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Space and Place
The Perspective of Experience
Av Yi-Fu Tuan
Häftad, 2001
239 kr
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A study of the ways in which people feel and think about space, how they form attachments to home, neighborhood, and nation, and how feelings about space and place are affected by the sense of time."Since it is the breadth and universality of his argument that concerns Yi-Fu Tuan, experience is …
Romantic Geography
Av Yi-Fu Tuan
Inbunden, 2014
289 kr
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Geography is useful, indeed necessary, to survival. Everyone must know where to find food, water, and a place of rest, and, in the modern world, all must make an effort to make the Earth—our home—habitable. But much present-day geography lacks drama, with its maps and statistics, descriptions and …
Human Goodness
Av Yi-Fu Tuan
Häftad, 2026
258 kr
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In his many best-selling books, Yi-Fu Tuan seizes big, metaphysical issues and considers them in uniquely accessible ways. Human Goodness is evidence of this talent and is both as simple, and as epic, as it sounds.Genuinely good people and their actions, Tuan contends, are far from boring, naive, …
Who Am I?
An Autobiography of Emotion, Mind, and Spirit
Av Yi-fu Tuan
Häftad, 2009
217 kr
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Who Am I? is the bittersweet memoir of a Chinese American who came to this country as a twenty-year-old graduate student and stayed to become one of America's most innovative intellectuals, whose work has explored the aesthetic and moral dimensions of human relations with landscape, nature, and …
Romantic Geography
In Search of the Sublime Landscape
Av Yi-Fu Tuan
Häftad, 2026
206 kr
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Yi-Fu Tuan established a global reputation for deepening the field of geography by examining its moral, universal, philosophical, and poetic potentials and implications. In Romantic Geography, he considers the human tendency to find salvation in geographies that cater not so much to survival needs …
Coming Home to China
Av Yi-Fu Tuan
Häftad, 2007
252 kr
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In the summer of 2005, distinguished geographer Yi-Fu Tuan ventured to China to speak at an international architectural conference, returning for the first time to the place he had left as a child sixty-four years before. He traveled from Beijing to Shanghai, addressing college audiences, floating …
Historical Geography of China
Av Yi-Fu Tuan
Häftad, 2008
831 kr
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The Chinese earth is pervasively humanized through long occupation. Signs of man's presence vary from the obvious to the extremely subtle. The building of roads, bridges, dams, and factories, and the consolidation of farm holdings alter the Chinese landscape and these alterations seem all the more …
Topophilia
A Study of Environmental Perceptions, Attitudes, and Values
Av Yi-Fu Tuan
Häftad, 1990
321 kr
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What are the links between environment and world view? Topophilia, the affective bond between people and place, is the primary theme of this book that examines environmental perceptions and values at different levels: the species, the group, and the individual. Yi-Fu Tuan holds culture and …
Human Goodness
Av Yi-fu Tuan
Inbunden, 2008
289 kr
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In his many best-selling books, Yi-Fu Tuan seizes big, metaphysical issues and considers them in uniquely accessible ways. ""Human Goodness"" is evidence of this talent and is both as simple, and as epic, as it sounds.Genuinely good people and their actions, Tuan contends, are far from boring, …
Dominance and Affection
The Making of Pets
Av Yi-Fu Tuan
Häftad, 1984
389 kr
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Is it cruelty or playfulness to breed a variety of goldfish with dysfunctional bulging eyes? Was it an urge for dominance or benevolence that led ladies of eighteenth-century England to keep finely dressed black boys as their pets? Can we be said to abuse a plant when part of our pleasure lies in …
Landscapes of Fear
Av Yi-Fu Tuan
E-bok, 2013
110 kr
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To be human is to experience fear, but what is it exactly that makes us fearful? Here is one geographer’s striking exploration of our landscapes of fear as they change throughout our lives and have changed throughout history. Yi-fu Tuan investigates landscapes of the natural environment which are …
Escapism
Av Yi-Fu Tuan
Häftad, 2000
368 kr
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In prehistoric times, our ancestors began building shelters and planting crops in order to escape from nature's harsh realities. Today, we flee urban dangers for the safer, reconfigured world of suburban lawns and parks. According to geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, people have always sought to escape in one …
