Features examples from all styles of Japanese screen painting, ranging from monochrome ink paintings to richly coloured scenes with gold backgrounds

Chapters have such headings as: Stories, Science, Technology, Evolution, and Ethics.

A new world imagined -- Native peoples of the Americas -- Europe and the Americas -- Africa, the New East, Asia, and the Americas.

Taking an inter-disciplinary approach, Spruyt explains the political organization of three non-European international societies from early modernity to the late

Now in paperback, a bewitching collection of stories and novellas that are “suspenseful, thought-provoking, mystical, and haunting” (Publishers Weekly) Rang