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The Malignan Self Love : Narcissism Revisited

By: Sam Vaknin

...thing or to someone – we get used to ourselves. In the object of the habit we see a part of our history, all the time and effort we had put into it.... ...escence). Our character is the set of all acquired characteristics we posses, often judged in a cultural-social context. Sometimes the interplay of... ...social edicts and mores does not guarantee normalcy. Think about anomic societies and periods of history such as Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Russia... ...ant) – is "mended" when rendered functional again by the prevailing standards of his social and cultural frame of reference. In a way, the three sc... ...l. But it does not constitute insanity in the strictest sense because it conforms to social and cultural creeds and codes of conduct in her milieu.... ...er impaired. It would seem that sanity and insanity are relative terms, dependent on frames of cultural and social reference, and statistically de... ...he Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), but studies did not demonstrate any ethnic, social, cultural, economic, genetic, or professional predil... ...-dystonic). Others confine their lack of self-love to certain of their traits, to their personal history, or to some of their behaviour patterns. Ye... ...riences of the individuals it is comprised of, the stronger the bonds of locale, language, and history – the more rigorous might an assertion of a ...

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The Open Book

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...nge the consequence that stems from it, here in this world. Throughout the history of mankind, providence has compelled man to study the world around... ...alah. It can never be used in order to inflict harm, and throughout human history there is not a single testimony of such an act. The leaders of the... ...h the Creator, or fear from his officers and armies. The entire religious history of mankind testifies to man’s inability to keep, or demand from oth... ...xperience that mankind has accumulated, in addition to the scientific and cultural achievements. This human recall goes from generation to generation... ...mpletely like beasts, because that society is on a spiritual decline. The history of our people constantly proves the efficiency of the constant sea...

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Memoirs of Prof Zeki Velidi Togan : National Existence and Cultural Struggles of Turkistan and Other Muslim Eastern Turks

By: Ph.D. HB Paksoy, Translator
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Vaccine Peer Review : 1915-2015, The History of the Global Vaccination Program in 1000 Peer Reviewed Reports and Studies 1915-2015

By: Jeffrey J. Prager

...The history of the global vaccination program in 1000+ peer reviewed reports and studies chronologically ordered and chaptered providing the reader with an understanding of disease outbreak, vaccine efficacy, the historic develop...

...public from unsafe drugs. The authorization of user fees in 1992 has turned drug companies into the FDA’s prime clients, deepening the regulatory and cultural capture of the agency. Industry has demanded shorter average review times and, with less time to thoroughly review evidence, increased hospitalizations and deaths have resulted. Meeting the needs of the drug companie...

... Table of Contents 1. Manufacturing Biologics Thimerosal • Mercury 2. Alum • Aluminum Salts 3. The HPV Vaccine 4. Vaccination History 1915 - 2015 5. Short Essays On Vaccination ...

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March of the Evil Empires : English versus the Feudal Languages

By: VED from Victoria Institutions

...This is a book containing a revolutionary idea about understanding society, human behaviour, history, anthropological features and many other aspects of human beings. The basic understanding that is being put forward is that languages, which are the software for human communication, are powerful media, which not only...

...hat is in the offing for the USA as feudal languages enter inside the social system: QUOTE: Yet the continuous and incessant bombardment of alien cultural ideology embedded in feudal languages, could create experiences, which are not English and will lead USA to social tensions. Though the extreme emotional disturbances, it causes would be understood as racial feelings...

...tic culture Hierarchy inside the bureaucracy The avoidable disasters An earthquake The guilds The common courtesies in English A quotation from History Effect of abstinence Political control on Bureaucracy Hierarchy from the other end The report dt. dec 26 2003. Making of laws and rules Megalomania Schizophrenia The international dealings Chapter 10 ...

