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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...s reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write... ...es, private unemployment insurance is lumped together with disability and life insurance – all offered by the private sector within one insurance po... ... laborers can obtain by themselves. - Advertise for workers in Macedonia, based on the agreements afore signed. - Match workers with job offers abro... ...d on the agreements afore signed. - Match workers with job offers abroad, based on the signed agreements. - Self-finance by collecting a commission ... ... its experience to France, for instance. The LOI ROBIEN prescribes that companies should be spared social security obligations for 7 years if they... ...nomic sector was almost unaffected !!! Even in sectors such as education, science, culture and information and healthcare and social services, the e... ...of whom 121,666 were women). In the economic sector: 235,206 (72359) In companies with social ownership: 185522 (70,094), of which 121,663 were in... ...egy for Macedonia – Development and Modernization”, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Skopje, 1997, pp. 127-147 26. “The Republic of Macedon... ...es, private unemployment insurance is lumped together with disability and life insurance – all offered by the private sector within one insurance po...

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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

... The Silver Lining Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema 3 rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. ... ... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...erican Hostel XIII. Inceptions and Its Errors XIV. Aliens „R Us: The Ten Errors of Science Fiction XV. The Author XVI. About "After the Rain" Th... ...ondria and an overpowering sense of alienation and drift. He is bored with his own life and is permeated by a seething and explosive envy of the lu... ...He feels discriminated against and dealt a poor hand in the great poker game called life. He is driven obsessively to right these perceived wrongs a... ...the product failed to meet the reasonable and justified expectations of consumers, based on such warrants and representations. The payment should b... ... And shouldn't we all gain visitation rights to the minds of great men and women of science, art and culture - as we do today gain access to their h... ...on shoddy pseudo-science and a general sense of unease that artificial (non-carbon based) intelligent life forms seem to provoke in us. But it goes... ... Tel-Aviv, Israel. 1982 to 1985 Senior positions with the Nessim D. Gaon Group of Companies in Geneva, Paris and New-York (NOGA and APROFIM SA): ...

Moral deliberations and philosophical dimensions in thirteen modern films.

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Speculations and Physics

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...phical essays and Musings http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/culture.html World in Conflict and T ransition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.htm... ... II. Parapsychology and the Paranormal III. Turing Machines and Universes IV. The Science of Superstitions G O D Introduction: Science, God, ... ...uilt) "consideration". Time and the Third Law of Thermodynamics are pitted against Life (as an integral and ubiquitous part of the Universe) and Or... ...ly, is the case in biology. There is no reason in principle why not to construct a life wavefunction which will always collapse to the most order i... ...e two types of learning: natural and sapient (or intelligent). Natural learning is based on feedback. When water waves hit rocks and retreat, they ... ...nd temporal and weakly communicable). Sapient or Intelligent Learning is similarly based on feedback, but it involves other mechanisms, most of the... ...s notwithstanding. Yet, mathematics reigns supreme and unchallenged in the natural sciences. Why is that? What has catapulted mathematics (as disti... ... Tel-Aviv, Israel. 1982 to 1985 Senior positions with the Nessim D. Gaon Group of Companies in Geneva, Paris and New-York (NOGA and APROFIM SA): ...

Essays and articles about modern physics, speculations in science, pseudo-science and the alleged incompatibility between God and modern science.

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ..................................................................... 37 GOD BASED ASSUMPTIONS ............................................................ ........................................................................ 181 SCIENCE AND DEMOCRACY ARE SIAMESE TWINS ...................................... ......................................................... 233 Moral from God based assumptions ............................................................ ........................................................ 325 Torture to Gain Life Saving Information from Enemies ......................................... ........................................................................ 332 LIFE AND DEATH ISSUES--WHAT IS THE VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE? ...................... ...be given the task of healing the afflicted. In our modern world we look to science for probabilities, such as which potential cure is more likely to ... ...ur government is often directed by rich special interest groups, like oil companies, farmers, unions and even the Native Americans. We admit that lar... ...f oil increases by $5 a barrel? What effect will that have on large steel companies, on every utility, on the local baker, on pension fund interest o...

...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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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... .... S XVIII. T XIX. U-V-W XX. X-Y-Z XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that ... ... fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of ... ... from human psychology and, thus, from reality. Managers will always rob blind the companies they run. They will always manipulate boards to collud... ... But the ethos and myth of "order out of chaos" - with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of com... ...ps such as the Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front and the Britain-based SHAC, or Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, are 'way out in f... ...lied to animals. Law professor Steven Wise, argues in his book, "Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights", for the extension to an... ...ou are invested, the less likely you are to reap the dividenda of survival. Indeed, based on actuary tables, it becomes increasingly less rational t... ...empirically fixed at 10% of the market in any one good or service. In other words: companies should be encouraged to capture up to 10% of their mar...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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

By: Matti Sarmela

...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 ... ...R DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ... Environment of life ... ...e reader 18 I. A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND Environment of my life (interviews) 20 About experiences in my life * Young people don't ... ...ad set off to carry out cultural anthropological fieldwork in Thailand. No science called cultural anthropology existed in those days in Finland. I lo... ...ions. The original academic working title of my research project was , and based on the 1972-73 material, I wrote a book of the same title ( ), publis... ...ter the Second World War. It marked the beginning of the era of technology based on oil, and today's modern development culture was created. Now the f... ...l states - universal technosystems - Internet, global networks - universal science - global databases ('World Brain') - global hierarchy Planetary dev... ...at least seven cinemas, and it was also common practice for pharmaceutical companies to tour the villages with their cinema vans to show free films on...

...iptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. ...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... .... S XVIII. T XIX. U-V-W XX. X-Y-Z XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that ... ... fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of ... ... from human psychology and, thus, from reality. Managers will always rob blind the companies they run. They will always manipulate boards to collud... ... But the ethos and myth of "order out of chaos" - with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of com... ...ps such as the Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front and the Britain-based SHAC, or Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, are 'way out in f... ...lied to animals. Law professor Steven Wise, argues in his book, "Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights", for the extension to an... ...ou are invested, the less likely you are to reap the dividenda of survival. Indeed, based on actuary tables, it becomes increasingly less rational t... ...empirically fixed at 10% of the market in any one good or service. In other words: companies should be encouraged to capture up to 10% of their mar...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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The Conundrums of Psychology

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...tatistics. Certain diseases are accepted in certain parts of the world as a fact of life or even a sign of distinction (e.g., the paranoid schizophr... ...umans, introduce our value systems, prejudices and priorities into our activities, science included. It is better to be healthy, we say, because we... ...fers from a series of implicit value-judgements. For instance, why should we prefer life over death? Order to entropy? Efficiency to inefficiency? ... ...humanize disease. By imposing upon issues of health the pretensions of the accurate sciences, we objectified the patient and the healer alike and ut... ...ety and desirability of human actions and inaction are bound to arise in a symptom-based diagnostic system. As long as the pseudo-medical definitio... ...ychiatry and psychopharmacology. The multibillion dollar industries involving drug companies, hospitals, managed healthcare, private clinics, acade... ...d this vocabulary, often infused with new meanings. The psychotherapy he invented, based on his insights, was less formidable. Many of its tenets a... ... Tel- Aviv, Israel. 1982 to 1985 Senior positions with the Nessim D. Gaon Group of Companies in Geneva, Paris and New-York (NOGA and APROFIM SA): ...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...tion, visit www.caravanbooks.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. C... ...ect to the exception immediately following, this book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that co... ...the Generative Net 14 The business world took up PCs slowly—who could blame companies for ignoring something called “personal computer”? In the early... ...d word processors, which were built to function the same way over the entire life of the machine. An IT ecosystem comprising fixed hardware and flexible... ...ators, and relational databases put index cards and more sophisticated paper-based filing systems to shame. 15 Entirely new applications like video ga... ...In such a world, people would use smart typewriters for word processing from companies like Brother: all-in-one units with integrated screens and prin... ...global network. 29 The early Internet was implemented at university computer science depart- ments, U.S. government research units, 30 and select tele... ... the U.S. government, allowing flat- rate pricing for its users. The National Science Foundation (NSF) managed the Internet backbone and asked that it ... ...ocial analysts, and industry leaders surveyed by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in 2004 predicted serious attacks on network infrastructure ...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ...mpire 33-44 CHAPTER II. Visions of the past. -- Eastward and westward of human life -- The greatness of ancient Carthage -- Venice the mistress of the... ...Prevented by fears of his personal safety -- Description of the King -- Animal life on Crab island -- An accident to the ship -- A pleasant visit to t... ...e south of Boston -- Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Upon this fact the claim is based that Bjarne was the first European whose eyes beheld the shores o... ... briny liquid. STORIES ABOUT SPECTRAL CREWS. Occasionally the spectres come in companies. The Maine fishermen have a story of the Hascall, a fishing v... ...alike disappeared, but not so the spectral ship; and it is a curious fact that science has supported the old sailor in his superstition by often prese... ...1525, with every promise of great success; but the imperfect state of nautical science in that day led to several disasters which brought the expediti... ...t. Morgan divided his available force into three battalions, and deployed four companies, about two hundred men, to act as skirmishers to bring on the...

...stian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish mai...

... -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilc...

