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...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ...ighest abortion rates in the world at 51 per 1,000 women of child bearing age. Why are they saying one thing while doing something different? Why do... ...minable for the Nazis to kill innocent Jews, but it is acceptable for the Israelis to kill innocent Palestinians or Lebanese. Hitler rationalized th... ...out God all things are lawful.‘‖ --―Those ideas are based on the age-old idea that God is the only source of morality. But if we look back ... ...c events. So do hydrogen and oxygen make water? We haven‘t found sulfur or iron making water. So in science we narrow down the area of study, while t... ...e room was filled with hundreds of torture instruments like thumb screws, iron masks, a rack, and metal spikes that would be forced under the finger ... ...ger wants a better car. And the oil company executives want more drilling sites and bigger bonuses. Homeless, or multi-millionaire, we all want more ... ...xing it as it is sold in the form of books, magazines, films and internet sites. The U.S. market is now estimated at over ten billion dollars. So its...

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...s reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write... ... or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vakni... ... the Fallacy of Labour Scarcity IX. The Morality of Child Labor X. The Iron Union - A Profile of IG Metall XI. The Demise of the Work Ethic XI... ... should be limited in time. In Bulgaria, they are limited to 13 weeks, in Israel, Hungary, Italy and the Netherlands to 6 months and in France, Germ... ...ext chapter). It needs to be reformed. I propose a scaled minimum wage, age-related and means tested and also connected to skills. In other wo... ...d to skills. In other words, the minimum wage should vary according to age, other (non- wage) income and skills. Administrative Measures: Early... ...orm as well. In Britain, trade unions put technology to good use. The Web sites of the TUC's member unions provide online membership application for... ...cing their members, whether they be teachers or postal workers." But Web sites are insufficient weapons against the twin tsunamis of technological ... ...tate, employee representation on the board of directors and so on. It is ironic, though, that the ostensible triumph of capitalism resulted in the ...

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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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...ts reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – writ... ... A Medium or a Message? http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html ... ...eb advertising. Geocities - a community of free hosted, ad-supported, Web sites purchased by Yahoo! - is now selectively shutting down Web sites (wh... ... (the content creators) for their services. This is especially true in an age of just-in-time inventory and digital distribution. Network effects me... ...n e-book. Consider what this simple business model does to entrenched and age old notions such as "original" and "copies", copyright, and book iden... ... midlist authors). It now aims to feed its content to content-starved web sites. In the process, it shed thousands of unfortunate authors who did no... ...lopment is routinely farmed out to aspiring first world countries such as Israel and Ireland. But OverDrive's Jamaican facility is an example of som... ...m romance to scholarly journals - is a thing of the past. In a way, it is ironic. Publishing, in its earliest forms, was a revolt against the writin... ...s bitterly resisted by Luddite printers and publishers: stereotyping, the iron press, the application of steam power, mechanical typecasting and typ...

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...first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

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...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

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... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ... the hidden history of information technologies that preceded the present Age of Cyberspace. My most surprising discovery was that the wedding of ... ...st seashore, its people probably had no idea that melting of the last ice age had been lifting sea levels very gradually for several thousand years.... ...1011–931 BC). Their homeland lay along the coastal regions known today as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian Territories. The Greeks na... ...cal prophets who so freely attacked established practices?) It‘s quite ironic, however, that:  The alphabet‘s rigid logic helped hide the danger... ...machines which then would be disassembled and carried by horses to battle sites where they could be swiftly reassembled. Silk Road gift kept on giv... ...r fans, porcelain bowls, robes embroidered with silver and golden thread, iron kettles, brass pots, and carved saddles. The Mongols established a... ... Astronomers fixed star charts and cartographers fixed maps of geographic sites far more precisely with engravings than had been possible before pri...

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...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a ...

