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An accessible new guide to understanding Chinese paintings through 36 diverse masterpieces that span 1,000 years from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

This comprehensive volume examines the career of Wang Hui––the most celebrated painter of late-17th-century China––and his innovative contributions to landscape painting.

Featuring more than 200 works and previously unpublished primary documents, this groundbreaking book is the first to examine art made in China during the Cultural Revolution.

During the years 1865 to 1915, the British and Dutch delineated colonial spheres and in the process created new frontiers. This book analyzes the development of these frontiers in insular Southeast Asia and inquires into the growth of vast, secret economies based on smuggling forbidden cargo (such as opium, counterfeit currency, and human beings) across the porous ne...

One of the first events of decolonization in the twentieth century, the Great Partition of 1947 was also one of the most bloody. In this sweeping reappraisal of India’s liberation from British rule and the emergence of Pakistan, Yasmin Khan uncovers the recklessness of the Partition plan, its catastrophic human...

This handsome book provides an overview of the history of Japanese paintings of nature and demonstrates the range of sty...

One of the first illustrated surveys in English of modern-era Japanese crafts––including ceramics, lacquerware, metalcraft, and wood––this book discusses the artists and ideas that shaped the aesthetic of 20th-century Japan.

Best-selling author Dr. Mark Epstein here offers insights on the interface between Buddhist teachings and Western psychotherapy. Immersed in both worlds, he has sought for twenty-five years to bridge the two, and in these essays shows that Buddhist thought and Western psychology are more compatible than at first it may appear.

In this pathbreaking book, a leading historian of science and medicine presents convincing evidence that Dutch commerce—not religion—inspired the rise of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Harold J. Cook taps vast archival evidence to show how commerce in the Dutch Golden Age changed citizens’ values and triggered the Scientific Revolution.

This dazzling book presents the most complete and magnificently photographed natural history tour of China ever offered. China’s array of wildlife habitats is the most diverse in the world, and the volume presents up-to-date, fascinating commentary on the animals, plants, and landscapes of every region.

The ill-fated dodo was extinct within 50 years of human settlement on the Mascarene Islands, and many other native species soon followed suit. This book uncovers the fascinating and disturbing ecological history of the islands for the first time and presents superb color paintings of extinct species by reconstructive artist Julian Hume.

Translated into seventeen languages since its first publication in 1936, E. H. Gombrich’s bestselling history of the world is at last available in English. Gombrich tells the story of mankind from the Stone Age to the atomic bomb, focusing not on small detail but on the sweep of human experience, the extent of human achievement, and the depth of its frailty.