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Links and Factoids

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... on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfactoid Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfactoid Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska ... ...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...oking, well bred and an excellent dancer". He lived at 18 Bruton Street in Mayfair, London (a prestigious address). Simpson's first husband was... ...1934, when he met her for the second time, dined with her and her husband in their London flat and invited them to his country retreat - she did no... ...of luminescence maintained as time passes? Woody Hastings, a microbiologist at the University of Illinois, noticed in the early 1960s that though t... ... thus, attracts female flies eager to lay their eggs. Researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Italy's University of Ca...

Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.

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Abuse, Trauma, And Torture, And Their Consequences and Effects

By: Sam Vaknin

...use, Torture, And Trauma and Their Consequences and Effects 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.                          ... ... Torture, And Trauma and Their Consequences and Effects 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.                            ... ...cissistic ( ) Personality Disorder NPD The Narcissist's Entitlement of Routine – Pathological Narcissism A Dysfunction or a Blessing? ... ...sfunction or a Blessing? The Narcissist's Confabulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace Th... ... of General Psychiatry, fourth edition, 1995. Prentice-Hall International, London. Gelder, Michael, Gath, Dennis, Mayou, Richard, Cowen, Philip (ed... ... Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, third edition, 1996, reprinted 2000. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Vaknin, Sam, Malignant Self Love – Narcissism ... ...ird edition, 1996, reprinted 2000. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Vaknin, Sam, Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited, seventh revised impress... ...m: Socrates, the Frankfurt School and Psychoanalytic Theory. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1988 2. Devereux, George. Basic Problems o... ...the Frankfurt School and Psychoanalytic Theory. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1988 2. Devereux, George. Basic Problems of Ethno- Psyc...

...The effects on victims and survivors of traumatic experiences, long-term and repeated abuse, and torture. Includes in-depth profile of the Narcissistic Abuser and hundreds of links to literature and resources....

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The Fundamental Assumptions Underlying the Modern Study of Psychopathology Examined.

By: Sam Vaknin

... The Developmental Psychology of Psychopathology 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. ... ... The Developmental Psychology of Psychopathology 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ... The Developmental Psychology of Psychopathology 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska ... ...sm Revisited http://samvak.tripod.com/ Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S A. Notes on Developmental Psych... ...and Personality First published here: "Personality Disorders (Suite101)" By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Phineas Gage was a 25 years old construction foreman ... ...ponse Syndromes: PTSD, Grief and Adjustment Disorders. Third edition. New York, NY University Press, 1998) Narcissism is fundamentally an evolved v... ...g and Raising Children: Unconventional Families, Hard Choices, and the Social Good University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, Qu... ... as the Howard H. Goldman (Ed.) in the "Review of General Psychiatry" [4th Edition. London, Prentice Hall International, 1995] puts it: "The person... ...ovember 2002 issue of "Child Development". The researchers, from City University of London, found that the level of maternal testosterone during pre...

Psychopathology as the outcome of problems in early childhood development.

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

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... Terrorists And Freedom Fighters 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ... Terrorists And Freedom Fighters 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska ... ... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/... ...tml http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freed... ... they are unprintable..." A.G. Hales reporting about the Illinden Uprising in the London "Daily News" of October 21, 1903 "The Internal Macedo... ...he thin pretext of an Albanian uprising. The brotherhood strained in the Treaty of London (May 1913) promptly deteriorated into internecine warfare... ... China's Tiananmen Square 8 years later. The hotbed of hotheads was, as usual, the University in Pristina. Students there were more concerned with ... ...ality. The ethnopsychologist George Devereux ("Basic Problems of Ethnopsychiatry", University of Chicago Press, 1980) suggested to divide the uncon...

...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to...

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The Malignan Self Love : Narcissism Revisited

By: Sam Vaknin

...issism Revisited 1 st EDITION 8 th Revised Impression EXCERPTS – NOT the full Book! Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. The Author is NOT a Mental Health... ...sm Revisited 1 st EDITION 8 th Revised Impression EXCERPTS – NOT the full Book! Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. The Author is NOT a Mental Health Pro... ...ale. Literary agents and publishers, please contact Lidija Rangelovska. To get FREE updates of this book JOIN the Narcissism Study List. To JOI... ...9989-929-06-8 Print ISBN: 978-80-238-3384-3 Created by: Lidija Rangelovska, Skopje REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA "Sam Vaknin is the world's leading ... ...nt ISBN: 978-80-238-3384-3 Created by: Lidija Rangelovska, Skopje REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA "Sam Vaknin is the world's leading expert on narcissi... ...ge degree, a faulty methodology. As the renowned anti-psychiatrist, Thomas Szasz, of the State University of New York, notes in his article "The Ly... ...rd, C. Fred. Narcissism: Socrates, the Frankfurt School and Psychoanalytic Theory. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1988 2. Devereux, G... ...Narcissism: Socrates, the Frankfurt School and Psychoanalytic Theory. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1988 2. Devereux, George. Basic ... ...exuality [1905]. Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Vol. 7. London, Hogarth Press, 1964 5. Freud, S. On Narciss...

