Shio is forced by the tragedy of the machine war to team up with a mysterious girl from another world whose blood is the color red, just like the prophecies proclaim. Is this girl the human race's last hope for survival in a world overrun by metal? -- VIZ Media

The girl who could be the Kami is kidnapped by a trio of mysterious sages. To save her, Shio must join forces with a former opponent and battle through a slew of ever-more-powerful renegade Guardians! -- VIZ Media

Shio and friends are on their way to the Spider's Thread to rescue the girl he now calls Kami, but before they can do that Shio must battle more powerful Guardians and learn the true history of Wāqwāq! -- VIZ Media

Shio's battles have brought him to the brink of death and back again. Now he must use every ounce of power he has left to save the Kami, his people and his world! But whose wish will ultimately come true? The conclusion to Wāqwāq begins now! The final fate of both man and machine is revealed! -- VIZ Media

Armed with his new weapon, the Dashinben, Taikobo seeks revenge on the demon Dakki and her sinister sisters. He finds out much more about the godlike Sennins--and what may have really happened to his clan. But looking for survivors only means falling further into Dakki's darkness. -- VIZ Media

Presented in six principal analytic chapters with supporting appendices, this book explores the role of Islam in precipitating Europe's twelfth century commercial renaissance. Employing the classic analytic techniques of economics, Gene Heck determines that medieval Europe's feudal interregnum was largely caused by indigenous governmental business regulation and not by shifts in international trade patterns. He then proceeds by demonstrating how Islamic economic precepts provided the ideological rationales that empowered medieval Europe to escape its three-centuries-long experiment in "Dark Age economics" ― in the process, providing the West with its archetypic tools of capitalism. While treatises such as Maxime Rodinson's excellent book, Islam and Capitalism, document the capitalistic nature of the Islamic economic system, in applying modern economic method to medieval orientalist historiography, this work is unique in capturing both the evolution and the impact of the system's role in forging medieval history.