Signs of life -- Eyes wide open -- Ages of elegance -- Jade and bronze -- The human measure -- Roads to empire -- Suffering and desire -- Golden saints -- The name of the prophet -- Invaders and inventors -- Serpents, skulls, standing stones -- Sound and light -- Travellers in the mist -- Spellbound -- The new life -- The ordering of vision -- Spectular small things -- Bronze kings -- Some kind of genius -- Shadows and power -- An open window -- Choosing to be human -- The poetic impulse -- Everyday revolutions -- Mountains and oceans -- New worlds -- After the trauma.