India's Punjab is the land of the five rivers, five (Punj) rivers (Aab) - Ravi, Satluj, Chenab, Beas and Jhelum. It is also the birthplace of Max Kandhola's family, who historically were landowners, with connections to farming, agriculture and also to the military. Max Kandhola decided to go back to Punjab after completing his project "Illustration of Life" (2002) in which he documented his father's last moments of life, and reflected on issues within Sikh ritual, immortality and death. Over the last four years, he has visited the region as part of a continuing project to map family history through an odyssey of ancestral narratives, exploring memory, diaspora and identity. For him it is a land which is unfamiliar, yet it provides both a context and a beginning. Kandhola's journey began in Nurmahal, in the district of Jalandhar, from which most of his family originally came. Using this as a starting point he travelled from the centre of Punjab outwards.

Jao Tsung-i was China's last great traditional man of letters, polymath, and pioneer of comparative humanistic inquiry during Hong Kong's global heyday. Dunhuang is China's traditional northwest frontier and overland conduit of exchange with the Old World. In this volume, Jao proposes an entirely new school of Chinese landscape painting, reconsiders Dunhuang's oldest manuscripts as its newest research field, and explores topics ranging from comparative religion to medieval multimedia.

From Zappa hurting someone to Kurt Cobain hurting himself. From trees of peace (except one) to bicycles of terrorism and crappy nappies, this book contains everything you ever need to know - and some things you wish you didn't This is to be Sexton Ming's first ever mass market paperback, and the first book ever to be devoted to his strange and wonderful drawings. Ming is a writer/musician/painter extraordinaire and his meandering mind can take you on an otherworldly journey steeped in so much black humour, tangential weirdness and biting observation of the human race it makes this world a much better place. He is little known in mainstream culture but is in fact world famous. He was a founding member of the Medway Poets, has appeared on over 20 albums, painted some of the strangest paintings in the world, supported Sonic Youth live, was called a failed intellectual by Ralph Steadman, once saved Billy Childish's life