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Why did Life Magazine dub her "the most hated woman in America"?
Did she unravel the moral fiber of America or defend the
Constitution? They found her heaped in a shallow grave, sawed up,
and burned. Thus ended Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the articulate
"atheist bitch" whose 1963 U.S. Supreme Court case ended school
prayer. Her Christian-baiting lawsuits spanned three more decades;
she was on TV all over the country, foul-mouthed, witty, and
passionate, launching today's culture wars over same-sex marriage
and faith-based initiatives. She was a man-hater who loved sex, a
bully whose heart broke for the downtrodden. She was accused of
schizophrenia, alcoholism, and embezzlement, but never cowardice or
sloth. She was an ideologue who spewed toxic rage even at the
followers who made her a millionaire. She was a doting mother who
accosted people to ask them to be sexual partners for her lonely
children, and whose cannibalistic love led her children to their
grave. She thrived on her fame, but just as the curtain of
obscurity began to lower, the family vanished in one of the
strangest of America's true crimes. This is the real story of "the
most hated woman in America," by the only author to interview the
killer and those close to him and to witness the family's secret
burial in Austin, Texas. From the First Chapter The sky was gray
and drizzling, but it had stopped at the funeral home by quarter to
nine. Billy Murray hadn't spoken to his three family members for
more than twenty years, but he wanted to give them a decent burial.
Bill was an ordained minister, but he didn't pray over the charred,
sawed-up remains. "Baptists don't pray for the dead," he said.
"They either accept Christ before they died or they didn't." He had
his mother cremated in accordance with her oft-expressed wish. Her
urn sat at the head of the burial vault, as was appropriate, for
she had ruled the other two with an iron hand. She was Madalyn
Murray O'Hair, 76, founder of American Atheists, and the Most Hated
Woman in America-a sobriquet she relished. The other two were his
half-brother, Jon Garth Murray, 40, and his daughter, Robin
Murray-O'Hair, 30. It had taken five years to find them and bring
them to the cemetery for the service, which was kept secret from
the public. It was their second burial. Jerry Carruth, the
prosecutor who had searched for the family for nearly four years,
had watched them being excavated from their shallow mass grave on a
South Texas ranch some months before. He was watching the
shoveling, looking for the hip replacement joint Madalyn had gotten
in 1988. When they found that, he'd know he'd found Madalyn. "There
it was," he said, "shining in the sun like a trailer hitch."
This largely chronological study of Iris Murdoch's literary life
begins with her fledgling publications at Badminton School and
Oxford, and her Irish heritage. It moves through the novels of the
next four decades and concludes with an account of the
biographical, critical and media attention given to her life and
work since her death in 1999.
"This volume, featuring contributions from a number of leading
scholars, explores the ways in which the moral positions Iris
Murdoch adopts in her philosophy and theology can be aligned with
her fiction, demonstrating how Murdoch's work can contribute
significantly to discussions about the relationship between
literature and morality"--Provided by publisher.
What should you see when you?re analyzing real data using one of the major statistical packages, such as SPSS, SAS or Microsoft Excel? This book will show you, and will walk you through the output from a variety of statistical outcomes, such as data reflecting a single common factor. Through the use of actual demonstrations, the authors supply readers with the computer programs necessary to simulate data sets with the statistical properties (usually multivariate) that are often assumed of real data. The reader is then shown how to analyze these data sets and how to interpret the results. The book begins with a general introduction to doing research and tips for using the three statistical packages. The authors next explore how to create data structures and perform univariate, bivariate, and multivariate simulations. They then show how to use the simulations to understand common statistical algorithms and their outputs when doing a basic correlation analysis, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, multidimensional scaling, multiple regression, discriminate analysis, classification analysis and MANOVA. Throughout the book, the authors provide the reader with helpful guides, such as: *Hint boxes to give readers tips for executing particular techniques using the statistical software packages. *Steps that show each stage of a procedure, such as importing an Excel file into SAS. *Problems end each chapter so the reader can practice the techniques described. *Web Site with the SAS and SPSS programs and sample data.
