Between 1976 and 1982, Attila Balogh and his Odyssey Guitars Limited made around 2,000 mysterious, unique instruments in a small factory in Vancouver, B.C. Most were identified only by a small brass disc on their headstock, glimpsed onstage with some of the world's biggest bands, and then, like a dream, they slipped into mist and myth and were gone, along with the tragic young genius who created them. Today, some swear Balogh's instruments are the most beautiful and best-playing electric g...

So, in this book, you will learn:• How foraging came to be• Benefits of foraging and why you should also be doing it• Hazards of foraging so that you do not harm yourself or your loved ones• Safety precautions to take so that you know what you are getting into• Warning signs of poisonous plants so you know what not to eat• And much more!If you are someone who wants to learn about Foraging in the Wild and don’t know where to start, or in nee...

So, in this book, you will learn:• How foraging came to be• Benefits of foraging and why you should also be doing it• Hazards of foraging so that you do not harm yourself or your loved ones• Safety precautions to take so that you know what you are getting into• Warning signs of poisonous plants so you know what not to eat• And much more!If you are someone who wants to learn about Foraging in the Wild and don’t know where to start, or in need of a new adventure while trying to ident...

Over fifteen years ago, in the early days of social media, I noticed that a lot of what appeared on the main platform at the time, Facebook, was largely trivial and inconsequential (some might argue nothing has changed since then!). It seemed to me that it might be helpful to start posting something that was more uplifting and encouraging, especially to the many contacts I had at the time who were fellow believers in the Lord Jesus. So I started posting a 'verse for the day', taken from my...

Over the last 20 years the world's most advanced militaries have invited a small number of military legal professionals into the heart of their targeting operations, spaces which had previously been exclusively for generals and commanders. These professionals, trained and hired to give legal advice on an array of military operations, have become known as war lawyers. The War Lawyers examines the laws of war as applied by military lawyers to aerial targeting operations carried out ...

For thirty years, lawyers, pundits, professors, and politicians had said that section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canadathe criminal prohibition of polygamywas unconstitutional, a Victorian anachronism that, in a modern rights-based democracy, deserved to be swept aside in the name of individual liberty and religious freedom. Polygamy per se, it was argued, was harmless. Beginning in 2009 in Vancouver, a small team of lawyers from the federal and provincial governments, along with a handf...

Uncover the strategic and symbolic significance of native Welsh castles in Gwynedd. While the Edwardian castles of Conwy, Beaumaris, Harlech, and Caernarfon are celebrated, the castles of the Welsh princes remain enigmatic. Craig Owen Jones challenges misconceptions about Welsh castle design, revealing their strategic brilliance and cultural importance.This insightful study delves into the topographical settings and defensive strategies of nearly a dozen castles, of...

Life Through The Eyes Of A Black Man is the raw and unfiltered story of one man’s journey through pain, perseverance, and purpose.Born on the South Side of Chicago in the 1970s, Carter grew up in a world where survival came before dreams. Raised by a single mother and later moved to Alabama, he faced the trials of broken systems, addiction, and the struggle of finding his place in a society that often seemed determined to hold him back.Through ever...

Life Through The Eyes Of A Black Man is the raw and unfiltered story of one man’s journey through pain, perseverance, and purpose.Born on the South Side of Chicago in the 1970s, Carter grew up in a world where survival came before dreams. Raised by a single mother and later moved to Alabama, he faced the trials of broken systems, addiction, and the struggle of finding his place in a society that often seemed determined to hold him back.Through ever...

Chasing the Blues explores the roots of the blues---the music birthed in the Mississippi Delta by African Americans who fashioned a new form of musical expression grounded in their shared experience of brutal oppression. They used the power of music to survive that oppression, creating a simple-in-structure, emotionally complex form that transformed and upended culture and became the bedrock of popular song.Tracing the music back to its geographical and cultural origins in the Delt...

This book explores how digital technologies are transforming cross-border trade in Southeast Asia. It examines IT interoperability within the ASEAN Single Window, a landmark initiative that connects national customs systems to accelerate clearance, strengthen cybersecurity, and enable seamless data exchange.Organized across nine chapters, the book highlights how artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud computing, and smart connected platforms are reshaping trade flows and regulat...

Introduction to Applied Geophysics covers the fundamental methods of exploration geophysics in a depth and style both challenging and appropriate to undergraduates. Because of the increasing opportunities for students to conduct field experiments, the authors focus on methods, examples, illustrations, applications, and problem sets that emphasize shallow exploration of the Earth's surface. The textbook includes chapters on refraction seismology, electrical resistivity methods, gravity, mag...