Exalted: the Lunars is the second hardcover sourcebook for White Wolf's exciting Exalted RPG. The book starts with an introduction vignette, featuring several characters from the main rulebook. Next are two chapters of background, one about the Lunar Exalted themselves and their society and the other about the barbarian tribes they usually come from (and, in some cases, lead). I particularly enjoyed the shapeshifting Charms, numerous amounts of which are detailed in the book, along with two-page write-ups for each Caste similar to the Solar Castes in the main rulebook and the Dragon-Blooded Aspects in Exalted: the Dragon-Blooded (which is also a superbly-written book that I highly recommend). The book also contains an entire chapter of storytelling ideas (for those of you who aren't familiar with White Wolf's games...the Storyteller is similar to a Dungeon Master or Game Master) with info on how to possibly integrate the other types of Exalted into a Lunars story.

The one thing I didn't like about this book was the fact that it's a slight bit shorter than Exalted: the Dragon-Blooded, although it does cover the Lunar Exalted in much detail.

This is a really helpfull book for the organic chemist, specially new ones who can find here an organized reference of any kind of routes for organic synthesis. Ive been using this book in all my thesis work, with no loose of time researching in the library. Its very easy to use and understand . For me is the best book for organic reagents, after looking at it you would see the power you have in your hands with

This book has everything you want to know about James Van Der Beek and dawsons creek. It has many cool picture of James and other co-workers with him too!

This book was a very interesting true story of several British naval officers and their guides who travelled from Hudson Bay into the interior of Canada and up the Coppermine River to the northern coast of the North America. This expedition took several years. As their journey progressed so did the sufferings they endured. Several members of the group died of starvation and other causes. One was murdered and his killer was shot. It was incredible that anyone survived.

Anyone interested in the Arctic exploration and early Native Americans will enjoy this book. The author, Sir John Franklin, was a fearless explorer who died on a subsequent Arctic mission. He descibes his meetings with the traders and local inhabitants in great detail. He relied in large part on local Native Americans as guides and hunters. It was his intention to meet with the Eskimo people, who avoided all contact with his group. The Native Americans refused to accompany the group all the way north due to their fear of the Eskimos. I highly recommend this book.

The Monmouth rebellion of 1685 has a curious place in English history. The Duke of Monmouth, bastard son of King Charles II, lead a confused life of early privation and then royal favor. One could consider him a classic example of late Boroque dysfunctional child and adult! His status as heir to the crown was always an open ended question, an issue further complicated by Charles II's constant changing moods on the matter. Over time Monmouth grew in expereince and matured as something of a soldier, fighting in the confused wars of the 1670s in the Low Countries in the service of the French against the Dutch. His popularity grew in direct contrast to his rival and relation, James II. When Charles died in 1685, James ascended to the English crown. Monmouth, exiled in the low countries after losing favor with his late father was easily enough enticed by disparate elements to attmept a rebellion against the new king. Religion was an importnat factor here as Monmouth was noted for his staunch Protestanism, just as James was an ardent Catholic.

The Monmouth rebellion got off to a quick and bumpy start in the marshlands of Sommerset where various discontented elements of local society were willing to support the Protestant Duke. This support proved fleeting however, as the greater gentry never came out to support him. With time running out, James II managed to put together an effective response. Monmouth was counting on the Royal army diserting the king. There was some reason to be hopeful in this regard, as Monmouth had served as Capitan-General of the Royal army until recently. James was fortunate to have staunch support by such men as John Churchill, Ogolthorpe and Percy Kirke.

With popular support never reaching beyond 5,000 or so in Sommerset and adjoining counties, Monmouth knew that he must win quickly if at all. He gambled on surprising the Royal army at Sedgemoor with a night attack. Unfortunately Monmouth's men were not up to to the task of mounting an effective night assault, and despite the Duke's solid plan, the attack fell apart in the morning light. Sedgemoor became a late 17th century firefight with matchlock muskets popping away ineffectively at each other. The superior discipline of the Royal army under the firm hand of Churchill would ensure defeat of the rebels when the final push of pike took place later in the morning. The Royalist cavalry would further rout and destroy the rebels as they fled the field. The disparity in casuclaties tells the sad story. Nearly 1,300 rebels for less than 300 King's men. Monmouth would see his own end at the Tower in London where exicution awaited. Yet, Segdemoor might have been Monmouth's victory if circumstances and luck had turned a little differently for him.

This book combines social, biographical and military history. Parts are a bit dry at times, but the portrayal of Monmouth's character and the description of the 1685 rebellion are certainly worthwhile. This late 17th century battle holds fascination as a transitional moment in warfare as the matchlock and pike eventually gave way to the plug-bayonet and flintlock musket. Those interested in the period should find this book interesting.

