Download or read book Royal Murdoch written by Robert Harlow and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-04-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Royal Murdoch is Robert Harlow´s first novel, published in 1962 and reprinted now as part of a plan to bring all of the author´s nine novels together under one imprint and make them available to a new audience. When Royal Murdoch was first published it was called a strong debut work, and it began to build Harlow´s reputation as one of his country´s better story-tellers. Royal Murdoch was a soldier from the Boer War and a restless pioneer by nature. He married Emma, a young and inexperienced Halifax woman, and brought her west in 1909 as far as the railroad would take them. Unceremoniously arriving at the confluence of the Linden and the Swifter Rivers, Royal decided that this was home, set up a tent with a hand-sawn floor and re-enforced with four-foot high log walls that were proof enough against the long and very cold winter. Gradually, he cleared twenty acres of land and built a cabin for him and Emma to live in. During this time, Yvonne, a young aboriginal woman, ran away from her native village and, at the end of steel, she found a construction camp, which included the usual prostitutes who had followed the men as they moved west across the Rockies into British Columbia. Yvonne lived nearby in a shelter she built herself and she too entertained men from the camp. Soon she was pregnant. Her son Roger was born and named for her father, Roger LaPointe - the name went back to the 1830s when a Voyageur stayed with Yvonne´s band, called now the Crest Indians, and fathered the first of four generations of Roger LaPointes. Yvonne needed help with her child, and this encouraged Emma Murdoch to make her biggest mistake since marrying Royal. She took on Yvonne as a servant, thinking it both a charitable act and help for herself in the never-ending drudgery of life beyond the edge of civilization. Royal, unsatisfied with Emma stiffly submitting to his sexual needs, began to visit with Yvonne. He built Emma the big house at the western side of his twenty acres and moved Yvonne into the cabin. Gradually he became Roger´s substitute father. Yvonne lived long enough to bring up Roger and then she died of tuberculosis. Royal, meanwhile, living a settled life with Emma in the big house and Yvonne in the cabin, became the first mayor of the town he was credited with founding. He nearly ignored his children, Ruby and Jeremy, while he lived a public life and one that brought him both influence and some wealth. Now Royal is 78 and dying of cancer. Propped up in a borrowed hospital bed overlooking his twenty acres, he is by turns cantankerous and painfully in need of nursing. Emma is old now too, and she has taken in a young convent bred Indian woman, Mary-Ann, to help her during Royal´s last days. When she senses that Royal´s end is near, Emma asks Ruby and Jeremy to come home and say goodbye to their father, and, at Royal´s request, she also invites Roger LaPointe. She hopes for reconciliation, relief from her sense of failure as both mother and wife. With his two best friends, his doctor and his lawyer, Royal has embarked on one last entrepreneurial adventure. Together the three of them are drilling for oil on his lawyer´s acreage outside of Linden. Royal´s son Jeremy, see this as both a way into his father´s affections and additional money in his inheritance. Ruby, who grew up looking after Jeremy, and hating Roger because he was the only child Royal paid attention to, concentrates on trying to make new contact with her mother. Roger comes back, as he does every summer to sketch and paint in Yvonne´s cabin, finds out from Monica, the reporter on the Linden paper, that Royal is dying and he is welcome in Emma´s house. The Murdochs are news now that Royal is dying, and Monica is curious about what is going on there. When a travelling circus and carny show comes to town Jeremy, who is a drinker, chooses that night to
Download or read book Rise And Fall Of The Murdoch Empire written by John Lisners and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rupert Murdoch - ruthless visionary, empire builder and business genius. He has created a global media network which has made him one of the most powerful and influential figures in the world. So potent was the force of his empire that he was even on first-name terms with presidents and prime ministers - superpowers were only a telephone call away. But just recently, rather than controlling the news, Murdoch has instead become the front-page story as the world had been gripped by the unfolding drama of the News International phone hacking scandal.
