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...dija 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": ... ... OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neglected Branch II. The Misconception of Scarcity III. The Roller Coaster Market – ... ...glected Branch II. The Misconception of Scarcity III. The Roller Coaster Market – On Volatility IV. The Friendly Trend V. The Merits of Inflatio... ...e Fabric of Economic Trust XIX. Scavenger Economies, Predator Economies XX. Notes on the Economics of Game Theory XXI. Knowledge and Power XXII.... ...tition. Linux threatens Windows. Opera nibbles at Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Amazon drubbed traditional booksellers. eBay thrashes Amazon. Be... ...ng is a form of hidden subsidy, or a kind of "third world tax". On September 2000, Amazon.com conducted a unique poll - this time among customers -... ...ch envy is forbidden and equality extolled and everything enviable is obliterated. Women are modified to look like men and given identical "beta fa... ...y to emphasise intellect, power, aggression, money, or social status. Narcissistic women are likely to emphasise body, looks, charm, sexuality, fem... ...ics and the imposition of "national goals". NASA, with its "let's put a man on the moon (before the Soviets do)" and the inane International Space ...

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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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...written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ...ml Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United S... ...hanistan I. Afghan Myths II. Pakistan’s Nice Little War III. The Afghan Trip On the Road to Iraq – Central and East Europe I. EU and NATO –... ... surveys published last year - by the German Marshall Fund and the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations - largely supported Pew's findings. The mo... ...ng mechanisms for smooth political transitions. China plans to send a man to the moon. It invests heavily in basic science and research and devel... ...variably European; a decadent and unfaithful Icelandic, seductive Czech and Russian women, a Dr. Mengele type German, a Ukrainian pimp. The torture ... ... and when not to. But during the Musharraf reign, human rights and the position of women in Pakistan have improved considerably. Constructive relat... ...s and two essays – a total of 600 pages! Print Edition from BARNES AND NOBLE and AMAZON Barnes and Noble – "Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Re... ...SBN=8023833847 "Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited" is now available from Amazon Canada – Click on this link: http://www.amazon.ca/exec/ob...

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A lost book of the Bible.

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...The Book of Enoch Chapter 1 – Enoch’s Blessings The word of the blessing of Enoch, how he blessed the elect and the righteous, who were to exist in the time of trouble, rejecting all the wicked and ungodly. Enoch, a righteo...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Now come ye for peace here, or come ye for war? ?The abbot, in his alb arrayed,? stood at the altar in the abbey-chapel of Rubygill, with all his plump, sleek, rosy friars, in goodly lines disposed, to solemnise the nuptials of the beautiful Matilda Fitzwater, daughter of t...

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... Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...le, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...eemed adapted by na ture to be the retreat of monastic mortification, being on the banks of a fine trout stream, and in the midst of wood land cover... ... come in this martial array to his wedding;” but he had not long to meditate on the phenomenon, for the foaming steeds swept up to the gate like a whi... ...ed for such an occurrence, and a desper ate skirmish succeeded. Some of the women screamed, but none of them fainted; for fainting was not so much th... ...l mets, the twanging of bow strings, the whizzing of arrows, the screams of women, the shouts of the warriors, and the vociferations of the peasantry... ...ace: the oak and the beech are its colonnade and its canopy: the sun and the moon and the stars are its everlasting lamps: the grass, and the daisy, a... ...ager’s cudgel: but the wife being less dexterous than her company, though an Amazon in strength, missed her pass at a fifth, and drove the point of th... ... other was laid prostrate under the dint of a brass cauldron launched by the Amazonian dame. Robin now turned to the aid of Marian, who was parrying m...

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...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my ey...

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... Don Juan by George Byron is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...le, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...rain yourself, or so, And tumble downward like the flying fish Gasping on deck, because you soar too high, Bob, And fall, for lack of moisture... ... Excise. You’re shabby fellows — true — but poets still, And duly seated on the immortal hill. Your bays may hide the baldness of your brows— ... ...ather. In Seville was he born, a pleasant city, Famous for oranges and women — he Who has not seen it will be much to pity, So says the pr... ...English always use to govern d—n.” Byron’s Don Juan “Canto One” 8 Some women use their tongues — she look’d a lecture, Each eye a sermon, an... ...h; And then he thought of earthquakes, and of wars, How many miles the moon might have in girth, Of air balloons, and of the many bars To ... ... I like to be particular in dates, Not only of the age, and year, but moon; They are a sort of post house, where the Fates Change horses,... ...n ways and means How to encounter with this martial scold, This modern Amazon and queen of queans; And the perplexity could not be told Of...

