George 武井 穂郷〈たけい ほさと〉Takei, “They Called Us Enemy”, 2019 was graphic novel & biography of the Japanese-American WW-II internment. Born name Hosato Takei 武井 穂郷 (in Japanese characters), George Takei as a child (as depicted in the graphic above) was forced under “Executive Order 9066” of 19 February 1942 into internment camps with 120,000 … Continue reading George 武井 穂郷〈たけい ほさと〉Takei, “They Called Us Enemy”, 2019.
Terrien de Lacouperie, “The Old Babylonian Characters and their Chinese Derivatives”, 1888 was the topic of an earlier blog post. Epiphanes Ptolemy V, “Rosetta Stone ロゼッタ石: The Petroglyph”, 196 BC is the subject of this blog post. Petroglyphs are rock surfaces (shown in the photo below) of which part of the surface is removed (by … Continue reading Epiphanes Ptolemy V, “Rosetta Stone ロゼッタ石: The Petroglyph”, 169 BC.
Amy 植松 Uyematsu, “Nights of Fire, Nights of Rain (Poems)”, 1997 was a collection of English poetry. I attended the “annual author luncheon” in 2012 at the Little Tokyo Branch Library of the Los Angeles Public Library. Amy Uyematsu was the writer recognized for the 2012 award, which was the 26th award beginning in 1989 … Continue reading Amy 植松 Uyematsu, “Nights of Fire, Nights of Rain (Poems)”, 1997.
Arthur Koestler, “Act of Creation“, 1964 book was the subject of an earlier blog post. The “Creativity Curve” (shown in the diagram below) was presented by Arthur Koestler. At the center of the line is “anthropology”. There are five subjects on either side of “anthropology”. “Anthropology”, ‘history”, and “biography” are linear topics of the … Continue reading Diana Meyers-Bahr, “The Unquiet Nisei: An Oral History of the Life of Sue Kunitomi-Embrey”, 2007.
Cyril Darlington, “Chromosome Botany: and, the Origin of Cultivated Plants”, 1963 was a nonfiction, botanical book on the 10,000 BC origin of farmed plants. Cyril Dean Darlington was a genetics researcher who studied the DNA (shown above) of plant chromosomes. Darlington was among the first to propose a model for the chromosome organelle with the … Continue reading Cyril Darlington, “Chromosome Botany: and, the Origin of Cultivated Plants“, 1963.
