal Justice
  
• Introduction to Geography
  
• Introduction to Social Ecology
  
• Inventing Death
  
• Issues in Global Leadership
  
• Law and Religion
  
• Learning Clusters
  
• Learning Community/Diversity of Life--freshman comp
  
• Legal Philosophy
  
• Liberal Arts Symposium-"Origins"
  
• Literature
  
• Literature and Film as Social Commentary
  
• Literature and Ideas of Nature
  
• Literature and Philosophy
  
• Literature and Theories of Human Nature
  
• Literature as Philosophy
  
• Literature for the Inner Quest
  
• Marine, Aquatic/Technological, and Environmental Science Program (MATES)
  
• MBA classes
  
• Meaning in Life: Philosophy & Religion Through Literature
  
• Mind and Nature
  
• Myth, Metaphor, and Symbol
  
• Mythic Patterns
  
• Mythology
  
• Myths, Dreams, and Cultures
  
• Native American studies
  
• Natural Resources Management
  
• Natural Science
  
• Nonprofit Management
  
• Old Testament
  
• Ologies and Isms
  
• Organismic Biology
  
• Organizational behavior
  
• Organizational Learning
  
• Organizational Theory
  
• Outdoor Recreation, Parks and Tourism
  
• Peace & Freedom
  
• Peace Studies
  
• People, Work, and Technology
  
• Perspectives on Agriculture and the Environment
  
• Philosophy
  
• Philosophy for Secondary Education-synecology (post Masters level)
  
• Philosophy in Literature
  
• Philosophy of Religion
  
• Physics 115: Energy
  
• Police Ethics
  
• Political Science
  
• Political Theory
  
• Population Growth and Sustainability
  
• Primal Mind/Tribal Societies
  
• Principles of Management
  
• Problems in Philosophy
  
• Public Issues
  
• Qualitative Research and Writing
  
• Quantum Physics
  
• Radical and Revolutionary Thought
  
• Reading
  
• Religion
  
• Religion and Ecology
  
• Religious Traditions and Care of the Earth
  
• School and Society
  
• Science (5th grade)
  
• Science, Technology & Society
  
• Shaping the 21st Century
  
• Simple Life
  
• Social and Political Philosophy
  
• Social Ecology
  
• Social Inequality
  
• Social Problems
  
• Social Studies Education (for elem. & early childhood education majors)
  
• Social Work
  
• Sociocultural Anthropology
  
• Sociocultural Anthropology & Linguistics
  
• Sociological Perspectives
  
• Sociology of Religion
  
• Sociology of Work
  
• Socratic Seminar-Environmental Science
  
• Southwest Minority Child in the Classroom
  
• Specialist Program (post Masters program) My Ishmael
  
• Substance Abuse Treatment Program
  
• Summer Reading (schoolwide or various classes)
  
• Sustainable Design
  
• Systems of Survival
  
• Teacher as Parent and Professional
  
• Texts and Critics Honors Seminar
  
• The Human Person
  
• Themes and Types of Literature
  
• Theories of Human Nature
  
• Theory of Knowledge
  
• Thinking Philosophically About the Environment
  
• Topics in Archaeology: Domestication & Its Consequences
  
• Twentieth Century Fiction
  
• Twentieth Century Literature
  
• U.S. History
  
• U.S. History/American Literature
  
• Understanding Environmental Issues
  
• Utopian Fiction
  
• Utopian Literature
  
• Visionaries
  
• War and Possibilities of Peace
  
• Ways of Teaching Literature
  
• Western Civilization
  
• Western Civilization & Literature
  
• World Civilization
  
• World Cultures
  
• World History
  
• World History & Philosophy
  
• World Literature
  
• World of Ideas
  
• World Religions
  
• Writing Workshop (for Lit/Bio combination class)
  
• Zoology
  

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