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A Powerful New Guide to a Better Life and a Better World!

THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP: 
Seven Relationships that Will Change Your Life
By Riane Eisler
author of the International Bestseller,
The Chalice and The Blade

How can we wage peace instead of war? How can we break age-old cycles of abuse and violence? In her groundbreaking new book, evolutionary and cultural historian Dr. Riane Eisler outlines how we can build entire cultures of peace. The Power of Partnership gives us steps to more fulfilling and equitable relations – from intimate to international.

Peace begins at home and in the family, says Dr. Eisler. What happens in intimate relations is foundational to all relations—workplaces, communities, and nations.

War isn’t in our genes, it’s in our cultures, Dr Eisler points out. The 9/11 terrorists came from cultures where women and children are terrorized into submission. Cultures such as Norway and Sweden pioneered the world’s first peace academies; their social policies respect and honor women and children. Why the difference? Drawing from decades of research, Dr. Eisler describes partnership cultures that are very different from dominator cultures—where peace is a priority, where caregiving is rewarded, women’s work is valued, children are well fed, and where there is less fear, poverty, and crime.

This passionate and compelling book demonstrates the growing worldwide movement toward such partnership cultures. But it also shows the strong resistance to change. Dr Eisler points out that this resistance comes from those who believe in authoritarian families and governments and the ranking of men over women. The defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment, for example, served as the springboard that launched today’s politically powerful religious right.

The Power of Partnership offers action tools we can use to move toward partnership. It also proposes a new politics that takes us beyond Republican/Democrat, conservative/liberal, and right/left: a partnership agenda that integrates the personal and the political. It shows us how our families, education, media, economics and politics can support relations based on mutual respect, nonviolence, and equity instead of manipulation, fear, and control – and what we can do to get there.

“I wrote The Power of Partnership,” says Dr. Eisler “to share what I have learned both in my research and my life. It is a very practical book. The information and action tools will help you make your life better and make a better society for us all.”

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"Stunning. The Power of Partnership gives us the map to a world that works for all of us."

Marianne Williamson, 
author of Healing the Soul of America
and A Woman's Worth

 

"If the Osama bin Laden's of this world were required to read this book and absorb its message, the human race would surge onto the fast track toward love and creativity."

Howard Bloom, 
author of The Lucifer Principle
and Global Brain

 

"The Power of Partnership is the right medicine for virtually everything that ails our society and planet right now. Riane Eisler's newest book is a brilliantly accessible plan for transforming ourselves and our world."

Christiane Northrup, M.D.,
author, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom

 

"So comprehensive and ground-breaking that it will prove to be one of the most important books of this century. If you want to improve your life and your world, read this book!"

Barbara Marx Hubbard,
author of Conscious Evolution

 

"More relevant than ever in a post-September 11, 2001 world, The Power of Partnership details the steps to build sound and lasting relationships with the self, the intimate partner, the world, and life itself. It is essential reading for every person searching for ways to improve our lives and our world."

George Gerbner, Ph.D.,
dean emeritus, 
Annenberg School for Communications,
University of Pennsylvania
and author of Telling All the Stories

 

"Nothing can vanquish anxiety like clarity, which is what Riane Eisler delivers abundantly in The Power of Partnership. Read it and you'll come away with a new understanding of how the world works (and why it so often works atrociously). Even more important, you'll feel better about it (because you'll feel less helpless about it) - and in a world that seems to be going mad we can all use some of that!"

Daniel Quinn, 
author of Ishmael

 

"There is nothing more important taking place in our lives and in our world than the shift from relationships based on domination to ones founded on partnership. Riane Eisler's new book The Power of Partnership could not be more timely, nor more magnificent. In this wonderful and heartfelt book, Riane Eisler shows us just what is at stake, and gives us the tools to transform our lives and our culture to promote a more sustainable, just, and thriving way of life for all."

John Robbins, 
author of Diet for a New America

 

"In a stroke, Riane Eisler's simple, powerful message makes all other self-help books irrelevant. How can we live fuller, richer and more loving lives without also making it possible for others to do the same? By re-placing individuals within our world, she demands that we work on healing the world and healing ourselves - a model that can create the ripples from which tidal waves are made."

Michael Kimmel, Ph.D.,
author, Manhood in America

"Riane Eisler is one of the most creative and visionary thinkers of our time. The Power of Partnership gives us a blueprint for a world that could transcend the distortions of human history and affirm the loving capacities we have always had but refused to take seriously. If our planet is to survive, it will need the kind of wisdom that shines through this book."

Rabbi Michael Lerner, 
Editor, TIKKUN Magazine
and author, Spirit Matters

 

"Riane Eisler's The Power of Partnership provides a superb framework for this new age and innumerable answers to achieving it. Its eight chapters could be the headings of the Wisdom Age for humanity on this miraculous, magic and precious Planet Earth."

