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The Official Richard Dawkins Website SCIENCE is useful but that is not all it is. Science can be uplifting, thrilling, life-enhancing. Official website. Includes news articles, videos, forums, book extracts, and a store. http://atheistalliance.org/secular/index.php Secular Nation Magazine offers a positive voice for atheism. Its contribution to the cause of intellectual freedom is unique. Unabashedly and proudly atheist, it offers a wide variety of views on how to achieve a truly secular society uncontrolled by primitive religious concepts. It presents a positive atheist approach to life and our responsibilities as citizens. It seeks understanding of and answers to the problems so often created by religious belief systems. Southeast Wisconsin Freethinkers (SWiFT) Organization of freethinkers including agnostics, atheists, humanists, skeptics. SWiFT is a democratic organization uniting Freethinkers across Southeast Wisconsin and Northern Illinois to encourage rationalism and promote camaraderie and good times. http://www.secularhumanism.org The Council for Secular Humanism's Web Site The Council for Secular Humanism Web Site provides timely information concerning the activities of the Council for Secular Humanism and also acts as a general educational resource on secular humanism. http://www.parentingbeyondbelief.com Parenting Beyond Belief edited by Dale McGowen Includes essays by Richard Dawkins, Julia Sweeney, Penn Jillette, Mark Twain, Dr. Jean Mercer, Dr. Donald B. Ardell, Rev. Dr. Kendyl Gibbons, and over twenty-five other doctors, educators, psychologists, and secular parents. Parenting Beyond Belief is a book for loving and thoughtful parents who wish to raise their children without religion. There are scores of books available for religious parents. Now there's one for the rest of us. http://www.cathejones.com/grief.html Godless Grief - Cathe Jones This book provides assistance to all Atheists, seeking to provide answers, closure, mourning, and understanding of death, loss, and even of family changing events, such as a job change, illnesses, household moves, or divorce. http://www.imaginativecurriculum.com Imaginative Curriculum: The child, the parent, the administrator and the legislator, anyone to the degree s/he has the right or the ability to influence classroom outcomes has equal responsibility for it. CARM training offers an opportunity to develop skills and techniques that could save lives in the workplace, at the ball game, or the shopping mall, or just waiting in line for gas. http://www.thesixpillars.org/sixpillers.htm The purpose of CHARACTER COUNTS! Coalition is to fortify the lives of America's young people with consensus ethical values called the "Six Pillars of Character". These values, which transcend divisions of race, creed, politics, gender and wealth, are: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. The Brights movement seeks acknowledgement and influence in society. We intend to work to craft a social awareness that the constituency of persons who have naturalistic worldviews is large enough to have social and political clout, and it wants such persons to be accepted as citizens on a level playing field with those who hold other worldviews. Experts who offer great advice for parents. Alfie Kohn promotes cooperation in our schools. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~axe/ Robert Axelrods Home Page Author of The Evolution of Cooperation and The Complexity of Cooperation. http://home.gwu.edu/~lobuts/escalism.htm Escalation Simulation, an experiential classroom learning exercise. http://www.indiana.edu/~schpsy/tolerance.html This site offers links to organizations that explain various cultures and minority views in an effort to promote tolerance through understanding differences. The Institute for the study of therapeutic change and partners for change. Principles for clinical practice distilled from the 40 years of outcome research. http://www.ncvc.org/STATS/SV.htm Statistics on School Violence http://management.about.com/cs/conflictres/ Conflict Resolution & Workplace Violence. A listing of articles, information and web links on the topics of workplace violence and effective conflict resolution. Information on mediation, arbitration and the stages of conflict will be of interest to anyone in a position of conflict. Further recommended reading for the serious student of the nature/nurture/culture controversy. The Future of Life The Structure of Evolutionary Theory Are We Hardwired?: The Role of Genes in Human Behavior The Cooperative Gene: Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal |