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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 5694050" data-attributes="member: 1131">Greetings!Thanks very much, my friend! Indeed, this modest list of books are a portion of my personal library. I own and have read all of the books listed. I used more than a few of them for numerous academic classes that I completed at California State University, Long Beach, in the process of gaining degrees in Ancient & Medieval History, and a sub-specialty in Asian History, as well as a Bachelor's Certificate in Medieval Studies.All of these books are professional, top-notch academic books, peer-reviewed and all that good stuff. I should also note, of some interest, that a decent selection of the books from the list also includes many *primary* sources. Without boring other good readers here, suffice to say that academics and knowledgeable history buffs understand and appreciate the distinctions between *Primary*, *Secondary* and *Tertiary* sources..all of which, in university-level academics and professional publishing, possess a sort of quality of source rank structure, and have distinct properties involved in evaluating the particular subject material, which in turn provides a basis and foundation for what kind of reasonably considered and supported conclusions and arguments a person can make about whatever the topic in question is.Anyways...lots of neat stuff here. As noted, I had to read all of these books for research and academic classes--which I was usually overjoyed to do, naturally--and along the journey, I am glad to report, there is a wealth of just mind-boggling great stuff for D&D campaigns, which I of course have taken due note of, and diligently incorporated into my own campaigns.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I can assure anyone here that your purchase of any of these books is money well-spent, and time well-invested. Semper Fidelis,SHARK</blockquote>

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