... on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfactoid Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/... ...l Download free anthologies here: http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – C... ... Towards the end of the 19th century, the Armenians formed guerrilla movements in eastern Van (the Armenakans, in 1885) and in Russia. Radical nat... ... pre-epidemic levels. Scholars believe that the plague emanated from the Middle East through southern Russia, between the Black and the Caspian ... ... one. Sweden adopted the Gregorian Calendar in 1753, Japan in 1873, Egypt in 1875, Eastern Europe between 1912 to 1919 and Turkey in 1927. In Russi... ...m Census The first complete world census was carried out in 1801. The results - China (295 million people), India (131 million), Russia (33 mill... ...llion), Ireland and the USA (c. 5 million each). Data for these countries today: China (1,302,505,000), India (1,047,074,000), Russia (142,881,00... ...od a navigator he was is debatable. He was actually looking for a path to India and China when he stumbled across America (named after a later disco...

... Wars and Empire 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/... ...w": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_archive/vaknin_main.html Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – C... ...akistan’s Nice Little War III. The Afghan Trip On the Road to Iraq – Central and East Europe I. EU and NATO – The Competing Alliances II. The ... ...ted Nations The War in Iraq – Coalition Building I. The Economies of the Middle East II. The Costs of Coalition Building III. Is It All about O... ...: among America's NATO allies, in developing countries, Muslim nations and even in eastern Europe where Americans, only a decade ago, were lionized... ...en even worse. Between March and May 2006, Pew surveyed 16,710 people in Britain, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, ... ...es were noted in France, Germany, and Jordan, somewhat offset by marginal rises in China and Pakistan. Two thirds of Russians and overwhelming majo... ...tandards and bullying are common. Apartheid South Africa, colonial France, mainland China, post-1967 Israel - and virtually every other polity - wer...

...The Labour Divide 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska ... ...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/authorarc... ... by the same author - available! http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Sam Vaknin's "Central Europe Review" Author Archive: http://www.ce-revie... ...mbed to exceed the United States' at 5.6%. As was the case in Central and Eastern Europe, the glowing figures hid a disheartening reality of underem... ...ded to the global labour force until 2010). How can this be achieved with China unwinding its state sector (which employs 13% of its workforce) - is... ...he growth of the private sector (it now employs 5% of the labour force) - China may have a real unemployment rate of 9.5% (compared to the official ... ...nly employed in casual work. The average unemployment rate in Central and Eastern Europe is 14% - but it is double that (more than 30%) among the yo... ...ideas are debated in Britain. In France and most countries in Central and Eastern Europe, to dismiss a worker, the employer has to show that it has ... ...ganization of Migration (IOM), as well as many governments (e.g., Israel, China, Venezuela, Uruguay, Ethiopia), encourage expatriates to share their ...

... Terrorists And Freedom Fighters 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ... Terrorists And Freedom Fighters 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska ... ...to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/... ...edonian Revolutionary Organization directs its eyes neither to the West, nor to the East,nor to anywhere else; it relies primarily on its own powers... ... primitive and uncultured Bulgarian relatives who inhabit a part of Bulgaria to the east. The Macedonians themselves were divided. Some wished to be... ...was never more oft- repeated than in the Balkans. The raging rivalry between an eastward-bound Austria and a defiant Serbia was bound to boil ov... ... 1974). But this time, the authorities, reacted with tanks in scenes reminiscent of China's Tiananmen Square 8 years later. The hotbed of hotheads w... ...e in history. Return Narcissists, Group Behaviour, and Terrorism Interview with Sam Vaknin Published in "The Idler" Sam Vaknin is the au... ...story, myths, ethos, and even government policy (such as the "one child policy" in China) do create the conditions for pathologies of the personali...

... Narcissistic And Psychopathic Leaders 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.                          ... ... Narcissistic And Psychopathic Leaders 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.                            ... ...ird edition, 1996, reprinted 2000. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Vaknin, Sam, Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited, seventh revised impress... ...ysis and Developmental Psychology. New York, Basic Books, 1985 30. Vaknin, Sam. Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited. Skopje and Prague, Narc... ...subsistence farmers in Africa, nomads in the Sinai desert, day labourers in East Europe, and intellectuals and socialites in Manhattan. Malignant na... ... is most pronounced in countries that lack a democratic tradition (such as China, Russia, or the nations that inhabit the territories that once bel... ...ews - a non-controversial proposition - but then expanded them to include "east European" whites, such as the Poles and the Russians. Germany was n... ...ighty member, a bridge between Central Asia, the Caucasus, North Korea and China - and the USA. The longer his tenure, the more likely he is to be... ...w the same path (probably in Central Asia, but, possibly, in the Baltic and east Europe as well). Reinvigorated armies (and industrialists) often f...

... Facts and Fictions in The Securities Industry 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...dija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/... ...w": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_archive/vaknin_main.html Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – C... ...worth little. Return The Value of Stocks of a Company The debate rages all over Eastern and Central Europe, in countries in transition as well a... ...'s single currency, the euro, appreciated strongly against all major currencies; as China, India, and other low-wage Asian countries became importan... ...ncy Straf - Corruption in CEE The Criminality of Transition The Kleptocracies of the East The Enrons of the East Bully at Work - Interview with Tim Fi... ...s Missing Billions Treasure Island Revisited - Maritime Piracy Organ Trafficking in Eastern Europe Begging Your Trust in Africa Slush Funds Return ... ...s inroad to their sovereignty. This may prove more problematic in US operations in China. I do not think the US can force its accounting standards ... ...on why local government accounts for (say) a city in Macedonia could not be kept in China. The issue here is quite different. It revolves around dem...