Hydrologic Cycle and the Wisdom of God
A Theme in Geoteleology
Av Yi-Fu Tuan
Häftad, 1968
274 kr
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This is the first volume of a new series of research publications in geography which is published for the Department of Geography, University of Toronto. The Hydrologic Cycle and the Wisdom of God traces the development of the idea of the hydrologic cycle in the context of natural theology. The …
Cosmos and Hearth
A Cosmopolite's Viewpoint
Av Yi-Fu Tuan
Häftad, 1999
274 kr
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In a volume that represents the culmination of his life’s work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, eminent scholar Yi-Fu Tuan argues that “cosmos” and “hearth” are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and happily human. Illustrating this contention with …
Landscapes of Fear
Av Yi-Fu Tuan
Häftad, 2013
296 kr
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To be human is to experience fear, but what is it exactly that makes us fearful? Landscapes of Fear-written immediately after his classic Space and Place-is renowned geographer Yi-Fu Tuan’s influential exploration of the spaces of fear and of how these landscapes shift during our lives and vary …
Humanist Geography
An Individual's Search for Meaning
Av Yi-Fu Tuan
Häftad, 2012
330 kr
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For more than fifty years, Yi-Fu Tuan has carried the study of humanistic geography - what John K. Wright early in the twentieth century called geosophy, a blending of geography and philosophy - to new heights, offering with each new book a fresh and often unique intellectual introspection into the …
Historical Geography of China
Av Yi-Fu Tuan
Inbunden, 2017
2585 kr
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The Chinese earth is pervasively humanized through long occupation. Signs of man's presence vary from the obvious to the extremely subtle. The building of roads, bridges, dams, and factories, and the consolidation of farm holdings alter the Chinese landscape and these alterations seem all the more …
Historical Geography of China
Av Yi-Fu Tuan
E-bok, 2017
960 kr
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The Chinese earth is pervasively humanized through long occupation. Signs of man''s presence vary from the obvious to the extremely subtle. The building of roads, bridges, dams, and factories, and the consolidation of farm holdings alter the Chinese landscape and these alterations seem all the more …
Historical Geography of China
Av Yi-Fu Tuan
E-bok, 2017
981 kr
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The Chinese earth is pervasively humanized through long occupation. Signs of man''s presence vary from the obvious to the extremely subtle. The building of roads, bridges, dams, and factories, and the consolidation of farm holdings alter the Chinese landscape and these alterations seem all the more …
Hydrologic Cycle and the Wisdom of God
A Theme in Geoteleology
Av Yi-Fu Tuan
E-bok, 1968
351 kr
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This is the first volume of a new series of research publications in geography which is published for the Department of Geography, University of Toronto. The Hydrologic Cycle and the Wisdom of God traces the development of the idea of the hydrologic cycle in the context of natural theology. The …
Passing Strange and Wonderful
Aesthetics, Nature and Culture
Av Yi-fu Tuan
Inbunden, 1994
359 kr
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In this rich and rewarding work, Yi-Fu Tuan vividly demonstrates that feeling and beauty are essential components of life and society. The aesthetic is not merely one aspect of culture but its central core -- both its driving force and its ultimate goal.Beginning with the individual and his …
Last Launch
Messages in the Bottle
Av Yi-Fu Tuan
Häftad, 2015
334 kr
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Can Yi-Fu Tuan, one of the world's most decorated geographers, from the aspen glow of retirement and a distinguished career, hold the interest of young readers who themselves are just now embarking on their own sojourns into the larger world? The question is all the more important for Professor …
Place, Art, and Self
A Second Look
Av Yi-Fu Tuan
Häftad, 2027
312 kr
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Yi-Fi Tuan (1930–2022) was one of the world's most influential and decorated scholars who transformed the study and understanding of place through his thirty seminal books in humanistic geography and environmental perception. Among his most notable books was Place, Art, and Self, a small, …
Last Launch
Messages in the Bottle
Av Yi-Fu Tuan
Häftad, 2015
315 kr
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Yi-Fu Tuan has spent a lifetime as a writer, teacher, and scholar exploring the relationship between the places and spaces that surround us and the inner self. In particular, he has shown, in his twenty-two previous books, what it means to achieve human dignity within the varied communities we …