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The Mirror of the Sea

By: Joseph Conrad

...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State ... ...eyn’s Tale L ANDFALL AND DEPARTURE mark the rhythmical swing of a seaman’s life and of a ship’s ca reer. From land to land is the most concise definit... ...les. And there is the abiding thought of a whole year of more or less hard life before one, because there was hardly a southern-going voyage in the ye... ...perhaps, than the art of handling men. And, like all fine arts, it must be based upon a broad, solid sincerity, which, like a law of Nature, rules an ... ...n them the waters of the earth are sprung. All the weather of the world is based upon the contest of the Polar and Equatorial strains of that tyrannou... ...on the ships of the sea. He has more manners of villainy, and no more con- science than an Italian prince of the seventeenth cen- tury. His weapon is ... ...And, truth to say, for all the criticisms flung upon the heads of the dock companies, the other docks of the Thames are no disgrace to the town with a... ... to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. The ocean has the con- scienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation. He canno...

...Excerpt: Landfall and departure mark the rhythmical swing of a seaman?s life and of a ship?s career. From land to land is the most concise definition of a ship?s earthly fate. A ?Departure? is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The term ?Landfall? is more easily understood; you fall in...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... ...Log and Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492 126 The Life Buoy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495 127 The... ...take me if it is not Leviathan described by the noble prophet Moses in the life of patient Job.” Rabelais. “This whale’s liver was two cart loads.” St... ... In fact, the artist’s design seemed this: a final theory of my own, partly based upon the aggregated opinions of many aged persons with whom I convers... ...barks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring... ... 120 Chapter 26 Knights and Squires Men may seem detestable as joint stock companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may h... ...oks there are a plenty; and so in some small degree, with cetology, or the science of whales. Many are the men, small and great, old and new, lands m... ...preliminaries to settle. First: The uncertain, unsettled condition of this science of Cetology is in the very vestibule attested by the fact, that in ... ... upon which to ground a radical distinction. It is by endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that some departments of natu...

...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dus...

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Billy Budd

By: Herman Melville

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. In the time before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable sea-port would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-ofwar?s men or mercha...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...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. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ck take me if is not Leviathan described by the noble prophet Moses in the life of patient Job.” —Rabelais. “This whale’s liver was two cartloads.” —S... ...le quantity of oil will be extracted out of one whale.” —Ibid. “History of Life and Death.” “The sovereignest thing on earth is parmacetti for an inwa... ...In fact, the artist’s design seemed this: a final theory of my own, partly based upon the aggregated opinions of many aged persons with whom I convers... ...rks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insur- ance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring... ...ose the fall of valour in the soul. Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may h... ...oks there are a plenty; and so in some small degree, with cetology, or the science of whales. Many are the men, small and great, old and new, landsmen... ...preliminaries to settle. First: The uncertain, unsettled condition of this science of Ce- tology is in the very vestibule attested by the fact, that i... ... upon which to ground a radical distinction. It is by endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that some departments of natu...

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Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency

By: The Duke of Saint Simon

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Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens

...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. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...ame tone as before. Those three words conveyed the one idea of Mr Dombey’s life. The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and mo... ...mbey—and Son. He had risen, as his father had before him, in the course of life and death, from Son to Dombey, and for nearly twenty years had been th... ...sat looking at the boy as if his face were the dial. ‘But he’s chockful of science,’ he observed, waving his hook towards the stock-in-trade. ‘Look’ye... ... pound premium also ready to be made over. If there is a man chock full of science in the world, it’s old Sol Gills. If there is a lad of promise—one ... ...gan to have an interest in the Lord Mayor, and the Sheriffs, and in Public Companies; and felt bound to read the quotations of the Funds every day , t... .... The arrivals quickly became numerous. More directors, chairmen of public companies, elderly ladies carrying bur- 515 Charles Dickens dens on their ... ...ful years, and has never recoiled except upon itself; a pride that has de- based its owner with the consciousness of deep humiliation, and never helpe...

...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his ...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

...arge 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 Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman , the Pennsylvania State Uni... .........................143 That Shadow My Likeness................143 Full of Life Now................................143 BOOK VI......................... ...............................................257 As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life.....265 Tears...................................................269 ... ...arge or small summ’d, added up, In its eidolon. The old, old urge, Based on the ancient pinnacles, lo, newer, higher pinnacles, From science... ... old urge, Based on the ancient pinnacles, lo, newer, higher pinnacles, From science and the modern still impell’d, The old, old urge, eidolons. ... ...What are you doing young man? Are you so earnest, so given up to literature, science, art, amours? These ostensible realities, politics, points? Your ... ...diers marching—give me the sound of the trumpets and drums! (The soldiers in companies or regiments—some starting away, flush’d and reckless, Some, th... ...ulletin, The Indian ambuscade, the craft, the fatal environment, The cavalry companies fighting to the last in sternest heroism, In the midst of their...

...g, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form?d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....

...s LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands................................12 To a Historian.....................................12 To Thee Old Cause.......................

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

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...ts INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .............................

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The History of the Thirty Years' War in Germany

By: Friedrich Schiller

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...ached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first publication of the original works; and in several instances these versions have been incorporated, after some revision or necessary correction, into the following collection; but on the other hand a large proportion of the contents have been specially translated f...

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