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...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. His True Self is dilapidated and dysfunctional. Instead he has a tyrannical and delusional False Self...

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...The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate the drug cartels of ...

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...Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined ...

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...ss/Artemis THE VATICAN CONSPIRACY A Novel by Jonathan Cross 3 ... ...e small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shado... ...pen. Startled, he watched with curious astonishment as a purple mist emanated from the Tabernacle on the altar where the Holy Eucharist was kept. A ... ...st – a presence with form and face. An indescribable harmonic rhythm pulsated from an 4 J.Cross/Artemis iridescent, glowing white and purple tr... ..., “you’ve got a full schedule today. By the way,” his voice rising slightly, “I should warn you that Cardinal Berini is on the warpath again. I hear... ...aid, removing his glasses and motioning him toward a chair next to his desk, “I want to talk to you.” The Pope’s usually robust and eager mood, to... ...f the most astute political observers he had ever known. Maybe, that’s why he married her. Maybe, that’s why he stilled loved her after twenty-five ... ... groaned. “You know you’re a real chauvinist, Alex.” “I know, that’s why you married me,” Alex said and grabbed her trying to kiss her neck. Marian... ...ucci if he wanted to be the new U.S. Drug Czar. Instead, “How do we stop this monster with tentacles all over the world?” Gallucci said, "I must co...

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A One man's quest for truth, freedom and pure spirituality in a world without.

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...Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as ...

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...              Pathological Narcissism – An Overview A Primer on Narcissism and the Nar cissistic ( ) Personality Disord... ...D The Narcissist's Entitlement of Routine – Pathological Narcissism A Dysfunction or a Blessing? The Narcissist's Confabulated Life T... ...uthless pursuit of one's gratification, dominance and ambition. As distinct from healthy narcissism which we all possess, pathological narcissism is... ... Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) to be rendered. [In the text below, I have proposed modifications to the language of these criteria to incor... ...and research regarding the Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) on which I based my proposed revisions.] Proposed Amended Criteria for the Narcis... ...ew circumstances and new demands. Being healthy, being successful, getting married, becoming a mother, or someone's boss – often entail abrupt brea... ...rmentor by becoming one with him (introjecting him) and by appealing to the monster's presumably dormant humanity and empathy. This bonding is espec... ...sist teams up with a cerebral one or vice versa. Narcissists can be happily married to submissive, subservient, self-deprecating, echoing, mirroring... ... are dumbfounded, shocked, inert, immobile. We play dead to avoid our inner monsters. We are ossified in our pain, cast in the mould of our reticenc...

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... Part I. ... ... A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND ... ...ives 11 * Fieldwork and the research group 15 * To the reader 18 I. A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND Environment of my life (interviews)... ...s 11 * Fieldwork and the research group 15 * To the reader 18 I. A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND Environment of my life (interviews) 20... ...ences in my life * Young people don't want to farm * Life is dying out from irrigation canals * Should we have more development Villages and... ...74 II. COMMUNITY CULTURE Being human (interviews) 6 How we were married * In the fire * We meet death together * The village in mour... ...ll, but two of them are dead, six sons and four daughters. All are already married. Two of them are policemen and they have studied in secondary scho... ...e consciousness industry; in the new cyberworld, animals are Donald Ducks, monsters in computer games, ever jolly animal clowns or scientific miracles... ...raditions of both Thailand and Finland, evil spirits have grown into scary monsters, rising to the height of the tallest tree. Also souls of the decea...

