Christopher Wood – författare

The Bird Guide is a landmark field guide to the birds of North America, combining unmatched illustration, field expertise, and modern data to redefine how birds are identified and understoodPublished in association with the Cornell Lab of OrnithologyRepresenting a new era in bird identification, The Bird Guide illustrates North America’s spectacular avifauna in unparalleled depth, precision, and beauty. The written accounts provide an unprecedented view of birds, bringing together decades of field expertise with insights drawn from billions of bird observations, photos, sounds, and videos contributed by birders to the Cornell Lab’s eBird project and Macaulay Library. Designed to work with the digital tools that have introduced millions of people to birding, this guide delivers an experience no screen can replicate: side-by-side comparisons of similar species, quick access to key field marks, and detailed facing-page accounts that train the eye and sharpen field identification skills.Covers 818 regularly occurring species and 158 rare visitors across the United States and CanadaFeatures more than 7,000 illustrations covering plumage, age, sex, and subspecies and hundreds of vignettes showing birds in habitatIntuitively designed ID plates and facing-page text allow side-by-side comparison of similar species and provide deep ID context that is impossible to achieve on mobile screensComprehensive “Sounds” sections offer expert guidance for interpreting vocalizations and separating confusing speciesComplements the strengths of the Merlin Bird ID app, bridging page and smartphone in a field-ready system for sound IDeBird integration includes global nomenclature, including subspecies, across the guide and Merlin, ensuring ease of identification and data sharingDistribution maps powered by eBird data transform millions of observations into new insights about bird distribution and abundanceThe Bird Guide brings together a world-class team that fuses decades of unsurpassed field expertise with incomparable artistry. Brian L. Sullivan and Christopher Wood are leaders of eBird. Tour leading and teaching have made Michael O’Brien a legendary birder, and North America’s premier bird sound expert. Prolific author and international tour leader Steve N. G. Howell’s uncompromising field expertise has shaped modern bird identification. Paired with the artistic mastery of Ian Lewington and Lorenzo Starnini, two of the world’s finest bird illustrators, The Bird Guide is the most comprehensive, beautifully illustrated, and technologically integrated field guide to North American birds ever produced.

This is the only revision resource devoted to anatomy at MRCS level with over 200 questions grouped by anatomical region, each with five true/false parts. Anatomy Questions for the MRCS comes in a portable, user-friendly paperback format with answer sections clearly marked to help determine weak areas of knowledge and reinforce learning. Written by authors with first-hand experience of the current MRCS examination format and with experienced senior advisor, this highly original text is a must-have for all MRCS candidates and a useful tool for medical students preparing for surgical examinations.

Epic battles, hideous monsters and a host of petty gods--the world of Classical mythology continues to fascinate and inspire. Heroes like Herakles, Achilles and Perseus have influenced Western art and literature for centuries, and today are reinvented in the modern superhero.What does Iron Man have to do with the Homeric hero Odysseus? How does the African warrior Memnon compare with Marvel's Black Panther? Do DC's Wonder Woman and Xena the Warrior Princess reflect the tradition of Amazon women such as Penthesileia? How does the modern superhero's journey echo that of the epic warrior?With fresh insight into ancient Greek texts and historical art, this book examines modern superhero archetypes and iconography in comics and film as the crystallization of the hero's journey in the modern imagination.