This book forms a continuation of the research published in
Medieval Parks, Anne Rowe's highly regarded volume of 2009. Now she
turns her attention to the deer parks that existed in Hertfordshire
during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Drawing on
the earliest county maps, most notably those produced by Saxton in
1577 and Norden in 1598, and both State papers and estate records,
Anne Rowe builds a detailed picture of Hertfordshire's Tudor and
Early Stuart parks. At least 60 parks existed in Hertfordshire at
various times between 1485 and 1642, but for only 46 of those parks
is there evidence that they contained deer at some point during the
period. These confirmed or probable deer parks form the focus of
this study. Of course not all of them were sixteenth-century
creations: less than one-third were `new' parks, the remainder had
been in existence for much longer, in one or two cases being
recorded in Domesday Book. In the first part of the book detailed
evidence for who created and owned the county's parks and how they
were used and managed is given. The dawning of design in
Hertfordshire's park landscapes is also explored. Part 2 gives an
account of the presence of the Tudor and early Stuart monarchy in
Hertfordshire. Several monarchs and members of their immediate
families spent significant periods in Hertfordshire and played a
notable part in the history of its parkland; indeed, by 1540 Henry
VIII held about 70 per cent of the parkland in the county. Part 3
is a gazetteer in which each entry brings together the documentary,
cartographic and occasional field evidence available for a park,
with a map showing its probable extent in the period covered. At
this time hunting continued to be the most popular leisure
activity, as it had been for centuries. Wealthy landowners enjoyed
a range of hunting activities essentially unchanged from the
medieval period, including deer- and hare-coursing on foot,
falconry, fishing and wild-fowling. But the pursuit of a stag or
buck on horseback accompanied by a pack of hounds was considered
the noblest hunting experience. Based, like the first volume, on an
enormous amount of original work, this meticulously researched book
opens a window onto Tudor and early Stuart Hertfordshire and once
again illuminates a significant aspect of the county's landscape
history.
Dividing the county of Hertfordshire into four broad regions-the
"champion" countryside in the north, the Chiltern dip slope to the
west, the fertile boulder clays of the east, and the unwelcoming
London Clay in the south-this volume explains how, in the course of
the middle ages, natural characteristics influenced the development
of land use and settlement to create a range of distinctive
landscapes. The great diversity of Hertfordshire's landscapes makes
it a particularly rewarding area of study. Variations in farming
economies, in patterns of trade and communication, as well as in
the extent of London's influence, have all played a part during the
course of the postmedieval centuries, and Hertfordshire's
continuing evolution is followed into the 21st century. Lavishly
illustrated with maps and photographs, this authoritative work is
invaluable reading for all those with an interest in the history,
archaeology, and natural transformation of this fascinating county.
For the first time, novelist Iris Murdoch's life in her own words,
from girlhood to her last years Iris Murdoch was an acclaimed
novelist and groundbreaking philosopher whose life reflected her
unconventional beliefs and values. But what has been missing from
biographical accounts has been Murdoch's own voice-her life in her
own words. Living on Paper-the first major collection of Murdoch's
most compelling and interesting personal letters-gives, for the
first time, a rounded self-portrait of one of the twentieth
century's greatest writers and thinkers. With more than 760
letters, fewer than forty of which have been published before, the
book provides a unique chronicle of Murdoch's life from her days as
a schoolgirl to her last years. The result is the most important
book about Murdoch in more than a decade. The letters show a great
mind at work-struggling with philosophical problems, trying to
bring a difficult novel together, exploring spirituality, and
responding pointedly to world events. They also reveal her personal
life, the subject of much speculation, in all its complexity,
especially in letters to lovers or close friends, such as the
writers Brigid Brophy, Elias Canetti, and Raymond Queneau,
philosophers Michael Oakeshott and Philippa Foot, and mathematician
Georg Kreisel. We witness Murdoch's emotional hunger, her tendency
to live on the edge of what was socially acceptable, and her
irreverence and sharp sense of humor. We also learn how her private
life fed into the plots and characters of her novels, despite her
claims that they were not drawn from reality. Direct and intimate,
these letters bring us closer than ever before to Iris Murdoch as a
person, making for an extraordinary reading experience.
To date, over sixty medieval parks have been identified in
Hertfordshire - a large number for a relatively small county. In
this ground-breaking study of parks created in Hertfordshire
between the eleventh and the fifteenth centuries, author Anne Rowe
has adopted a holistic approach to landscape history. The
geographical locations of the parks have been determined and, in
most cases, mapped using a combination of field- and place-name
evidence, old maps and detailed fieldwork. The documentary history
for each park has been compiled, including, where available,
details from manorial accounts, which provide an insight into park
management in medieval times. All the data for each park is
presented in a valuable gazetteer, together with the cartographic
and field evidence which has been used to locate the parks in
today's landscape. In addition, Anne Rowe has carried out detailed
analysis of the parks and their owners and explains how the parks
related to the physical and social geography of the county in
medieval times. There was a marked difference in the numbers of
parks in different parts of the county: the density of parks in the
east was double that in the west. The underlying reasons for this
pattern are explored, focusing in particular on the unusual
relationship between the distribution of the parks and the
distribution of woodland in the county at Domesday. Based on an
enormous amount of original work, this meticulously researched book
opens a window onto medieval Hertfordshire and illuminates a
significant aspect of the county's landscape history. A second
volume, Tudor and Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire (2019), is
also published by University of Hertfordshire Press.