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...t Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ... the hidden history of information technologies that preceded the present Age of Cyberspace. My most surprising discovery was that the wedding of i... ...st seashore, its people probably had no idea that melting of the last ice age had been lifting sea levels very gradually for several thousand years.... ...1011–931 BC). Their homeland lay along the coastal regions known today as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian Territories. The Greeks name... ...lical prophets who so freely attacked established practices?) It‘s quite ironic, however, that:  The alphabet‘s rigid logic helped hide the danger... ...machines which then would be disassembled and carried by horses to battle sites where they could be swiftly reassembled. Silk Road gift kept on giv... ...r fans, porcelain bowls, robes embroidered with silver and golden thread, iron kettles, brass pots, and carved saddles. The Mongols established a s... ... Astronomers fixed star charts and cartographers fixed maps of geographic sites far more precisely with engravings than had been possible before pri...

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Psychopathology as the outcome of problems in early childhood development.

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... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... Disorders The Genetic Roots of Personality Disorders Defense Mechanisms B. Topics in Developmental Psychology The Narcissistic Parent The Narcis... ...ailroad bed, he packed powdered explosives into a hole in the ground, using tamping iron. The powder heated and blew in his face. The tamping iron r... ...f hitherto unprecedented adult approbation - can be traumatic. The phallic stage (age 3 to 6 years) involves the discovery of the penis and clitor... ...t-love coexist and interact throughout life. True, they wear different guises with age and maturation – but they always cohabitate. Kohut: "It i... ...ew seems to optimize the species and increase its resilience and efficiency. It is ironic to realize that homosexuality and other forms of non-repr... ... T H O R Shmuel (Sam) Vaknin Curriculum Vitae Born in 1961 in Qiryat-Yam, Israel. Served in the Israeli Defence Force (1979-1982) in train... ...s International (UPI). Web and Journalistic Activities Author of extensive Web sites in: – Psychology ("Malignant Self Love") – An Open Directo... ... Write to Me: palma@unet.com.mk narcissisticabuse-owner@yahoogroups.com My Web Sites: Economy/Politics: http://ceeandbalkan.tripod.com/ Psych...

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...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 terrorism....

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...abulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace The Narcissist in the Workplace Narcissism in the... ...Mourning the Narcissist The Inverted Narcissist Torture, Abuse, and Trauma – In Fiction and Poetry Nothing is Happening at Home Night Terror A Dream C... ...ple he or she considers inferior to him or her and unworthy. Prevalence and Age and Gender Features According to the DSM-IV-TR, between 2% and 16% of... ...e of entitlement. I am but a mediocre and forgettable scribbler who, at the age of 39, is a colossal under-achiever, if anything. Of course, the fee... ... I get dressed and brush my teeth. I stare at my feet that are the shape of irons and conceal them, standing on one naked foot and then another, ent... ... overlooking them all but don't take my socks off not to show my feet like irons and I hope not to wet the sheets in front of everyone, anything bu... ... THE AUTHOR Shmuel (Sam) Vaknin Curriculum Vitae Born in 1961 in Qiryat-Yam, Israel. Served in the Israeli Defence Force (1979-1982) in training and ... ... healthcare reforms Web and Journalistic Activities Author of extensive Web sites in: – Psychology ("Malignant Self Love") - An Open Directory Cool ... ...rite to Me: palma@unet.com.mk narcissisticabuse-owner@yahoogroups.com My Web Sites: Economy/Politics: http://ceeandbalkan.tripod.com/ Psychology: http...

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... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...das and Croesus Pg 1401 Progress and Retrogression Pg 1400 The Information Age Pg 1404 The Cunning of Evil Pg 1408 In Conclusion Pg 1432 The ... ...ing to ask the question of what preceded the Big Bang. It is only in our new Age of Information where many sources of knowledge from many differen... ...n…. Why does the process of Fission within simple Stars end just short of Iron? Iron has an atomic weight of 26: not 24. The atomic weight ... ...ther example is the steel guitar. It is tuned harmonically. You can slide an iron bar anywhere: and it will still sound beautifully harmonic, all o... ...ecame the lowest scavengers in the Serengeti Plains, who crept to the killing sites and did their butchery of animals they had not killed themselves ... ... selectively biased towards the dumbest, clumsiest idiots who left these dump sites. Oops... let’s not talk about that The creation of the first... ...such as the treaty of Versailles after the 1 st World War? Or Palestine and Israel? Or the destruction of all tribal boundaries in colonized Afri...

