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Escapism by Yi-fu Tuan
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £20.18In 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... -
Romantic Geography by Yi-fu Tuan
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24Geography 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... -
Human Goodness by Yi-fu Tuan
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In 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... -
Landscapes of Fear by Yi-fu Tuan
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24To 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... -
Coming Home to China by Yi-fu Tuan
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.34In 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... -
A Historical Geography of China by Yi-fu Tuan
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.94The 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... -
Human Goodness Yi-Fu Tuan 9780299226749
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.39Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Cosmos And Hearth: A Cosmopolite's Viewpoint by Yi-fu Tuan
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68In 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... -
Space And Place: The Perspective of Experience by Yi-fu Tuan 9780816638772
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91A 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... -
Dominance & Affection: The Making of Pets by Yi-fu Tuan 9780300102086
Booksplease Price: £25.26Is 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... -
Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perceptions, Attitudes, and Values by Yi-fu Tuan
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21What 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... -
Humanist Geography: An Individual's Search for Meaning by Yi-fu Tuan 9780983497813
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.04For 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... -
Hydrologic Cycle and the Wisdom of God: Theme in Geoteleology by Yi-fu Tuan 9780802032140
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47This 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... -
Who am I?: An Autobiography of Emotion, Mind, and Spirit by Yi-fu Tuan 9780299166649
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Who 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... -
The Spatial Turn in the Literature and Art of Early Modern Spain Mary E. Barnard 9781487565336
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £43.38The Spatial Turn in the Literature and Art of Early Modern Spain investigates novel and transformative ways in which writers and artists of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain conceived of space... -
The Experience Society: Consumer Capitalism Rebooted by Steven Miles 9780745338705
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.54Airbnb, gaming, escape rooms, major sporting events: contemporary capitalism no longer demands we merely consume things, but that we buy experiences. This book is concerned with the social, cultural... -
The Experience Society: Consumer Capitalism Rebooted by Steven Miles
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.84Airbnb, gaming, escape rooms, major sporting events: contemporary capitalism no longer demands we merely consume things, but that we buy experiences. This book is concerned with the social, cultural... -
Morality and Imagination: Paradoxes of Progress by 9780299120641
Booksplease Price: £16.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorYi-Fu Tuan is Vilas Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His many books include Dear... -
People, Place, and Attachment in Local Bars: An Ethnographic Study in West Baton Rouge, Louisiana by John W. McEwen 9781498562362
Booksplease Price: £86.43In the United States, places of drink are historically linked to community and social interactions, and such establishments often possess loyal patrons for whom going to the local bar is a natural... -
Discovering the Vernacular Landscape by John Brinckerhoff Jackson
Booksplease Price: £23.40A pioneer in landscape studies takes us on a tour of landscapes past and present to show how our surroundings reflect our culture. "No one who cares deeply about landscape issues can overlook... -
Philosophy in Geography by S. Gale 9789400993969
Booksplease Price: £46.58In any edited volume most credit is due to the individual authors. The present case is no exception and we as editors have done little apart from serving as coordinators for a group of friends and... -
Geography and the Human Spirit (POD) Anne Buttimer 9780801872556
Booksplease Price: £28.90What does it mean to dwell? Every civilization has a story to tell, according to Anne Buttimer, and exploring those stories brings fresh light to modern ideas about the relationship between humanity... -
Hollow and Home: A History of Self and Place by E.Fred Carlisle 9781943665815
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.10Hollow and Home explores the ways the primary places in our lives shape the individuals we become. It proposes that place is a complex and dynamic phenomenon. Place refers to geographical and... -
Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of Toni Morrison by Herman Beavers 9783319659985
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book examines Toni Morrison's fiction as a sustained effort to challenge the dominant narratives produced in the white supremacist political imaginary and conceptualize a more inclusive... -
Hollow and Home: A History of Self and Place by E.Fred Carlisle 9781943665822
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.98Hollow and Home explores the ways the primary places in our lives shape the individuals we become. It proposes that place is a complex and dynamic phenomenon. Place refers to geographical and... -
Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of Toni Morrison by Herman Beavers 9783319881485
Booksplease Price: £26.60This book examines Toni Morrison's fiction as a sustained effort to challenge the dominant narratives produced in the white supremacist political imaginary and conceptualize a more inclusive... -
Topophilia and Topophobia: Reflections on Twentieth-Century Human Habitat Xing Ruan 9780415403245
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80This book is about the love and hate relations that humans establish with their habitat, which have been coined by discerning modern thinkers as topophilia and topophobia. Whilst such affiliations... -
Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America by Wilfred M. McClay 9781641771177
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Contemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of place; and community. Appreciating place is essential for... -
Writing Cyprus: Postcolonial and Partitioned Literatures of Place and Space by Bahriye Kemal
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Bahriye Kemal's ground-breaking new work serves as the first study of the literatures of Cyprus from a postcolonial and partition perspective. Her book explores Anglophone, Hellenophone and... -
Running Cultures: Racing in Time and Space John Bale 9780714684246
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £60.65Running is one of the world's most widely practiced sports and recreations but until now it has intended to elude serious study outside of the natural sciences. John Bale brings the sport into the... -
Mapping Irish Theatre: Theories of Space and Place by Chris Morash 9781316639580
Booksplease Price: £32.12Seamus Heaney once described the 'sense of place' generated by the early Abbey theatre as the 'imaginative protein' of later Irish writing. Drawing on theorists of space such as Henri Lefebvre and... -
Mapping Irish Theatre: Theories of Space and Place by Chris Morash 9781107039421
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £56.92Seamus Heaney once described the 'sense of place' generated by the early Abbey theatre as the 'imaginative protein' of later Irish writing. Drawing on theorists of space such as Henri Lefebvre and... -
Terra Cognita: The Mental Discovery of America by Eviatar Zerubavel
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.94Most of us are fascinated by the conventional storybook account of Christopher Columbus' heroic discovery of America in 1492. Yet, should the credit for discovering America go to a man who insisted... -
Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination by Robert T. Tally, Jr.
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36What is our place in the world, and how do we inhabit, understand, and represent this place to others? Topophrenia gathers essays by Robert Tally that explore the relationship between space, place,... -
Place and Placelessness Revisited Robert Freestone 9780815381990
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £48.10Since its publication in 1976, Ted Relph's Place and Placelessness has been an influential text in thinking about cities and city life across disciplines, including human geography, sociology,... -
Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination by Robert T. Tally, Jr. 9780253037701
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.27What is our place in the world, and how do we inhabit, understand, and represent this place to others? Topophrenia gathers essays by Robert Tally that explore the relationship between space, place,... -
Textures Of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies by Paul Adams 9780816637577
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Essays that point to the emergence of a critical humanist geography.Geography/ Cultural StudiesEssays that point to the emergence of a critical humanist geography.A fresh and far-ranging... -
Islandology: Geography, Rhetoric, Politics by Marc Shell
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Islandology is a fast-paced, fact-filled comparative essay in critical topography and cultural geography that cuts across different cultures and argues for a world of islands. The book explores the... -
The Right to Landscape: Contesting Landscape and Human Rights Shelley Egoz 9781138255531
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.34Associating social justice with landscape is not new, yet the twenty-first century's heightened threats to landscape and their impact on both human and, more generally, nature's habitats necessitate... -
The Humboldt Current: A European explorer and his American disciples by Aaron Sachs 9780199215195
Booksplease Price: £51.93While everyone has heard of the 'Humboldt Current', few know anything of the man after whom it was named. Yet Alexander von Humboldt was a towering figure of his time - scientist, explorer, and...