Dr. Ice's
Online Reading & Learning Hotlist

Books Online - to borrow, buy or download

• Half Price Books Online
• Amazon.com
• Barnes and Noble Bookstore online
• Seattle Public Library
• King County Public Library
• An Online Library of Literature
  Full texts of Many books in HTML format, some with downloadable ASCII text versions, as well
• Project Gutenberg
  Full texts of Many books ASCII text downloadable files
• Robert Stockton's HTML Classic Fiction
  Full texts of Many books in HTML format, taken from the ASCII text versions at Project Gutenberg
• Books Online
  Searches many book vendors for best availability and price.

Research and Study Online

• HowStuffWorks.com
  Really great content, but Beware pop-up screen that appears if you don't allow cookies. :-P How web stuff _shouldn't_ work!
• The History Channel Online
• The Onion
  Terribly satirical off-the-wall news spoof site
• Slate Magazine
  Another satirical newsy-comic site. Interesting web design elements
• WIRED Magazine
• University of Chicago Library
• Harvard University Libraries and Museums
• University of Washington Library
• Online Map Collection at the University of Texas
• University of Virginia Library
• Yale University Library
• Cambridge University Library
• Human Rights Library
• Waterloo University Library
• Earl Greg Swem Library at the College of William & Mary
• The Smithsonian Institution
• Eserver Journals and Newspapers
  Describes itself as "The place to find academic journals and popular magazines that represent the best writing on the Web."
• The Etext Archives
  Home to electronic texts of all kinds, from the sacred to the profane, from the political to the personal.
• Ziff-Davis Publishing
  Home to many computer / technical magazines
• Planet Out
  Portal to many magazines about topics of interest to LGBT folks.
• Puget Sound Business Journal
• The Advocate Online

News Sites:

• Northwest Source The Seattle Times, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Issaquah Press, and other Northwest periodicals
• Seattle Weekly
• The Herald newspaper of Snohomish and Island Counties, Washington, USA
• Washington Newspaper Association - Seattle Home of the Ballard News Tribune, the Beacon Hill News, the Capitol Hill Times, The Chinese Post, the Daily Journal of Commerce, the North Central Outlook, the Northwest Asian Weekly, the Queen Anne/Magnolia News, the University Herald, and the West Seattle Herald/White Center News
• The Village Voice
• Lycos' News Page
• American Journalism Review lots of links to online magazines & newspapers
• New Times
• Highline Times and Des Moines News of the towns of Burien and Des Moines, Washington, USA

Cool Learning and References Sites:

• Discovery Planet School Includes lesson plans for many topics.
• The Surrealism Server Includes The Surrealist Compliment Generator!
• Photograph of a Sonic Boom - and an explanation of why it's visible
• Teaching Babies Sign Language
• NASA Home Page
• University of California Museum of Paleontology
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online
• The Globewide Network Academy
• National Organization of Women (NOW)
• PBS

Political and Legal Sites:

• King County Democrats Home Page
• National Organization of Women (NOW)
• Issue Dynamics, Inc.
• Capital Advantage Democracy at your fingertips
• Libertarian Party
• Federal Election Commission
• Links to Legal Sites on the Internet
  
• GLAAD Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
• The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law

Theological Topics / Thinking / Inspiration:

• BBC - World Religions
  The basics of what many religions are about.
• PBS - Religion and Ethics Newsweekly
  The online companion to the weekly television program.
• Teaching about religion
  Information on teaching about religion in a way that incorporates pluralism, acknowledges that students have different world views, and uses a position of "Scrupulous Neutrality"
• Theology/Religion/Catholic Education Resources
  Resources and lesson plans for world religions and religious education. Many links to sites of particular interest to Catholic educators. (Note: You have to scroll down a bit to get to the actual content on this page, it's got a bunch of google ads at the top for junk not related to the topic.)
• Hindu Website
  A big portal of lots of references.
• Affirmation Planet
  Not specific to a particular religion, just afformations via the web, or your cell phone or widget.
• amidabuddha.org
  Daily Buddhist Meditations
• Pluralism.org
  Since 1991, the Pluralism Project has engaged students and affiliates in the study of the new religious diversity in the United States.
• Chronology of Christianity
  
• Medieval Crusades (Christian)