Download or read book The Women Are Up to Something written by Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Résumé éditeur : This book tells two intertwined stories, centered on twentieth-century moral philosophers Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, and Iris Murdoch. The first is the story of four friends who came up to Oxford together just before WWII. It is the story of their lives, loves, and intellectual preoccupations; it is a story about women trying to find a place in a man's world of academic philosophy. The second story is about these friends' shared philosophical project and their unintentional creation of a school of thought that challenged the dominant way of doing ethics. That dominant school of thought envisioned the world as empty, value-free matter, on which humans impose meaning. This outlook treated statements such as “this is good” as mere expressions of feeling or preference, reflecting no objective standards. It emphasized human freedom and demanded an unflinching recognition of the value-free world. The four friends diagnosed this moral philosophy as an impoverishing intellectual fad. This style of thought, they believed, obscured the realities of human nature and left people without the resources to make difficult moral choices or to confront evil. As an alternative, the women proposed a naturalistic ethics, reviving a line of thought running through Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas, and enriched by modern biologists like Jane Goodall and Charles Darwin. The women proposed that there are, in fact, moral truths, based in facts about the distinctive nature of the human animal and what that animal needs to thrive."
Download or read book The Fall of the House of Murdoch written by Peter Jukes and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structured around the fourteen days in 2011, from the moment the News of the World's hacking of the phone of a murdered 13-year-old schoolgirl was exposed, The Fall of the House of Murdoch is a riveting account of the scandal that closed the world's best-selling English-language newspaper, forced one of the most powerful families in the world to appear before Parliament and finally prompted Murdoch's departure from the UK newspaper world he dominated for three decades. But the book covers more than just Hackgate. It is a forensic expose of News Corp's culture, through the early days in Australian media, the purchase of the News of the World, the Sun and the Times group, the Wapping move to the move into satellite broadcasting and the creation of the Fox Network. Exhaustively researched and fully sourced, The Fall of the House of Murdoch is a morality tale for our times, a family drama played out on a world stage and required reading for anyone seeking to understand the hidden connections that bind politics, business and culture together.
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Download or read book A Royal Threesome written by Rhys Bowen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in one volume—the first three “charming and lighthearted” (Kirkus Reviews) Royal Spyness Mysteries from New York Times bestselling author Rhys Bowen, featuring the elegant, titled, and stony-broke sleuth Lady Georgiana Rannoch. HER ROYAL SPYNESS Georgie is forced to earn her keep as a housekeeper in London when the Queen summons her to spy on the playboy prince. But when a Frenchman winds up dead in Georgie’s bathtub, it’s her job to clear her very long family name. A ROYAL PAIN While entertaining a Bavarian princess at the Queen’s behest, Georgie finds herself investigating the rather more worrisome matter of the dead body in the bookshop, as well as her royal guest’s unwitting involvement in the communist party. ROYAL FLUSH After being saved from scandal by her on-again-but-mostly-off-again beau, Darcy O’Mara, Georgie is shipped home, where Queen Mary wants her to keep Wallis Simpson from seducing the Prince of Wales, and Scotland Yard wants her to stop one of the members of the shooting party at Balmoral from turning their sights from the quails to His Royal Highness.
Download or read book Double Helix Double Joy David Danks The Father of Clinical Genetics in Australia written by Carolyn Rasmussen and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor David Danks explained in a public lecture revealingly titled, Double Helix, Double Joy, that 'Even from its infancy it was apparent that the double helix was going to change not only science, but also the community's image of science'. 'Double Joy' conveyed his sense that the developments cascading from Watson and Crick's initial DNA discovery would yield 'immense benefits' for people generally, and also for his own research ambitions. A double joy made concrete in the foundation of the Murdoch Institute for Research into Birth Defects where he could fully implement his vision of unfettered basic scientific research wedded to clinical practice and services to public health. Born into the long-established Melbourne family of hardware merchants, Danks chose a career path more aligned to that family's association with hospitals and health. Inspired to know 'why a disease had occurred' and 'how it could be anticipated and prevented', Danks trained with pioneers of human genetics in London and Baltimore from 1959. At that time, human genetics was scarcely known in Australia. Following his discovery of the cause of Menkes disease in 1972 and breakthroughs in PKU testing, he applied his entrepreneurial flair to the development of a brilliant multi-disciplinary research team focussed on the identification of genetic diseases affecting newborns and their treatment in the clinic. Dame Elisabeth Murdoch embraced his vision and helped launch the Murdoch Institute in 1986, based at the Royal Children's Hospital. A man of 'towering intellect', who did it 'because it was fun', Danks' legacy reaches beyond the Murdoch Institute to the establishment of clinical genetics services throughout Australia, the internationally acclaimed POSSUM database, and the next generation of researchers who continue to explore and expand his vision.
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