Sachs Books

A girl goes to the beach and listens to music, but it is to loud. The boy tells her to turn it down. When she looked at him she thought he was cute. She kept going to the beach everyday so she could see him. The boy laid by the big tree so the girl started going to the same spot. They started to talk to each other everyday. The girl shared her sandwich with him. He liked the sandwich. She would always make him one everyday. They fell in love with each other. They would meet at the beach and eat lunch together.

Originally published in 1937 as Black Hamlet: The Mind of an African Negro Revealed by Psychoanalysis, the book was written between 1933 and 1936 by the South Africa psychoanalyst and physician Wulf Sachs, and was the result of Sachs' meeting and subsequent "analysis", of John Chavafambira ("Black Hamlet" of the book), a Manyika (present day eastern Zimbabwe) nganga (healer-diviner). The book Black Hamlet - whose genre is difficult to define, being part case history (but more like a psychoanalytic biography), part narrative, part projection, part anthropological research, part historical account - concerns Sachs' account of the life story of John Chavafambira the Manyika healer-diviner who moves from Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to Johannesburg in the early 1920s. The narrative account attempts to parallel the life of John with Shakespeare's Hamlet, recounting John's birth into family of well-known Manyika diviner-herbalists (ngangas), his father's untimely death, and his mother Nesta's marriage to his uncle, Charlie (also an nganga), according to tribal tradition, and John's attempt to deal with his oedipally based neuroses. This is set against the background of migrant labor in 1930s Johannesburg, and the emergence of both legalized racial segregation and African resistance. As both the authors of the two introductions, Saul Dubow and Jacqueline Rose point out, Black Hamlet is also an important document of South African pre-Apartheid discourse about Africans and their political and economic circumstances before 1948 and raises important questions about cultural difference and psychological intervention. The book is also a rich document in the medical and psychological history of Southern Africa, and can be situated in the larger debates about the "medicalisation of the African body", as well as the relationship between medical and psychological discourse and the discourses of racism and colonialism. The book is in essence Sachs' attempt to argue against racially based classifications of psychic difference by resorting to the "Hamlet" narrative and the universalist assumptions of Freudian psychoanalysis. These concerns make the book an important text for current debates about cultural difference and psychology. Reading Black Hamlet is like reading a detective story, a case history and an epic. It's also like reading a travelogue, or an anthropological work, intermingled with an account of a mythic journey into the exotic and archaic past of "tribal" existence. But finally perhaps Black Hamlet strikes one as a uniquely South African Bildingsroman, one which both captures the uniqueness of the particular colonial configuration and an interestingly modern tale of one man's search for his identity.

This book is terrific. It has recipes for everything from turkey (including those turkey leftovers and vegetarian alternatives to turkey!) to sidedishes. The trivia/facts about the holiday are fascinating, and make great conversation starters. The games are a perfect way to keep kids busy. This book makes a perfect hostess gift or a cookbook for yourself.

This book is a short, concise, and artfully prepared introduction to Christian theological anthropology. It's worth reading, honestly.

This book is perfect guide for anyone who wish to study 9 star Ki and help her/himself and people around them. I study 9 star Ki now for only two years and people once larfing at me ask me now to help them. Really deep reading.

Conspiracy by Harley Sachs is a highly readable mystery story. The characters--lively ladies in a retirement complex are true to life and fun to know. Their search for clues and the adding them up to point to the culprit makes for a few hours of engrossing reading.

