Alongside famous volcanoes such as Mount Etna in Sicily and Mount St Helens in Washington State, the book features many lesser-known volcanoes across all the continents. Each entry is accompanied with a fascinating caption explaining the geological forces at work, and how the volcano has shaped its surrounding areas across millennia.
The book explores the zhiguai genre, a collection of strange narratives from the Han to Sui dynasties, focusing on encounters with the spirit world and miraculous feats. It examines the authors—ranging from Daoists to Buddhists—and their motivations for documenting these anomalies, revealing how such writings were tied to royal traditions and cultural perspectives. The study offers a comprehensive analysis of these texts within Chinese history and as part of a broader discourse, blending Sinological research with comparative insights to understand their significance and evolution.
Weather offers a photographic view of some of the most spectacular aspects of the weather, from close-up shots of raindrops and snowflakes to beds of fog, from lighthouses turned into ice palaces to frozen forests to lightning bolts striking over water, celebrating the Earth's weather in all its glory.
The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE-800 CE investigates what dreams meant in late classical and early medieval China. Mapping a common dreamscape that underlies manuals of dream interpretation, scriptural instructions, and other texts, Robert Ford Campany sheds light on how people in a distant age wrestled with- and celebrated-the strangeness of dreams.
In Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE-800 CE, Robert Ford Campany examines how dreaming was addressed in texts produced and circulated by practitioners of Daoist, Buddhist, Confucian, and other self-cultivational disciplines. He uncovers paradigms by which dreams are viewed and shows how they underlay diverse religious texts.
The British General Election of 2019 is the definitive account of one of the most consequential and controversial general elections in recent times, when Boris Johnson gambled everything calling an early election to 'Get Brexit Done', and emerged triumphant.