Bøger af Tom Williams

The players, the goals, the games, the scandals and the glory: the story of French football's chequered coming of age over the last 40 years.French football is an enigma: a puzzling jumble of brilliance and farce, flair and frailty, stunning success and abject failure. Its domestic league is mocked on social media as an uncompetitive 'Farmers League' and its clubs derided for underachieving in European competition. But France have reached four of the past seven men's World Cup finals, French players star week in, week out for the world's grandest clubs and the very best of French football - the roar of the Vélodrome, the glamour of the Parc des Princes, the shimmering brilliance of Zinédine Zidane, Éric Cantona and Kylian Mbappé - stands comparison with anything the sport has to offer. When it comes to scandal, meanwhile, the French are the best in the business, be it sensational match-fixing affairs, squabbles over sex tapes or meltdowns within the national squad.In this fascinating and exhaustively researched book, the first of its kind in the English language, Tom Williams brings to life French football's chequered coming of age over the last 40 years. He details how the starry-eyed romanticism that characterised the national team in the early 1980s gave way to an Italian-style pragmatism that would lead Les Bleus to the summit of the international game in the late 1990s. He delves into French football's rich history and explains the myriad ways - tactical, technical and cultural - in which France has shaped the game's evolution around the world.Featuring exclusive interviews with great figures of the French game such as Alain Giresse, Jean-Pierre Papin, Luis Fernandez, Guy Roux, Emmanuel Petit, Robert Pirès, Blaise Matuidi and Camille Abily, and with a cast of characters that also includes Michel Platini, Thierry Henry, Arsène Wenger, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Karim Benzema, Chris Waddle, Neymar Jr and Lionel Messi, it's a book no football fan will want to miss.

Dave Skunk was created in 2020 by Bloody Plum Creator, Tom Williams aka Tom.C.Crypt. This collection is comprised of comic strips and artwork created from Late 2022 to 2023.

Dave Skunk was created in 2020 by Bloody Plum Creator, Tom Williams aka Tom.C.Crypt. This collection is comprised of comic strips and artwork created in 2022 including the epic Daves epiphany.

What if your "so-called amazing life" came crashing in one dark rainy day in a NYC penthouse? For years you had worked your tail off in a professional career that you were passionate about, only to realize you were perhaps chasing the wrong things in life. You made a real difference in people's lives and all your hard work had brought you financial success and respect from the thousands you had helped. What if, it all didn't matter...... Ellie Jackson decides to take a much needed break, head South to sunny Florida and get back to the person she hopes is still there. Along the way she meets some interesting characters and discovers there is a whole other world outside New York. Join us for an adventure as one woman discovers a Slow Return to Skinny Dipping...........

A suspicious murder and a cryptic message threaten to uncover a secret group entrenched in the federal government that is plotting to destroy and recreate America by influencing a fundamental tenant of representative democracy - the right to choose our leaders.The biennial national election is in full swing. Most political polls report an equally divided Country between most of the candidates. However, technologist Wayne Tran discovers it doesn't matter how people vote.Wayne deduces there are influential people involved, and, now, since he knows about the conspiracy, he assumes he is in mortal danger. Fearing for his life, Wayne sends an email to his best friend, Bill Ockham. An hour later, Wayne is brutally murdered, reportedly, by a drive-by gang shooting.A month later, Bill receives a cryptic email from Wayne. How could that be? Is the email an ingenious way to get Bill's attention that Wayne knew something was wrong, really wrong?Wayne's demise adds yet another tragedy to Bill in a string of already personal misfortunes. Three years ago, a rogue wave washes his wife out to sea, his college roommate advises him that he is too old to work in Silicon Valley, and now one of his best friends dies under suspicious circumstances.With the help of Computer Scientist Marcie Conover, Bill dedicates his time to uncover the circumstances behind Wayne's death. What they didn't expect is their quest for the truth extends to the upper echelons of the federal government.

