David Hope, a retired athlete and Grammy-award-winning jazz saxophonist, has a very special gift. While returning home to Cleveland after the completion of his world tour, the plane on which he is a passenger plummets to the ground. While helping fellow survivors, David discovers that he can heal the wounded simply by touching them. David accepts this anointing and does everything he can to aid others, but he still struggles with his own worthiness. His story is not only of physical and spiritual healing but also of relationships, sex, dark secrets, treachery, and redemption. The lives David touches are given a renewed spirituality as he fulfills his journey toward a higher calling. David walks with and works through the common man to give God's children hope. He struggles, as most people do, with choosing the right path on his life journey. The conflict continues between good and evil as well as between honoring or denying the gifts that the Creator has given David. In using these gifts, David finds he is an instrument of hope.

... a testimony to Rev. Kings many years of study and experience in conducting workshops in meditation and development of intuitive and spiritual gifts. Through this fascinating and uplifting collection of inspirational talks, you will discover new perspectives to many common subjects. Barry freely offers help to any soul searching for the meaning in this life and a deeper understanding of our purpose for being born into the physical ... treats the reader to an opening of their minds with respect to matters of Spirit. A truly enlightening and enlightened book! Rev. Frederick Cale, MA, OM, PhD(TC) author of Akashic Journey. ...Rev. King is blessed with many gifts. With his gift of storytelling, this book helps us remember what our heart and soul knows as the Truth. Rev Debra Sinclair, Interfaith Minister, Stratford, Ontario. ... deserves to be in the 100th book list that will move our world into a new way of thinking about religion and spirituality. Rev. Tim Miner, World Council of Interfaith Congregations, Washington, DC

This book explores, from a sociological perspective, the relationship between acting as symbolic work and the commercialization of popular culture. Particular attention is paid to the social conditions that gave rise to stardom in the theatre and cinema, and how shifts in the marketing of stars have impacted upon contemporary celebrity culture.

Action/Adventure Mainstream Novel Jabe Rainwater never had any intention of battling the entire North American illegal drug trade all by himself. Even further from his mind is how he might bring that whole business to its knees -- until he is targeted for assassination and has to run for his life. Bad Medicine is the story of a reluctant but capable pueblo Indian, an ex-Navy Seal who has been framed and blackmailed into flying illegal drug shipments up from Columbia. The tale is set in modern times in the Yucatan, South Texas and New Mexico. Rainwater has to take back his home pueblo from a clandestine drug ring that is building a landing strip for huge transports on the reservation. In doing so, they are destroying the Indian culture and a way of life that has continued unaltered for 10,000 years. But, in reclaiming his home he has to bring down the mysterious "El Jefe," the man who personally controls the North American illegal narcotics coming up from South America. And, El Jefe is a very high official in the government of the United States. What's worse, he is building a war-chest for the upcoming Presidential election and is favored to win. In order to avert tragedy, his Tribe's as well as his own, Jabe has to employ all the "old-time savvy" he learned from his Grandfather Longrifle when he was a child on the reservation. The action moves like lightning from Texas to a fire-fight in the Yucatan jungle, a confrontation with the U.S. Navy, and then back to New Mexico and an international showdown between Superpowers -- Native American Homeland Security against U.S. nuclear muscle.

This book examines how the persistent and deepening casualization and precarity of acting work, coupled with market pressures, has affected the ways in which actors are trained in the US and UK. It reviews the existing state of training, looking at various theories of what the actor does, debates about casting, and the impact of reality television and social media. In the increasing effort to find ways to overcome the precarious labour market for actors and other performers, the traditional emphasis on theatrical character has been replaced by the celebration of the persona – a public image of the performer as a personal brand. As a result, a physiocratic elite, that literally incorporates the collective labour of cultural workers into the star or celebrity body, has formed. This book explores how the star or celebrity’s appearance and comportment are positioned as the rule of nature, formed and abiding outside capitalism as a mode of production. This book will be of interest to those studying theatre studies and performance, contemporary stardom and celebrity and the impact of technology on the formation of identity.

Bioremediation, or enhanced microbiological treatment, of environments contaminated with a variety of organic and inorganic compounds is one of the most effective innovative technologies to come around this century! Practical Environmental Bioremediation: The Field Guide presents updated material, case histories and many instructive illustrations to reflect the evolving image of this fast-emerging industry. Bioremediation technology has witnessed great strides towards simplifying treatability formats, finding new approaches to field application, more potent nutrient formulations, monitoring protocols and the resulting general improvement in results. This new guide condenses all current available knowledge and presents necessary technical aspects and concepts in language that can be readily comprehended by the technical student, experienced scientist or engineer, the aspiring newcomer, or anyone else interested in this exciting natural cleanup technique.

Bioremediation, or enhanced microbiological treatment, of environments contaminated with a variety of organic and inorganic compounds is one of the most effective innovative technologies to come around this century! Practical Environmental Bioremediation: The Field Guide presents updated material, case histories and many instructive illustrations to reflect the evolving image of this fast-emerging industry. Bioremediation technology has witnessed great strides towards simplifying treatability formats, finding new approaches to field application, more potent nutrient formulations, monitoring protocols and the resulting general improvement in results. This new guide condenses all current available knowledge and presents necessary technical aspects and concepts in language that can be readily comprehended by the technical student, experienced scientist or engineer, the aspiring newcomer, or anyone else interested in this exciting natural cleanup technique.

Beginning Teaching and Beyond is a text for all student-teachers and for experienced teachers and principals who want to become effective and to renew or revitalise their teaching. The text, which is divided into three parts, addresses these major questions: - Part One: How might student-teachers prepare for teaching practice? - Part Two: What approaches can student-teachers, experienced teachers and principals take to become more effective at teaching through self-improvement? - Part Three: In what ways, and to what extent can research in teaching inform and improve classroom practice? Students will become engaged in the process of teacher self-improvement as they develop first the competence to cope with their early teaching practice periods and then strive for higher level of effectiveness preparatory to their long-term teaching practice or initial teaching appointments. For those beyond their initial teaching appointment, sections about teacher renewal, reflective teaching and action research will be of particular relevance.

Papers of Barry King comprising a short autiobiography, personal memorabilia from his career as an Adelaide chef including recipes and photographs, papers relating to training of chefs and waiters, papers relating to his involvement with the Dunkirk Veterans' Association, and certificates commemorating his military career.