Author: Yi-Fu Tuan
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: imagination, amp, morality
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1989-04-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0299120643
ISBN-13: 9780299120641

Author: Yi-Fu Tuan
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Keywords: viewpoint, cosmopolite, hearth, amp, cosmos
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1996-03
List price: $53.95
ISBN-10: 0816627304
ISBN-13: 9780816627301

Author: Yi-Fu Tuan
Publisher: Aldine Transaction
Keywords: china, geography, historical
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2008-06-04
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0202362000
ISBN-13: 9780202362007

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 conspicuous because they introduce features that are not distinctively Chinese. In contrast, traditional forms and architectural relics escape our attention because they are so identified with the Chinese scene that they appear to be almost outgrowths of nature. Describing the natural order of huma

Author: Yi-Fu Tuan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: pets, making, affection, dominance
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-08-11
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0300102089
ISBN-13: 9780300102086

"(Tuan) does a masterful job exploring the condescending human treatment of animals as ’playthings’ that exist only for our entertainment. He charts the malevolent history of male domination over women and children and the sad chronicle of slaves, dwarfs and other ’freaks’ treated as human appliances or toys. This provocative study of power in the world of pleasure, play and art is a tour de force." -Cultural Information Service "A brilliant book that will appeal to a wide audience. The volume provides excellent material for school and college seminar debates on huma

Author: Yi-Fu Tuan
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: viewpoint, cosmopoliteã•s, hearth, cosmos
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1999-03-01
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0816627312
ISBN-13: 9780816627318

Author: Tuan Vo-Dinh
Publisher: CRC
Keywords: devices, applications, methods, medicine, biology, nanotechnology
Number of Pages: 792
Published: 2007-01-24
List price: $154.95
ISBN-10: 0849329493
ISBN-13: 9780849329494

The combination of biology and nanotechnology has led to a new generation of nanodevices that make it possible to characterize the chemical, mechanical, and other molecular properties, as well as discover novel phenomena and biological processes occurring at the molecular level. These advances provide science with a wide range of tools for biomedical applications in therapeutic, diagnostic, and preventive medicine. Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine: Methods, Devices, and Applications integrates interdisciplinary research and recent advances in instrumentation and methods for applying nano

Author: Tuan Vo-Dinh
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: handbook, photonics, biomedical
Number of Pages: 1872
Published: 2003-03-26
List price: $229.95
ISBN-10: 0849311160
ISBN-13: 9780849311161

A wide variety of biomedical photonic technologies have been developed recently for clinical monitoring of early disease states; molecular diagnostics and imaging of physiological parameters; molecular and genetic biomarkers; and detection of the presence of pathological organisms or biochemical species of clinical importance. However, available information on this rapidly growing field is fragmented among a variety of journals and specialized books.Now researchers and medical practitioners have an authoritative and comprehensive source for the latest research and applications in biomedical ph