The US natural gas pipeline system is under attack.That's what Bob McKenna, a veteran accident investigator concluded in his analysis of 20 accidents. Unconvinced, the federal authorities and natural gas pipeline management companies believed the accidents were unforeseen catastrophes.Bob understood his evidence was circumstantial, replete with conjecture and extrapolations. But, that's the point. Could the accidents be attributed to cyber terrorism, eco-terrorism, cyber warfare, hacking, revenge, or a pipeline competitor?Bob enlisted the support from a Silicon Valley technology investigative firm, Ockham's Razor. Their investigation uncovered a sinister plot to destroy the nations' natural gas infrastructure inflicting political, social, and economic damage across the US and threatening the lives of every American.

Setting Of The Rising Sun In the previous novel, West Into The Rising Sun, Michael Flanagan survived the abyss of the Great Depression. His involvement with an agent of the Nationalist Chinese Government entangled Flanagan in her fight against Japanese aggression during the Sino-Japanese War of the 1930's. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, this fighter ace from World War I offered his services to his country in the war against Japan. Regardless of his experience, he was deemed too old to contribute to the war effort as a fighter pilot or in any other military capacity for that matter. This second novel in the trilogy begins at this critical point in Flanagan's life. Only late in the war is Flanagan approached by his government to conduct a military mission behind the Japanese lines in Burma. Flanagan was uniquely qualified for this mission. During the time he had worked with the Chinese, Flanagan had befriended the headman of a mountain tribe in Burma. The mission was a success, and Flanagan was ready to head home when he was recruited to perform one more mission deep behind the Japanese lines in French Indochina. The objective of this mission was to save the life of a gravely ill guerilla leader who had been effectively fighting the Japanese and Vichy French. The name of the leader was Ho Chi Min. Flanagan returned from this last mission after the war had ended. He routed his return home through Hong Kong to attempt to find his family. They had gone missing during the Japanese occupation. After finally returning home, Flanagan started a cargo airline that flew Pacific routes. This enterprise involved him in further adventures in Asia that finally lead to his involvement in the French Indochina War and other conflicts in Asia.

West Into The Rising Sun As the Twenty-First Century progresses, we should look retrospectively back to the Twentieth Century and learn the lessons that it has to teach us. Tens of millions of people died at the hands of their fellow humans during the previous century. Some of the criminal perpetrators of these crimes turned murderous extermination into national policy or worse yet, an industry. The list of the targeted nationalities, ethnic groups, and religious affiliations is long as is the list of their tormentors. Most of us know about these events from the few paragraphs they are allotted in the cumulative history of a long period of time, like a century. There are still the remaining few, who were there and saw the dirty deeds as they occurred. There are also the remaining few, who saw firsthand what occurred when these horrors were brought to an end. Museums can be built and monuments erected, but they only serve as remembrances. They can only mark where the battlefields of the Great Wars were fought. You cannot see the tens of thousands who died in a single day in chaotic combat. Where Hitler's factories of death and work camps were located only empty buildings remain. The jungle has reclaimed the Japanese POW camps so no monuments stand to testify to the atrocities inflicted there. These are small testimonies to the daily suffering that happened in these places of depravity. No monument or museum can convey the true suffering that took place in these camps or on these battlefields. Those who know of such suffering must never stop talking about these atrocities regardless of the pain it may cause them. They have an obligation to educate those who have never experienced such suffering so that the call to arms or the call to hate is always questioned. I've seen the contest of the human body against steel. The body never wins. Though I was not alive during the period this story is set in, it was the violent prelude to our entrance into World War II. The story centers on the Sino-Japanese War and the impact of the Great Depression on our country. It's part of the life story of Michael Flanagan. He was a decorated fighter pilot during The Great War, but was brought to economic and emotional despair by the forces unleashed by the Great Depression. Before Flanagan ran out of options he was saved by a tough Irish Lady. His adventures began when he became involved with an aristocratic Chinese woman fighting to save her country from the ravages of Japanese aggression. The nineteen thirties was also a time of great technological innovation. It was the era of the great flying boats and the introduction of the DC-3. This plane revolutionized passenger aviation because of its capabilities and economic viability. Through Michael Flanagan's eyes, we see how these innovations transformed the world.

