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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
Speeches
Riane Eisler speeches on a variety of
topics
Books
Foundational
Partnership Books
THE
REAL WEALTH OF NATIONS:
Creating a
Caring Economics
By Riane Eisler
In this powerful
book, Riane Eisler shows that the great
problems of our time – poverty, inequality, war,
terrorism, and environmental degradation – are due largely to
flawed economic systems. Eisler offers a
bold reformulation: a caring economics that transcends
traditional categories. She describes how to put
this model into practice through new government and business
policies and practices, innovative economic indicators that
incorporate caregiving activities, and new social structures.
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 in 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.
Women, Men, and the Global Quality of Life
by
Riane Eisler ,
David Loye,
and Kari Norgaard
Originally
released at the U.N. Conference on Women held in Beijing, China
in 1995, 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.
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 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
International Editions of selected books
Great
Peacemakers:
True Stories
from Around the World
by Ken Beller and Heather Chase
Riane Eisler is featured in Great Peacemakers: True
Stories from Around the World as one of 20 international
leaders who have made major contributions to world peace. The
other 19 include Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr, Mother
Teresa, the Dalai Lama, Jane Goodall, and Archbishop Desmond
Tutu.
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.
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Other Books
that Incorporate Partnership
Hundreds of books
incorporate the Partnership model. They range widely and include
many subjects and fields.
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Macrohistory and Macrohistorians edited by Johan
Galtung and Sohail Inayatullah (Praeger 1997) contains a
chapter by Eisler, including her in the list of the 20 most
important macrohistorians, where she is the only woman and
the only living figure following such illustrious men as
Adam Smith, Karl Marx, St. Augustine, Ibn Khaldun,
Gianbattista Vico, Arnold Toynbee, Oswald Spengler, Auguste
Comte, Max Weber, and Pitirim Sorokin.
Some authors use
the new conceptual framework proposed in Eisler’s work as the
conceptual framework for their books; including;
- Myths
of Enki, the Crafty God by Sumerologist Samuel Noah
Kramer and religious historian John Maier (Oxford University
Press 1989)
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Breaking Free of the Co Dependency Trap by
psychologists Barry Weinhold and Janae Weinhold (Stillpoint
1989)
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Megatrends for Women by popular writers Patricia
Aburdene and John Naisbitt (Billard Books 1992)
- Sexual
Peace: Beyond the Dominator Virus by Michael Sky
(Bear and Company Publishing, 1993)
- From
Power to Partnership: Creating the Future of Love, Work, and
Community, by Alfonso Montouri and Isabella Conti
(Harper San Francisco, 1993)
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Reclaiming Our Health by health expert John Robbins
(H.J. Kramer 1996)
- Wisdom
from a Rainforest by anthropologist Stuart Schlegel
(University of Georgia Press 1998)
- A
Visionary Life: Conversations on Personal and Planetary
Evolution, by business entrepreneur Marc Allen (New
World Library, 1998)
- The
Gardens of Their Dreams by Brian Griffith (Fernwood
Publishing, Zed Books, 2001]
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Compassion: A New Philosophy of the Other by
philosopher erner J. Krieglstein (Rodopi, 2002)
- The
Ten Percent Solution: Simple Steps to Improve Our Lives and
Our World by business entrepreneur Marc Allen (New
World Library 2002).
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:
- Gaia:
The Human Journey: From Chaos to Cosmos by biologist
Elisabet Sahtouris (Pocket Books 1989)
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Creative Work by futurists Willis Harman and John
Hormann (Knowledge Systems 1990)
- A
Dream Deferred by sociologist Philip Slater (Beacon
Press 1991)
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Transformative Learning by education professor
Edmund O'Sullivan (Zed Books 1999).
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:
- The
New Evolutionary Paradigm edited by Ervin Laszlo
(Gordon and Breach, 1991)
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Cooperation: Beyond the Age of Competition edited by
Allan Combs (Gordon and Breach, 1992)
- Women
Respond to the Men’s Movement edited by Kay Leigh
Hagan (Harper San Francisco, 1992)
- Voices
from the Threshold of Tomorrow edited by Georg
Feuerstein and Tricia Lamb Feuerstein (The Theosophical
Publishing House, 1993)
- The
Evolution of Cognitive Maps: New Paradigms for the
Twenty-First Century edited by Ervin Laszlo and
Ignazio Masulli et al (Gordon and Breach: 1993)
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Feminism in Our Time edited by Miriam Schneir
(Vintage 1994)
- The
Web of Violence: From Interpersonal to Global edited
by Jennifer Turpin and Lester Kurtz (University of Illinois
Press 1997)
- The
Fabric of the Future: Women Visionaries Illuminate the Path
to Tomorrow edited by M.J. Ryan (Conari Press 1998)
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Working Together edited by Angeles Arrien (New
Leaders Press 1998)
- The
Evolutionary Outrider: The Impact of the Human Agent on
Evolution, edited by David Loye (Praeger Publishers,
1998)
- The
13th Labor: Improving Science Education edited by
Eric J. Chaisson and Tae Chang Kim (Gordon and Breach 1999)
- SAGA:
Best New Writings on Mythology, edited by Jonathan
Young (White Cloud Press, 2001)
- Youth
Futures: Comparative Research and Transformative Visions,
edited by Jennifer Gidley and Sohail Inayatullah (Prager
Publisher, 2002)
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Mindfulness in the Marketplace: Compassionate Responses to
Consumerism, edited by Allan Hunt Badiner (Parallax
Press, 2002)
- Toward
a New Political Humanism, edited by Barry F. Seidman
and Neil J. Murphy (Prometheus Books, 2004)
- The
Great Adventure: Toward a Fully Human Theory of Evolution,
edited by David Loye (State University of New York Press,
2004)
Read Review
- Stop
the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and
Terrorism, edited by Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans
(Inner Oceans Publishing, 2005)
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Holistic Learning and Spirituality in Education: Breaking
New Ground, edited by John Miller, Selia Karsten,
Diana Denton, Deborah Orr, Isabella Colalillo Kates (State
University of New York Press, 2005)
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Enlightened Power: How Women are Transforming the Practice
of Leadership, edited by Linda Coughlin, Ellen
Wingard, and Keith Hollihan (Jossey-Bass, 2005).
In addition to
books interviewing Eisler such as Voicing Power
edited by Gail Hanlon (Westview Press 1997), After 9/11:
Solutions for a Saner World, edited by Don Hazen, Tate
Hausman, Tamara Straus, and Michelle Chihara (Independent Media
Institute, 2001), In Sweet Company: Conversations with
Extraordinary Women about Living a Spiritual Life edited
by Margaret Wolff (Jossey-Bass, 2005), and It’s My
Pleasure by Maria Rodale and Maya Rodale (Free Press,
2005) 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 (Gullveig
Books 1993) and The Black Chalice (Edge Science
Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2000) by Marie Jakober 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.
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Human Rights and Violence
Partnership, Violence
and Peace
Partnership Family Values
Partnership
Education
(for more info visit
Partnership Education )
A Partnership Response to Terrorism
Creating
a Partnership Culture
Partnership
Business and Organizational Development
Partnership
Economics
Partnership
Sexuality
Articles
available in print from CPS
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