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Harpercollins (1987), Edition: 1st, Hardcover, 261 pages
Description
Family & Relationships. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML: Now with an updated epilogue celebrating the 30th anniversary of this groundbreaking and increasingly relevent book. "May be the most significant work published in all our lifetimes." �?? LA Weekly The Chalice and the Blade tells a new story of our cultural origins. It shows that warfare and the war of the sexes are neither divinely nor biologically ordained. It provides verification that a better future is possible�??and is in fact firmly rooted in the haunting dramas of what happened in our past
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An ambitious new synthesis....[Eisler's] rigorous research... traces the unseen forces that shape human culture.
Sunday San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle
Validates a belief in humanity's capacity for benevolence and cooperation in the face of so much... destruction. Eisler has brought the scope of feminist scholarship out of the ghetto.
New Age Journal
The greatest murder mystery and cover-up of all time
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Physical description
261 p.; 9.4 inches
ISBN
0062502875 / 9780062502872