Final Margin Calls is the sequel to Out of the Darkness Came a Hunter. Jim Sheridan is a successful attorney who is sliding into retirement just as the banking crisis is washing over the country. This financial tsunami was taking the retirement savings of a generation along with it. The legal system seemed unable or unwilling to bring to justice those who perpetrated and profited from the greatest financial scam in history. Suddenly wealthy investment bankers began to turn up dead. Someone it seemed had decided that letting bank robbers walk away with their loot wasn't acceptable under every circumstance. Jim Sheridan is contacted by his long ago military attorney and friend to help him find who is responsible for this epidemic of brutal murders.

A review of sports in the 1960s at Ocean City (NJ) High School. Includes Ken Leary, Don Tarves, Fenton Carey, Dixie Howell, John Cranston, John Henry, Ed McClain, Earl Tarves, Fred Haack, John Huff, John Cervino, Bill Haynes, Ted Klepac, Ken Penska....just a few of the names that made the 1960s an important decade in the history of OCHSl sports.

"How To Be Black Only On Weekends" is an exciting and suspenseful story of what happens to a small group of middle class African Americans whose lives are disrupted by greed, deceit and prejudice. It is a fast paced urban adventure that includes just the right spice of ethnic humor. This is the 2nd edition to this popular 200+ page, "quick read" paperback. Suitable and enjoyable by "all" audiences. A funny and engaging story of life in, and out of the hood. "If you like to read, work hard on your job and want to know where you fit in, you've got to read this book..." * It's an entertaining urban adventure filled with action, humor and intrigue. * Reveals secrets/opinions/emotions seldom said out loud and never in 'mixed' company. * Cleverly uses a 'Suspense Story Format' - brings the truth to the surface (without preaching at you). * Has proven to have Mass Audience appeal. Readers come from every segment of American society. * Contains more than 7 pages of 'Slang Terms'. Updated for this 2nd Edition. * Find out what you've been hearing but not understanding. * Often 'slap your leg' funny. Always relevant. Fast, action packed reading!

The Longest Road Home is the third novel in the trilogy that chronicles the life of Michael Flanagan with the first being, West Into The Rising Sun. The conclusion of the second novel, Setting Of The Rising Sun, found Flanagan arriving home. He had been held prisoner by the Viet Minh following the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in the spring of 1954. This defeat ended the First Indochina War, concluded France's colonial presence in Asia, and planted the seeds for the American involvement in Vietnam a decade later. Flanagan spent the next decade after the defeat of the French building his cargo airline to be a dominate force in the air cargo business across the Pacific. His airline prospered from the escalating war in Vietnam as the priority needs for men and materials grew with the intensity of the conflict. As part of the American military buildup in Vietnam in the mid-nineteen-sixties, an Army pilot arrived in Vietnam as part of this massive military deployment. His name was Jack Rogers and his arrival in Vietnam was much like Flanagan's arrival in France during World War I. They both stepped into a brutal conflict that they observed from the air, but didn't understand. Though two generations and decades apart, their lives seemed to have followed similar paths. In The Longest Road Home, we follow the life of Jack Rogers and observe the parallelism that it has with Flanagan's life. Sadly in many ways both their lives seem to prove that over a period of fifty years little was learned by earth's inhabitants, not even that one war just begets another. Jack Rogers was drawn deeper and deeper into the conflict in Vietnam by his relationship with a Vietnamese woman. Similarly Flanagan had also been drawn into Asian conflicts beginning thirty years earlier by his relationships with the oriental women that had passed through his life. As if by fate or the draw of kindred spirits the lives of the two men would cross each other's. This seemed especially true when a helping hand was most needed.

