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Abrahams, Roger D. 1985.  Afro-American Folk Tales:  Stories from Black Traditions in the New World.  Pantheon Books, New York.

Abrams, Jeremiah.  1994.  The Shadow in America:  Reclaiming the Soul of a Nation. Nataraj Publishing, Novato, Ca.

Addams, Jane. 1910. The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets. MacMillan Co., NY

Aichhorn, August.  1935.  Wayward Youth.  Viking Press, N.Y.

Blankenhorn, David.  1995.  Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem.  HarperPerennial, New York.

Bly, Robert.  1990.  Iron John:  A Book About Men.  Vintage Books, dic. of Random House, N.Y.

Bly, Robert.  1996.  The Sibling Society.  Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.

Bly, Robert.  1988.  A Little Book on the Human Shadow.  Harper & Row, N. Y.

Brokaw, Tom.  1998.  The Greatest Generation.  Random House, New York.

Bryan, Mark.  1997.  The Prodigal Father:  Reuniting Fathers and Their Children.Clarkson Potter Publishers, New York.

Campbell, Joseph.  1949.  The Hero with a Thousand Faces.  Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, N.J.

Campbell, Joseph.  1988  The Power of Myth.  Doubleday, New York.

Canada, Geoffrey. 1998. Reaching Up for Manhood: Transforming the Lives of Boys in America. Beacon Press, Canada.

Canada, Geoffrey.  1995.  Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun:   A Personal History of Violence in America.  Beacon Press, Boston.

Chinen, Allen. 1993.  Beyond the Hero:  Classic Stories of Men in Search of Soul. Tarcher/Putnam, New York.

Chinen, Allen.  1992.  Once Upon a Midlife:  Classic Stories and Mythic Tales to Illuminate the Middle Years.  Tarcher/Putnam, New York.

Cohen, Albert K. 1955. Delinquent Boys: The Culture of the Gang. Free Press, NY.

Cohen, Susan & Daniel. 1986. A Six-pack and a Fake I.D.: Teens Look at the Drinking Question. M. Evans & Co., NY.

Cose, Ellis.  1995.  A Man’s World:  How Real Is Male Privilege--and How High Is Its Price.  HarperCollins, New York.

Coupland, Douglas. 1991. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture. St. Martin's
Press, New York.

Diamond, Jared.  1999.  Guns, Germs, and Steel:  The Fates of Human Societies. W. W. Norton & Co., New York.

Eliade, Mircea.  1958.  Rites and Symbols of Initiation:  The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth.  Spring Publications, Woodstock, Conn.

Epstein, Robert. 2007. The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen. Quill Driver Books, Sanger, CA.

Erdoes, Richard and Alfonso Ortiz.  1984.  American Indian Myths and Legends. Pantheon Books, New York.

Faludi, Susan.  1999.  Stiffed:  The Betrayal of the American Man.  William Morrow and Co., New York, N.Y.

Fremon, Celeste. 2004. G-Dog and the Homeboys: Father Greg Boyle and the Gangs of East Los Angeles. Univ. of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM.

Friedenberg, Edgar Z.  1959.  The Vanishing Adolescent.  Dell Publishing,  New York, N. Y.

Friedenberg, Edgar Z. 1963. Coming of Age in America: Growth and Acquiescence. Random House, NY.

Fulce, John. 1990. Seduction of the Innocent Revisited: Comic Books Exposed. Huntington House Publishers, Louisiana.

Garbarino, James. 1999. Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them. Anchor Books, NY.

Gatto, John Taylor. 2002. A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling. Berkeley Hills Books, Berkeley, CA.

Gatto, John Taylor. 1993. The Exhausted School: Bending the Bars of Traditional Education. Berkeley Hills Books, Berkeley, CA.

Gatto, John Taylor.  1992.  Dumbing Us Down:  The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling.  New Society Publishers, British Columbia.

Gesel, Arnold. 1956. Youth: The Years From Ten to Sixteen. Harper & Row, NY.

Gilmore, David.  1990.  Manhood in the Making:  Cultural Concepts of Masculinity.  Yale Univ. Press.

Gladwell, Malcolm. 2000. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can make a Big Difference. Back Bay Books-Little Brown & Co. NY.

Goldman, Paul. 1960. Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized System. Randoem House, NY.