... Capitalistic Musings 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/... ...w": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_archive/vaknin_main.html Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – C... ...s begging it to borrow at concessionary rates. The same goes for Mexico, Argentina, China, Nigeria, Thailand, other countries, and the accident-pron... ...in the USA, 25 in Europe, 11 in Japan, 7.5 in Latin America and the Caribbean, 5 in China and South East Asia, less than 2 in East Europe and India ... ...n Europe, 11 in Japan, 7.5 in Latin America and the Caribbean, 5 in China and South East Asia, less than 2 in East Europe and India each, about 1 in... ...o foster growth. In most countries of the world - definitely in Africa, the Middle East, the bulk of Latin America, central and eastern Europe, and... ...Middle East, the bulk of Latin America, central and eastern Europe, and central and east Asia - savings do not translate to investments, either in t... ...est Preeg of the Manufacturers Alliance was quoted by the Toronto Star as saying: "China, for example, could blackmail the United States by threate...

... Cyclopedia Of Philosophy 4th EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...ilization in the Levant and Arabia. It was the betrayal that mattered. Rejected by East (as colonial stooges) and West (as agents of racial contami... ...o assimilation in the age of European "Enlightenment". But it was soon hijacked by East European Jews who espoused a pernicious type of Stalinism a... ...pernicious type of Stalinism and virulent anti- Arab racism. The Jewish Response: East European Jews were no doubt more nationalistic and etatist ... ...hn Franklin's Polar expedition), famine-stricken populations (Ukraine in the 1930s, China in the 1960s), and the like. Finally, in various pre-nati... ... the gods themselves, thus being rendered immortal. Dutiful sons and daughters in China made their amputated organs and sliced tissues (mainly the... ...nfant daughters and old relatives is socially condoned - though illegal - in India, China, Alaska, and parts of Africa. Genocide may have been lega... ...se formal logical niches that superstition thrives. Appendix - Interview granted by Sam Vaknin to Adam Anderson 1. Do you believe that superstition... ... the successful and happy exchange of goods and services. THE AUTHOR Shmuel (Sam) Vaknin Curriculum Vitae Born in 1961 in Qiryat-Yam...

... Cyclopedia Of Philosophy 4th EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...ilization in the Levant and Arabia. It was the betrayal that mattered. Rejected by East (as colonial stooges) and West (as agents of racial contami... ...o assimilation in the age of European "Enlightenment". But it was soon hijacked by East European Jews who espoused a pernicious type of Stalinism a... ...pernicious type of Stalinism and virulent anti- Arab racism. The Jewish Response: East European Jews were no doubt more nationalistic and etatist ... ...hn Franklin's Polar expedition), famine-stricken populations (Ukraine in the 1930s, China in the 1960s), and the like. Finally, in various pre-nati... ... the gods themselves, thus being rendered immortal. Dutiful sons and daughters in China made their amputated organs and sliced tissues (mainly the... ...nfant daughters and old relatives is socially condoned - though illegal - in India, China, Alaska, and parts of Africa. Genocide may have been lega... ...se formal logical niches that superstition thrives. Appendix - Interview granted by Sam Vaknin to Adam Anderson 1. Do you believe that superstition... ... the successful and happy exchange of goods and services. THE AUTHOR Shmuel (Sam) Vaknin Curriculum Vitae Born in 1961 in Qiryat-Yam...

...endSiters Digital Content And Web Technologies 3rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska ... ... other related issues. http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE!... ...hor bio, including the link to the author's web site. AUTHOR BIO: Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com ) is the author of Malignant Self Lov... ...lf Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the West Lost the East. He served as a columnist for Central Europe Review, PopMatters, Bell... ...enior Business Correspondent, and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101. Between 1999-20... ... words, there are budding signs of a reversing brain drain - from West to East. E-publishing is at the forefront of software engineering, e-consume... ...estly classes. It flourished in non-theocratic societies such as Rome, or China - and languished where religion reigned (such as in Sumeria, Egypt, ... ...e is applied to clamp down on samizdat entrepreneurs. Governments, from China to Macedonia, are introducing intellectual property laws (under pres... ...ut where one factory is closed on shore (as has been the case in mainland China) - two sprout off shore (as is the case in Hong Kong and in Bulgaria...

...The Silver Lining Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema 3 rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ... When the owner of a surrogate, cocooned in his den, uses his contraption to visit China, or to have sex, or to stroll along a boulevard - who does... ...g a boulevard - who does the experiencing? Can one really say that one has been to China, or has had sex, or has strolled along a boulevard in autu... ... centers to produce these reactions. Once the experiences of having sex or touring China via such a machine become indistinguishable from the real ... ...he very concept of observer is disputable – as modern physics, on the one hand and Eastern philosophy, on the other hand, have shown. Imagine tha... ... A couple of wholesome American youths (one of them a Jew) are nabbed by a ring of east Europeans who cater to the depraved needs of sadists by pro... ... American Secretary of Defense's unforgettable coinage) - namely, the countries of eastern and central Europe - are obsequious vassals of the Unite... ...t Encounter. It may also be our last. Return T H E A U T H O R SHMUEL (SAM) VAKNIN Curriculum Vitae Born in 1961 in Qiryat-Yam, Isra... ...s. It is like time travel. It is like revisiting one's childhood." The Author Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Rev...