Indonesia financial troubles were a result of large account deficits. Massive debt and forced foreign loan repayment caused the Rupiah too fall from 15,000/$1 to 2,400/$1 in 1997. Economic output would shrink by 14% and unemployment increased to 15%. Financial troubles did not seem predictable, as the Central Bank had $20 billion in reserve currency. Indonesia's top seven largest banks owned 50% of the financial assets with preferential treatment extending loans to favored business. Risk management was pushed aside in the rush for growth and state banks exceed 25% bank loan limits. Further compound no credible banking practices was the fact that Bank of Indonesia knew about bribes for loans but turned a blind eye. Rupiah selloff initiated because investors saw a gloomy perspective on the region and the rupiah was linked to the dollar and policy makers did not want to use the $20 billion reserve to stop the devaluation of the rupiah. Indonesian banking financial system was heavily in debt too foreign market. Indonesia loans owed $55 billion to foreigners. Businesses and corporations assumed financial surplus and the high levels of dollar reserves would help the rupiah survive devaluation. Business were not thinking about problems in obtaining dollars in the case the debt burden caused a shortage of available dollars and a falling rupiah valuation would increase the burden of repaying the debt. Risk of not being able to pay off dollar loans would breed Panic and cause foreign debt creditors too demand payment in full on loans coming due, reversing lax monetary policies and cause a scramble for dollars furthering the drop in rupiah value.

IMF wanted high interest rates and Muslim bankers wanted cheap credit flows. Structural reforms were a condition for receiving the $33 IMF billion bailout loan. First to go was the BULOG cartel, an import and marketing monopoly. IMF reasoned absolving the cartel would open up the market allow prices too competitively adjust. Also, the chemical industry would lose some of its tariff protections.

Surgically, removing ailing banks to restore credibility, but what happened was a drop in consumer confidence. In 1933, Roosevelt employed a similar tactic shutting down ailing financial institutes. The IMF reason bank closures would send a positive message, "banks can not continue operating unprofitably" and clean up banks that were riddled with bad loans. The good and bad bank list caused a run on the money by depositors, who moved money from private banks to state owned banks. Private banks lost 12% of their rupiah deposit and 20% of their foreign currency deposits. Interestingly, the 16 banks closed only represented 3% of the total assets. What was at risk was financial confidence, as people thought the banks were weak. A strong measure of political and financial action was required to restore public faith in the system. People wanted a government guarantee on all deposits. The IMF did not want an expensive taxpayer guarantee and was divided on policies that benefited the rich. The IMF chose to protect the small investor providing 20 million rupiah guarantee approximately $5,000. The indecisive solution did not stop the run on the deposit and the rupiah fell to 4,000/$1 and the government continued to inject money into the system as runs continued. The Indonesian central bank injected money into the bank system equally 10% of GDP.

The IMF wanted to rise interest rates which would stabilize currencies by providing irresistible yields keeping local money invested and once the panic abated the interest rates would return to reasonable rates. The US treasury people liked the interest rate hikes. Indonesian banks were desparate for funds offerring 75% annual rates for dollars.

A contrarian opposition argument suggests interest rate hikes contending that the IMF did not need interest rate increase but confidence building policy; interest rates would exacerbate the problem by increasing inflation and Indonesia did not need inflation. Higher interest rates only caused corporations and businesses too go further in the red, as they struggled to make interest payments. Inflation devalued collateral and so external financial institutions lend less to Korean banks as the currency devalued. Currency devaluation caused widespread bankruptcies and a crisis of confidence.

This is going to be a great help with my school search!

This is a beautiful sequel to their first book The Cats' Book of Romance. I bought 15 copies to give as gifts. My friends loved it.

When I was diagnosed with a major health issue 2.5 years ago, at age 64, I decided it was time to be proactive about living a healthy life style. That is when I came across Dr. Mollen's book at our local library. My primary objective was, not to lose weight but to eat healthy, to improve my situation. I followed Dr. Mollen's advice for a healthy life style change and within 6 months I had lost 32 pounds. Besides that I went from a large to a medium shirt size and from a 38 inch waistline to 34 inches. I bought all new clothes and am told that I look great.
I have much more energy, my cholesterol is excellent, my blood pressure reading taken by my doctor recently was 120 over 80. I have been 20 to 30 pounds overweight most of my adult life but for the past two years have easily maintained my proper weight. I have tried diets before but this is not a diet, it is a life stlye change. I do not count calories or go hungry. I eat all I desire but eat the right kinds of foods and enjoy all of them. I highly recommend this book. Dr. Mollen is right on. I am living proof.

Don Slater