“…The Sinews of Habsburg Power traces the development of the central European Habsburg monarchy into one of early modern Europe's leading powers. …”

Table of Contents: “…Clash of Empires -- Part III. Sinews of Empire -- Part IV. Frontiers and Wars of Exhaustion -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Glossary of Terms -- Glossary of Place-Names -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A Note on the Type…”

Table of Contents: “…At the dawn of a new century : the Spains around 1300 -- Medieval Spain in the late middle ages : society and economy -- The answers of politics : Spain, 1300 to 1350 -- Towards Trastámara Spain, 1350-1412 -- Spain in the fifteenth century : towards the rule of the Catholic monarchs, 1412-1469 -- The sinews of power : administration, politics, and display -- Muslims, Jews, and Christians in a century of crisis -- Culture and society in an age of crisis…”

Table of Contents: “…Monama -- Militarised politics, economic consequences and the implosion of state legitimacy under apartheid / Ian Liebenberg and Francois de Wet -- Preparing military personnel, the key to unlocking a nation's defence, military and fighting potential / Abel Esterhuyse -- Preparing for war, the readiness debate and the South African National Defence Force / Francois Vreÿ -- Casualites are a given, prepare for them / Thean Potgieter and Shadrack Ramokgadi -- Geography and the conduct of war / Hennie Janse van Rensburg and Hennie Smit -- Flying blind, intelligence, defence planning and the conduct of war / Benjamin Mokoena -- Logistics, the 'sinews of war' / Thean Potgieter and Ishmael Theletsane -- Borderlands and internal conflict, from theory to the reality of contemporary conflicts / Francois Vreÿ -- Military intervention justified? …”

Table of Contents: “…Preliminary Material / Introduction / A Survey of Images from the Chinese Medical Classics / Picturing the Body in Chinese Medical and Daoist Texts from the Song to the Qing Period (10th to 19th Centuries) / Imagining Practice: Sense and Sensuality in Early Chinese Medical Illustration / The Iconography of Time: What the Visualisation of Efficacious Movement (Shi 勢) Tells Us about the Composition of the Yijin Jing 易筋經 (Canon for Supple Sinews) / Nurturing the Foetus in Medieval China: Illustrating the 10 Months of Pregnancy in the Ishimpō 醫心方 / The Gendered Medical Iconography of the Golden Mirror, Yuzuan Yizong Jinjian 御纂醫宗金鑑, 1742 / The Limits of Illustration: Animalia and Pharmacopeia from Guo Pu to Bencao Gangmu 本草綱目 / Observational Drawing and Fine Art in Chinese Materia Medica Illustration / Reading Visual Imagery and Written Sources on Acupuncture and Moxibustion / The Fine Art of the Tongue / Diagnostic Images of the Tongue: Aetiology and Pathology Made Visible / A Brief Introduction to Illustration in the Literature of Surgery and Traumatology in Chinese Medicine / Polychrome Illustrations in the Ming Bencao Literature / Illustrations of Drug Collection and Preparation in Buyi Lei Gong Paozhi Bianlan 補遺雷公炮製便覽 / The Relationship between Chinese Erotic Art and the Art of the Bedchamber: A Preliminary Survey / The Vital Role of Illustration in the Literature of Childhood Smallpox / Picturing Medicine in Daily life: Court and Commoner Perspectives in Song Era Paintings / Images of Healing, Hygiene and the Cultivation of the Body in the Dunhuang Cave Murals / Travelling Light: Sino-Tibetan Moxa-Cautery from Dunhuang / Chasing the Vermilion Bird: Late Medieval Alchemical Transformations in The Treasure Book of Ilkhan on Chinese Science and Techniques / Fanciful Images from Abroad: Picturing the Other in Bencao Pinhui Jingyao 本草品彙精要 / Chinese Horse Medicine: Texts and Illustrations / Korean Anatomical Charts in the Context of the East Asian Medical Tradition / Imagining Acupuncture: Images and the Early Westernisation of Asian Medical Expertise / The Body of Laozi and the Course of a Taoist Journey Through the Heavens / Clinical Medicine Texts: The Earliest Stone Medical Inscription / Embodying Animal Spirits in the Vital Organs: Daoist Alchemy in Chinese Medicine / A Phoenix Amid the Flames: Mount Emei Big Dipper Finger-Point Method, Daoyin and Qigong / Moving towards Perfection: Physical Culture in Dzogchen as Revealed in Tibet’s Lukhang Murals…”

Table of Contents: “…On the Emergence of the †̃ Créature ' Peter Stuppa -- Katrin Keller -- 17 The Besenval Family: Constants and Changes in Its Military Entrepreneurial Activities (1650–1800) -- Julien Grand -- Comment: The Sinew of War -- Regula Schmid -- Index…”

“…It foregrounds vital touchpoints for contemporary studies of affect, from the visceral elements of climate emergency and the sensorial sinews of networked media to the minor feelings entangled with listening, looking, thinking, writing, and teaching otherwise. …”