Presents a comprehensive visual dictionary with over six thousand color pictures that illustrate the meaning of thirty-five thousand terms in English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian.

"David Leeming introduces the many mythologies of the Asian continent. Traveling through these pages, the reader may encounter the supreme Gautama Buddha; the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesa; Chang O, the Lunar Toad and Chinese goddess of the Moon; the sacred Cambodian ruins of Angkor; and golden Mount Meru, home of the Hindu gods. Myths like the Stone and the Banana of Indonesian origin and the Indian Churning of the Ocean of Milk are likewise represented...

Queen and the rebels: To the victims of three wars political necessity is a shabby excuse for totalitarian ruthlessness, and the courtesan Argia has suffered enough from brutal masters to despise them all, aristocrats and proletarians (who are now in power and hunting for the Queen). Ironically they think the courtesan's the Queen, mistaking her poise and open disdain for inborn royalty. They're doubly deluded as the real Queen is a pitiful, whimpering...