Wizard Books

This book is a great example of the "Choose Your Own Adventure"-type books, although it is definitely targeted to a more mature reader. The illustrations are lavish and full, and the storyline is very engrossing. I spent countless hours with this book when I was younger, and it is a shame the series is no longer in print.

This is a great book for people interested in plato, pythagorianism, and the effects of pythogoras on the works of plato. It's probably less interesting for achademics because it's focused on a aspect of plato's work wich are not generally concidered to be of great importantce in achademic circels. This is unfortunate because this work, allong with a few others, clearly shows that to understand plato's meaning it is quite essential to be aware of the importance Plato placed on these mathmatical theories and how they relate to his philosophy. Anyway, beautifull book and a good, clear translation. I'd also recommend: T.Taylors 'the theoretical arithmatic of the pythagorians', Nicomachus of gerasa's 'introduction to arithmatic', 'the pythaogrian source book'(compilation), and most importantly E.McClain's "pythagorian Plato". This last book, propably the best book I've ever read, is much easier to understand after having read (and studied) theon. It's to bad the achademic word chose to ignore this aspect of greek philosophy, I think it would have greatly increased our understanding of ancient philosophy and the history of western thought in general. This is of course no reason not to persue the subject ourselves, so for those of you who are inclined to do so, this book is a great start. Obviously it's not easy reading and you can clearly see the translators trouble in translating some of the the mathmatical passages. It's a great book simply because it exists (in english). It is one of a handfull of books on this subject to have survived to our time and one of the very very few that someone as actually taken the trouble to translate. My thank to the translator and publisher for making it available to the (non-greek-speaking) public!

These neat-looking plastic cases neatly fit a players handbook inside which is a great plus point. They come with some stickers (depicting thieves) to put on the outside how you want. You get 7 dice, character sheets, a booklet on how to roll up a thief character (where all the tables etc are located in the original 2nd Ed PHB). You also get an original AD&D pencil. Personally I don't much like the character sheets, but the case itself is great for storing things you really don't want to forget when you go to a gaming session. Great!

This book tells you everything you need to know about the Lankhmar Thieves Guild, literally starting at entry level and going all the way to the top. Gives maps for the Guild houses, and NPC stats for any and all relevant characters associated with the Guild. It also includes a few short senarios for DMs who wish to run players through Thief-related adventures.

I first discovered this collection of fairy tales from around the world when I could barely read...I think I was in first grade. I continued to check the book out nearly every time I went to the library until I left grade school. After that, I went back to the grade school library and checked it out occasionally throughout high school. As soon as my daughter was old enough to be read to, I checked it out for her. She's now 16 and we still enjoy reading those old stories. What's it about? This collection of fantastic tales is from all over the world and features a variety of witches from good and beautiful to evil and horribly ugly. All have a little moral to them, as do the best fairy tales, and all evoke a shiver. I highly recommend it to anyone with a sense of wonder and a love of fantasy.

This book is written by a woman who has LIVED Alaska. She IS Alaska. It is down to earth, heartfelt, and something you won't find much in the world today -- real. Read everything Wilma has written and you will have a window on Alaska you will find nowhere else.

Great material.
If you want to get a better understanding of language and how it relates to communication: This is the place.
Also note there are 2 disks that come with it plus a book.
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Dr Phil Taverna

I started this novel a bit hesitantly, as I'm not the type to trust translations; "poetry is what is lost in the translation," to para-quote Rilke. Fortunately, my initial apprehension about this work proved worthless, as it was a stunning read, start to finish. While it does perhaps romaniticize the life of ayahuasqueros and their students, it very well might also be that I'm just not able to completely buy into such a hyper-magical/mystical view of quotidian life. Still, the book definitely conjures a spell over the reader, as Symington - who was of great help at the recent ayahuasca conference in SF - is seemingly a virtuostic translator; I only wish I could read Spanish at the level this novel must have been written at. Those interested in ayahuasca, the legendary "vine of the soul," will NOT be disappointed. I'd say this book is just as valuable as non-fiction works like Luna and Amaringo's *Ayahuasca Visions* or other works by Luna, and certiainly one heck of a lot more informative (though not from a practical perspective) than Ralph Metzner's recent ayahuasca-centered publication. A key moment for me occurs somewhere in the first quarter of the book, in which an ayahuasquero is conversing with the book's narrator, and what unfolds is a mystical challenge of knowledge. Can the adept come to *KnOw* (as in the Gnostic "know") and live the path ayahuasca offers? This section - you'll know it when you come to it - is among the most poetic, stunning passages in the book. Overall, this is a fine read, and much more intelligent than a lot of other like-minded fictional or semi-fictional works (check out Paul Tullio's *Mushroom Man* for some better than average psychedelic fiction). Books about ayahuasca are quite hit and miss, so it's especially pleasing to have such a mature work generally available in English (a great deal gets written in Spanish and Portuguese, and without those languages, ayahuasca adepts are a bit lost, IMHO). If you're up for highly evocative prose worthy of a master fiction writier, then by all means purchase this book. It's definitely a lot less annoying than reading Jonathan Ott for fun...

Sure, to run a long term Dark Sun campaign you need "Dragon Kings." And sure, to run a really good cleric you need "Earth, Air, Fire, and Water." And sure, to flesh out the psionics of Athas you need "The Will and the Way." But, the things above are things you need to play a good Dark Sun campaign, "The Thri-kreen of Athas" you should buy simply to treat yourself to the most unique player character race in the AD&D line. With loads of description of the Thri-kreen, that fleshes out their character on any world. "The Thri-Kreen of Athas" is something every DM should have when planning to include Thri-kreen in their campaign. . Sort of like the new "Illithaid," "I Tyrant," or "The Sea Devils." Only with a more neutral creature being described, and without a trilogy of adventures for it.

I don't know much, but I loved the book and thought that it was wonderfully filled with excitement. I wanted to know if the author has published any other books or subsequent ones to Token of Dragonsblood.