John Gorman's story is very much about a football man, but it is also much more than just that. After a lifetime in the game John thought he had seen and done it all. He had played, coached and managed at the top and experienced the harsh realities of survival at the lower end of the scale. There was little in professional football that he had not had to cope with. But on a cold February day in 2006 as he gazed lovingly into the weary eyes of his dying wife, Myra, he knew trying to maintai...

The Northern Ireland politician and British Army veteran chronicles his storied life in this memoir.After serving in the Irish Guards in northwest Europe (where he won a legendary MC for ramming a King Tiger tank), John Gorman's career included being Head of Security with BOAC, and closely involved with Royal visits. Later he was Europe's largest landlord running the Northern Ireland Housing Executive. before entering politics and becoming Deputy Speaker of the Nort...

When Clovis moves to conquer Gaul in AD 486, only the king of the Romans, Syagrius, has the courage to stand in his way. However, he pays a fearful price for his defiance; Shattered by a defeat that cost him his wife, his son, his city, and his army, Syagrius wanders through the collapsing world of a dying empire. He finds refuge with a procurator broken by his past, a centurion haunted by betrayal, and a priestess desperate for love—all too proud and too honorable to compromise with the c...

When punk brat Count Billiswami Jr. deserts his crumbling estate to become a glorified sparring partner for the Knights of Kron, he opens the door for a major upheaval. Meanwhile, Luma and her dragon slip through a portal that takes them three hundred years into the past and traps them in the middle of nowhere. This gives the evil mage Veldish his golden opportunity to overtake control of the magic cities in Nebilon.Luma's challenge to get back in time to thwart her old nemesis see...

Sir John Gorman served with the Irish Guards in North West Europe, winning the MC for ramming and knocking-out a Royal Tiger tank; the thickness of its armor precluded any other alternative! After the War he followed his father into the Royal Ulster Constabulary - not the normal choice of career for a Roman Catholic. He was 'headhunted' to join BOAC as head of Security. Amongst his duties was accompanying H.M. The Queen on Royal visits overseas. He rose to run the airline's operations in C...

A provocative call for the transformation of science museums into "idea colliders" that spark creative collaborations and connections.Today's science museums descend from the Kunst-und Wunderkammern of the Renaissance--collectors' private cabinets of curiosities--through the Crystal Palace exhibition of 1851 to today's "interactive" exhibits promising educational fun. In this book, Michael John Gorman issues a provocative call for the transformation of science muse...

Jesuit engagement with natural philosophy during the late 16th and early 17th centuries transformed the status of the mathematical disciplines and propelled members of the Order into key areas of controversy in relation to Aristotelianism. Through close investigation of the activities of the Jesuit 'school' of mathematics founded by Christoph Clavius, The Scientific Counter-Revolution examines the Jesuit connections to the rise of experimental natural philosophy and the emergence ...

The rollicking tales of Old Southwestern humor were a distinctive contribution to American folk culture provided by the frontiersmen of the South and Southwest, a tradition brought to its highest form in the work of Mark Twain. Among the precursors of Twain was John Gorman Barr of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Like Twain, Barr grew up in a river town, worked in a printing office, and traveled widely; and again like Twain, Barr drew upon the people and places of his home region as the primary source...

InvestiGators fans, rejoice! Get ready to dive into the fifth volume of Agents of S.U.I.T., featuring the weird and wacky coworkers of everyone's favorite sewer-sleuthing super-agents, Mango and Brash! With more than four million copies of InvestiGators in print, readers are primed for more GatorVerse action!Cilantro is leading her very first mission, but nothing is going according to plan. She's been chased by ancient rock beasts, stalked by a do...

Since the earliest days of the church, scriptural interpreters have noticed similarities between the writings of Paul and John. These similarities have become a topic of intense debate among biblical scholars.In Paul and John in Harmony, world-renowned New Testament scholar Michael Gorman looks in depth at significant parallels between the Gospel of John and 1 John and the Pauline letters. Gorman explores texts such as Philippians 2, John 13, and John 15 and themes such as...

After the landmark work of E. P. Sanders, the task of rightly accounting for Paul's relationship to Judaism has dominated the last forty years of Pauline scholarship. Pitre, Barber, and Kincaid argue that Paul is best viewed as a new covenant Jew, a designation that allows the apostle to be fully Jewish, yet in a manner centered on the person and work of Jesus the Messiah. This new covenant Judaism provides the key that unlocks the door to many of the difficult aspects of Pauline theology....

"SUPER PROJECTS" is a book for CEOs, CFOs, COOs and others to reignite their enthusiasm and passion regarding strategy, change and innovation. In an increasingly complex and fast-changing world, the ultimate source of competitive advantage rests not just in the strategy, but in the ability to bring it to life - to successfully deliver on the organization's biggest projects and initiatives: its Super Projects. Super Projects are about strategic leadership, change and innovation. They are th...