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...s an opening summary page in all major regional languages (English, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, Burmese, Filipino, Khmer, Lao, Thai Vietnamese and Chinese. Beginning with the common origins of Southeast Asia’s peoples and languages, their shared heritage is emphasized through agricultural, archeological, cultural, geographical, historical, linguistic, religious a...

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...viii Author’s Note xix Chapters 1. One Common Region 1 2. Defining Southeast Asia 7 3. From Trade to Civilization 17 4. Commercial and Technology 25 5. Adapting to New Overlords 33 6. Rice and Culture 39 7. United by Commerce 45 8. 18th Century Consolidation 53 9. British-led Resurgence 57 10. Transition to 20th Century 63 11. Pendulum of Comme...

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...Narcissistic and psychopathic leaders come in all shapes and degrees of virulence. Learn to recognize them in various settings (the workplace, religion, politics) and to cope with the toxic fallout of their "leadership"....

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...In the political interpretation of Islam, politics assumes the central place. Every aspect of religion acquires a political hue. The true believer’s mission in life, according to this interpretation, is to ensure that just as God’s natural laws are followed throughou...

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...’s be honest. No other parenting books even try to show you how to make your son or daughter a great American. We do. Thirty-two (32) great men and women from across many professions, genders, politics, religions, and walks of life—the products of extraordinary parenting and mentoring. This book offers the exact techniques, words, phrases, mantras —to propel your...

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...Let’s be honest. No other parenting books even try to show you how to make your son or daughter a great American. We do. Thirty (30) great men and women from across many professions, genders, politics, religions, and walks of life—the products of extraordinary parenting and mentoring. This book offers the exact techniques, words, phrases, mantras —to propel you...

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...Let’s be honest. No other parenting books even try to show you how to make your son or daughter a great American. We do. Thirty (30) great men and women from across many professions, genders, politics, religions, and walks of life—the products of extraordinary parenting and mentoring. This book offers the exact techniques, words, phrases, mantras —to propel you...

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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 CONCEPTS OF GOD 45 3 WHAT IS GOD LIKE? 46 THEISM 49 PROOFS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF...

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...a-- Book 6 Our Psychological Motivations 1 “. . . AND GU... ...N--OUR REASONS FOR DOING ........................................................................................................... 10 FREUD--AND TH... ........................................................................................................................ 17 Combinations of Needs and Dr... .... 51 POWER, SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ABUSE IN SPORT ............................................................................... 53 POWER AND RELIGI... ................................................................................................... 54 POWER THRU SOCIAL TRADITIONS SANCTIFIED BY RELIGI... ... POWER THRU SOCIAL TRADITIONS SANCTIFIED BY RELIGIONS................................................................... 56 GAINING POWER THRU RELIGI... ...iful women half his age? His retort was that ‗power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.‘ So I guess its true from mice to men. Get your power through politi... ...t expensive birthday parties, weddings, bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs, and sweet 16 parties. Wealth is so often thought of as power, We see it in politi... ...violent conquerors subdue by showing love and calling for justice. Just the exact opposite of those using power to subdue others in business, politi...

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...ately.” Humayun Kabir (at the inaugural of IIT Madras, 1959). This essay seeks to highlight segregation as the keynote of traditional Indian life and caste as the key to the evolution of segregation. Caste in India could, over the centuries, unfold a truly pluralist polity, though each caste in itself was quite monolithic. The coexistence without coalescence of numerou...

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...“Contraries of belief and diversities of religion…are in fact part of the scheme of Providence; for as a painter gives beauty to a picture by a variety of colours, or as a gardener embellishes his garden with flowers of every hue, so God has appoi...

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...Foreword Summary I. The Methodological Bug II. Indian Unipluralism: Introductory III. Hinduism and Buddhist Protestantism IV. The Impersonal Individual V. Hindutva: A Theological Figment VI. Nature of Caste Pluralism VII. Royal Government and Caste Plurarchy Afterword Notes...

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...er than attaining them peacefully. The units on which we focus have been traditionally identified as states, but we recognize that a host of new sub- and suprastate actors also will play major roles in such wars; hence, we also will allude to them....

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...DISCLAIMER...............................................ii PREFACE....................................................vi HISTORY, CULTURE, AND CHANGE: FOUNDATIONS OF CONFLICTS AND WARS......1 RELIGION-A BANNER FOR TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CONFLICT............................19 NATIONAL FRAGMENTATION, ETHNICITY, AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER............................32...

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...The long-awaited third edition of the Atlas of Hawai'i is entirely revised in content and design. It is divided into six sections, five of which are abundantly illustrated. The first contains detailed reference maps with place names for towns, mountains, bays, harbors, and other features; geographical descript...

