into the silent land travels in neuropsychology

'Stay in charge of your writing,' he urges. Turning off the auto-bullets and grammar prompts is part of his common-sense approach to producing good words and pictures. Hirsch, whose paperback guide to Essential Communication Strategies for Scientists, Engineers, and Technology Professionals (2nd ed., IEEE Press, $24.95 paper) cheerily demystifies technical writing and presentation. Whenever I get a new word-processing program, I immediately disable the automatic formatting features. 8,000, a rufous-necked wood-rail of Mexico (above, top) and her last new bird, a red-shouldered vanga of Madagascar (bottom).- M.S. Two of Snetsinger's 'life birds' are shown: No. Realizing that violence could have befallen her anywhere, even at home in the United States, she continued to bird in exotic locations, with the attitude that now she 'had a few stories to tell.' Ultimately she died in a bus crash en route to a birding site in Madagascar, where she had planned to search for Appert's greenbul she was killed instantly, binoculars in hand. She did nearly die during a birding trip to Papua New Guinea in 1986, when she was gang-raped by five men with machetes. Believing the end was near, she began to bird with extra passion. In 1981 Snetsinger was diagnosed with metastatic malignant melanoma, which she interpreted as a death sentence. The sighting of a Blackburnian warbler through a neighbor's binoculars in May 1965 triggered what proved to be an all-consuming obsession. In her posthumous memoir, Birding on Borrowed Time (The American Birding Association, $19.95), she draws the reader into her passion for birding, which she took up at age 34, when she was already a wife and the mother of four children. There's much here to be on the lookout for when you're next stuck in the bumper-to-bumper.- B.H.Īt her death in 1999, Phoebe Snetsinger held the world record for bird sightings-more than 8,400 species. (There is a fascinating history of censuses of road kills.) Later chapters take up the effects of roads and vehicles on air and water, and consider strategies for coexistence. (Above, the Trans-Canada Highway bisects Banff National Park.) This schism can be just as important for animal populations as for an urban neighborhood cleaved by an expressway. For many animals, a road has topological significance, dividing a territory into two isolated pieces.

For forests, a road represents a permanently maintained break in the canopy, where the process of succession is arrested. The book begins with a discussion of the roads themselves-their construction, their geometry and how best to make them suit the landscape-and then turns to vegetation and wildlife.

Into the silent land travels in neuropsychology