...When the personality is rigid to the point of being unable to change in reaction to changing circumstances - we say that it is disordered. Such a person takes behavioral, emotional, and cognitive cues exclusively from others. His inner world is, so to speak, vacated. ...

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The Conundrums of Psychology

By: Sam Vaknin

... The Conundrums of Psychology 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ... The Conundrums of Psychology 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska ... ...sm Revisited http://samvak.tripod.com/ Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. On Disease II. The Normal... ...ONIA C O N T E N T S I. On Disease II. The Normal Personality III. The Myth of Mental Illness IV. The DSM Pros and Cons V. The History of P... ...The Third Text and Competing Interpellations XII. The Author On Dis-ease By: Dr. Sam Vaknin We are all terminally ill. It is a matter of time be... ...faulty methodology. As the renowned anti-psychiatrist, Thomas Szasz, of the State University of New York, notes in his article "The Lying Truths o... ...faulty methodology. As the renowned anti-psychiatrist, Thomas Szasz, of the State University of New York, notes in his article "The Lying Truths o... ...adian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General Manager of IPE Ltd. in London. The firm financed international multi-lateral countertra... ... Raised funds through a series of private placements locally in the USA, Canada and London. 1993 to 1996 Publisher and Editor of a Capital Markets ...

The fundamental assumptions underlying the modern study of psychopathology examined.

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

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... Facts and Fictions in The Securities Industry 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ... Facts and Fictions in The Securities Industry 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska ... ...om: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...dija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/... ... http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Introduction II. The Value ... ...y the work of other scholars, such as Paul Weller of the Finance Department of the university of Iowa. While he admits the limitations of technical... ... of Financial Markets" by John Campbell, Andrew Lo, and Craig MacKinlay, Princeton University Press, 1997: "Consider the argument that implied vola... ...underous disintegration of the Bank for Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) in London in 1991 revealed that, for the better part of a decade, ... ...ished by United Press International (UPI) Claud Cockburn, writing for the "Times of London" from New-York, described the irrational exuberance that ...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

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... Narcissistic And Psychopathic Leaders 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.                          ... ... Narcissistic And Psychopathic Leaders 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.                            ... ...arcissistic ( ) Personality Disorder NPD The Narcissist's Entitlement of Routine – Pathological Narcissism A Dysfunction or a Blessing? ... ...sfunction or a Blessing? The Narcissist's Confabulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace Th... ... of General Psychiatry, fourth edition, 1995. Prentice-Hall International, London. Gelder, Michael, Gath, Dennis, Mayou, Richard, Cowen, Philip (ed... ... Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, third edition, 1996, reprinted 2000. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Vaknin, Sam, Malignant Self Love – Narcissism ... ...ird edition, 1996, reprinted 2000. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Vaknin, Sam, Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited, seventh revised impress... ...m: Socrates, the Frankfurt School and Psychoanalytic Theory. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1988 2. Devereux, George. Basic Problems o... ...the Frankfurt School and Psychoanalytic Theory. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1988 2. Devereux, George. Basic Problems of Ethno- Psyc...

...Narcissistic and psychopathic leaders come in all shapes and degrees of virulence. Learn to recognize them in various settings (the workplace, religion, politics) and to cope with the toxic fallout of their "leadership"....

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The Labor Divide

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...The Labour Divide 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska ... ...The Labour Divide 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lid... ... palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" http://www.ce-review.org/au... ...unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" http://www.ce-review.org/authorarc... ...ide.html ISBN: 9989-929-27-0 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA 100 articles and essays (microeconomics ... ...4/1999) The author wishes to thank Mr. Rafael Di Tella from Harvard University (Harvard Business School) for his assistance in sharing with th... ...the author the article he has co-authored with Mr. R. MacCullouch of Bonn University. The author wishes to thank Ms. Lidija Rangelovska for sharin... ...s in 2000. A 10-country study conducted in 1997-9 by Babson College, the London School of Business, and the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Lea... ...re Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General Manager of IPE Ltd. in London. The firm financed international multi-lateral countertrade and lea...

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Empire and Wars

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... Wars and Empire 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ... Wars and Empire 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska ... ...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/... ...com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After... ...les. Please add me to the list, Mr. Blair. I believe that the terrorist attacks in London were a desperate and criminal response to your own war cr... ...n Iraq since the American-British led "liberation". Yet, as New-York and Madrid and London can attest, ignoring one's own rules of engagement in war... ...ption especially of the Americans. According to Professor Azmat Hayat Khan of the University of Peshawar, when Ahmad Shah Massoud's mujaheddin lib... ...rnational Affairs, Ali Abootalebi, assistant professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, concluded: "The Middle Ea...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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Capitalistic Musings

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... Capitalistic Musings 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ... Capitalistic Musings 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska ... ... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/... ...et http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neg... ... laureate Robert Solow and, more importantly, by Paul Romer, an economist from the University of California at Berkeley, clearly demonstrates. Addi... ... of Financial Markets" by John Campbell, Andrew Lo, and Craig MacKinlay, Princeton University Press, 1997: "Consider the argument that implied vola... ...rovision for Social Goods, in: Margolis, J./Guitton, H. (eds.), Public Economics - London, McMillan, 1969, pp. 124-44. Musgrave, R. A. - The Theory... ...th growing prosperity. As Alison Wolf, professor of education at the University of London elucidates in her seminal tome "Does Education Matter? My...

Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... Cyclopedia Of Philosophy 4th EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ... Cyclopedia Of Philosophy 4th EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska ... ... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...d with the qualities of the achiever). If a person consciously intends to obtain a university degree and constructs a plan of action, which involve... ...n him – this will not be considered an achievement. To qualify as an achievement, a university degree entails a continuous and strenuous effort. Suc... ...rees of the sacred and oecumenical Council of Trent, Ed. and trans. J. Waterworth (London: Dolman, 1848), 75-91.) Still, most systems of morality a... ...called this period "scientific humanism" (in "Flesh and Stone" by Richard Sennett, London, Faber and Faber, 1994). We mentioned John of Salisbury's... ...se formal logical niches that superstition thrives. Appendix - Interview granted by Sam Vaknin to Adam Anderson 1. Do you believe that superstition...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

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...endSiters Digital Content And Web Technologies 3rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska ... ...iters Digital Content And Web Technologies 3rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lid... ... ISBN: 9989-929-23-8 Created by:LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: ht... ... other related issues. http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE!... ... This letter constitutes a permission to reprint or mirror any and all of the materials mentioned or linked to herein subject to appropriate cred... ...f-assembly system. Self-publishing systems do exist (for instance, Purdue University's) - but they incorporate only certain components. Scindex cover... ...tware industry. NetLibrary has lately granted multiple user licences to a university library system. Such licences allow for unlimited access and ar... ... to roam this worldwide labyrinth. But the path from one neighbourhood of London to another may traverse Japan. The really ingenious thing about th... ...ou to read "Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Mind" by Sayre published in London in 1976). They all contain information stored, a set of rules to r...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

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... Cyclopedia Of Philosophy 4th EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ... Cyclopedia Of Philosophy 4th EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska ... ... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...d with the qualities of the achiever). If a person consciously intends to obtain a university degree and constructs a plan of action, which involve... ...n him – this will not be considered an achievement. To qualify as an achievement, a university degree entails a continuous and strenuous effort. Suc... ...rees of the sacred and oecumenical Council of Trent, Ed. and trans. J. Waterworth (London: Dolman, 1848), 75-91.) Still, most systems of morality a... ...called this period "scientific humanism" (in "Flesh and Stone" by Richard Sennett, London, Faber and Faber, 1994). We mentioned John of Salisbury's... ...se formal logical niches that superstition thrives. Appendix - Interview granted by Sam Vaknin to Adam Anderson 1. Do you believe that superstition...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...The Silver Lining Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema 3 rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...Silver Lining Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema 3 rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska ... ...d http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Talented Mr. Ripley I... ...x IV. Shattered V. Titanic VI. Being John Malkovich VII. Dreamcatcher – The Myth of Destructibility VIII. I, Robot – The Fourth Law of Robotics ... ...t Encounter. It may also be our last. Return T H E A U T H O R SHMUEL (SAM) VAKNIN Curriculum Vitae Born in 1961 in Qiryat-Yam, Isra... ...3: Ph.D. in Philosophy (dissertation: "Time Asymmetry Revisited") – Pacific Western University, California, USA. 1982-5: Graduate of numerous cours... ...adian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General Manager of IPE Ltd. in London. The firm financed international multi-lateral countertra... ... Raised funds through a series of private placements locally in the USA, Canada and London. 1993 to 1996 Publisher and Editor of a Capital Markets ... ...ss media group, "Ha-Tikshoret and Namer". Assistant in the Law Faculty in Tel-Aviv University (to Prof. S.G. Shoham). 1996 to 1999 Financial cons...

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Speculations and Physics

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

... Speculations and Physics 1 st E DI T I O N Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ... Speculations and Physics 1 st E DI T I O N Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska ... ... http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S PH YSI CS I. Time Asymmetry Re... ... PH YSI CS I. Time Asymmetry Re-Visited II. Negentropic Agents and the Increase of Entropy III. The Complexity of Simplicity IV. Bestowed Exist... ...earch laboratory), the ESP (Extra-Sensory Perception) research outfit at Princeton University, established in 1979, closed down in February 2007. ... ...in the studies conducted at the Parapsychology Laboratory of North Carolina's Duke University by the American psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine and i... ...ed or replicated elsewhere and at other times even when they are conducted with the SAM E subjects (who are no longer the same owing to the effects... ...adian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General Manager of IPE Ltd. in London. The firm financed international multi-lateral countertra... ... Raised funds through a series of private placements locally in the USA, Canada and London. 1993 to 1996 Publisher and Editor of a Capital Markets ...

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