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...Eo e ku'u lei mokupuni o na kai 'ewalu- I call to you, acknowledge O my lei islands of the eight seas. Located between 19 and 22 degrees north latitude, Hawai'i is the southernmost state in the United States and has the same general latitude as Hong Kong and Mexico City. It is situated almost in the center of the Pacific Ocean and is one of the ...

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...Preface -- ix -- Acknowledgments -- xi -- Introduction -- xiii -- Kaua'i and Ni'ihau -- 3 -- O'ahu -- 7 -- Moloka'i and Lana'i -- 11 -- Maui -- 14 -- Hawai'i -- 17 -- Northwestern Hawaiian Islands -- 23 -- Hawaiian Place Names -- 26 -- Mapping and Geodesy -- 29 -- Geology -- 37 -- Geothermal Resou...

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...eorge Orwell selected certain features of his society as a basic skeleton, then fleshed political fiction over the bones. Many parallels between 1984 and the modern world have long been recognized. In Orwell's Warning: The Greatest Amerikan Paradox, Erik Blaire compares these features to the paradoxes of American politics, violence, and religion. Finding they are inseparab...

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..."In our age there is no such thing as “keeping out of politics.” All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia." —George Orwell, Politics and the English Language (1946) Imagine, if you would, an average A...

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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 some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyss...

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... - “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR V... .................................................... 8 COMPARISON WITH INDIA AND BANGLADESH ............................................................... ...H ............................................................ 10 ECONOMY AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS........................................................... ...N EXPANDING ECONOMY .................................................. 20 POLITICS OF THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES ............................................ ......................................................................... 21 POLITICS OF POPULATION IN A DEMOCRACY ........................................ ......................................................................... 38 RELIGION AND POPULATION REDUCTION ............................................ ............................................................... 38 THE HINDU RELIGION AND POPULATION CONTROL .............................................. ..................................................................... 74 THE POLITICS OF DEVELOPING A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY ................................. ..., you are a neighbor to India on the sub-continent. You share their major religion. But your economic status is far behind India‘s. How do you see y...

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...Let's be honest. No other parenting books even try to show you how to make your son or daughter a great American. We do. Thirty-one (31) great men and women from across many professions, genders, politics, religions, and walks of life--the products of extraordinary parenting and mentoring. This book offers the exact techniques, words, phrases, mantras --to propel your o...

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...arents, had it — when we were growing up. That is the worst mantra of parents! Spoiling your kids is the worst curse you can bestow upon your kids and yourself. It will come back to haunt you. Over and over and over. And then it will be too late. An old adage. Well, maybe we’ve grown up a little and are now more accomplished at avoiding corporeal punishment, except in ...

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............... 11 Parenting has changed? .................................................................................... 11 Mantras are the past and the future .................................................................. 12 About the Author ....................................................................................................... 15 VOLUME I–THE A...

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...K.R.Narayanan was a lauded hero and a distinguished victim of his Dalit background. Even in an international platform when he was on an official visit to Paris, the media headlines blazed, ‘An Untouchable at Elysee’. He was visibly upset and it proved that ...

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...amy e-mail: dr.k.kandasamy@gamil.com Translation of the speeches and writings of Periyar from Tamil by Meena Kandasamy ... ...//wwwlib.umi.com/bod/search/basic Peer reviewers: Dr. Larissa Borissova and Dmitri Rabounski, Sirenevi boulevard 69-1-65, Moscow 105484, Russi... ... Copyright 2005 by Hexis, W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy, Florentin Smarandache and K. Kandasamy Cover Design and Layout by Kama Kandasamy ... ...ZY AND NEUTROSOPHIC ANALYSIS 2.1 Analysis of untouchability due to Hindu religion using FCMs and NCMs 43 2.2 Analysis of discrimination faced b... ... of the caste system. For six decades, he powerfully influenced the course of politics in the South- Indian state of Tamil Nadu. His ideology and str... ...sis of untouchability. 43 2.1 Analysis of untouchability due to Hindu religion using FCMs and NCMs We proceed on to categorize untouchabi... ...and NCMs We proceed on to categorize untouchability practiced due to Hindu religion. Nodes related to religious untouchability, as given by an ex... ... wiped off. The undue influence of religion, and particularly communalism in politics has been one of the factors that established caste as the pri... ...ics has been one of the factors that established caste as the prime player in politics. This expert also suggested communal representation, as an ...

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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 some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyss...

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...of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human... ............................................... 14 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING ............... 24 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS -- T... ............................................................... 73 PANTHEISM AND PANENTHEISM .............................................................. ......................................................... 245 OFFICIAL STATE RELIGION ..................................................................... ...e world through our own eyes—our own points of view. Whether based on our religion, the tradition of our society, our independent thinking or our sel... ...eaten them. Someone else had a different color skin, followed a different religion, was a homosexual, or wore a different identifying gang color—all ... ...s true! ―When we have been admonished to not argue about religion or politics it is sound advice because we would be arguing about assumptions ... ...tart with religious interests, with the dominant religion controlling the politics, or with poorer lower social class majorities wanting to bring dow... ... brain tumor, but we know all about sports and national and international politics. 213 --―What we need to know is how did you come to y...

