Peter Koch - Böcker

Photographer-naturalist Peter Koch first visited the new Big Bend National Park in February, 1945, on assignment to take promotional pictures for the National Park Service. He planned to spend a couple of weeks-and ended up staying for the rest of his life. Koch's magnificent photographs and documentary film-lectures Big Bend, Life in a Desert Wilderness and Desert Gold introduced the park to people across the United States, drawing thousands of visitors to the Big Bend. His photographs and films of the region remain among the best ever produced, and are an invaluable visual record of the first four decades of Big Bend National Park.In this highly readable book, Koch's daughter June Cooper Price draws on the newspaper columns her father wrote for the Alpine Avalanche, supplemented by his photographs, journal entries, and short pieces by other family members, to present Peter Koch's vision of the Big Bend. The book opens with his first "big adventure," a six-day photographic trip through Santa Elena Canyon on a raft made from agave flower stalks. From there, Koch takes readers hiking on mountain trails and driving the scenic loop around Fort Davis. He also describes "wax smuggling" and other ways of making a living on the Mexican border; ranching in the Big Bend; the prehistory and Native Americans of the region; collaborating with botanist Barton Warnock on books of Trans-Pecos wildflowers; and the history and beauty of Presidio County, the Rio Grande, and the Chihuahuan Desert.This fascinating blend of firsthand adventures, natural history, and personal musings on anthropology and history creates an unforgettable portrait of both Peter Koch and the Big Bend region he so loved.

This volume is devoted to aspects of space that have thus far been largely unexplored. How space is perceived and cognised has been discussed from different stances, but there are few analyses of nomadic approaches to spatiality. Nor is there a sufficient number of studies on indigenous interpretations of space, despite the importance of territory and place in definitions of indigeneity. At the intersection of geography and anthropology, the authors of this volume combine general reflections on spatiality with case studies from the Circumpolar North and other nomadic settings. Spatial perceptions and practices have been profoundly transformed by new technologies as well as by new modes of social and political interaction. How do these changes play out in the everyday lives, identifications and political projects of nomadic and indigenous people? This question has been broached from two seemingly divergent stances: spatial cognition, on the one hand, and production of space, on the other. Bringing these two approaches together, this volume re-aligns the different strings of scholarship on spatiality, making them applicable and relevant for indigenous and nomadic conceptualizations of space, place and territory.

This volume is devoted to aspects of space that have thus far been largely unexplored. How space is perceived and cognised has been discussed from different stances, but there are few analyses of nomadic approaches to spatiality. Nor is there a sufficient number of studies on indigenous interpretations of space, despite the importance of territory and place in definitions of indigeneity. At the intersection of geography and anthropology, the authors of this volume combine general reflections on spatiality with case studies from the Circumpolar North and other nomadic settings. Spatial perceptions and practices have been profoundly transformed by new technologies as well as by new modes of social and political interaction. How do these changes play out in the everyday lives, identifications and political projects of nomadic and indigenous people? This question has been broached from two seemingly divergent stances: spatial cognition, on the one hand, and production of space, on the other. Bringing these two approaches together, this volume re-aligns the different strings of scholarship on spatiality, making them applicable and relevant for indigenous and nomadic conceptualizations of space, place and territory.

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Die gesprochene Sprache ist mittlerweile zu einem der interessantesten Forschungsbereiche ‑ nicht nur der Linguistik ‑ geworden. Dieses Buch setzt sich zum Ziel, für die drei großen romanischen Sprachen die wichtigsten Probleme gesprochener Sprache darzustellen. Ausgangspunkt ist die begriffliche Unterscheidung zwischen dem ‚mündlichen‘ Medium und der ‚mündlichen‘ Konzeption, die hier als ‚kommunikative Nähe‘ im Gegensatz zu 'kommunikativer Distanz' gefasst wird. Die zentralen Kapitel betrachten einerseits Merkmale der Nähesprache, die universal, d.h. prinzipiell in allen Sprachen und damit auch in den drei beschriebenen Sprachen gegeben sind (v.a. textpragmatische, syntaktische und semantische Phänomene); andererseits geht es um die Besonderheiten kommunikativer Nähe in den drei Sprachen. Diachronisch wird die Herausbildung der einzelsprachlichen Varietätenräume nachgezeichnet. Synchronisch wird jeweils das Funktionieren sprachlicher Phänomene der Variation herausgearbeitet (lautliche, grammatikalische und lexikalische Erscheinungen). Alle sprachlichen Phänomene werden anhand von authentischem Corpusmaterial interpretiert. Das Buch versteht sich als ein auf Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit hin zentrierter Beitrag zur Varietätenlinguistik.

This reference work presents a classification of fractures of all long bones. The fundamental principle of this classification is the division of all fractures of a bone segment into three types and the further subdivision into three groups and their subgroups. The groups are arranged in an ascending order of severity according to the morphologic complexities of the fractures, the difficulties inherent in their treatment and the prognosis. Thus, once a surgeon classifies a fracture, he will have determined its severity and he will have a guide to its best possible treatment. The diagnosis of a fracture is expressed by combining the numerical code of its location with the alphanumeric code of its morphological characteristics. This alphanumeric code has been designed to facilitate computer storage and retrieval. This system of classification is based on the AO classification in use since 1979 and on over 150,000 documented cases on file in the AO Documentation Center, Berne, Switzerland.

Dieses Buch zeigt praxisnah und fundiert, wie es gelingen kann, in dieser Zeitenwende nicht nur zu bestehen, sondern zur treibenden Kraft des Wandels zu werden. Es richtet sich an Führungskräfte, Entscheidungsträger, Lehrende und junge Talente, die Innovationspotenziale erkennen, entwickeln und erfolgreich umsetzen wollen. Es bietet konkrete Strategien zum Aufbau innovationsfördernder Strukturen, vermittelt entscheidende Innovations- und Managementkompetenzen und zeigt, wie kreative Denk- und Handlungsspielräume entstehen.Leserinnen und Leser erhalten nicht nur wertvolle Impulse für die Entwicklung nachhaltiger Wirtschafts- und Bildungsmodelle, sondern auch praxisorientierte Ansätze, um Innovationsschmieden in ihrem eigenen Umfeld zu gestalten – mit dem Ziel, Innovationsführerschaft in Deutschland neu zu definieren.