"At first I'm calm as the trees fall. But suddenly a rat's nest of wood, bent horizontal and cribbed into the trees above us, comes down in a rush of a hundred machine gun snaps. Trees caught in the nest flail around before hitting the ground. Our eyes dart everywhere, trying to keep track of every moment. Trees break free and swing themselves like catapults. Splintered chunks of wood slash through the air like propellers... Falling trees is the most dangerous job in North America."

A third-generation British Columbia logger returns to the forests of Haida Gwaii, in the grip of change.By the time Aaron Williams began learning how to fall a tree, his family had been making clear cuts on BC hillsides for nearly a century. During his father’s generation, the industry started to crumble, and by the time Williams arrived, he knew his future lay elsewhere.But his father continued in the trade, his work taking him into the forests of Haida Gw...

Basketball is not just a game. Baller principles can also teach you how to win BIG in life.There are five main stages in life that resemble the different positions of basketball. They are mostly hidden. However, if you learn how to identify each phase and what it entails, it will help you overcome your repeated cycles in life.The Five Movements will help you discover or relearn your Reason or Purpose for being here, as well as how to navigate throughout the game of life so ...

For Bishop Aaron Williams, his journey has been about finding purpose, meaning, and a calling in his life. In My Father’s Business: A Memoir of Purpose and Revelation, he shares his story in order to pay respect to his forefathers and to provide his children with a written record of his life and their heritage.This memoir details the critical, destiny-making moments of Williams’s life, providing a narrative of how he developed a relationship with Christ driven by inspiration and in...

Do you ever feel like your spiritual life is incomplete? That makes sense, because we can tend to separate things God always meant to go together. We say we are a thinker ora feeler. A “be” person or a “do” person. A “truth” person or a “Spirit” person.While separating these things seems normal to many Christians, doing so is as crazy as calling yourself an “inhaler” or an “exhaler”—after all, both are necessary to survive. If you’re feeli...

Do you ever feel like your spiritual life is incomplete? That makes sense, because we can tend to separate things God always meant to go together. We say we are a thinker or a feeler. A “be” person or a “do” person. A “truth” person or a “Spirit” person.While separating these things seems normal to many Christians, doing so is as crazy as calling yourself an “inhaler” or an “exhaler”—after all, both are necessary to survive. If you’re feel...

Can two friends ski across Greenland in the Arctic late in life?Terry Williams and Aaron Linsdau were one of the oldest teams ever to ski across the Greenland Ice Cap unsupported. They trekked over 300 miles of frozen Arctic wastelands using compasses to guide them. Crossing fresh polar bear tracks reminded them that they were not alone."Well, you wanted adventure!"Terry, 68 years old, and Aaron, 49 years old, had their tent nearly bur...

"Explorers must be self-contained and prepared for anything."Expedition—An adventure into the extreme unknown where you will be tested to the limit.How do you plan and pull off your first epic expedition? Where should you even start? This book contains practical advice to help you put together your first trek. Dreaming, planning, training, doing, and returning alive are all covered in this guide.This book opens up the often reticent world o...

A Comprehensive Collection of Magical Wisdom in One Indispensable BookLlewellyn's Complete Book of Ceremonial Magick brings together the myriad occult philosophies and techniques necessary for a thorough understanding of the esoteric arts. This magnificent treasury is filled with fascinating insights from today's most esteemed working practitioners, developing the rich details of a dozen topics that together comprise the Western Mystery Tradition....

Compte rendu du symposium internal, « L’aménagement des langues dans les capitales et milieux urbains : pratiques et défis », qui a eu lieu les 25 et 26 mars 2010 à l'Université d'Ottawa, en partenariat avec l'Institut dans langues officielles et du bilinguisme, Patrimoine canadien, le Commissariat aux langues officielles et la Ville d'Ottawa.Le Symposium sur l'aménagement des langues dans les capitales et milieux urbains a réuni des administrateurs et des chercheurs du Canada et d...

An authoritative, marvelously illustrated field guide to the velvet ants of North AmericaVelvet Ants of North America is a beautiful photographic guide to the species of the wasp family Mutillidae found in the United States and Canada. Featuring hundreds of full-color photos, it covers nearly 460 species—representing more than 9 percent of all velvet ant species, which number in the thousands worldwide—providing comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of thi...

The Anthropocene and the Undead describes how our experience of an increasingly erratic environment and the idea of the undead are more closely linked than the obvious zombie horde signaling the end of the world. In fact, as described here, much of how we understand the anthropocene both conceptually and in practice involves undead entities from the past that will not die, undead traumas that rise up and consume the world, and undead temporalities that can never end. Fifteen origi...