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...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the ...

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...Contents INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 5 THE JILTING OF JANE ................................................................................10 THE CONE.....................................................................................................16 THE STOLEN...

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...tories by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication ... ... Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...t crept into one’s mind, a distress as vague and inexpugnable as a sea fog on a spring morning, and pres- ently one shivered and wanted to go indoors…... ...nvention and imagination and the mood can give—a vision of buttered slides on a busy day or of unprecedented worlds. In that spirit of miscellaneous e... ... woman’s” name or to admit her girlishness. “I can’t think what minds some women must have—to try and get a girl’s young man away from her. But there,... ...said Horrocks. “You promised,” said Raut, “to show me some fine effects of moonlight and smoke.” “I promised to show you some fine effects of moonligh... ...e in the moonlight, and shouting, “Fizzle, you fool! Fizzle, you hunter of women! You hot-blooded hound! Boil! boil! boil!” Suddenly he caught up a ha... ...s and smoked profoundly and marvelled at Brazil. They were six days up the Amazon, some hundreds of miles from the ocean, 346 The Country of the Blin... ...f their prowess and capacity are in circulation in the region of the Upper Amazon, and grow daily as the steady advance of the invader stimulates men’...

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...Excerpt: Prefatory Note: The execution of this version of the Iliad has been entrusted to the three Translators in the following three parts: Each Translator is therefore responsible for his own portion; but the whole has been revised by all three Tr...

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...est Myers, M.A. A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION The Iliad of Homer, trans. Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers is ... ...r, trans. Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers is a publication of the Pennsyl vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...n. Even in these, however, a certain elasticity has been deemed desirable. On a few doubtful points, though very rarely, the opinion of two of the tra... ... And strives to rend thy songs, too blind is she To know the crown on thine immortal head Of indivisible supremacy. A.I. Athwart the... ...u now ill content and lacking? Surely thy huts are full of bronze and many women are in they huts, the chosen spoils that we Achaians give thee first ... ...ring the sons of the Achaians to ill. Soft fools, base things of shame, ye women of Achaia and men no more, let us depart home with our ships, and lea... ...os. For I too being their ally was numbered among them on the day that the Amazons came, the peers of men. Yet were not even they so many as are the g... ...res burned in multitude. Even as when in heaven the stars about the bright moon shine clear to see, when the air is windless, and all the peaks appear... ... as it had been fire, nor wouldst thou have thought there was still sun or moon, for over all the battle where the chiefs stood around the slain son o...

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...E........................................................................................................................................ 4 CHAPTER I THE EARLY MARRIED LIFE OF THE MORELS ............................................................................ 4 CHAPTER II THE BIRTH OF PAUL, AND ANOTHER BATTLE................................................................

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... Series Publication Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... .......................... 31 CHAPTER III THE CASTING OFF OF MOREL—THE TAKING ON OF WILLIAM ....................................... 51 CHAPTER IV THE YOU... ..................................................... 268 CHAPTER XI THE TEST ON MIRIAM .................................................................... ... long lines of ash-pits, went the alley, where the children played and the women gossiped and the men smoked. So, the actual conditions of living in t... ...ouse, she enjoyed a kind of aristoc- 6 Sons & Lovers racy among the other women of the “between” houses, because her rent was five shillings and sixp... ... unable to leave the wakes. As she crossed the open ground in front of the Moon and Stars she heard men shouting, and smelled the beer, and hurried a ... ...y dad been?” he asked. “No,” said the mother. “He’s helping to wait at the Moon and Stars. I seed him through that black tin stuff wi’ holes in, on th... ...won, because he was light. Clara’s blood was roused. She could run like an Amazon. Paul loved the determined way she rushed at the hay-cock and leaped...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. -- Start in Life I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwa...