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The World in Kaleidoscopic Hues : January 2015 Issue, Volume 2

By: Ved from Victoria Institutions, Compiler

...planar language code features of English. The overall aim of this digital magazine is to look at indoctrinated understandings on Kerala social and cultural history, English rule in the subcontinent, the different perspective on the purported theme of Indian freedom struggle and much else. Beyond all this, there will be a vibrant discussion on the issue of how language c...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... heads of his constitutional advisers. "The last time when this happened in English history was when Charles I raised His Standard at the beginning ... ...s Systems. http://www.roserpark.net/greenwood/strowger.html http://www.strowger.com/history.html http://www.agcs.com B Barbie Barbie was invented ... ... Berliner". http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa021700a.htm http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/berliner.htm Bible The Jews do not... ... Moreover, Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of an illustrious figure in Burmese history, a national hero - Aung San, who was murdered in 1947. ... ...have regained power in all formerly Confederate states. http://dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Region/North_America/United_ States/Wars/Civil_War/ ... ...he womb. Hysteria is, indeed, more common among women - probably due to social and cultural expectations and conventions as to how a woman should a... ... before the flames were subdued." This was the second fire to have devastated this cultural depository. On August 24, 1814, the Library's core co... ...h regarding narcissism. But what there is has not demonstrated any ethnic, social, cultural, economic, genetic, or professional predilection to NPD...

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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

... piece of raw life that they are watching. But moviegoers throughout Hollywood's history have willingly and insatiably participated in numerous "... ...mulated prisons. They obeyed orders. So did all the hideous genocidal criminals in history. The Director Weir asks: should God be allowed to be imm... ...ikson) and he constantly evolves in accordance with his innate nature (Jung), past history (Adler), drives (Freud), cultural milieu (Horney), upbri... ... in accordance with his innate nature (Jung), past history (Adler), drives (Freud), cultural milieu (Horney), upbringing (Klein, Winnicott), needs (... ...aking up in a strange place, not knowing who we are. Without a continuous personal history - we are not. It is what binds our various bodies, state... ...ave rise to entire industries (petrochemicals and automotive, to mention but two). History will repeat itself: the next major source of energy is v... ..., as we demonstrated in the previous chapter, even adult human beings from the same cultural background are as aliens to one another. Language is an...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... Sang Huin lost the address book and key chain from the souvenir shop at the history museum Sung Ki had given to him. He lost both by leaving them in ... ...orehouse of all extraordinary venues to the mind (encounters both sexual and cultural). Large buildings were like the small mountains of Umsong with a... ...folded away in his book bag. Then he got into a taxi and went to the Sejong Cultural Center. His seat was located in the middle of the auditorium. A... ...le, she thought, did not camouflage their barbarity in "goodness." Early in history, except for notable flare- ups, Germans were aware of their barba... ...All one had were one's concoctions of plausible scenarios about the person's history and how he or she might behave from empirical personal experience... ...both places. Both countries seemed to be arrogant and fortified within their cultural expressions. One certainly could never part a Korean from his k... ...o one's whore. She just painted and studied toward a Master's degree in art history, passively delegating the obstructive clutter of motherhood and a... ...is great puppeteer, society. Maybe, she thought, when encountered anew most cultural traits were romantically virtuous. She also sketched conservati... ...ornia and then got a job as an aerobics teacher for the Municipal Sports and Cultural Center of Tijuana. When their clothes were dry Gabriele invited ...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...ry? Where would we live? This had to be lunacy. I had set off to carry out cultural anthropological fieldwork in Thailand. No science called cultural ... ...as created the idea that rich Western life consists of continuously buying cultural enjoyment and producing experiences for the self, worshipping one'... ... adapted to 'modern development', their global economic, technological and cultural environment. Later, the project title changed to . Now, I want to ... ...dividual people and communities adapt to changes in the environment, a new cultural response is created, a new human ecosystem, where old structures n... ...t used to govern the former way of life remains in the new culture. In the cultural history of man, great technological structural changes may be disc... ... govern the former way of life remains in the new culture. In the cultural history of man, great technological structural changes may be discerned, wh... ... localization of storytelling - moralistic narratives local heroes - local history Non-local (national) environment - external resources and energy - ... ...nd entertainment - consumer culture - national heroes and idols - national history C. Postlocal culture Global environment - urban technonature - glo... ...esentations of world culture - transnational heroes, world leaders - world history The structural change from locality to overlocality has affected al...

