Owner of the Narcissism Revisited Announcement and Study List (more than 830 members) and the After the Rain CEE and Balkans Announcement and Study List. Editor of mental health disorders and Central and Eastern Europe categories in web directories (Open Directory, Suite 101, Go.com, Search Europe). Weekly columnist in "The New Presence" and "Central Europe Review". Publications and Awards "Managing Investment Portfolios in States of Uncertainty", Limon Publishers, 1988; "The Gambling Industry", Limon Publishers, 1990; "Requesting my Loved One - Short Stories", Yedioth Aharonot, 1997; "The Macedonian Economy at a Crossroads - On the Way to a Healthier Economy", (Dialogues with Mr. Nikola Gruevski), 1998; "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited", Narcissus Publications, 1999; "The Exporters' Pocketbook", Ministry of Trade, Republic of Macedonia, 1999; "The Suffering of Being Kafka" (electronic book of Hebrew Short Fiction); "After the Rain - How the West Lost the East", Narcissus Publications in association with Central Europe Review / CEENMI, 2000. Winner of numerous awards, among them the Israeli Education Ministry Prize (Literature) - 1997, The Rotary Club Award for Social Studies - 1976, and the Bilateral Relations Studies Award of the American Embassy in Israel - 1978. Hundreds of professional articles in all fields of finances and the economy. Numerous articles dealing with geopolitical and political economic issues. Many appearances in the electronic media on subjects in philosophy and the sciences and concerning economic matters. Write to Me: palma@unet.com.mk samvak@briefcase.com My Web Sites: Economy / Politics: http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Psychology: http://samvak.tripod.com/index.html Philosophy: http://samvak.tripod.com/culture.html Poetry: http://samvak.tripod.com/contents.html Return After the Rain How the West Lost the East The Book This is a series of articles written and published in 1996-2000 in Macedonia, in Russia, in Egypt and in the Czech Republic. How the West lost the East. The economics, the politics, the geopolitics, the conspiracies, the corruption, the old and the new, the plough and the internet - it is all here, in colourful and provocative prose. From "The Mind of Darkness":