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...cs Series Publication Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...h a life of ease and pleasure. He told me it was men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspiring, superior for- tunes on the other, who went abr... ...y or mind, as those were who, by vicious living, luxury, and extravagances on the one hand, or by hard labour, want of necessaries, and mean or insuff... ...in the second place, we found the people terribly frighted, especially the women. The man that had the lance or dart did not fly from them, but the re... ...lled. They called immediately to some of their friends, and there came two women, and brought a great vessel made of earth, and burnt, as I supposed, ... ...as upon the coast of Guiana, or the north part of Brazil, beyond the river Amazon, toward that of the river Orinoco, commonly called the Great River; ... ...St. 186 Robinson Crusoe Martha. He told me that up a great way beyond the moon, that was beyond the setting of the moon, which must be west from thei... ...at he was very old, “much older,” he said, “than the sea or land, than the moon or the stars.” I asked him then, if this old person had made all thing...

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...................................................................................................................................................... 4 THE DEATH OF JEAN ............................................................................................................................................ 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE .....................................

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...Introduction: Homer?s ?Iliad? begins towards the close of the last of the ten years of the Trojan War: its incidents extend over some fifty days only, and it ends with the burial of Hector. The things which came before and after were told by other bards, who between the...

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...y by Quintus Smyrnaeus, T ranslated by A. S. Way, 1913 is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way, does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...is thrilling scene Quintus omits, and substitutes nothing of his own. Later on, he makes Menelaus slay Deiphobus unresisting, “heavy with wine,” wher... ... have ventured to indicate: but, whatever theory we adopt, it must be based on mere conjecture. The Greek text here given is that of Koechly (1850) w... ... to connect the sense. — A.S. Way BOOK I: How died for Troy the Queen of the Amazons, Penthesileia. When godlike Hector by Peleides slain Passed, and ... ...esileia far outshone them all. As when in the broad sky amidst the stars The moon rides over all pre eminent, When through the thunderclouds the cleav... ... may be, Her splendour of beauty glows pre eminent; So peerless amid all the Amazons Unto T roy town Penthesileia came. To right, to left, from all si... ...haea’s sons, Slew these, and hunted those in panic rout. From T roy afar the women marvelling gazed At the Maid’s battle prowess. Suddenly A fiery pa... ...it in our hearts! Let us too face the fight which favoureth none! For we, we women, be not creatures cast In diverse mould from men: to us is given Su...

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...y Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Wor... ...emarks on Physiognomy A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Works of Aristotle, trans. Anon. is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...Physi- cian; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy THE MIDWIFE’S VADE-MECUM Containing PARTICULAR DIRECTIONS FO... ...gins are capable of it: and why so much desire it. Also, how long men and women are capable of it. THERE ARE VERY FEW, except some professional debau... ... benefit thereof are converted into seed. And this may also be added, that women, generally, are not so strong as men, nor so wise or prudent; nor hav... ...r the seminary of generation. The best time to beget a female is, when the moon is in the wane, in Libra or Aquaries. Advicenne says, that when the me... ...hich space of the revolution, the blood being agitated by the force of the moon, the courses of women flow from them; which being spent, and the ma- t... ...austed that noth- ing is left over to be got rid of, as is recorded of the Amazons who, being active and constantly in motion, had their courses very ...

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Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

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...ROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC ................................................................................................ 34 Lecture III: THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN ...............................................................................

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...ture by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William J... ...s Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ....................................... 502 WILLIAM JAMES (1842-1910): A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF “THE V ARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPE- RIENCE” .................. ... often neurotic— Criticism of medical materialism, which condemns religion on that account—Theory that religion has a sexual origin refuted— All state... ...rom the emotional point of view.[20] We shall see how in cer- tain men and women it takes on a monstrously as- cetic form. There are saints who have l... ...o please him. He appeared to like (and I believe he did like) all the men, women, and children he saw (though I never knew him to say that he liked an... ...ver- biage of a good deal of the mind-cure literature, some of which is so moonstruck with optimism and so vaguely expressed that an academically trai... ...of sleep had come I had the habit of walking up and down. I see again that moon, half-veiled by clouds, which now and again illuminated the frigid win... ...es began the study of medicine, and in 1865 he joined an expedition to the Amazon. Before long, he wrote: “If there is anything I hate, it is col- lec...