Goldstein, Arnold. 1990. Delinquents on Delinquency. Research Press, Champaign, IL.

Grof, Christina.  1993.  The Thirst for Wholeness:  Attachment, Addiction, and the Spiritual Path.  HarperSanFrancisco.

Gurian, Michael.  1998.  A Fine Young Man: What Parents, Mentors and Educators Can Do to Shape Adolescent Boys into Exceptional Men.  Tarcher/Putnam, N.Y.

Gurian, Michael.  1997.  The Wonder of Boys: What Parents, Mentors and Educators Can Do to Shape Boys into Exceptional Men.  Tarcher/Putnam, N.Y.

Gurian, Michael.  1993.  The Prince and the King:  Healing the Father-Son Wound. Tarcher/Perigree, New York.

Hall, G. Stanley. 1904. Adolescence: Its Psychology and its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and Education, Vol I &
II. D.Appleton and Company, NY.

Harris, Bud.  1996.  The Father Quest:  Rediscovering an Elemental Psychic Force. Alexander Books, Alexander, N.C.

Hersch, Patricia. 1998. A Tribe Apart: A Journey Into the Heart of American Adolescence. Ballantine Books, NY.

Hine, Thomas.  1999.  The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager.  Avon Books, N.Y.

Houston, Jean.  1987.  The Search for the Beloved:  Journeys in Mythology and Sacred Psychology.  Tarcher/Perigree, New York.

Howard, Philip K. 1994. The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America. Random House, NY.

Hubner, John. 2005. Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth. Random House, NY.

Jastrab, Joseph.  1994.  Sacred Manhood, Sacred Earth:  A Vision Quest into the Wilderness of a Man’s Heart.  HarperPerennial.

Johnson, Robert.  1994.  Lying with the Heavenly Woman:  Understanding and Integrating the Feminine Archetypes in Men’s Lives.  Harper San Francisco.

Johnson, Robert.  1993.  The Fisher King & the Handless Maiden.  Harper San Francisco.

Johnson, Robert.  1983.  We:  The Psychology of Romantic Love.  Harper & Row, S.F.

Johnson, Robert.  1976.  She:  Understanding Feminine Psychology.  Harper & Row, N.Y.

Johnson, Robert.  1974.  He:  Understanding Masculine Psychology.  Harper & Row, N.Y.

Johnson, Will. 2004. The Sailfish and the Sacred Mountain: Passages in the Lives of a Father and Son. Inner Traditions, Rochester, Vermont.

Jung, C.G.  1969.  Four Archetypes:  Mother/Rebirth/Spirit/Trickster.  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

Jung, C.G.  1958.  The Undiscovered Self.  Mentor Books, N.Y.

Kaplan, Louise. 1984. Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood. Simon & Schuster, NY.

Keen, Sam.  1991.  Fire in the Belly:  On Being a Man.  Bantam Books, N.Y.

Kessler, Rachael. 2000. The Soul of Education: Helping Students Find Connection, Compassion, and Character in School. Assn. For Supervision and
Curriculum Development, Alexandria, VA.

Kett, Joseph. 1977.  Rites of Passage: Adolescence in America 1790 to the Present. Basic Books, Inc. New York.

Kindlon, Dan and Michael Thompson.  1999.  Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys.  Ballantine Books, N.Y

Kipnis, Aaron. 1999. Angry Young Men: How Parents, Teachers, and Counselors Can Help "Bad Boys" Become Good Men. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco..

Kipnis, Aaron.  1991.  Knights Without Armor:  A Practical Guide for Men in Quest of Masculine Soul.  Tarcher/Perigree, N.Y.

Kipnis, Aaron and Elizabeth Herron.  1994.  Gender War, Gender Peace:  The Quest for Love and Justice Between Men and Women.  Wm. Morrow & Co., N.Y.

Kupers, Terry.  1993.  Revisioning Men’s Lives:  Gender, Intimacy and Power.  Guilford Press, N.Y.

LaRossa, Ralph. 1997. The Modernization of Fatherhood: A Social and Political History. Univ. of Chicago Press.

Larsen, Stephen.  1990.  The Mythic Imagination:  Your Quest for Meaning Through Personal Mythology.  Bantam Books, N.Y.