Bloody Plum, is the story of a young man filling his day with adventures and mischief all against the backdrop of a post-apocalyptic Earth. Boy-Tango and Pins are on a mission to find Tim, but things go wrong as they enter a mysterious cave.

The 1960's were a time of racial conflict and military confrontation in Asia. After living in New York all his life, the Army transferred Jim Sheridan to a post in the Deep South. At this time the defenders of segregation were making their last stand in a vain attempt to bolster the status quo. His country was being ripped apart along racial lines by these acts. At the same time the war in Vietnam was escalating and opening another deep wound in the soul of his country. He didn't understand the rationality for either of these conflicts, but found himself in the middle of both. The emotional forces of love and hate generated by these conflicts shaped Sheridan from what he was into what he became.

New to the thorny world of business, a young woman discovers that her decisions have international consequences in Tom Williams's riveting novel, Uncertain Outcomes. Newly minted MBA Claire Perkins considers herself lucky to land a job at the Manhattan headquarters of a large corporation. The learning curve is steep, however, and she soon finds herself collecting information that could determine whether or not the company's Alabama plant moves overseas. A trip to China to investigate the potential site leads Claire to a astounding discovery: the Chinese government, interested in gaining the military technology assembled at the Alabama plant, has covert operatives in position to steal it. When Claire's own boss inadvertently aids the Chinese in their quest, coupled with a new US National Security Council policy regarding China that has a dramatic effect on business, it seems as though the company may be doomed. Through it all, Claire learns that her strategies to get ahead no longer work in the modern business world. Instead she'll have to learn to become a team player if she's going to make it.

The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and international titles in a single resource. Its International Law component features works of some of the great legal theorists, including Gentili, Grotius, Selden, Zouche, Pufendorf, Bijnkershoek, Wolff, Vattel, Martens, Mackintosh, Wheaton, among others. The materials in this archive are drawn from three world-class American law libraries: the Yale Law Library, the George Washington University Law Library, and the Columbia Law Library.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.+++++++++++++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: +++++++++++++++Harvard Law School LibraryLP2H008190019070101The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, Part IISiloam Springs, Ark.: Perrine Printing Company, 1907115, [1-3] p. 8voUnited States

Fishing has always been an inescapable outlet for me and I have traveled throughout the United States and Southeastern British Colombia in search of the perfect waters. When I was younger, fishing was an epic game of hide and seek. Growing up, I cherished the time I spent with my father. I learned to fish as well as how to be a man, all under the guidance of a man who never said more than a handful of words at a time. However, my daughter brought a different kind of magic to the sport that I had never experienced before. For me, fishing used to be about the take but it's become more about the company you keep and the memories you take home with you. After working as a civilian contractor in the security industry for years, I know that the patience and persistence developed as a fisherman has helped me find balance in my career as well. I have truly loved this life and doing what makes me happy.

Build a bigger better businessIf your stress levels are growing faster than your profits, and screwups are hindering your ability to scaleup, it's time to take the leap from business operator to business owner.In this ground-breaking book, five-time founder Tom Williams shares his proven five-part formula to break through your growth ceilings, and confidently scale your business.This book will equip you with the knowledge and practical steps to:Craft an irresistible value proposition to effortlessly attract your ideal customersGet crystal clear on the fastest path to your scaled up futurePlace the right people, in the right roles, taking total responsibility for business successDevelop systems and processes to ensure your business runs like clockworkBuild a scalable marketing machine that consistently drives sales and profits

This book is about a young teenager walking in the jungles of Vietnam fighting for his life. After getting shot in the mouth, losing teeth and bone, and causing stuttering and a hard time pronouncing words, God called him into the ministry speaking before people for 40 years. Through-out this book you will hear Tom's sense of humor getting him through many difficult times of his life. This book will make you laugh, cry, get mad, and many other emotions. It is an encouraging book that will show you. with God's help. you truly can do anything you want, even with disabilities.

