{"title":"Books by Yi-Fu Tuan","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780816684595","title":"Landscapes of Fear","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo be human is to experience fear, but what is it exactly that makes us fearful? \u003ci\u003eLandscapes of Fear\u003c\/i\u003e-written immediately after his classic \u003ci\u003eSpace and Place\u003c\/i\u003e-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a series of linked essays that journey broadly across place, time, and cultures, Tuan examines the diverse manifestations and causes of fear in individuals and societies: he describes the horror created by epidemic disease and supernatural visions of witches and ghosts; violence and fear in the country and the city; fears of drought, flood, famine, and disease; and the ways in which authorities devise landscapes of terror to instill fear and subservience in their own populations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. Tuan emphasizes that human fear is a constant; it causes us to draw what he calls our “circles of safety” and at the same time acts as a foundational impetus behind curiosity, growth, and adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294962004341,"sku":"9780816684595","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780816684595_67e0bbac-50ee-43f3-89f1-bc25f2b918d7.jpg?v=1786016309"},{"product_id":"9780816638772","title":"Space and Place","description":"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 defined as 'all the modes by which a person knows and constructs reality,' and examples are taken with equal ease from non-literate cultures, from ancient and modern oriental and western civilizations, from novels, poetry, anthropology, psychology, and theology. The result is a remarkable synthesis, which reflects well the subtleties of experience and yet avoids the pitfalls of arbitrary classification and facile generalization. For these reasons, and for its general tone and erudition and humanism, this book will surely be one that will endure when the current flurry of academic interest in environmental experience abates.\" Canadian Geographer","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311966728565,"sku":"9780816638772","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780816638772_4bd39ffb-7e09-4788-9c28-111515b169e2.jpg?v=1786016252"},{"product_id":"human-goodness","title":"Human Goodness","description":"In his many best-selling books, Yi-Fu Tuan seizes big, metaphysical issues and considers them in uniquely accessible ways. \u003ci\u003eHuman Goodness\u003c\/i\u003e is evidence of this talent and is both as simple, and as epic, as it sounds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGenuinely good people and their actions, Tuan contends, are far from boring, naive, and trite; they are complex, varied, and enormously exciting. In a refreshing antidote to skeptical times, he writes of ordinary human courtesies, as simple as busing your dishes after eating, that make society functional and livable. And he writes of extraordinary courage and inventiveness under the weight of adversity and evil. He considers the impact of communal goodness over time, and his sketches of six very different individuals—Confucius, Socrates, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, John Keats, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, and Simone Weil—confirm that there are human lives that can encourage and lead us to our better selves.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499195539829,"sku":"9780299226749","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780299226749.jpg?v=1786694511"},{"product_id":"romantic-geography","title":"Romantic Geography","description":"\u003cp\u003eYi-Fu Tuan established a global reputation for deepening the field of geography by examining its moral, universal, philosophical, and poetic potentials and implications. In\u003ci\u003e Romantic Geography\u003c\/i\u003e, he considers the human tendency to find salvation in geographies that cater not so much to survival needs (or even to good, comfortable living) as to the passionate and romantic aspirations of their nature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499196424565,"sku":"9780299296841","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780299296841.jpg?v=1786694512"},{"product_id":"place-art-and-self","title":"Place, Art, and Self","description":"\u003cp\u003eYi-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 \u003ci\u003ePlace, Art, and Self\u003c\/i\u003e, a small, beautifully illustrated volume first published in 2004 in which Yi-Fu, as he was affectionately known, addressed the questions: \"What do place, art, and self have in common? To what extent do place and art define who we are?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough memoir and one-of-a-kind insights gained from a lifetime of reading, writing, teaching, and study, Yi-Fu explored how art, in its myriad forms, and an attachment to home and place interact in shaping, defining, and expanding the self—who we are. He explored how a painting, photograph, poem, novel, motion picture, dance, and piece of music kindle a sense of place and how place and art nurture our identity, our soul, our raison d'être.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlace, Art, and Self\u003c\/i\u003e was one of Yi-Fu's favorite books, and it quickly achieved a kind of cult-like status among its many diverse readers. Thankfully, late in life he agreed to have \"a second look\" at what he wrote and conveyed in 2004. And so what you now hold in your hands is another gift: Yi-Fu's updated take on how and why the arts are emblematic and revelatory of the self and our place in the world. Integrated throughout this new edition are 32 amazing artworks by contemporary visual artists of places throughout the world, each complementary of Yi-Fu's text with their respective message.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57613234962805,"sku":"9781960521187","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781960521187.jpg?v=1792425293"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-yi-fu-tuan.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}