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

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...e Archive – Click HERE! Philosophical Musings and Essays http://samvak.tripod.com/culture.html Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited http:/... ...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... ...tina (99), Chile (69), Colombia (77), Kenya (10), Nigeria (45), South Africa (101), Algeria (59), Egypt (78), Iraq (26), Jordan (10), Lebanon (19) a... ...rnardino de Sahagun (1499-1590), a Franciscan priest with deep interest in Mexican culture, described a ritual in honor of the Aztec gods of fisher... ...vote in national polls only in 1971 - long after Muslim women in Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Indonesia, for instance, were enfranchised. Britain ... ..., Prague and Skopje, 2000 Winner of numerous awards, among them Israel's Council of Culture and Art Prize for Maiden Prose (1997), The Rotary Club A...

Full Text Search Details
...e put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his heart the daring of a mosquito, which, though constantly brushed away from a man's skin, sti... ...ushed away from a man's skin, still insists on biting him for the pleasure of human blood." --The Iliad Homer Book I: P... ...ey, with their driver, went down Ramkhamhaeng Road singularly in the scope of their thoughts but conditioned into repudiating their aloneness. It was ... ... "Love," said the cartoon of the mosquito, "makes up the vernacular of pop culture. It is innate as a quest. It lances life's old festers granting a... ...he did not understand. What did she know beyond the kinetic rhythms of pop culture? It was in her blank stare. The word had not penetrated. He want... ...tity of these self-professed "Chosen people," and for having the dominant culture of individual freedoms that went contrary to their Islamic tyranny.... .... It is economic considerations that cause them to back the governments of Algeria and Egypt that they can influence even though those governments are...

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

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...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... ...e Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam... ...the United States, is often perceived as trying to impose its narcissistic pseudo-culture upon a world exhausted by wars hot and cold and corrupte... ...of brain with brawn (i.e., money or bombs), its legalistic-litigious character, its culture of instant gratification and one-dimensional over-simpl... ... foes, often one and the same. The global spread of American influence through its culture, political alliances, science and multinationals is mere... ...snia, Romania, Greece, Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Israel, Egypt, North Africa including Algeria, and most of the Arab Peninsula. It lasted 600 years. T... ... not generate sustained growth equal to the burgeoning population and labor force. Algeria's official unemployment rate is 26.4 percent, Oman's 17.... ...eteriorating crude prices may adversely affect oil-dependent countries from Iran to Algeria. The resulting social and political unrest - coupled wit...

Description Details
...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 ...

Full Text Search Details
...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast A... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ...9 2 Table of Contents THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING ........................................ ...ptive to customs. “The gains vary with the country. For example in Algeria the majority of lawyers and judges are women, yet in your US, coll... ...f losing their man. 35 “Arranged marriages are still common in cultures like the Muslim and Hindu. And even worse, suspected indiscretion... ...ipping boys‟, or should we say „whipping girls.‟ 36 “The Western culture and media are huge threats to the impoverished or unsuccessful male... ... and 19% in the U.S.” —“So the obstacles for women seem to vary from culture to culture. The glass ceiling seems to change only in its height f...

Description Details
...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 ...

Full Text Search Details
...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 .................................................... ...lty. Yes Commander.‖ ---―As we move from religion to religion and culture to culture throughout history, monotheists and polytheists think a... ... panentheistic. Yet the Cherokees were monotheistic. The Central American cultures of the Aztecs and Mayans seemed to be polytheistic. Obviously if ... ...r them. We find that evidence in the scriptures of the Indian and Persian cultures. A Jew, a Christian or a Muslim would immediately dismiss their r... ...from a God-based viewpoint —―We also see Moslems killing Moslems in Algeria and Iraq and occasionally in Palestine. Some killing is said to be...

Full Text Search Details
... 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... ...ide.html ISBN: 9989-929-27-0 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA 100 articles and essays (microeconomics ... ...pod.com/internet.html http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Table of Contents I. Battling Unemployment II. The Labour Divide - I. Emp... ...sion critical skills”, geographical position and proximity to markets and culture and mentality. Q: Women start one-third of new businesses in the ... ...tor was almost unaffected !!! Even in sectors such as education, science, culture and information and healthcare and social services, the effects we... ...struction bonanza, financed by the billionaire-turned-politician, Hariri. Algeria's unemployed easily amount to half the work force - yet, the publi... .... Entrepreneurship is a national state of mind, a vestige of the dominant culture, an ethos. While in Europe bankruptcy is a suicide-inducing disgra...

