Philosophers have been greatly concerned with the nature of explanation, but no account has been fully satisfactory within science or plausible in the wider world. The author asserts that this is due to a misplaced focus and that instead of focusing on explanation, philosophers should consider understanding. This work outlines his theory and defends it against some objections. Attempts to understand understanding can become self-referential, but the book is intended to enable readers to build a good mental model of the author's theory.

A Theory of Understanding: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy)

Politics & Social Sciences

Chart, David

Philosophy

Ashgate Pub Ltd

A Theory of Understanding: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives (Routledge Revivals)

Routledge

"My story is the same as every vampire's: blood, pain and the dance. Only thing that makes me special is the way I tell it." -- Rembrandt, The Vampire of Druid Hill This book includes: * Guidelines for new and old Storytellers alike, making it easy and exciting to create your own unique Vampire chronicles * New ways to play Vampire, including new game mechanics and optional rules to redefine your Storytelling experience * A dozen ready-to-use chronicle seeds with stories and antagonists for Storytellers to customize for their own use Requiem Chronicler's Guide is a 192 page supplement for Vampire: The Requiem.

Vampire Chroniclers Guide *OP

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Achilli, Justin

Gaming

White Wolf Publishing

"A gameplay expansion and setting book, Do battle with barbarian vampires, uncover the secrets of mystery cults, rule a family of the Roman aristocracy and change the course of Kindred history in the Necropolis beneath Rome"

Requiem for Rome: Vampire - The Requiem

Fawkes, Ray

Wendig, Chuck

Ingham, Howard

Hindmarch, Will

Bailey, Russell

"A gameplay expansion and setting book. Learn about the true origins of three of the modern covenants and witness the spectacle of ancient betrayal and devastation. Play the chronicle from multiple perspectives, as heroes of the doomed Camarilla or instigators of the final collapse."

Vampire Fall of the Camarilla *OP (Vampire the Requiem)

Ingham, Wood

Fantasy

Valorous and loyal, serving his god, his lord, and his lady, the knight is the archetypal hero. Not for him cunning words or tricks, nor disguises and ambushes. The knight faces his enemies boldly on the field of combat. The knight's life is one of quests, tournaments, and epic battles recounted in poems for the pleasure of his lady-love.
 The classic image of a knight is a paladin in shining plate armor, mounted on a warhorse. But knights can range far from this stereotype; members of any character class, social class, race, or sex can follow the path of chivalry. This sourcebook investigates chivalry in detail, giving knightly options for PCs and ideas for the GMs to use in designing adventures.
 Love and War features:
<li>Discussions of the four knightly virtues - Valor, Loyalty, Piety, and Love - including prestige classes, orders of chivalry, and specialized feats and magic items for each. Become a valorous Dragonbane Knight dedicated to battling monsters, a loyal Knight of the Fountain who serves the king-in-exile, a pious knight of the Sun Goddess, or an amorous knight devotee of the lady Iphigenia, who lived two hundred years ago and was abducted by a powerful outsider. 
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<li>Sections on knighthood and race that discuss how you can become a member of the dwarven Granite Wall order that defends a mountain kingdom, the halfling Order of the Sun that spreads the fame of its members’ deeds, or the Order of the Nightingale that protects the elven queen. 
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<li>Exceptional examples of knighthood, such as arcane spellcasters, female knights, lover pairs, and dark knights who twist and pervert the chivalric virtues. 
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<li>Guidelines for creating your own knightly prestige class and order of chivalry, as well as rules for tournaments, quests, tracking renown, and courtly battles of wit.</li>

Love and War (Penumbra/D20)

Literature & Fiction

Atlas Games

The covenant of Fanum has broken the Code of Hermes by interfering with the mundane population of Germany. Their interference has resulted in the near-destruction of another covenant, and now the members of Fanum have been summoned before the Rhine tribunal to face Hermetic justice. 
 You are that tribunal. The Fallen Fane is a live-action Ars Magica scenario for 12 to 24 players. It's equally suitable for Ars Magica veterans and those who have never played the game before, and can be run in an afternoon.

The Fallen Fane (Ars Magica Fantasy Roleplaying)

Mythic Europe is a place of heroism and cowardice, honor and betrayal, wonder and horror. Introduce this full range of possibility into your saga's stories with Tales of Mythic Europe, a collection of short adventures for Ars Magica Fifth Edition. 
From a ship plagued by a faerie, to a noblewoman plagued by her neighbors. From a village facing a feud, to a town facing unnatural murders. From the godly machinations of churchmen, to the diabolic machinations of demons. Combat, politics, magic, and mystery fill the stories in Tales of Mythic Europe, to help you reach the furthest limits of Mythic Europe in your own game.

Tales of Mythic Europe (Ars Magica 5E)

Masters, Phil

Ferguson, Timothy

White, Alexander

RYAN, MATT

Lawford, Mark

There was a time when the people of Egypt worshiped animal-headed gods and built mighty tombs at the command of their pharaoh. That time ended 1,500 years ago. Now, Egypt is a Muslim nation, ruled by a sultan from the new city of Cairo. The Guild of Seekers have the sultan's blessing to dig up the land's ancient treasures. To the South, Nubia is a Christian country, protected from Muslim armies by an ancient treaty. The empire of Ethiopia is resurgent, its Christian ruler inspired by his pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Follow the Nile The lands of the Nile hold some of the oldest cultures in the world, no less vigorous in the medieval period than in the ancient past. This book includes rules for Egyptian tombs and their treasures, the forbidden corpse magic of Nubian pyramids, and the wonders of Nubian alchemy. Play as natives or visitors from Europe. Use the setting as somewhere for your characters to be from or as a destination for adventure. Lands of the Nile adds color to your Ars Magica Fifth Edition saga.

Lands of the Nile: Egypt, Ethiopia & Nubia (Ars Magica 5E)

McFarland, Ben

Shirley, Mark

Ars Magica ("The Art of Magic") is the award-winning roleplaying game that focuses on wizards who are as powerful as the ones we know from legend and literature, and the land of Mythic Europe, where those legends are real. The rules encourage players to develop their characters over long periods of time, and make the covenant, the home base of the characters, as central to the stories as any individual character. Troupe-style roleplaying allows players to take on the roles of different characters in different stories, so that the players have equal access to power even though the characters do not. This new edition is rewritten to improve the rules for existing players, and to be more attractive and accessible to new audiences.

Ars Magica, Fifth Edition (Ars Magica Fantasy Roleplaying)

Tweet, Jonathan

Rein-Hagen, Mark

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