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Ka Hana Lawaiia a Me Na Ko'A O Na Kai 'Ewalu Vol. 1

By: Kepa Maly

...ogram, and various community organizations, Kumu Pono Associates (Maly and Maly) conducted detailed archivalhistorical documentary research, and oral history interviews to identify and document, traditional knowledge of Hawaiian fisheries—including those extending from mountain streams to the beaches, estuaries and near shore, and extending out to the deep sea—and changes ...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

.... 12. Commonly accepted appellations for historical epochs, periods in the history of a language or literature, and geological ages and strata: St... ...se. 14. Political alliances, and such terms from secular or ecclesiastical history as have, through their associa- tions, acquired special signific... ...e, Dreibund; the Roses, the Roundheads, Independents, Independency (English history). 15. Conventions, congresses, expositions, etc. : Council of N... ...orld-view" or "fundamental aspect of life;" Mommsen, Riimische Geschichte ("History of Rome"). 69. The particular word or words to which attention i... ...e introduced by a dash : "To him they are more important as the sources for history- the history of events and ideas;" "Here we are face to face wi...

...Facsimile of the 1st Edition: Manual of Style The history of The Chicago Manual of Style spans more than one hundred years, beginning in 1891 when the University of Chicago Press first opened its doors. At that time, the Press had its own composing room with experienced type...

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The Cosmo-Art Theorems and Axioms

By: Antonio Mercurio

... them on it. These laws made it possible for cosmic life, biological life, cultural life, spiritual life and artistic life to appear and evolve. Thi... ... artists of the life of the universe. When S. Hawking in his book "A Brief History of Time" asks : "Why does the universe bother to live?", he can't... ...e spiritual life of a populace is also a form of emergent life, just as its cultural life is. Looking at it in another way, we could also say that cu... ... In many of its forms Life is subject to death, but, then, in the course of history, it invents new life forms that face death and overcome it foreve... ...e. Use your own imagination to follow the path of a work of art throughout history (Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, for example?), and then use... ... Secondly, it eliminates the meaning of pain and its importance throughout history, both on an individual and a societal level, because according to... ... individual no longer does. The sea exists, but the drop exists no longer. History ceases to exist and at this point it becomes incomprehensible as t... ...in the context of its historical goal of transforming from a simple animal-cultural individual, to an individual that becomes a Person. A Person is ... ... of faith; it is a reality that anyone can verify, regardless of his or her cultural level. What is not verifiable by everyone is the fact that hu...

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Bail Yourself Out

By: Rav Michael Laitman

... in March, 2009 to stop the highest cresting of the Red River in recorded history. while this trend is certainly welcome, a few sporadic and sponta... ...thnic music has been a popular means of promoting ethnic recognition and cultural integration. Indeed, globalization is a welcome addition to music... ... If we knew then about the de- sire to receive and the desire to give, the history of humanity would be very different from the bloody march of foll... ...d sciences. with humanities, it will be truly refreshing to examine human history and various societies with the interplay of desires in the forefr... ...entic Kabbalah texts that were passed down from generation to generation. history and Origin In 1991, following the passing of his teacher, The Raba... ...rates that egoism has been the basis for all suffering throughout hu- man history, but also shows how we can turn our plight to pleasure. The book c...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...f job insecurity is high, even after the most prosperous decade in recent history. Witness the sparse movement of labour among members of the EU, de... ...f Germany's and Austria's, 7.5% of France's (though less than 4% of multi-cultural Blairite Britain). There are more than 15 million people born in ... ...ership application forms, information packs, and discussion of social and cultural issues. Jane Taylor, Information Manager at the Communications Wo... ...d." A recent tome by Kevin Phillips - "Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich" - claims: "The top 1 percent pocketed 42 p... ...sy to point at immigration-free periods of unparalleled prosperity in the history of nations - or, conversely, at recessionary times coupled with a ... ...depends on "family income, education policy, production technologies, and cultural norms." About a quarter of children under-14 throughout the world ... ...ine ticketing and from insurance claims processing to remote maintenance. Cultural mismatches between the (typically Western) client base and the of... ... USA this was estimated to be 5-6%. But this estimate was based on a long history of labour and inflation statistics. History proved the wrong guide ...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...ban, environmental, and housing policy; Wallonia also has a separate Walloon Cultural Council Legal system: civil law system influenced by English con... ..., and the legal and medical professions; various organizations represent the cultural inter- ests of Flanders and Wallonia; various peace groups such ... ..., 1 seat Communists: no known Communist orga- nization; Koma of BNF has long history of Communist contacts Member of: AfDB, Commonwealth, FAO, G-77, G... ...ent: recent droughts and deserti- fication severely affecting marginal agri- cultural activities, population distribution, economy; overgrazing; defor... ...r- man Youth, Free German Trade Union Federation, Democratic Women's League, Cultural League of the German Demo- cratic Republic (all Communist domina... ...average unemployment 4.0% (1986 est.) Organized labor: about 10% of nonagri- cultural labor force in government- sanctioned unions Government Official...