Full Text Search Details
... Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through lia... ... channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Was... ...40-3344 Tel: (202) 373-3869 or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State INR/IC/CD Room 8646 ... ... Contents Page Notes, Definitions, and Abbreviations ix Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Aruba 11 Au... ...1985) Communists: 147,000 party members (November 1986); 4.9% of population Algeria Member of: CEMA, FAO, IAEA, IPU, ITU, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WFTU, WHO,... ...23,460,614 (July 1987), aver- age annual growth rate 3.10% Nationality: noun Algerian(s); adjec- tive Algerian Algeria (continued) Ethnic divisions: ... ...force: 1.66 million (1980); 732,806 (1980) in salaried employment; 54% agri- culture, 25% government, 9% industry and commerce, 8% services Government... ...men 59.5, women 65.1 Literacy: 82% Labor force: 26 million (1984); 73% agri- culture, 11% industry and commerce, 10% services, 6% government; 8% unemp... ...n 53.3, women 56.8 Literacy: 45-55% Labor force: 1,985,000 (1985); 78% agri- culture; 18% mining, manufacturing, construction; 4% transport and servic...

Description Details
...Paradoxism is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive use of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, parables, odds, paradoxes in creations. It was set up by the editor since 1980’s and promulgates a counter-time/ counter-sense creation. Paradoxism started as an anti-totalitarian pr...

Full Text Search Details
...rde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive use of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, parables, odds, paradoxes in... ...sm started as an anti-totalitarian protest against a closed society, Romania of 1980’s. Why was the movement based on contradictions? Because we li... ...losophical, or scientific terms, new procedures, methods, or even algorithms of creation. Paradoxism naturally arises and manifests. It is in folkl... ...u shanset me te shumta jane per te humbur monetarisht... 10 NADIA IDRI (Algeria) 11 12 П. O. (Australia) SMARANDACHE 1 1111111111... ... français. Et dans celles-ci, l’auteur cite des textes exemplaires pour leur culture de contradictions, antinomies, antithèses, anti-phrases, antago... ...tually informed and temperamentally predisposed), the playsome (as an act of culture, cf. Huizinga), according the formula of a calculation of proba... ...e the paradoxists”. “The popular wisdom – he said –, but also a part of the cultured creation, fits perfectly the classic paradoxist stencil”. We d... ............. ALBANIA Irma Spaho …………………………………........................... ALGERIA Nadia Idri ……………..……………………………………. AUSTRALIA П. O. …………...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democra...

Table of Contents Details
...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

Full Text Search Details
...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ... of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, De... ... of followers and some degree of approval from millions more? The history, culture, and body of beliefs from which Bin Ladin has shaped and spread his... ...onvert to Islam, and end the immorality and godlessness of its society and culture:“It is saddening to tell you that you are the worst civ- ilization ... ...ls led most independence movements, and clerical influence and traditional culture were seen as obstacles to national progress. After gaining independ... ...m world, but failed to secure political power except in Iran and Sudan. In Algeria, where in 1991 Islamists seemed almost certain to win power through... ...e enlisted groups from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jor- dan, Lebanon, Iraq, Oman, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Somalia, and Eritrea.Al Qaeda also establ... ...ied Islamist groups were focused on local battles, such as those in Egypt, Algeria, Bosnia, or Chechnya, Bin Ladin concentrated on attacking the “far ...

Excerpt Details
...my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

Full Text Search Details
...tion The Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...mmings”—he saluted me in modulated and cour- teous accents of indisputable culture, gracefully extending his pale hand. “I have heard a great deal abo... ... extracting his tired-looking hands from his tired-looking trousers with a cultured gesture. “Fine young fellow painted that. I knew him. Disciple of ... ... a son of the Lord Mayor of London by the Queen, that he had lost a leg in Algeria, and that the French were cochons. All of which assertions being du...

Table of Contents Details
....................................................................................................................... 212 CHAPTER XV: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ................................................................. 243 CHAPTER XVI: BOSTON..................................................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ifferent instincts, different appetites, different morals, and a different culture. It is well for one man to say that slavery has caused the separati... ...with them their own language or their own laws. The French have done so in Algeria, in some of the West India islands, and quite as essentially into L... ...y, nor ragged, nor rough. They have about them no signs of want, or of low culture. Many of us also know the appearance of those girls who work in the...

Excerpt Details
...their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish in the critical state of chest left by measles.?...

Full Text Search Details
...gnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... “that your children are at their present growth in the Elizabethan age of culture—” But again began a “Well, but papa!” but, he exclaimed, “Do look a... ... school. No school would give all three that kind of—what shall I call it?—culture, and intelligence, that they all have; besides, the little one has ... ...ition would you like?” cried Jock. “Y ou could take that rifle you got for Algeria, and make the Magyars open their eyes. Seriously, Allen, it is the ... ...ous, but selfish, extravagant, and heedless of all but ease, pleasure, and culture. Some of the enervation of his youth had really worn off, though it...