Iris Murdoch was an acclaimed novelist and groundbreaking
philosopher whose life reflected her unconventional beliefs and
values. But what has been missing from biographical accounts has
been Murdoch's own voice--her life in her own words. Living on
Paper--the first major collection of Murdoch's most compelling and
interesting personal letters--gives, for the first time, a rounded
self-portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers
and thinkers. With more than 760 letters, fewer than forty of which
have been published before, the book provides a unique chronicle of
Murdoch's life from her days as a schoolgirl to her last years. The
result is the most important book about Murdoch in more than a
decade. The letters show a great mind at work--struggling with
philosophical problems, trying to bring a difficult novel together,
exploring spirituality, and responding pointedly to world events.
They also reveal her personal life, the subject of much
speculation, in all its complexity, especially in letters to lovers
or close friends, such as the writers Brigid Brophy, Elias Canetti,
and Raymond Queneau, philosophers Michael Oakeshott and Philippa
Foot, and mathematician Georg Kreisel. We witness Murdoch's
emotional hunger, her tendency to live on the edge of what was
socially acceptable, and her irreverence and sharp sense of humor.
We also learn how her private life fed into the plots and
characters of her novels, despite her claims that they were not
drawn from reality. Direct and intimate, these letters bring us
closer than ever before to Iris Murdoch as a person, making for an
extraordinary reading experience.
This largely chronological study of Iris Murdoch's literary life
begins with her fledgling publications at Badminton School and
Oxford, and her Irish heritage. It moves through the novels of the
next four decades and concludes with an account of the
biographical, critical and media attention given to her life and
work since her death in 1999.
Iris Murdoch was both a popular and intellectually serious
novelist, whose writing life spanned the latter half of the
twentieth century. A proudly Anglo-Irish writer who produced
twenty-six best-selling novels, she was also a respected
philosopher, a theological thinker and an outspoken public
intellectual. This thematically based study outlines the
overarching themes that characterise her fiction decade by decade,
explores her unique role as a British philosopher-novelist,
explains the paradoxical nature of her outspoken atheism and
highlights the neglected aesthetic aspect of her fiction, which
innovatively extended the boundaries of realist fiction. While Iris
Murdoch is acknowledged here as a writer who vividly evokes the
zeitgeist of the late twentieth century, she is also presented as a
figure whose unconventional life and complex presentation of gender
and psychology has immense resonance for twenty-first-century
readers.
Iris Murdoch and Morality provides a close focus on moral issues in
Murdoch's novels, philosophy and theology. It situates Murdoch
within current theoretical debates and develops an understanding of
her work as a crucial link between twentieth and twenty-first
century writing and theory.
Supervision provides a positive space for compassion, inquiry,
reflection, and above all development. The chapters in this book
are written from a wide range of perspectives, all of which take a
practical approach to supervision and show how transformative it
can be when approached in the right way. Contributions range from
explorations of supervision as a journey of life-long learning and
its place at the heart of practice to chapters on faith,
transformation, dealing with feelings, and working with asylum
seekers and refugees. The multidisciplinary approach covers much
ground not previously touched upon, and every contribution
demonstrates just how powerful and transformational passionate
supervision has the potential to be. This book will be an
invaluable resource for anyone working in the helping professions,
for whom supervision is an integral part of their work.
It's not every day you get drugged, abducted and dangled by your
feet from the roof of Madison Square Garden. But that's just what
happens to Zeo Loni Gillies. What starts out as an exciting trip to
the city to catch a Ranger's playoff game turns into a nightmare
case of mistaken identity. Zeo, a small town girl, content with her
quiet life in the country has a difficult time coping with the
headlong rush into action and intrigue. Pursued by the Russian Mob,
unscrupulous politicians and businessmen, Zeo teams up with a trio
of Federal agents. Unwittingly helped along the way by her
gun-loving landlady, Rhoda Fitzle, Zeo finds the determination she
needs to take her life back.
With Extracts From A Paper Written For The Massachusetts Historical
Society.
With Extracts From A Paper Written For The Massachusetts Historical
Society.
With Extracts From A Paper Written For The Massachusetts Historical
Society.
Why did Life Magazine dub her "the most hated woman in America"?
