The battle for the soul of our nation is not figurative. It is real. It is relentless. It is as fierce as the battle for our own souls and is being orchestrated by the same principalities of darkness. The Jethro Project serves as a national impetus for Christian engagement in American politics and highlights the urgency with which believers must fight the culture war being waged in our states and communities by serving across the full political spectrum. This approach is modeled on a biblical passage in Exodus chapter 18, where Jethro, Moses’s father-in-law, instructs Moses on the most effective way to lead the Israelites after the Exodus—by implementing a representative construct of governance composed of honorable and wise leaders. Author Scott Jenkins explores the merit of our biblically based representative government, the Christian influence that drove our founding in 1776, the true constitutional design and intent of the First Amendment regarding the relationship between church and state, the manner in which America has strayed from these fundamental principles to our own detriment, and the need to return to the original intent of our Founders who established this one nation under God. This commentary presents a call to action for Christians to come to the defense of their God-given liberties and secure the freedoms won for them by the patriots of 1776 through active participation in local, state, and national politics.

Jethro Sirius is Star Wars meets Harry Potter meets The Rolling Stones all rolled into one big, giant, intergalactic space burrito! DARCY G. O F THE DARCY G. SHOW! When their parents, who happen to be in one of the biggest rock bands in the known universe, go missing while on an inter-galactic tour, four young aliens decide to pick up where their parents left off and form their own band, The Jethro Sirius Experiment. Left to their own devices including a Space Bus equipped with its own water park and aided by the ships computer, Libby, the band sets out on an epic adventure of universal proportions. Having decided to masquerade as their parents band and continue on with the tour while at the same time searching for their missing parents, the young alien rockers soon find out that the Universe is both a wonderful and dangerous place full of giant Space Slugs, plant people, bounty hunters, Monsturds, slave traders, space goblins and an evil maniacal ego obsessed villain that looks like a furry pink bunny rabbit. Jethro Sirius is a wildly amusing sci-fi adventure story that will engage your inner rockstar and leave you wishing you had a guitar in your hands.

In this innovative book, Duane Jethro creates a framework for understanding the role of the senses in processes of heritage making. He shows how the senses were important for crafting and successfully deploying new, nation-building heritage projects in South Africa during the post-apartheid period. The book highlights how heritage dynamics are entangled in evocative, changing sensory worlds. Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa features five case studies that correlate with the five main Western senses. Examples include touch and the ruination of a series of art memorials; how vision was mobilised to assert the authority of the state sponsored Freedom Park project in Pretoria; how small memories of apartheid era social life in Cape Town informed contemporary struggles for belonging after forced removal; how taste informed debates about the attempted rebranding of Heritage Day as barbecue day; and how the sound of the vuvuzela, popularised during the FIFA 2010 Football World Cup, helped legitimise its unofficial African and South African heritage status. This book makes a valuable contribution to the field of sensory studies and, with its focus on aesthetics and material culture, is in synch with the broader material turn in the humanities. This is important reading for students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, sensory studies, and transnational studies.

The Non-Governmental Development Organisations (NGDOs) have, over the past two decades, entered centre stage in their active participation in the social, political and economic issues affecting both the developing and developed world. This book offers a highly stimulating and concise summary of the NGDO sector by examining their history and metamorphosis; their influence on the social, political and economic landscapes of the ‘Northern’ and ‘Southern’ governments and societies. The author analyses competing theoretical and conceptual debates not only regarding their contribution to the global social political dynamism but also on the sector’s changing external influence as they try and mitigate poverty in marginalized communities. This book presents NGDOs as multidimensional actors propelled by the desire to make a lasting change but constrained by market-oriented approaches to development and other factors both internal and external to their environment. While a lot of attention has been given to understanding international NGDOs like World Vision International, Oxfam, Care International and Plan International, this book offers a critical analysis of grassroots organizations – those NGDOs founded and established by locals and operate at the deepest end of the development contexts. This work will be of interest to students and scholars in a range of areas including Development Studies, International Organizations and Globalization.

An indispensable, up-to-date overview of the archaeology of the Native peoples and earliest settlers of eastern Massachusetts.

The central aim of this book is to investigate and develop frameworks to aid effective maintenance management of municipal buildings in the education sector of developing economies. Using the South African education sector as a case study, this book provides readers with two major practical insights. Firstly, it focuses on the theoretical underpinnings of maintenance management research and introduces a maintenance management model through the development of a conceptual framework. This framework aids in explaining the factors underpinning the maintenance of municipal buildings but can also be used in the assessment and management of other public buildings. Secondly, the book highlights and addresses theoretical gaps in existing studies essential for the maintenance management of buildings in developing economies, providing a stimulus for future research. The book will be of interest to researchers in construction management, building technology, estate management, civil engineering, architecture, and urban and regional planning. It is an essential manual for policymakers in the education sector, built environment, construction industry, facility maintenance, facility management and consultants at government ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) charged with maintenance management of public infrastructures and assets.

Alexei has a secret. He is an angel who has decided to remain on Earth to live life as an eleven-year-old child, after completing his “mission,” He believes he is the only angel attempting to live as a human and, as a result, must constantly hide his wings and other angel abilities. Having survived an attempt on his life by an evil angel after helping his human family, Alexei is about to have unexpected company arrive in the form of a brother boy-angel. The only problem is that for this to happen, a tragic event must also take place. An event about which Alexei has been sworn to absolute secrecy, even though it will most likely result in hurting someone rather close to his heart. As a further complication, a link to the past will unexpectedly cause him and his new angel brother to also be in considerable danger.

This book will appeal to Christian leaders as it responds to the business world's complaint to do more with less.

Zora Neale Hurston, one the first great African-American novelists, was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance and an inspiration for future generations of writers. Widely studied in high school literature courses, her novels are admired for their depiction of Southern black culture and their strong female characters. Critical Companion to Zora Neale Hurston is a reliable and up-to-date resource for high school and college-level students, providing reliable information on Hurston's life and work. This new volume covers all her writings, including Their Eyes Were Watching God; her landmark works of folklore and anthropology, such as Mules and Men; and shorter works, such as her story The Gilded Six-Bits.