God vs. the Gavel challenges the pervasive assumption that all religious conduct deserves constitutional protection. While religious conduct provides many benefits to society, it is not always benign. The thesis of the book is that anyone who harms another person should be governed by the laws that govern everyone else - and truth be told, religion is capable of great harm. This may not sound like a radical proposition, but it has been under assault since the 1960s. The majority of academics and many religious organizations would construct a fortress around religious conduct that would make it extremely difficult to prosecute child abuse by clergy, medical neglect of children by faith-healers, and other socially unacceptable behaviors. This book intends to change the course of the public debate over religion by bringing to the public's attention the tactics of religious entities to avoid the law and therefore harm others.

A consultant for nonprofit management support organizations challenges nonprofit leaders to retire "Robert's Rules of Order" and adopt a simpler, friendlier, and more effective method for conducting meetings.

Holding the Gavel lifts the veil on being the chair or president of a nonprofit board of directors and provides best practices and real advice for nonprofit board leaders. Too often people are asked to lead a board without a guidebook or a mentor. Holding the Gavel lays out the job, what is expected and how best to contribute. Even seasoned leaders can lack specific knowledge areas and skills to successfully lead, govern and champion their organization. Get the candid, inside scoop and learn from experienced board chairs. With Holding the Gavel, current and prospective board leaders and the staff they work with finally have the real information needed to help their organizations thrive. Topics include Responsibilities of the Chair; Working with and Evaluating the Executive Director or CEO; Board Committees, including the Executive Committee; Preparing for and Conducting Board Meetings; Recruiting and Onboarding New Board Members; Financials and Audits; Your Role in Fundraising; Board Evaluation and Development; Hiring and Firing the Executive; Succession Planning; Time Management; Managing Difficult Board Members or Executives; Conducting Due Diligence; Fostering an Abundance Mentality in Your Nonprofit Team; Finding Your Voice and Defining Your Vision; and more!

Our father, Zack, was once the president of Areion Fury MC until he was ready to retire and pass on the gavel. The gavel itself is light in the hand, while the burden and responsibility weigh heavily. This is why my identical twin and I became co-presidents because we share almost everything since we were thrown into this world. Meeting a woman in the middle of a turf war lacks timing, even more when an attempt to get close to her ends in bloodshed. When she saves my life, the havoc neither my twin or I saw coming is double-edged. I’m Heath, and this is my part of the story they call living. AF MC Descendants: The Gavel Duet Part One is NOT a standalone. The storyline will continue in Part Two.

I did have fantastic hearing, mostly by virtue of being blind. But that couldn't actually mean that he's trying to tell me I have super powers, right? Because that would be ridiculous. It wasn't the "sex talk" he expected. Phillip Sallinger's dad has told him he's a custodian--a guardian--and his genetically inherited power is telekinesis. He'll learn to move objects with his mind. Excited to begin superhero high school until he discovers he's assigned to a "special ed" class for disabled empowered kids, he suddenly feels like an outsider. Bullied, threatened, and betrayed, Phillip struggles, even as he and his friends--calling themselves the Ables--find ways to maximize their powers to overcome their disabilities, and are the first to identify the growing evil threatening humanity. As vital custodians disappear and the custodian leadership is mired in indecision, a mysterious and powerful figure taunts Phillip, and the enemy is poised to strike. But what if the next "one who does all," the multi-gifted custodian predicted to come, is one of the Ables?

Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers, edited by Alena Amato Ruggerio, explores how television, film, the internet, and other media variously perpetuate gender stereotypes. The contributors to this volume bring a variety of feminist rhetorical and media criticism approaches from across the communication discipline to their analyses of how television, film, news coverage, and the Internet shape our expectations of the performance of women’s identities. This collection includes studies of Bridezillas, Jon & Kate Plus 8, Sex and the City, Sarah Palin, Nancy Pelosi, The Devil Wears Prada, Practical Magic, “momtini” blogs, and Mad Men fan websites. Readers will learn to apply the insights from each chapter to their own sets of myths, stereotypes, and assumptions about gendered roles, and to recognize the possibilities for both liberation and domination when women’s practices of marrying, mating, and mothering are represented and misrepresented in the media. This collection is an essential contribution to media studies and criticism of gender stereotypes in contemporary culture.