The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community28 reviews David C Korten Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003 essential reading for our time + Turning the Great Ship of Human Civilization + Good Description of What We Need; Not Clear on How to Get It This is the essential read of our time. David Korten lays out the backgroud and the gameplan in full detail. If you want to have the perspective to understand just what has been going with our society just sit down and digest this book. This work certainly represents the culmination of David ...             Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities7 reviews Rebecca Solnit Nation Books, 2005 Esperanza + Hope and Despair + hope in the panoramic here and now + Great ideas             At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew's Search for Hope with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land16 reviews Yossi K. Halevi, 2002 An honest, humble, inspiring adventure + A study in courage + Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew's Search for Hope with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land + Hope + What real faith is all about. Amazing.             A Woman's Worth41 reviews Marianne Williamson Random House Value Publishing, 1995 Women's self-esteem in the eyes of an open-hearted beholder + Motivational + Being worthy + Refreshingly balanced!             The Power of Partnership: Seven Relationships that Will Change Your Life8 reviews Riane Eisler New World Library, 2003 Not for everyone, but you'll grow if you read it anyway. + The Way of Relationship + Transformation in Action + A transformational book             The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics (BK Currents (Hardcover))12 reviews Riane Tennenhaus Eisler Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007 Very important book albeit with varying levels of practical application + Well worth the read!!! + Brilliant! This book was my first interaction with the work of Dr. Eisler and I was deeply moved by the concept of partnership and the need to place a higher value on caring and traditionally 'feminine' values. The finance major in me was left very impressed at times, and rather disappointed at other times ...             The chalice and the blade in Chinese culture: Gender relations and social models1 review China Social Sciences Pub. House, 1995 A treasure trove of critical insight on China I'm really glad to see this book offered by Amazon. I think it's a treasure trove of insight on the contradictions of Chinese civilization. Using Riane Eisler's insights about the competition between partnership and dominator values, this team of scholars explores the whole course of Chinese ...             A Society without Fathers or Husbands: The Na of China2 reviews Cai Hua Zone Books, 2008 The Na of China + Raises fascinating questions about love A wonderful book from start to finish! Should be famous. It is clearly written, thoroughly reseached, a pleasure to read, and insightful. Suspending judgment and bias, the author takes those studied on their own terms and documents a society that has worked for centuries without marriage and ...             The Hebrew Goddess 3rd Enlarged Edition6 reviews Raphael Patai Wayne State University Press, 1990 In the Begining, There was the Goddess + Honoring the religion of Jewish mothers + The Feminine Aspect of G-d + A excellent popular treatement of the subject + The Jewish Queen of Heaven?...             The Civilization of the Goddess: The World of Old Europe4 reviews Marija Gimbutas HarperCollins Publishers, 1994 A monumental work + possibly the greatest archaeologist of the 20th century + we have invented nothing For all those who are interested in a learned and well documented alternative view on the prehistory of Europe - the best you can do is to read this work! Gimbutas was one of the worlds leading archaeologists and even her opponents had to admit that virtually no one could match her encyclopaedic ...             Western Muslims and the Future of Islam8 reviews Tariq Ramadan Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 Hard thinking man arrives at refreshing vision + Abode of Testimony.... + Another excellent work by Mr Ramadan + Citizen Muslim             The Gardens of Their Dreams : Desertification and Culture in World History6 reviews Brian Griffith Zed Books, 2001 A very useful, positive and meaningful book + A fantastic journey of suffering and healing + Especially good on the history of women + The history of a growing circle of desertification + More story than science, but a big, important story             The Battle for God124 reviews Karen Armstrong Ballantine Books, 2001 Outstanding, Lucid, most helpful + A manual on the rise of fundamentalism for the religious and irreligious alike This is the Go-To text on Fundamentalism in religions. Very insightful, very well written, very understandable. Characteristic performance by a good author.             The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding72 reviews Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, ... Free Press, 2007 Faith Club + Read this book. + The Faith Club + One of my favorite books of this year + The Faith Club             The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium21 reviews Walter Wink Galilee Trade, 1999 Powerful, majestic good sense + Many Christians, Jews and Moslems may have been seduced by the whore of Babylon + Not the Dominant Perspective + The powers that be + Non-Violence at it's best             Hildegard of Bingen: Healing and the Nature of the Cosmos1 review Heinrich Schipperges M. Wiener Pub., 1997 Excellent tribute to a glorious dream maker When Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) established her Benedictine convent at Rupertsberg, she insisted on a charter granting full ownership and independence to the nuns. And on receiving this from Count Bernard of Hildesheim, she proceeded to build the community of her dreams, without deference to ...             The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future59 reviews Riane Eisler Harper San Francisco, 1988 A Vivogenic Template for Human Beings + life changing + The Chalice and the Blade The Chalice and the Blade ranks in the top ten paradigm shaking books of the Late, Great Twen-Cen. Those continuing to puzzle over where we went wrong, as a species, will be well served by this outstanding scholarship.             Practicing Peace in Times of War13 reviews Pema Chodron Shambhala, 2007 A little classic of straight-talking compassion + Let There be Peace ... And Let It Begin With Me + Practicing Peace + Excellent concept, difficult to apply + One of her Pema Chodron's Best books             SAHARASIA: The 4000 BCE Origins of Child Abuse, Sex-Repression, Warfare and Social Violence, In the Deserts ...8 reviews James DeMeo Natural Energy Works, 2006 A TRUE MASTERPIECE OF SCHOLARSHIP! + about fundamentals of history and humanity - with and without religious metaphysics and fundamentalism + Exciting Insights, Frustrating Blind Spots + Save the World; Read This Book + Measuring the social impact of environmental decline             Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace5 reviews Vandana Shiva South End Press, 2005 perhaps the world's finest eco-warrior + Organic food is a human right! + A more peaceful and secure future + An excellent primer