Mahdi, Louise.  1996.  Crossroads:  The Quest for Contemporary Rites of Passage. Open Court, LaSalle, Ill.

Mahdi, Louise.  1987.  Betwixt and Between:  Patterns of Masculine and Feminine Healing.  Open Court, LaSalle, Ill.

Mead, Margaret.  1973.  Coming of Age in Samoa.  American Museum of Natural History (William Morrow & Co.).

Meade, Michael.  1993.  Men and the Water of Life:  Initiation and the Tempering of Men.  Harper, San Francisco.

Moore, Robert and Douglas Gillette.  1990.  King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine.  Harper, S.F.

Nikkah, John.  2000.  Our Boys Speak: Adolescent Boys Write About Their Inner Lives.  St. Martin's Press, NY.

Nuwer, Hank. 2000. High School Hazing: When Rites Become Wrongs. Frankilin Watts, NY.

Oldfield, David.  1987.  The Journey:  A Creative Approach to the Necessary Crises of Adolescence.  Foundation for Contemporary Mental Health, Wash., D.C.

Patnaik & Shinseki. 2000. The Secret Lives of Teens: Young People Speak Out About Their Lives. Harper, San Francisco.

Payne, Ruby. 1998. A Framework for Understanding Poverty. RFT Publishing Co. Highlands, TX.

Pearce, Joseph Chilton. 2003. From Magical Child to Magical Teen: A Guide to Adolescent Development. Park Street Press, Rochester, VT

Peltzer, Dave.  1995.  A Child Called It.  Health Communications, Inc. Deerfield Beach, Fl.

Peltzer, Dave.  1997.  The Lost Boy.  Health Communications, Inc. Deerfield Beach, Fl.

Pipher, Mary.  1994.  Reviving Ophelia:  Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. Ballantine Books, N.Y.

Pittman, Frank.  1993.   Man Enough:  Fathers, Sons and the Search for Masculinity. Putnam, N.Y.

Platt, Anthony M. 1967. The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency. Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago IL.

Ponton, Lynn. 2000. The Sex Lives of Teenagers: Revealing the Secret World of Adolescent Boys and Girls. Plume/Penguin. NY.

Ponton, Lynn. 1997. The Romance of Risk: Why Teenagers Do the Things They Do Basic Books, NY.

Pollack, William.  1998.  Real Boys: Rescuing our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood. Henry Holt & Co., New York.

Prechtel, Martín. 1999. Long Life, Honey in the Heart: A Story of Initiation and Eloquence from the Shores of a Mayan Lake. Tarcher/Putnam, NY.

Raphael, Ray.  1988.  The Men from the Boys:  Rites of Passage in Male America. Univ. of Nebraska Press.

Robinson, John.  1997.  Death of a Hero, Birth of the Soul:Answering the Call of Midlife.  Council Oaks Books, Tulsa, OK.

Schlegel, Alice and Barry, Herbert. 1991. Adolescence: An Anthropological Inquiry. The Free Press, NY.

Smith, Laura and Elliott, Charles. 2001. Hollow Kids: Recapturing the Soul of a Generation Lost to theSelf-Esteem Myth. Forum/Prima Publishing, NY.

Somé, Malidoma.  1994.  Of Water and the Spirit:  Ritual, Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman.  Tarcher/Putnam, N.Y.

Somé, Malidoma.  1993.  Ritual:  Power, Healing and Community.  Swan, Raven and Co., Portland, Ore.

Sommers, Christina.  2000.  The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men.  Simon & Schuster, New York.

Thompson, Keith.  1991.  To Be a Man:  In Search of the Deep Masculine. Tarcher/Perigree, New York.

Thompson, Michael. 2000. Speaking of Boys: Answers to the Most-Asked About Questions About Raising Sons. Ballantine Books, NY.

Van Gennep, Arnold.  1960.  The Rites of Passage.  Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Walsh, Roger.  1990.  The Spirit of Shamanism.  Tarcher/Perigee, New York.

Wiseman, Rosalind. 2002. Queen Bees & Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, & Other Realities of Adolescence. Three Rivers Press, NY.

Zimmer, Heinrich.  1948.  The King and the Corpse.  Princeton Univ. Press., Princeton, N.J.

Zweig, Connie.  1991.  Meeting the Shadow:  The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature.  Tarcher/Putnam, New York.