Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "biography"
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Delivering the Lotus-Born: Historiography in the Tibetan Renaissance
(2013-02-19)Traditionally recognized as the first of the great Buddhist treasure revealers, Nyang-rel Nyima Özer (1124-1192) historiographically reconstructed the Imperium into a golden age of Tibetan Buddhism. An analysis of his two ... -
\(Nakano Seig\bar{o}\) and the Politics of Democracy, Empire and Fascism in Prewar and Wartime Japan
(2013-01-02)The subject of this dissertation is the life and career of \(Nakano Seig\bar{o}\), a Japanese journalist and politician born in Fukuoka-city on the southwestern island of \(Ky\bar{u}sh\bar{u}\) in 1886. Initially a liberal ... -
Profiles in Science for Science Librarians: Paul Callistus Sereno
(Informa UK Limited, 2017)Paul Sereno is one of the better-known paleontologists of our time. His expeditions have taken him around the world, and he has discovered new dinosaurs – and other ancient creatures – in places as far-flung as Argentina, ...