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RealRead has added Sam Vaknin's "After the Rain - How the East Lost the West" - An anthology of previously published articles and essays regarding the politics, economics, geopolitics and history of countries in CEE and SEE (Balkan) - to its demo of electronic titles -

View the Entire Book online here, using RealRead's novel Viewer technology:
http://www.realread.com/open-demo/browse.cgi?book=!802385173X


Download Sample Chapters here:

http://www.geocities.com/vaksam/atrpdf.zip


Brendan Howley in "The Blue Ear" says:
After the Rain is that rarest of reading experiences: principled and thoughtful and irritating and prescient, all at once. Vaknin will be proved right or wrong as history grinds on in the Balkans, but his is a book I will return to.

http://www.blueear.com/articles/cheaplife_100800.html


If you live in Central, Eastern, or South Europe
If you are a Political Scientist, a Columnist, a Decision-maker
If you want to know the Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth
about Events, Personalities, Institutions,
the Politics, the Geopolitics, the Money, the Power, the Crime
If you want to understand Why the West Lost the East
- Read ....

Dr. Sam Vaknin's new book "After the Rain - How the West Lost the East" published by Narcissus Publications in association with Central Europe Review/CEENMI is available from the American chain of bookshops Barnes and Noble.

The author (an Israeli who held and holds senior positions with governments and corporations in the region) says:

"How the West lost the East. The economics, the politics, the geopolitics, the history, the conspiracies, the corruption, the old and the new, the plough and the internet—it is all here, in prose, as provocative and vitriolic and loving and longing as I could make it.
Reading this book, I wish upon the reader the joy and the revulsion, the dark fascination of this region and its surrealist dreams and nightmares. This is what I experience daily here and it is my hope that I succeeded to convey the siren's song, the honeyed trap, the lure and the allure of this tortured corner of the earth."

Read Readers' Reviews HERE:
http://barnesandnoble.bfast.com/booklink/click?sourceid=481444&;ISBN=802385173X

It is also available as an ebook from Booklocker, eBooksonthe.net, MightyWords, Softlock and cyberRead - click HERE:
http://www.booklocker.com/bookpages/samvaknin02.html

With a foreword written by Emilija Geleva, a Macedonian journalist and columnist
(currently, the Media Advisor to the Prime Minister of Macedonia) -
the book contains 51 essays published in newspapers and periodicals in Russia,
the Czech Republic, Macedonia, Egypt and in the web weekly "Central Europe Review"
in the last 18 months.

The first part of "After the Rain" is a social, political and geopolitical critique. The author's main thesis is that the West missed a unique historical opportunity to unite Europe and that the peoples of Central, Eastern and Southern Europe are beyond salvation, deformed and pathologized by communism irreconstructibly.

The second part comprises articles about the economies of the region.

Quite a few articles deal with the history of the region with emphasis on Yugoslavia, Albania
and the disputed regions in-between (Kosovo).

This is the third part.

THE AUTHOR

Sam Vaknin has a combined doctorate in Physics and Philosophy.

He is an economic and political columnist in many periodicals in a few
countries and a published and awarded author of short fiction and reference
books in Hebrew, English and Macedonian in Israel, Macedonia and the Czech
Republic.

He has collaborated with Israeli psychologists and criminologists in the
study of personality disorders and is the author of "Malignant Self Love -
Narcissism Revisited" (available from Book Institute of Mental Health -
BIMH - and from Barnes and Noble and, as an e-book, from BIMH, Booklocker,
SoftLock, CyberRead and from others).

He is the editor of the Mental Health Disorders and Central and Eastern
Europe categories in the Open Directory Project and in Searcheurope.com
as well as the editor of the Narcissistic Personality Disorder
topic in Suite101 and Go.com.

He is serving currently as the Economic Advisor to the Government of
Macedonia.

His new book "After the Rain - How the West Lost the East" is available from
Barnes and Noble and Central Europe Review and, as an e-book, from
Booklocker, SoftLock, CyberRead and from others.

Full CV is available at: http://www.geocities.com/vaksam/cv.html

Web addresses: http://personality.cjb.net ,
http://musings.cjb.net , http://economics.cjb.net,
http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_archive/vaknin_main.html

Email address: palma@unet.com.mk or samvak@briefcase.com


Click HERE to read what The Reviewer has to say about "After the Rain" -
http://www.jaalmag.com/thereviewer/28052000o.htm

ADDITIONAL DATA

"After the Rain - How the West Lost the East" (ISBN: 802385173X).

Scroll down for further information or visit these addresses on the web:

On the author:

http://www.geocities.com/vaksam/cv.html

And on the Book:

http://www.geocities.com/vaksam/after.html

Technical Details

The book contains 51 articles and essays published in many countries and by "Central Europe Review".
Paperback, 280 pages, 2 parts: "The People" and "The Economies".

Related Links

http://barnesandnoble.bfast.com/booklink/click?sourceid=481444&;ISBN=802385173X
Read what Readers think about Sam Vaknin's "After the Rain - How the West Lost the East".

www.geocities.com/vaksam/guide.html
An anthology of 180 previously published articles and essays regarding the politics, economics, geopolitics and history of countries in CEE and SEE (Balkan).

http://www.realread.com/open-demo/browse.cgi?book=!802385173X
The complete online e-book version of "After the Rain - How the West Lost the East" -
Sam Vaknin's anthology of articles regarding Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkan.

www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_archive/vaknin_main.html
The author archive of Sam Vaknin's column "Balkan Encounter" in "Central Europe Review". Contains articles and essays regarding the politics, economics, geopolitics and history of countries in CEE and SEE (Balkan).

http://www.booklocker.com/bookpages/samvaknin02.html
Buy the e-book version of "After the Rain"

For Further Details / Interview Contact "Narcissus Publications":
By Email: palma@unet.com.mk or samvak@briefcase.com
Phone (in Macedonia):
(38970) 254-282

Contact Information:
Narcissus Publications
Sam Vaknin
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