Robert Muller, Ph.D.,
co-founder of the UN University for Peace

 

"If the many millions of concerned citizens and 'cultural creatives' would read this book and act on its step-by-step approach to personal development, the USA could see a new flowering of communities and effective democracy. Eisler is a brilliant role model as a global citizen - and as one of the pre-eminent minds of our time. "

Hazel Henderson,
author of Beyond Globalization

 

"The Power of Partnership inspires hope at a time when we desperately need it. Riane Eisler, visionary and wise woman, brings compassion and intelligence to the hard and essential work of personal and social transformation. Her ideas are big and important and her advice is practical and effective. This book will be a treasured resource for helping us move forward in the 21st century."

Judith V. Jordan, 
Co-Director, Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, 
Stone Center, Wellesley College,
author of Women's Growth in Connection,
editor of Women's Growth in Diversity

 

"Great book. Great ideas."

Morris Dees,
Co-founder, Southern Poverty Law Center

 

"Marvelous! A treasurehouse of relational wisdom by which to be healthy and whole."

Raffi, 
singer, author, 
founder of the Troubadour Institute for Child Honoring

 

"How wonderful to encounter in one book not only an incisive and clear understanding of what causes so much suffering in the modern world, but a compelling vision of how both personally and as a society we can change. Riane Eisler gives us a wise and very practical recipe for hope."

Susan Griffin,
author of A Chorus of Stones

 

"With insight, passion and persuasion, Riane Eisler reveals the many disturbing faces of today's dominator society. Happily, she also shows how each of us can help evoke a future that matures beyond force and fear. A 'must read' for anyone interested in a better world for all."

Jeff Gates,
author, Democracy at Risk
and The Ownership Solution

 

"From intimacy, to politics, to service, to sustainability…this remarkable book touches every critical node of vital partnership. Riane Eisler has created another precious resource for cultural creatives. Exercises, action check-lists, and a rich bibliography complement the work at every stage. The Power of Partnership offers a compelling argument for the reality of conscious evolution."

Jim Kenney,
Global Director, 
Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions

 

" A clear-minded, warm-hearted, practical guide through the daunting challenges of today's world by one of the most innovative thinkers of our time. The Power of Partnership will help you make your own wise choices about how to act with empathy and caring whether the issue is global economics, the environment, terrorism, or your own most intimate relationships.

Gina Ogden, Ph.D.,
author of Women Who Love Sex

 

"The Power of Partnership is an extraordinarily thoughtful and timely book. Riane Eisler speaks with wisdom and compassion about the central concerns of today, including war and terrorism, education and child-rearing. Anyone who is concerned about the state of the world, as well the state of one's own home and family should read this book. "

Christine Sleeter, Ph.D.,
Director of 
the Institute for Advanced Studies in Education,
CSUMB

 

"Now more than ever, we must switch from a dominance model to a partnership model if we are to survive. With her customary wisdom, clarity, and compassion, Riane Eisler shows us the way."

Jean Kilbourne,
author of Can't Buy My Love

 

"In this brilliant book, Riane Eisler shows us how we can transform both ourselves and our world. It will teach, entertain, and enlighten your view of the extraordinary potential of humans and human society. Eisler is one of our world's wisest counselors, and most insightful visionaries."

Thom Hartmann, 
author of The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight

 

 

" Riane Eisler offers the essential guidelines for creating and sustaining relationships that can give us - and hence the world - the peace we so desperately need. In our post-September 11 world her message is important as few others."

Ervin Laszlo,
president of the Club of Budapest,
author, Macroshift

 

"Here is a book for the turning of the times for what is offered here are the essential ways to make the world work. The wise and prescient Riane Eisler guides us through the paths of partnership that lie beyond the waste land of dominator psychology. This is a radical work of social evolution that should be taken very seriously. It is a gift to the present historical moment and an enterprise of enormous importance.

Jean Houston, Ph.D.,
author of A Mythic Life

"This extraordinary book lights up huge meanings and potentials for "partnership," for "change" and "growth" and "moving forward"--concepts that we keep saying are urgent but our actual work on them can get so lost in rhetoric, habit, or "We couldn't possibly..." Riane Eisler invites us to look at our selves, our relationships with those close to us, our work colleagues, our national community, our international and intercultural relationships, our connection with nature and the environment, and our spiritual life. It is thrilling to move through this vision of how we can see these as connected partnerships and live them out more fully. The book is a life's life work in itself, a gift to anyone exploring how we can do our lives better, do our relationships better, do our work experience better, do our schools better, do our world better."

David Mallery,
Director of Professional Development,
National Association of Independent Schools

 

"All those who value relationships - and those who don't - will do well to read this book and help reduce anger and violence."

Arun Gandhi,
Founder/Director M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence

 

"The Power of Partnership is an exceptional resource guide for personal and social transformation. It offers practical tools for creating a global community and a path for collaboration in all aspects of our lives."

Angeles Arrien,
author of The Four-Fold Way

 

"Riane Eisler's brilliant work- The Power of Partnership should be read carefully by leaders in all fields across our cultures and by all people who wish to participate in the creative transformation of the human condition at this critical turning point in cultural evolution."

Ashok Gangadean,
Professor of Philosophy 
(Haverford College),
Co-Convener of 
the World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality

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