In this section of the site you will find details of recommended books for crafting gentleness. It is hoped that in the future there will be book reviews and commentary, but for the moment this is simply a selective bibliography. Some of these books (for example, the first one), may seem to have little to do with gentleness, but they are listed here because it is an important principle of this site that to understand the possibilities of an unenclosing gentleness it helps to understand ways of thinking and doing that might distance us from the political possibilities of gentleness. There are, of course, many more books than are listed here ...
Don Atyeo. 1979. Blood and Guts: Violence in Sports. London: Paddington Press.
Stephen Batchelor. 1997. Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening. New York: Riverhead Books.
Aaron T. Beck. 1999. Prisoners of Hate: The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence. New York: Harper Perennial.
Pema Chödrön. 2003. Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion. Boston: Shambala.
David Edwards. 1995. Free to be Human: Intellectual Self-Defense in an Age of Illusion. Devon: Green Books.
Tim Field. 1996. Bully in Sight: How to predict, resist, challenge and combat workplace bullying. Didcot, Ox: Success Unlimited.
Frank Furedi. 2001. Paranoid Parenting: Abandon Your Anxieties and be a Good Parent. London: Allen Lane.
Trudy Govier. 2002. Forgiveness and Revenge. London: Routledge.
bell hooks. 2001. All About Love: New Visions. London: Harper.
Susan Jeffers. 2004. Embracing Uncertainty. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
Derrick Jensen. 2000. A Language Older than Words. New York: Context Books.
Harriet Lerner. 1990. The Dance of Anger: A Guide to Changing the Pattern of Intimate Relationships. London: Thorsons.
Michael Lerner. 1991. Surplus Powerlessness: The Psychodynamics of Everyday Life and the Psychology of Individual and Social Transformation. London: Humanities Press.
Paul Martin. 1998. The Sickening Mind: Brain, Behaviour, Immunity and Disease. London: Flamingo.
Thomas Merton. 1980. The Nonviolent Alternative. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux.
Carla Needleman. 1993. The Work of Craft: An Inquiry into the Nature of Crafts and Craftmanship. Tokyo: Kodansha International.
C. W. Nicol. 1975. Moving Zen: Karate as a Way to Gentleness. London: The Bodley Head. A short memoir written by a martial arts enthusiast, detailing his quest to come to an understanding of the practice, art, and wisdom of karate.
Greg O’Connor. 1993. The Aikido Student Handbook. Berkeley, Ca: Frog.
Diane K. Olson, ed. 1991. A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living. London: Harper Perennial.
M.C. Richards. 1989. Centering: In Pottery, Poetry, and the Person. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
Dorothy Rowe. 1983, 1996. Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Mulford Q. Sibley. 1963. The Quiet Battle: Writings on the Theory and Practice of Non-Violent Resistance. New York: Anchor Books.