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Partnership Library
Books and Articles about Partnership

The Center for Partnership Studies presents this rich selection of books and articles about partnership and its possibilities for our world.  The books are available for order On-Line through our Book Store or on www.amazon.com or Powell's City of Books. Find ordering information as well as a more detailed synopsis by clicking on the title of each book. Feel free to print the articles for easy reading.

Books

Articles and Interviews

 



Books

Foundational Partnership Books

THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP: 
Seven Relationships that Will Change Your Life
By Riane Eisler
In this easy to read, personal, and practical book, Eisler shows how step-by-step outward from the "self" we can shift from dominator to partnership ways to improve our lives, as well as those of others in the world around us.

The Chalice and The Blade:
Our History, Our Future
By Riane Eisler
The Chalice and The Blade is the international bestseller that describes a way of life based on equality, nonviolence, and harmony with nature-"a partnership way".

Tomorrow's Children:
A Blueprint for Partnership Education for the 21st Century
By Riane Eisler
As we enter the new millennium, this compelling book goes beyond conventional debates about educational reform to what today's and tomorrow's children need to survive and flourish. 

Sacred Pleasure
Sex, Myth and the Politics of the Body
By Riane Eisler
A provocative examination of the shifting balance of power between men and women throughout history... a new perspective on the sexual politics that fashion our culture.

Darwin's Lost Theory of Love
By David Loye
Loye shows how, for over a century, the completing human half of one of the main theories underlying modern science, by one of the greatest scientists of all time, has been buried, ignored, or radically distorted by his successors.

The Gate: 
A Memoir of Love and Reflection
By Riane Eisler
The Gate is Riane Eisler’s dramatic new memoir of her years growing up in pre-Castro Cuba after a narrow escape from the Holocaust in Nazi Europe.

The Partnership Way:
New Tools for Living and Learning
By Riane Eisler and David Loye
The Partnership Way provides practical information and experiential exercises based on the ideas in The Chalice and The Blade and Sacred Pleasure.

Partnership Education in Action:
A Companion to Tomorrow's Children
Edited by Partnership Education consultants Dee Buccarelli and Sarah Pirtle, Partnership Education in Action is a treasure-house of practical ideas and activities for use in the classroom.

The Evolutionary Outrider:
The Impact of the Human Agent on Evolution
Edited by David Loye, this is a book of chapters by leading scientists who are trying to find ways to build a better world.

The Chalice and The Blade in Chinese Culture:
Gender Relations and Social Models
By Chinese Partnership Research Group at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. Edited by Professor Min Jiayin, China Social Sciences Publishing House, Beijing, August, 1995

Women, Men, and the Global Quality of Life
By Riane Eisler,  David Loye, and Kari Norgaard
This CPS study of 89 countries dramatically reveals the connection between women's rights and a better quality of life for both men and women.

International Editions of selected books

Booklet- Education for a Culture of Peace:
Human Possibilities
By Riane Eisler
This 28 page booklet identifies the configurations of beliefs, behaviors, relations and institutions that, regardless of other differences, support a peaceable or violent culture. It also shows how education can help develop and maintain a culture in a wide variety of cultural contexts.

 

Other Books that Incorporate Partnership

Hundreds of books incorporate the Partnership model. They range widely and include many subjects and fields.

Some authors use the new conceptual framework proposed in Eisler’s work as the conceptual framework for their books; including;

Other books devote chapters to the partnership and dominator models, for example Gender Roles by sociologist Linda L. Lindsey (Prentice Hall 1997), and many others cite Eisler’s work, including:

Other books, such as Women of Courage edited by Katherine Martin (New World Library 1999) and Visionaries: People and Ideas to Change Your Life edited by Jay Walljasper and John Spayde (New Society Publishers 2001) feature Eisler with others who have contributed to a better world.

There are many anthologies that include pieces by Eisler for Example:

In addition to books interviewing Eisler such as Voicing Power edited by Gail Hanlon (Westview Press 1997) are works such as Sex, Death and the Angry Young Man by Mathew Callahan (Times Change Press 1993), which consists of conversations with Eisler and her partner David Loye, and Mavericks of the Mind edited by David Jay Brown and Rebecca McClen Novick (Crossing Press 1993), which also includes conversations with both of them.

Works of fiction such as The Moon Over Crete by Jyotsna Sreenivasan (Holy Cow Press 1994) and High Kamilan by Marie Jakober (Gullveig Books 1993) have been inspired by Eisler’s work.

In addition to the translations of Eisler’s books are foreign anthologies such as Eine Welt fur Alle edited by Andreas Giger (Horizonte 1990) and Origini di Storie by Gianluca Bocchi and Mauro Ceruti (Feltrinelli 1993) that include chapters by Eisler.

 

Articles and Interviews

Share Partnership Viewpoints by Riane Eisler and Others
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Partnership Education 
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A Partnership Response to Terrorism

Creating a Partnership Culture

Partnership Business and Organizational Development 

Partnership Economics 

Partnership Sexuality 

Articles available in print from CPS

 

Partnership in Action

 


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