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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 environment. This unusually introspective autobiography mixes Yi-Fu Tuan's reflections on a life filled with recognition, accolades, and even affection...

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The Chinese earth is pervasively humanized through long occupation

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 environment and topophilia and environment as distinct in order to show how they mutually contribute to the formation of values. Topophilia examines the sear...

«Elegí la geografía porque siempre me he preguntado, acaso hasta la obsesión, sobre el significado de la existencia: quiero saber qué es lo que hacemos aquí, qué queremos de la vida.»Yi-Fu Tuan es uno de los pensadores más influyentes en la actualidad y, sin embargo, pocas personas han oído hablar de él. Con una voz crítica pero sosegada, marcada por el desarraigo del exilio, ha renovado el campo de la geografía suscitando la reflexión sobre c...

For more than fifty years, Yi-Fu Tuan has carried the study of humanistic geography - a blending of geography and philosophy - to new heights, offering with each new book a fresh and often unique intellectual introspection into the human condition. His latest book, Humanist Geography, is a testament of all that he has learned and encountered as a geographer.

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In the 25 years since its original publication, Space and Place has not only established the discipline of human geography, but it has proven influential in such diverse fields as theater, literature, anthropology, psychology, and theology. Eminent geographer Yi-Fu Tuan considers 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 ...

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 way or another, sometimes foolishly, often creatively and ingeniously. Glass-tower cities, suburbs, shopping malls, Disneyland--all are among the m...

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Yi-Fu Tuan is professor emeritus in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin. He is widely considered the founder of human geography, and is the author of many books, including¿Cosmos and Hearth¿(1996) and¿Space and Place(new edition, 2001), published by the University of Minnesota Press. He is also the author of books on desert landforms, China, the history of ideas, and an autobiography, ¿Who Am I?¿(1999).

In this meditation on the difficult choices facing humanity in the next millennium, the author reaffirms his faith in the value of a cosmopolitan world view. He argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and happily human.

Can Yi-Fu Tuan, one of the world's most decorated geographers 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 Tuan, because the topic of his last book, his "last launch”, is human life itself - what it means to be human and how we can reach our full potential.

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Landscapes of Fear 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 throughout history. In this groundbreaking work—now with a new preface by the author—Yi-Fu Tuan reaches back into our prehistory to discover what is universal and what is particular in our inheritance of fear.

Describing the natural order of human beings in the context of the Chinese earth and civilization, this book narrates the evolution of the Chinese landscape since prehistoric times. It views landscape as a visible expression of man's efforts to gain a living and achieve a measure of stability in the constant flux of nature.

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 examples from both his native China and his home of the past forty years, the United States, Tuan proposes a revised conception of culture, one thoroughly...

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