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Internationally Recognized Award-Winning Peace Education Books for Young People and Adults

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Our publications may be purchased individually, or as part of a comprehensive , three-step Education for Peace® Program. Books for young people are suitable for readers aged 8-16; adult books for age 17 and above.

The intent of the Education for Peace® Series of children's books is to help young people understand conflict—in their lives and in the world around them—and to create humane, nonviolent ways to deal with it. These books are written realistically and nonjudgementally to allow for direct contact with the reality of conflict as it occurs in children's lives. And it is quite clear that violence is indeed a daily part of the lives of many children.

In America in 1990, the National Safety Council reported that 15% of all children are involved in bully-victim problems, and 10% are regularly harassed or attacked by bullies. By 1993, when MetLife released their national survey of American teachers and students entitled "Violence in America's Public School," the problem had worsened. The report stated, "Nearly one-fourth of America's public school students say they've been victims of an act of violence in or around school." Based on current Census figures, the number of children aged 7-13 who are victims of bullying is a staggering 6.4 million children. More must be done for these young people.

The Education for Peace® books have won praise—from educators, counselors, parents and others who work or live with young people—as practical tools for helping children deal with bullies, appreciate and respect multicultural diversity, and understand the psychological roots of conflict and violence.

The first book of its kind to explore the roots of prejudice. For young people ages 8-14 who are interested in understanding how prejudice is created, through conditioned thinking. This book offers:

• Insights into what motivates prejudice
• Methods to explain prejudice and its consequences
• Ways to help young people free themselves of prejudice

This book is also for adults to help young people see how conditioning and prejudice affect us all. Illustrated by Award-winning artist, Rod Cameron.

158 pages	19 color illustrations	Size: 8 1/2" x 9 1/2"
ISBN: 0-834804-35-2	paperback	$14.95

SILVER BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING

Why is Everybody Always Picking On Me? (More Info)
A Guide to Handling Bullies

Lively color illustrations, exciting stories, and practical tips and role-playing exercises help give children the tools to avoid being victimized.

• Cope with the "Schoolyard Bully"!
• Stop bullies by using the "School of No Sword"!
• Gain the confidence to win without fighting!

This book is also for adults searching for constructive ways to help young people peacefully confront hostile aggression. Illustrated by award-winning artist, Rod Cameron.

128 pages	16 color illustrations	Size: 8 1/2" x 9 1/2"
ISBN: 0-942941-22-5	paperback	$14.95

NAMED ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS BY THE OMEGA NEW AGE DIRECTORY

"Webster-Doyle's insight is that by recognizing, understanding, and accepting our violent tendencies, we can avoid acting them out. These new books are good for teachers and parents of school children who need appropriate language and activites to help children deal with their feelings and the violence-provoking parts of their environment. To this reviewer, they are realistic and practical."

The first book of its kind to explore the roots of prejudice. For young people ages 8-14 who are interested in understanding how prejudice is created, through conditioned thinking. This book offers:

• Insights into what motivates prejudice
• Methods to explain prejudice and its consequences
• Ways to help young people free themselves of prejudice

This book is also for adults to help young people see how conditioning and prejudice affect us all. Illustrated by Award-winning artist, Rod Cameron.

158 pages	19 color illustrations	Size: 8 1/2" x 9 1/2"
ISBN: 0-834804-35-2	paperback	$14.95

"Every publication from the pen of this author should make a significant contribution to peace within and without. Highly recommended!"

Tug of War (More Info)
Peace Through Understanding Conflict

This book is for all children interested in a peaceful world - and in understanding the forces that cause conflict, both in personal relationships and across the globe. Tug of War describes...

• What the roots of war are.
• How we create "The Enemy".
• A new way to handle violence.

This book is also for adults to help young people gain the skills to successfully cope with individual and global violence. Illustrated by award-winning artist, Rod Cameron.

112 pages	15 color illustrations	Size: 8 1/2" x 9 1/2"
ISBN: 0-942941-20-9	paperback	$14.95

"The book excels at helping children understand how conflict works within themselves. Tug of War offers engaging exercises that enhance a child's ability to understand the world. These exercises inspire self-observation, and the drawings of award-winning illustrator Rod Cameron enliven the book."