On retirement, most Americans hope to travel, pursue hobbies, dote on grandchildren, and just enjoy life. Augustus Lincoln Treatise has a different dream: to solve some of America's thorniest problems by becoming President of the United States.Not surprisingly, his wife and grown children react to this dream with disbelief. Augustus' vision of change persuades them-and to everyone's surprise, he wins the national election. As president, he introduces bold new strategies to eliminate the national debt and clean up the country's water, create new jobs and reduce traditional influence peddling. Many of his unexpected proposals prevail. Even when they don't, his willingness to dismantle partisan boundaries and rethink outworn traditions revitalizes the presidency and the nation it serves.President You reaffirms that "ordinary" citizens can have a profound impact on the life of our nation and, by extension, the world. Whether or not you've ever wondered what you would do if you were President of the United States-and even if you disagree with some of Augustus' initiatives-President You will get you thinking about the role and responsibilities of national government, the issues that affect our collective and individual lives, and the power of each and every citizen to make enduring change.President You couples an engaging fictional narrative with a factual and impeccably researched exploration of presidential decision-making, the legislative structure and process, and the challenges that face America today. Offering bonus extras including a reference list and reader questions, it's ideal for both book-group discussion and individual reading.

A pilot, pharmaceutical executive, medical doctor, investment advisor, and a priest die in accidents, or it seems that way. In Washington, DC, renowned FBI Chief Data Scientist Dr. Steven Flynn supervises a secret computer software program he designed. Its mission is to identify the smallest nuance of similarities in attacks on the Homeland. The system reveals the five seemingly deadly accidents had a single common fact; the use of software developed and marketed by a Silicon Valley software company. Were the accidents premeditated murders?When FBI Special Agent Molly Perchant confronts the Company's CEO with compelling circumstantial evidence that an unidentified employee was responsible for the killings, the CEO reaches out to Dr. Marcie Conover and Bill Ockham, partners at the private technology investigation firm Ockham's Razor to validate or deny the Government's claims. The Ockham's Razor team uncovers a heinous conspiracy that repurposes everyday digital products into weapons of death. Was it revenge, vengeance, terrorism, or cyber attacks? Was a Company employee complicit? Proving the three elements of an advanced technology crime: means, opportunity, and motive confront the duo's emotional, legal, and ethical boundaries.

Brand Fusion: Purpose-driven brand strategy presents a compelling case for what consumers, customers, employees, and wider society are now demanding from companies - the development of brands that deliver profit with purpose, are sustainable, and create mutually beneficial meaning. It fuses theory-practice-application to purpose-driven brand strategies in order to develop a unique approach that has comprehensive theoretical underpinning as well as practical and thought-provoking lessons from industry. Data-driven case studies from a broad range of brands and contexts show the application of this learning-from micro-brands to corporates; charities to technology companies; retirement villages to aspiring high-growth start-ups. Brand Fusion: Purpose-driven brand strategy is an in-depth analysis of the philosophy and practice behind creating a purposeful brand.

BILL TUTTE CODEBREAKER 'THE GREATEST INTELLECTUAL FEAT OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR.' a testimonial to Bill Tutte and his codebreaking discovery in 1942 at Bletchley Park. Bill Tutte was a young, gauche PhD student, yet his remarkable breakthrough and continuing endeavour against a German cipher machine more complex than Enigma led to the development of the world's first programmable computer, Colossus. Colossus allowed top-secret messages between Hitler and his generals to be read within hours, contributing significantly to the success of the D-Day landings and the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany. So secret were the functions performed by Colossus that the work of Bill Tutte and his colleagues was classified for more than 50 years after the end of the Second World War. This novel not only explores Bill Tutte's codebreaking, but also examines his 'autistic' character, his background and close relationships all woven into the pressures and diversions of life at Bletchley Park. Prime Minister David Cameron wrote in 2012: We should never forget how lucky we were to have men like William 'Bill' Tutte in our darkest hour and the extent to which their work not only helped protect Britain itself but also shorten the war by an estimated two years, saving countless lives. I can say without doubt that Bill Tutte deserves the thanks of the British people.