(Hardback)

This book uses the medium of film to explore poetic history as a subtle form of psychology expressed within Islamic and Japanese civilizations. It develops this poetic history as a nuanced alternative logic for understanding, and, more importantly, metabolizing the past through juxtaposed images, rather than linear cause-and-effect narrative.

(Hardback)

Emotions are at the core of human actions. The Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, the world's largest interdisciplinary research center on emotions, studied ten emotions from various aspects. This book features the social arena of these emotions, showing people who have to cope with them in the photographs of contemporary artists.