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... Narcissism Book of Quotes A SELECTION OF QUOTES FROM THE COLLECTIVE WISDOM OF OVER 12... ... Narcissism Book of Quotes A SELECTION OF QUOTES FROM THE COLLECTIVE WISDOM OF OVER 12,000 INDIVIDUAL DISCUS... ...N OF QUOTES FROM THE COLLECTIVE WISDOM OF OVER 12,000 INDIVIDUAL DISCUSSIONS "I was married to a Narcissist for 16 years. It's the closest... ...UOTES FROM THE COLLECTIVE WISDOM OF OVER 12,000 INDIVIDUAL DISCUSSIONS "I was married to a Narcissist for 16 years. It's the closest thing... ... THE COLLECTIVE WISDOM OF OVER 12,000 INDIVIDUAL DISCUSSIONS "I was married to a Narcissist for 16 years. It's the closest thing there is t... ... been inflicted upon them cannot be ignored. The Editors Acknowledgement I would like to express my appreciation to the hundreds of po... ...erving, frightening. His N rages used to burst forth several times a day. I found I was married to a total stranger, a Jekyll and Hyde who sometimes... ...reathtaking, suave narcissist. The glamour and trickery wear thin and underneath them a monster lurks which sucks the affect, distorts the cognition... ...st will do the rest for you. He is like a little child in the dark, generating the very monsters that paralyse him with fear. Needless to add that a...

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...              Pathological Narcissism – An Overview A Primer on Narcissism and the Narcissistic ( ) Personality Disorder N... ...D The Narcissist's Entitlement of Routine – Pathological Narcissism A Dysfunction or a Blessing? The Narcissist's Confabulated Life T... ...uthless pursuit of one's gratification, dominance and ambition. As distinct from healthy narcissism which we all possess, pathological narcissism is... ... Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) to be rendered. [In the text below, I have proposed modifications to the language of these criteria to incor... ...and research regarding the Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) on which I based my proposed revisions.] Proposed Amended Criteria for the Narcis... ...nd seeks to hurt or destroy the objects of his or her frustration. Suffers from persecutory (paranoid) delusions as he or she believes that they fe... ...er only once again, before he died in a car accident. Then, his mother re- married and Obama had to relocate to Indonesia: a foreign land with a ra... ... fails in its campaign to transform its citizens into mini-versions of this monster. Return Narcissistic And Psychopathic Leaders Celebrity Narciss... ...raid? Confused? Need HELP? DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! Had a Narcissistic Parent? Married to a Narcissist – or Divorcing One? Afraid your children will tur...

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...he most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish main and for centuries bi...

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...cts of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelau...

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...ul Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Vis... ...he Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVES OF BARBARISM AND THE CRUDE CORACLE TO THE CHRISTIANIZI... ...ILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND RECORDING A DESCRIPTIO... ...COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA, PA. ST. LOUIS, MO. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient C... ...lumbus' first voyage 59-66 CHAPTER IV. Early Navigators and Examples of their monster Vessel. -- A view from the plateau of the nineteenth century --... ...iac acts -- Reckless bravery of the Buccaneers -- Cromwell's defeat of Charles I -- The effect on the naval war with Spain -- English are driven from ... ...he most wonderful reports had been given by the returned crew. He had recently married a lady in Greenland, Gudrid by name, who is distinguished in hi... ...ms to have required. Thorfinn's courtship progressed so favorably that he soon married the fair widow, at whose solicitation he organized another expe... ...eoples that occupied them. CHAPTER IV. EARLY NAVIGATORS AND EXAMPLES OF THEIR MONSTER VESSELS. THOSE who have little familiarity with the gigantic ac...

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...nt distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun. His Christian name was Gabriel, and on working days he was a young man of sound judgement, easy motions, proper dress, and general good character. On Sundays he was a man of misty views...

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...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 two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded from this volume....

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...ore important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the frozen Obi approaches it in extent; that of La...

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... Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Documen... ...ania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publicati... ...nce six times, the British Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river basins of Western Europe are rudely shocked when we con ... ...gh of these examples of the mighty stream’s ec centricities for the present—I will give a few more of them further along in the book. Let us drop the... ...n by a white man, less than a quarter of a century had elapsed since Francis I.’s defeat at Pavia; the death of Raphael; the death of Bayard, sans peu... ... the blood. She was from Lexington, Kentucky. Name was Horton before she was married.” And so on, by the hour, the man’s tongue would go. He could not... ...Mississippi Mark T wain 264 Being ashamed, they lied, and said they were married; that they had been privately married. Then the old foreigner’s h... ... lovers, and as the young and the old danced about the car cass of the dead monster, the gallant warrior was presented with another plume, and ere an... ...e pa and Ka go ka could never for get their fearful encounter with the huge monster that came so near sending them to the happy hunting ground. It is...