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BOOKLIST

MARTIAL ARTS AND RELATED SUBJECTS

Training with the Master

Stevens and Krenner

O'Sensei the founder of Aikido

Invincible Warrior

John Stevens
O'Sensei the founder of Aikido

Japanese Swordsmanship

Warner Draeger

Hagakure

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

The book of the Samurai

Sharp Spear Crystal Mirror

Stephanie Hoppe
Martial Arts in Woman's Lives

Warrior Woman
Jeannine Davis-Kimball, Ph. D.

An Archaeologist's Search for History's Hidden Heroines

The Bodhisattva Warriors

Naguboshii

The Japanese Art of War

Thomas Cleary
Understanding the Culture of Strategy

Budo Secrets

John Stevens
Teachings of the martial arts masters

Giving up the Gun

Noel Perrin

Japan's Reversion to the Sword 1543-1879

Lone Wolf and Cub

Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima
Graphic Novel regarding Japanese history and the Japanese sword

(Dark Horse Comics)

WAR AND WARFARE

On Killing

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman

The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

The Warrior's Honor

Michael Ignatieff

Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience

Warrior Politics

Robert Kaplin

Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos

Chris Hedges

War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

FEAR

Destructive Emotions:How can we overcome Them?

Narrated by Daniel Goldman
A scientific dialogue with the Dalai Lama

The Gift of Fear

Gaven de Becker

Survival signals

Protecting the Gift

Gaven de Becker
Keeping children and teenager's safe

Fear Itself

Rush W Dozeir, Jr.

The Culture of Fear

Barry Glassner
Why Americans are afraid of the wrong things

PRISON AND THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM

GANGS

8 Ball Chicks

Gini Sikes
A year in the violent world of girl gangs

Monster

Sanyika Shakur aka Monster Kody

Autobiography of an LA gang member

Wallbangin

Susan A Phillips

The American Street Gang

Malcolm Klien

Islands in the Streets

Martin Sanchez Jankowski

Gangs and American Urban Society

SOCIAL JUSTICE

Code of the Streets

Elijah Anderson

Disposable People

New Slavery in the Global Economy

Kevin Bales

INSPIRATIONAL KIDS AND TEENS BOOKS

Stargirl

Jerry Spinelli

ASIAN RELATED

Warrior Lessons

Phoebe Eng

An Asian American Woman's Journey into Power

Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting

Vijay Prashad

Afro-Asian connections and the myth of Cultural Purity

BUDDHIST RELATED

Chanting

Robert Gass
Discovering Spirit and Sound

THERAPY RELATED

A Bright Red Scream

Marlie Strong
Self Mutilation and the Language of Pain

Night Falls Fast
Kay Redfield Jamison

Understanding Suicide

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