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An Autobiography of Emotion, Mind, and Spirit
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 A...
A Study of Environmental Perceptions, Attitudes, and Values
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...
In Search of the Sublime Landscape
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 m...
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 ...
Common and Uncommon Observations
"Eminent geographer Yi-Fu Tuan's letters to his friends and colleagues - distilling observations, ideas, and experiences - have carried Tuan's insight...
Paradoxes of Progress
Can the individual and society be both moral and imaginative? In Western society the moral person tends to be regarded as either simple and naive or n...
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An Individual's Search for Meaning
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 geosop...
A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values
The Chinese earth is pervasively humanized through long occupation. Signs of man's presence vary from the obvious to the extremely subtle. The buildin...
In 2005, distinguished geographer Yi-Fu Tuan ventured to China to speak at an architectural conference, returning for the first time to the place he h...
Group Life and Individual Consciousness
"[Tuan] explores answers to an old and unanswerable question: how should we live? . . . The Good Life is a little anthology of good feeling, touchston...
A Cosmopolite's Viewpoint
In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, Tuan argues that "cosmos...
From Place to Placelessness
""What does it mean to be religious in the modern world?" This is the question posed by Yi-Fu Tuan, the esteemed humanist geographer. In this, his lat...
Aesthetics Nature And Culture
Conventional wisdom suggests that aesthetic experiences - those moments when the senses come to life - are important only after more basic needs have ...
A Theme in Geoteleology
In his many best-selling books, Yi-Fu Tuan seizes big, metaphysical issues and considers them in uniquely accessible ways. Human Goodness is evidence ...
the making of pets
The Making of Pets
"(Tuan) does a masterful job exploring the condescending human treatment of animals as 'playthings' that exist only for our entertainment. He charts t...
Contemporary Immigrant Artists
a theme in geoteleology
Messages in the Bottle
Yi-Fu Tuan, one of the world’s most honored scholars and the founder of humanist geography, has spent a lifetime exploring the relationship between ...
Maps & Art : 11 September 1999-2 January 2000
An original look at the intersection of map making and artistic creation. While many modern artists have been fascinated by the formal richness, the c...
Maps and Art : September 11, 1999-January 2, 2000