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... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfactoid Sam Vaknin, Ph... ...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... ...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... ...XI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1... ... war ended, in Union-occupied Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Slave tax was an important source of state revenue in the South (up to 60 percent... ... pair of bodies for a Verthingall of crymsen Grosgrain." Queen Elizabeth had these listed in her garderobe: "A payre of bodies of black cloth of s... ...stolen works of art, payment cards, fingerprints and photographs, a terrorism watch list, a DNA database, disaster victim identification, internati... ...30th Assault Unit, he sometimes operated behind the German lines, trying to secure important documents and files from destruction. But, mostly, he ... ...ix-pointed star - has been the symbol of the Zionist movement since 1897. It is an important part of the flag of the State of Israel. It has been a...

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...e at the Paris Opera during its 1890s heyday. Whilst working at the opera, she meets a mysterious, masked stranger: Erik. Is it possible that the two of them will heal the pain of each other's past? Buy the the paper back at Turner Maxwell Books ...

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... Author’s Note This is a work of fiction. While historical persons do appear within the text, all even... ...fiction. While historical persons do appear within the text, all events are of my own imagination. During the 19th century, and for nearly the first... ... my own imagination. During the 19th century, and for nearly the first half of the 20th century, French women were not allowed to vote, nor to have ... ...t faces of the stable hands as I laid my hand on Josephine’s steaming neck, listening to the black mare suck hard to get a breath of air. Her knees ... ...e. And now she will not be able to perform tonight.” I was close to tears listening to the poor mare’s labored breath, her head dropped to her rui... ...t. “Oh yes, Claire. You’ll do.” From the tail pocket of his coat, he took a list. “I need these items. You will pick them up as we conduct your ot... ... Claire.” “Yes, Erik, he does, but Francois never did. Is that not the most important thing?” My fastidious husband raised an eyebrow. “Besides which... ... 112 “Dolly,” I said as I put the vegetables aside, “Your education is very important. It’s a wonderful thing that Prince Albert created so many pu... ...ake an enormous contribution to the sciences this way, and that is far more important than religious superstition. I hope that your husband will co...

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... ISBN: 9989-929-23-8 Created by:LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: ht... ... This letter constitutes a permission to reprint or mirror any and all of the materials mentioned or linked to herein subject to appropriate cred... ... AUTHOR BIO: Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com ) is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the... ...... ... may well follow suit shortly. Earlier this year, Microsoft has shut down ListBot (a host of discussion lists). Suite101 has stopped paying its edito... ...worst deal in town. So, why the fuss? Because of Amazon's customer list. This development emphasizes the growing realization that one's list ... ...ined - is the greatest asset, greater even than original content and more important than distribution channels and digital right management or asset... ...text equivalents, such as speech) is concerned, the medium is at least as important as the message. And this will hold true even when e-books catch u... ...e-rich and much cheaper e-book. But they won't - because the medium is as important as the text message. It is not enough to own the same content, o...

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...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 C...

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... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...l Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ................................................................................................................................. 17 Combinations of Nee... ...mewhat by our present day thinking. I assume you are aware of the brain imaging work by neuroscientists that shows that our emotions are more import... ...s‘ than memories! ―But Chuck, I see much more truth in the power drive idea of Alfred Adler. Orgasms are great, but I think our more import... ... 15 —―Briefly, for my own sense of clarity, I see Freud's concept of libido to be much more import... ...never have dreamed of. ―In another university study students were told to administer electric shocks to others who were to learn word lists.... ...? ―In our human species we don‘t need a partner for an orgasm. We can masturbate like many animals do. Is that why Abraham Maslow listed... ...ust be overcome before we can be a real lover. 71 ―Fromm also listed...

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

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... 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... ...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... ...O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neglected Branch II. The Misconception of Scarcity III. The Roller Coaster Market – On Volatility IV.... ...uit of the fulfillment of preferences is a tautology. The theory fails to predict important phenomena such as "strong reciprocity" - the propensit... ...as the "omitted variable bias" or "reverse causality". The former is concerned with important variables unaccounted for - the latter with reciprocal... ... engenders the very evil it was meant to fend off. Ideas and knowledge - inputs as important as land and water - are not subject to scarcity, as wo... ...Press International (UPI) The Wall Street Journal has recently published an elegiac list: "Twenty years ago, cable television was dominated by a pa... ... was introduced illegally where manufacturers insisted on rigid, rich-world, price lists. Piracy of intellectual property, for instance, is a form... ...on that assigns real numbers to each of the outcomes. The consequence represents a list of outcomes, prioritized, ranked. It is also known as an or...

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...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ... it. If you live by it, and sit under its shade and wonder about it. If you listen to the wind soughing through its branches and enjoy its beauty ... ...this long before our 3-dimensional Universe ever emerged. This is very, very important to understand. The reason all things that move in our Univer... ... Contraction and Expansion which had to exist before it could exist. More importantly, it came into existence as a series of Balanced Acts of Sp... ... Separations, you will not be able to understand it. Neither aspect is more important than the other. Only if you look at both of them together c... ...s, nobody would The Path of Splitness Chapter One: The Universe 70 have listened to him. In fact, if he had not used two expedient constants: ... ... us. Our ancestors mastered their own instinctive fear of fire, they stopped listening to their instinctive fears, their instincts that told them t...

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...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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... “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down Return to Earth “. . . And ... ...o Earth “. . . And Gulliver Returns” 2 --In Search of Utopia— “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-... ...ie Kleiner © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-0-1 3 Table of Contents THE RETURN FROM SPACE ......................................... ..., and in our universe. But then each of us thinks of ourselves as being all-important and having infinite worth. Some of us believe that we have bee... ... system, the work of Hubble and his namesake telescope have been incredibly important in making this voyage possible. “The telescope can meas... ...—like housing opulence, when a smaller dwelling would do. And probably most important, a state mandated reproductive control. This would probably on... ...ommitted. As bad as we may think America is for murders, it is way down the list when compared to Columbia and South Africa. Interpol told me that t... ... he’s not still around, he could certainly do a better job of making people listen than I can. Because he was a man of color he could neutralize the... ...enters, dentists, contractors, real estate sales people, psychologists, the list goes on and on. And which of these activities is more important tha...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................... ...njoy the breakfast buffet?‖ --―Thanks, but I‘m sure she has more important things to do than attend to my insomnia! And yes, I love the foo... ...d talk with you. Your work on human values really fascinates me. The most important discussions in this world are about values of one sort or anothe... ... is a retired businessman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. Lee isn‘t so sure he likes Kino. Th... ... --―True Lee. But to realize happiness we must aim beyond and seek more important goals, then we will find that happiness is a by-product of our li... ...ricans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happiness list than are the French, who vacation a lot. ―Money only makes ... ...were so many times with Arline, just holding hands, walking in the woods, listening to a concert in the Hollywood Bowl. Gosh I miss her. Her death f...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Rabourdin household in Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a moment when he is h...

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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, t...

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...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism we...

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