Fighting the Invisible Enemy (More Info)
Understanding the Effects of Conditioning

This book helps young people see how preconditioned thinking and actions - behavior influenced by war toys, violent television, gender stereotypes, racial prejudice, peer pressure and more - can lead to division and violence. This book explores...

• What conditioning is and how it can make you act like a robot!
• What made the boy think he could fly like Superman!
• How war is created by the way we think.
• Creative, nonviolent alternatives to fighting.

This book is also for adults concerned about the psychological welfare of young people. Illustrated by award-winning artist, Rod Cameron.

176 pages	16 color illustrations	Size: 8 1/2" x 9 1/2"
ISBN: 0-942941-18-7	paperback	$14.95

The only book available to help young people examine the recruiting and training practices of the military, and to help them make an informed decision on this most important question facing them: what it really means to go to war.

Operation Warhawks does not present an antiwar or pacifist argument - instead it raises critical questions of free will and intelligent living. Illustrated by award-winning artist, Rod Cameron.

172 pages	20 color illustrations	Size: 8 1/2" x 9 1/2"
ISBN: 0-942941-30-6	paperback	$14.95

Growing Up Sane (More Info)
Understanding the Conditioned Mind

A provocative look at human relationships and the social institutions that mold behavior, this book explores the influences these structures exert over the development of the young person. Growing up Sane is not only for the parent and teacher concerned with the education of the young person, but it is also for anyone seriously interested in understanding what it means to live a sane and intelligent life.

ISBN 0-942941-10-1

6" x 9", 216 pp

paperback

$9.95

"The author poses an important question: Can we change or even stop the societal force that conditions the mental life of us and our children, and determines our attitudes and, therefore, our actions? Growing Up Sane is recommended."

This acclaimed book is concerned with bringing about a fundamental transformation in learning, awakening in young people the intelligence to cope with problems of relationship, conflict, and conditioning. Brave New Child is a valuable resource for parents, educators, counselors - anyone who works or lives with young people and realizes the need for a new education to help them cope intelligently with the problems of relationship, conflict, and conditioning.

ISBN 0-942941-06-3

6" x 9", 192 pp

paperback

$9.95

"Brave New Child explores a radically new approach to education that lays the foundation for wholly new ways of living and learning. Highly Recommended!"

Can we bring about an ethical understanding, a mind that is virtuous, innocent, untouched by conventional moralistic thinking? The Quest for Innocence is concerned with the development of ethical and responsible behavior. This book questions the traditional religious process of becoming good, and examines how this process paradoxically cultivates irresponsible and immoral behavior through the inculcation of conventional theological beliefs.

ISBN 0-942941-14-4

6" x 9", 128 pp

paperback

$9.95

"This book raises essential questions... The author has extensive backgrounds in education, philosophy, psychology, and the martial arts, and the book is a series of highly-charged aphorisms, designed to make the reader plunge deeply into these important issues."

The intent of this book is to bring about peace through the understanding of what prevents peace. The Myth of Nonviolence does not offer solutions, methods, conclusions or hopes about peace. It does not advocate any political, philosophical or religious reform to solve the problem of war. This book poses fundamental questions on what prevents peace, and by so doing, evokes insight into that which creates conflict, individually and globally.

ISBN 0-942941-12-8

6" x 9", 128 pp

paperback

$9.95

"These topics are excellent and highly relevant. If each of the major countries of the world were to have ten Drs. Webster-Doyle, world peace is guaranteed to be achieved over a period of just one generation."

***All use and purchase requires training and certification through the MAP Institute.

Please contact the Atrium Society at (800) 848-6021, or e-mail us at mapp8@aol.com.

Why is Everybody Always Picking On Me? (More info)
Master Curriculum

by Terrence Webster-Doyle with Adryan Russ

PREREQUISITE: Training and Certification

Companion to text for children by same title Why Is Everybody Always Picking on Me. Sixteen 1 hour lessons including:

• What is a Bully?
• How Does Bullying Affect Us?
• Why Do Bullies and Victims Exist?
• How Can we Stop Bullying?
• How Victims Can Become Winners
• How Bullies Can Become Winners

For ages 8-15.