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Margele Risipite

By: Florentin Smarandache

...heory and school of using paradoxes in literary and artistic creation. C) History: “Paradoxism started as an anti-totalitarian protest aga... ...smului: În 1989, pe 2 decembrie, pictorul Gerard Gauthier de la Institutul Cultural Francez din Ankara, Turcia, organizeaz ă o “Soirée Poetico-Pictu... ... brûle le feu rouge”, 29/12/1983. 43. Khalil Raiss, Rabat, Maroc, redactor cultural la revista “Medina Express”, Rabat, Maroc, 27/01/1984. 44. Jean... ...n this style, but also plays for the theater: Metaistorie (Romanian) {Meta-History} (Romania, 1993), novels: Non Roman (Romanian) {Non Novel} (Roman... ...t-the-hair, counter-time, counter-sense creation. Also, to experiment. 2. History Paradoxism started as an anti-totalitarian protest against a clos... ...: CREATION To live for dying And die for living MULTIDISCIPLINARITY History of art Or the art of histori Please send your p pa ar ra ad do ... ... 61 PARADOXISM ŞI (AUT-) ART Ă: O NOUĂ (DEZ)ORDINE CULTURAL Ă? 1 Interviu: Mugur Grosu, Mircea Ţuglea, Florentin Smarandach... ...scrie propriul personaj într-o list ă de zgomote contemporane cu aere (non)culturale… Am avut sute de conversa ţii plictisitoare cu unii şi cu al ţi... ...ul “Un oltean (de) dat dracu!”, cum mi-era fric ă, ci “o nou ă (dez)ordine cultural ă” – aha, mai la subiect! -, s ă vedem ce zic economi ştii refer...

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A Guide To the Hidden Wisdom of Kabbalah

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...hapter 2: Why Study Kabbalah? Chapter 3: What Is a Kabbalist? Chapter 4: The History of Kabbalah and The Zohar Chapter 5: Who Can Study Kabbalah... ...reserved. Bnei Baruch World Center for Kabbalah Studies Chapter 4: The History of Kabbalah and The Zohar Introduction Part I Chapter 1 ... ... generations. They are more prepared to function under modern technological and cultural conditions, various transformations taking place in modern s...

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History of the Hawaiian Kingdom Vol. 3

By: Ralph S. Kuykendall

...This third volume of the definitive history of the Hawaiian Kingdom completes the project launched over forty years ago by the Historical Commission of the Territory of Hawaii and taken over in 1932 by the Department of History of the University of Hawaii. As ...

...In his history of the last years of the Hawaiian monarchy (1874–1893), Professor Kuykendall shows clearly the effects of the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875 with the United States, tying Hawaii so closely to its nearest neighbor, economi...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...cause (in most cases, the freedom of a group of people). They base their claims on history - real or hastily concocted, on a common heritage, on a ... ...contempt directed at an "enemy". The latter is, almost invariably, the physical or cultural occupier of space the idealists claim as their own. ... ...balanced personalities and project them to great effect. They are the footnotes of history that assume the role of text. And they rarely enjoy the ... ...ree nations: the Greeks, the Bulgarians, and the Serbs. Each invoked ethnicity and history and all conjured up the apparition of the defunct Treaty... ...an anomie inside an abnormality - a Macedonian self identity, tentative and merely cultural at first, began to emerge. Voivode Gorgija Pulevski pub... ...n), north of Thessaloniki (Salonica, Solun, Saloniki). There is no doubt about his cultural background (as opposed to his convictions later in life... ... terror and banditry. From Steven Sowards' "Twenty Five Lectures on Modern Balkan History, The Balkans in an Age of Nationalism", 1996 available H... ...o and Metohija was very real and the conflict assumed the robes of a crusade, both cultural and religious. To the Serbs the very maintenance of the... ...tria presented the only viable solution to the problem of multi-ethnicity and muti- culturalism. The history of the Balkans in the 20th century can ...

...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 prec...

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