Tiamat - livre de règles


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Depuis l'aube des temps, des combattants exceptionnels s'affrontent dans une guerre sans fin pour la conquête de l'Univers. Tiamat, la plus terrifiante d'entre eux, dirigea des cohortes de soldats et balaya ceux qui se mettaient en travers de son chemin. Alors qu'elle était sur le point d'anéantir notre monde, le maître de guerre Enlil, Son frère Enki, Ereshkigal la faucheuse et le seigneur Sîn unirent leurs forces. Tentant le tout pour le tout, il réussirent à vaincre Tiamat.Après des millénaires, ces événements se sont fait légendes et ces combattants hors du commun sont devenus des Grands Maîtres immortels enseignant leurs arts du combat à leur loyaux soldats.Dans le jeu de rôle Tiamat, les personnages sont des combattants en arts martiaux. Ils devront apprendre à maîtriser des techniques de combats ancestrales afin d'éviter l'apocalypse.




Faith Conquers


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Faith Conquers kicks off the release of the highly anticipated Iron Empires role-playing game, as well as a series of new Iron Empires adventures in the months to follow. Volume 1 collects the 4 part series originally titled Shadow Empires, and features the three-part story The Passage, now in full colour for the first time!




The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings


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(New revised edition) Considered the classic and comprehensive work in reckoning the accession of kings, calendars, and coregencies based upon the Old Testament text and other extra-biblical sources.




The Revolutions of Wisdom


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G.E.R. Lloyd's wide-ranging and historical study of the development of Greek science is a valuable contribution to current debates in the philosophy of language, on the analysis of scientific revolutions, and the rationality of science.




The Life of Insects


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Set in a crumbling Soviet Black Sea resort, The Life of Insects with its motley cast of characters who exist simultaneously as human beings (racketeers, mystics, drug addicts and prostitutes) and as insects, extended the surreal comic range for which Pelevin's first novel Omon Ra was acclaimed by critics. With consummate literary skill Pelevin creates a satirical bestiary which is as realistic as it is delirious - a bitter parable of contemporary Russia, full of the probing, disenchanted comedy that makes Pelevin a vital and altogether surprising writer.




Kierkegaard's Writings, IX, Volume 9


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Prefaces was the last of four books by Søren Kierkegaard to appear within two weeks in June 1844. Three Upbuilding Discourses and Philosophical Fragments were published first, followed by The Concept of Anxiety and its companion--published on the same day--the comically ironic Prefaces. Presented as a set of prefaces without a book to follow, this work is a satire on literary life in nineteenth-century Copenhagen, a lampoon of Danish Hegelianism, and a prefiguring of Kierkegaard's final collision with Danish Christendom. Shortly after publishing Prefaces, Kierkegaard began to prepare Writing Sampler as a sequel. Writing Sampler considers the same themes taken up in Prefaces but in yet a more ironical and satirical vein. Although Writing Sampler remained unpublished during his lifetime, it is presented here as Kierkegaard originally envisioned it, in the company of Prefaces.




Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor


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This original study challenges the idea that sanctuaries in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor were fully institutionalized within the poleis that hosted them. Examining the forms of interaction between rulers, cities, and sanctuaries, the book proposes a triangular relationship in which the rulers often acted as mediators between differing interests of city and cult. A close analysis of the epigraphical evidence illustrates that neither the Hellenistic kings nor the representatives of Roman rule appropriated the property of the gods but actively supported the functioning of the sanctuaries and their revenues. The powerful role of the sanctuaries was to a large extent based on economic features, which the sanctuaries possessed precisely because of their religious character. Nevertheless, a study of the finances of the cults reveals frequent problems concerning the upkeep of cults and a particular need to guard the privileges and property of the gods. Their situation oscillated between glut and dearth. When the harmonious identity between city and cult was disturbed, those closely attached to the cult acted on behalf of their domain.




Beacons Beyond


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Pisidian Antioch


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The city of Pisidian Antioch was founded in the hellenistic period by the Seleucids, in what is now south-west Turkey. Under the emperor Augustus it became the most important Roman colony of the eastern empire. The city flourished until the sixth century AD. It has left dramatic and extensive ruins. This comprehensive and fully-illustrated study, a sequel to Mitchell's Cremna in Pisidia, is based on a new survey of the site. It also includes the results of the most recent Turkish field work as well as detailed information from the important but unpublished 1924 excavation by the University of Michigan.