181 pages	Sixteen 1 hour lessons	Size: 8 1/2" x 11"
ISBN: 0-942941-41-1	Comb-bound	$59.95

by Terrence Webster-Doyle with Adryan Russ

PREREQUISITE: Training and Certification

Accompanies the text for children titled Fighting the invisible Enemy. Every human being has a mind that has been conditioned in many ways. Once we have the ability to see our thinking and understand how we think, we have the option to change our thinking. Every lesson in this curriculum is devoted to helping students understand how a conditioned mind can create conflict.

For ages 8-15.

165 pages	Twenty 1 hour lessons	Size: 8 1/2" x 11"
ISBN: 0-942941-44-6	Comb-bound	$59.95

by Terrence Webster-Doyle with Adryan Russ

PREREQUISITE: Training and Certification

References in the curriculum are made to Tug of War, Fighting The Invisible Enemy, Why Is Everybody Always Picking On Me, Facing The Double-Edged Sword, Operation Warhawks, Eye of The Hurricane, Maze of The Fire Dragon and Flight of The Golden Eagle. All of these lessons have one thing in common, even though they may seem different, and that is understanding conflict--individually and in the social extreme in that which we call war. The intention of this curriculum is to examine the underlying primary factors that create conflict in relationships.

For ages 8-15.

299 pages	Twenty 1 hour lessons	Size: 8 1/2" x 11"
ISBN: 0-942941-42-X	Comb-bound	$59.95

The best self-defense is using your head. Avoiding conflict and using verbal skills before it escalates into fighting is the basis of this two-part video series by Dr. Terrence Webster-Doyle. In this series, Dr. Webster-Doyle--karate black belt, psychologist, lecturer and author of seventeen award-winning books on the subject of resolving conflict peacefully--teaches children how they can use their heads and talk their way out of trouble instead of using force. Martial arts physical self-defense skills are your last resort and should be used only to defend yourself if all else fails. Dr. Webster-Doyle offers many examples of common situations such as bullying in the schoolground, confrontations over your possessions and many other everyday bullying occurrences, using actual young students role-playing the scenario and the response. By highlighting these examples, Dr. Webster-Doyle's aim is to teach youngsters how to use martial arts mental self-defense skills to think and react to a bully before the situation becomes a fight. This is a unique and important concept of the martial arts that all young people should learn to help them cope with everyday situations.

Volume 1 (60 minutes)	ISBN: 1-58133-025-1	$29.95
Volume 2 (60 minutes)	ISBN: 1-58133-026-X	$29.95

Atrium Society Organization is committed to peace education around the world and was created to focus on the primary factor that leads to conflict, conditioned thinking. Its mission is to provide leadership, education, creative ideas and effective tools for conflict avoidance, resolution and management throughout society."The most vital and urgent challenge facing humankind is to understand and resolve conflict in relationship. We must challenge this conditioned attitude. We must educate ourselves about the source, nature and structure of conflict, to recognize how we have sustained it through conditioned thinking and action.

ISBN: 0942941489

$14.95

The best self-defense is using your head. Avoiding conflict and using verbal skills before it escalates into fighting is the basis of this video by Dr. Terrence Webster-Doyle. In this video, Dr. Webster-Doyle--karate black belt, psychologist, lecturer and author of seventeen award-winning books on the subject of resolving conflict peacefully--teaches children how they can use their heads and talk their way out of trouble instead of using force. Martial arts physical self-defense skills are your last resort and should be used only to defend yourself if all else fails. Dr. Webster-Doyle offers many examples of common situations such as bullying in the schoolground, confrontations over your possessions and many other everyday bullying occurrences, using actual young students role-playing the scenario and the response. By highlighting these examples, Dr. Webster-Doyle's aim is to teach youngsters how to use martial arts mental self-defense skills to think and react to a bully before the situation becomes a fight. This is a unique and important concept of the martial arts that all young people should learn to help them cope with everyday situations.

ISBN: 0942941470

$14.95