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...considerably to his amusement, he finds that his sketch of official life, introductory to THE SCARLET LETTER, has created an unprecedented excitement in the respectable community immediately around him. It could hardly have been more violent, indeed, had he burned down the Custom House, and quenched its last smoking ember in the blood of a certain venerable personage, agai...

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... A FOREST WALK, 124 -- 17 THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER, 129 -- 18 A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE, 136 -- 19 THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE, 141 -- 20 THE MINISTER IN A MAZE, 147 -- 21 THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY, 155 -- 22 THE PROCESSION, 162 -- 23 THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER, 170 -- 24 CONCLUSION, 177...

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...The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PU... ...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...rony is to de- cide, what is to be done with the fact that the reli- gious age par excellence would seem to be old age, when the uproar of the sexual ... ... an hereditary de- generate. George Fox’s discontent with the shams of his age, and his pining for spiritual veracity, it treats as a symptom of a dis... ...up, ac- cording to the hour, to confidence, to skepticism, to optimism, to irony and we may be sure that at cer- tain moments at least we shall be wit... ... Eter- nal to be virtuous but we have the right to add to this tribute our irony as a sort of personal reprisal. In this way we return to the right qu... ...ense of alienation and distance from God which had grown upon the pious in Israel just in proportion as they had learned to look upon Him as no mere n... ...Him as no mere national divinity, but as a God of justice who would punish Israel for its sin as certainly as Edom or Moab, is de- clared to be no lon... ...tliness has to face the charge of preserving the unfit, and breeding para- sites and beggars. “Resist not evil,” “Love your en- emies,” these are sain...

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... one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the ?philosophy of human affairs;? but more frequently Political or Social Science. In the two works taken together we have their author?s whole theory of human conduct or practical activity, that is, of all huma...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Ethics of Aristotle trans. J. A. Smith, the Pennsylvania St... ... important merely as summing up the moral judgments and speculations of an age now long past. It seizes and dwells upon those elements and features in... ... of the various types of moral excellence which the Greeks of the author’s age admired and strove to encourage. The discussion is full of acute, inter... ...larity of some sort; and to this kind belong all the aforementioned requi- sites in the parties themselves, because in this the parties are similar, a... ...ive of action. When the man “drew a bow at a venture and smote the King of Israel between the joints of the harnesss” (i Kings xxii 34) he did it [Gre... ...sss” (i Kings xxii 34) he did it [Greek: eneka ton apdkteinai] the King of Israel, in the primary sense of [Greek: eneka] that is to say, the King’s d... ...he Inductive Faculty. We will take Aldrich’s instance. All Magnets attract iron \ A B C are Magnets | Presupposed Syllogism reasoning A B C attract ir... ...Syllogism reasoning A B C attract iron. / from an universal. A B C attract iron (Matter of observation and experiment) All Magnets are A B C (Assumed ...

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... a Homeland 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 Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...

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...harge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Thomas ... ...nd of the nineteenth century any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? If not, I will describe it. If on... ...ifices! Open still remaineth the earth for great souls. Empty are still many sites for lone ones and twain ones, around which floateth the odour of tr... ...merely evil; woman, however, is mean. Whom hateth woman most?—Thus spake the iron to the loadstone: “I hate thee most, because thou attractest, but ar... ...oo early; he himself would have disavowed his doctrine had he attained to my age! Noble enough was he to disavow! But he was still immature. Immaturel... ...ism, Agnosticism, and the like. The God of a strong, warlike race—the God of Israel—is a jealous, revengeful God. He is a power that can be pic- 325 ... ... disagreed en- tirely with Renan’s view, that Christ was “le grand maitre en ironie”; in Aphorism 31 of “The Antichrist”, he says that he (Nietzsche) ...