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Authors and Titles Arranged by Subject

PRACTICE
Ram Das
Remember, Be Here Now

John Kabat-Zinn
Wherever You Go There You Are

Maria Kaplan Featuring Joan Halifax
Halfway Up the Mountain: The Error of Premature Claims to Enlightenment

James Loehr, Jerome Agel, and Jeffrey Midgow
Breathe In, Breathe Out: Inhale Energy and Exhale Stress by Guiding and Controlling Your Breathing

Bo Lozoff
We're All Doing Time: A Guide to Getting Free
It's a Meaningful Life : It Just Takes Practice

WORKING WITH YOUTH/RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS
Daniel Goleman
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Soren Gordhamer
Just Say Om!: Your Life's Journey (excerpt)

Noah Levine
Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
Dharma Punx: A Memoir (excerpt)

Sharon Salzberg
The Buddha's Apprentices: More Voices of Young Buddhists

Sharon Salzberg and Jack Kornfield
Beginner's Mind: 3 Classic Meditation Practices Especially for Beginners

RELATED INSIGHTS AND READING
Ram Dass and Stephen Levine
Grist for the Mill: The Mellow Drama, Dying: An Opportunity for Awakening, Freeing the Mind, Karmuppance, God & Beyond

Soren Gordhamer
Wisdom 2.0: Ancient Secrets for the Creative and Constantly Connected

Jill Bolte Taylor
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

Eckhart Tolle
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61)

BACKGROUND ON RELATED ISSUES
T.J. Parsell
Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison

Richard Shelton
Crossing the Yard: Thirty Years as a Prison Volunteer

William Upski Wimsatt (Billy Upski)
No More Prisons

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Impact of Stress Reduction On Negative School Behavior in Adolescents by Vernon A. Barnes, et. al

Yoga and Restorative Justice in Prison: An Experience of “Response-Ability to Harms” by Lila Rucker

From Boot Camp to Monastery by Jeanne Mackin

Turning Points in the Lives of Young Inner-City Men Forgoing Destructive Criminal Behaviors: A Qualitative Study by Margaret Hughes, Phd.

Concept Analysis: Aggression by Jianghong Liu, RN, Phd.

Health Needs of Incarcerated Youth by Robert T. Brown, M.D.

Health Profiles of Early Adolescent Delinquents by Judith Palfrey, M.D. et al

Pathways to Recurrent Trauma Among Young Black Men: Traumatic Stress, Substance Abuse, and the “Code of the Street” by John A. Rich, M.D., MPH and Courtney Grey, BS

Adolescent Girls’ Offending and Health-Risking Sexual Behavior: The Predictive Role of Trauma by Dana K. Smith, et al.

Questions and Answers about Incarcerated Youth and HIV/AIDS

Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report

"A Typical Class" by Soren Gordhamer
"Gurus of Hip Hop" from Yoga Journal (download pdf)

James Garbarino, Author, Professor of Human Development, Cornell University
George Mumford, Sports Psychologist and Meditation Teacher, NBA Consultant
Soren Gordhamer, Author, Meditation Teacher, Founder Lineage Project
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Author, Meditation Teacher

Krishna Das
Breath of the Heart
Live on Earth...For a Limited Time Only

Michael Franti and Spearhead
Stay Human
I Know I'm Not Alone

Various Artists
No More Prisons
No More Prisons, Vol. 2

The Lineage Model
Teaching Priorities
What is Yoga and Meditation
Introducing Yoga
Guided Meditation by Soren Gordhamer (download)