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... Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down Return to Earth “. . . And Gulliver Returns” 2 --In Search of Utopia— ... ...iver Returns” 2 --In Search of Utopia— “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 1 TOU... ............................................................. 11 FROM THE PAST AND INTO THE FUTURE ........................................................ ... population with space age communication, a global economy, and a myriad of religions and philosophies that divide our human brotherhood into millio... ...philosophers and saints who have preceded us. “But I want to see how religions that are often violently competitive live in peace when I visi... ...women than men in college and the right for women to succeed in business and politics. The politically correct idea that Jews and Asians should be ke... ...stems can be made more user friendly. Obviously today not everyone looks to religion for their values. Religions can give us a certainty that we all... ...at methods would be available? Con?” —“We would be looking at politics there! Politics is the ‘science of the possible’ is what my old...

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... Virgin Mary had more lines but I had the better costume.' After the Christmas play was announced, I had been dreaming all autumn of the Virgin Mary and the essence of femininity that I knew the role possessed if I could only get it. No longer would I have to pull on pants, hide my hair, swagger around with plastic swords or sit in a chair uttering the mild regrets of mi...

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...oles were handed out, I was stunned. The lead went to a class mate who had never shown a special interest in the theatre. I looked at her. She smiled and acknowledged the privilege, her blonde hair shimmering in the late morning winter sunlight that fell through the class room windows. Was it my hair? Then I looked around in the room and at all the other girls who had bee...

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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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... And Freedom Fighters 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freedom Fighters II. Macedonia to the Macedonians III. The ... ... Fighters II. Macedonia to the Macedonians III. The Black Hand IV. The Insurgents and the Swastika V. KLA – The Army of Liberation VI. Appendix: ... ...nsider the prospects for a reform solution to Balkan problems. First, revolutionary politics was not the foremost issue for the Christian population... ... after the First World War (1918). It was then that disillusionment with Big Power politics replaced the naive trust in the inevitable triumph of a... ...Albanian President Sali Berisha "They were terrorists in 1998 and now, because of politics, they're freedom fighters" Jerry Seper, quoting an ano... ... paranoia and siege mentality. Milosevic, visibly ill at ease, surfed this tide of religion-tinged nationalism straight into Kosovo, the historical... ...alism against utopian regionalism, fascism (really, opportunism) versus liberalism, religion- tinted traditionalism (the local moribund edition of c... ...lar opinion it was not a religious entity. The ruling elite included members of all religions. Thus, one could find Christian "askeri " (military or...

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...t should be mentioned that Descartes – the founder of modern rationalism – issued the thesis of ?the right of rationality to re-examine all knowledge and to accept as truth only what appears as obvious in itself, through the angle of reason?. The Cartesian thesis has a testimonial deed in the Socratic assertion on ?the identity between the moral and the rational?....

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...GH. C. DINULESCU–CÂMPINA MODELLING OF RATIONALITY … … … … AND BEYOND THE PHYSICS sup(T)+sup(I)+sup(F) [ 3 + sup(T)+sup(I)... ... 2 GH. C. DINULESCU–CÂMPINA MODELLING OF RATIONALITY … … … … AND BEYOND THE PHYSICS ... ... 3 This book can be ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb ... ...ious conceptions turns out not to be divergent, suggesting that all major religions are concordant logical constructions, inspired by the same divin... ...e same divine sirit, regardless of the name the latter assumes within each religion. It is likely that the presentation of the MESER concept creates ... ...instated. As regards the issue of the incompatibility between science and religion, that should also be reconsidered since, according to the brllian... ...ish the permanent confrontation, the determent by force (such as the right politics) but also the fetish of the futile intervention to reverse a cata...

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...outheast Asia 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SIN... ......................................................... 30 FEMALE EQUALITY AND ECONOMIC USEFULNESS ...................................................... ...NESS ....................................................... 30 TRADITION AND MALE POWER ............................................................... ......................................................................... 68 POLITICS OF OVERPOPULATED COUNTRIES .......................................... ...ren. It seems that for a many people the joys and challenges of business, politics, and the professions are often greater than the joys and challeng... ...rica and Asia, your country is busy antagonizing one of the world‟s major religions. We look to survive and prosper. Is that wrong Commander? ... ...ighly religious people, particularly those who believe they have the true religion and will try to convert our citizens or who will agitate to make ... ...ese values, have been called upon—just as your country‟s leaders bring up religion to make their points. But we don‟t accept the ancient values that ... ...n than men in college, the glass ceiling is being penetrated in business, politics and in academia. Eventual motherhood was an anchor that held down ...