In Letter no.89, Bernard writes to his friend, William of St Thierry, "as I drew myself in my letter to you, so I really am.." That sweet admission characterizes this book. An excellent translation that really LISTENS to Bernard's voice in its 560+ pages. A short essential Introduction by Beverly Mayne Kienzle helps guide the reader toward aspects of interest surrounding Bernard in the letters -- events in Cistercian history, admonitions to his monks, letters on the liturgy,etc. -- and discusses the place held by private letters in monastic literature. The translation lets Bernard live, and live he does! The 'oracle of Christendom' shows himself the most human of humanists, passionate and nearly wild, founding seventy monasteries, securing the recognition of Innocent II, creating the Kinghts Templar, and pouring his preaching to kindle the fire for a second crusade. This book's a worthwhile place to start tracking mediaeval history, by tracking a colossus. Spiffy chronology, bibliography, and table of letters, recipients & dates makes the book easy to access for specific results. The last of the Fathers of the Church, Bernard's real light lies just under the pages, and that's tough for a translator; here's a translation that understands and discloses that essence. As welcomed and vital a book as Gilson's 'Mystical Theology of St Bernard.'

This text provides a quick, concise review of the pimary topics covered on emergency medicine exams. I found it to be a good way to prepare for inservice exams and the written boards.

I find "Redgauntlet" one of the less satisfactory novels in the Waverley series. Certainly, it has the local flavor, the dialect, the imaginative description of evocative landscapes all his novels have, but it is not a blast as some of the others are. The plot involves a fictitious third Jacobite rebellion, and it is interesting to see how Scott (especially in the notes from the Magnum edition, included in this edition) argues this time not for the historicity but for the historical probability of the events described. While Scott is often hailed as the inventor of the historical novel, "Redgauntlet" also shows him to be a forerunner in the historically probable novel--a genre practiced to great effect by our present-day history buff, Umberto Eco.

But probability alone does not a great novel make. Darsie Latimer's character is even less probable than his semi-historical counterparts, such as Edmund Waverley and Henry Morton. And this is strange, since moving further into fictionality, one could argue, a writer might allow themselves more latitude to make a character interesting, even if certain circumstances remain historical. Is this a conscious effort on Scott's part to show, after the fictionality of history, the fictionality of fiction?

Scott disturbs narrative conventions even further when the conspiracy against the Hanoverian King George III completely fails to materialize--ironically, for what seems to be the silliest of reasons: the Pretender (or the Chevalier if you're a Jacobite), Charles Stuart, refuses to give up his mistress. Thus, the main plot of the novel sizzles out and really not much happens in these 400 pages. Mind you, I personally don't need much to happen, but the 19th century novel did. Scott as a postmodern writer? That is pushing it too far, but this novel awaits a postmodern critique enlightened by a reading of Eco and Bakhtin.

That said, there are some really interesting things going on. Apart from the "regular" set of characters of Scott's Scottish novels, this one features an orthodox Quaker who is the epitome of anti-militant mercantilism. The form is also quite new for Scott--the novel is an epistolary, a set of letters between Darsie Latimer and his friend Alan Fairford. Thus, the novel's first-person point of view is split, and this provides for interesting contrasts.

For me, Scott sort of shot himself in the foot with this novel. His earlier novels ("Redgauntlet" is the last of the Scottish novels, written eight years before his death) lead one to expect a major action to happen before the denouement, and this one avoids that a bit too artificially. It seems that Scott was at pains to stick to history, and his own political convictions, a bit too much: a fictitious Jacobite rebellion is OK as a narrative vehicle, but it shouldn't interfere with the peaceful Great Britain (in which Scotland was in many respects subsidiary to England) that Scott himself inhabited and advocated. And so narrative excitement has to give way to Scott's pacifist politics--an honest choice, which Scott consistently maintains in all the Waverley novels--and character development and politics take precedent.

A final note: Scott has always proven himself a masterful and honest critic of royalty and nobility, especially of those characters he seems to love. "Waverley"'s Mac-Ivor is chastised for his political obstinacy, in "The Fortunes of Nigel" King James I (a Scot) is rebuked for his fickleness and corruption, and in "Redgauntlet" the formerly charismatic Stuart proves effeminate and tragic (dying an impoverished alcoholic, in the footnotes). And often enough, these tragic characters are of more interest than the somewhat ineffectual and sometimes foolish main characters: something for readers of literature to sink their teeth into.

We can always rely on the editors at Scott to provide the best in indexing stamps in their catalogue Volumes, even though we may not always agree with their catalogue values. However, for newer Volumes, consider the classifieds in the back of Linn's, where you can pick up a newer and/or a current Volume for what you would have to pay here for one that is a few years old.

In the world of Trinity, the Earth is treatened by various forces: the alien Chromatics, the all powerful and lunatic Aberrants and the crossbreeding Coalition. The Earth has the Psionic orders, humans with great but sometimes limited powers. This book tell us about one of the orders: The Legions. Like an armada of soldiers but with the ability to use their mind with the gift of Psychokinesis. This discipline devides in 3 branches: Pyrokinesis, Cryokinesis and Telekinesis. In the book they explain how the Psion uses this powers and the full structure about the order. Besides being an Order book, it explain us about Australia, the Legion's homebase. From political conflicts to local lifestyles, this book tells us what we need to run a chronicle on Australia. A good book, worth a look.