Did she unravel the moral fiber of America or defend the
Constitution? They found her heaped in a shallow grave, sawed up,
and burned. Thus ended Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the articulate
"atheist bitch" whose 1963 U.S. Supreme Court case ended school
prayer. Her Christian-baiting lawsuits spanned three more decades;
she was on TV all over the country, foul-mouthed, witty, and
passionate, launching today's culture wars over same-sex marriage
and faith-based initiatives. She was a man-hater who loved sex, a
bully whose heart broke for the downtrodden. She was accused of
schizophrenia, alcoholism, and embezzlement, but never cowardice or
sloth. She was an ideologue who spewed toxic rage even at the
followers who made her a millionaire. She was a doting mother who
accosted people to ask them to be sexual partners for her lonely
children, and whose cannibalistic love led her children to their
grave. She thrived on her fame, but just as the curtain of
obscurity began to lower, the family vanished in one of the
strangest of America's true crimes. This is the real story of "the
most hated woman in America," by the only author to interview the
killer and those close to him and to witness the family's secret
burial in Austin, Texas. From the First Chapter The sky was gray
and drizzling, but it had stopped at the funeral home by quarter to
nine. Billy Murray hadn't spoken to his three family members for
more than twenty years, but he wanted to give them a decent burial.
Bill was an ordained minister, but he didn't pray over the charred,
sawed-up remains. "Baptists don't pray for the dead," he said.
"They either accept Christ before they died or they didn't." He had
his mother cremated in accordance with her oft-expressed wish. Her
urn sat at the head of the burial vault, as was appropriate, for
she had ruled the other two with an iron hand. She was Madalyn
Murray O'Hair, 76, founder of American Atheists, and the Most Hated
Woman in America-a sobriquet she relished. The other two were his
half-brother, Jon Garth Murray, 40, and his daughter, Robin
Murray-O'Hair, 30. It had taken five years to find them and bring
them to the cemetery for the service, which was kept secret from
the public. It was their second burial. Jerry Carruth, the
prosecutor who had searched for the family for nearly four years,
had watched them being excavated from their shallow mass grave on a
South Texas ranch some months before. He was watching the
shoveling, looking for the hip replacement joint Madalyn had gotten
in 1988. When they found that, he'd know he'd found Madalyn. "There
it was," he said, "shining in the sun like a trailer hitch."
This study provides a broad-based introduction to Iris Murdoch s
fiction which is discussed thematically in terms of her own
recurrent interests and recent critical approaches to her work. An
overview of current Murdoch scholarship, including an appraisal of
biographical texts and memoirs, is followed by two chapters which
explain first the ways in which Murdoch s moral philosophy
interacts with her novels and then her neo-theology, which answers
her fears about the loss of faith in the twentieth century. A short
chapter on Murdoch s Irishness that questions her status as an
Irish writer follows. A section on Murdoch s experimentation with
form explores her use of a variety of genres and assesses how her
lifelong interest in painting, drama and poetry affects the form of
her fiction. Finally, an assessment of the extent to which
cultural, political and personal issues seep into the fiction is
made with special reference to recently acquired letters to many
friends and fellow philosophers.
By 1987 Swaggart was one of the most popular video preachers in the
world, with a weekly television audience of 2.1 million in the US
and a worldwide audience of millions more in 143 countries. But
then, in a cheerless motel west of New Orleans, Jimmy's life and
ministry took a calamitous turn. This the tale of the rise of two
intimately linked colossi of the American century: Pentecostalism,
the fastest growing religious movement in the world, and its "evil
twin," Rock 'n' Roll. A major theme of the book is how the
religious ecstasy of Pentecostalism - the rousing music, the
speaking in tongues, the reception of the Spirit - combined with
its severe sexual repression leads to the kind of furtive acting
out that brought down not only Jimmy Swaggart but also other
evangelists. It is the story, too, of the rapid rise of the
Religious Right, with its competing personalities and ideologies.
In the end, the author sees Jimmy as a victim - like many others -
of a primitive faith colliding with the forces of the late 20th
century fame.
What should you see when you?re analyzing real data using one of the major statistical packages, such as SPSS, SAS or Microsoft Excel? This book will show you, and will walk you through the output from a variety of statistical outcomes, such as data reflecting a single common factor. Through the use of actual demonstrations, the authors supply readers with the computer programs necessary to simulate data sets with the statistical properties (usually multivariate) that are often assumed of real data. The reader is then shown how to analyze these data sets and how to interpret the results. The book begins with a general introduction to doing research and tips for using the three statistical packages. The authors next explore how to create data structures and perform univariate, bivariate, and multivariate simulations. They then show how to use the simulations to understand common statistical algorithms and their outputs when doing a basic correlation analysis, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, multidimensional scaling, multiple regression, discriminate analysis, classification analysis and MANOVA. Throughout the book, the authors provide the reader with helpful guides, such as: *Hint boxes to give readers tips for executing particular techniques using the statistical software packages. *Steps that show each stage of a procedure, such as importing an Excel file into SAS. *Problems end each chapter so the reader can practice the techniques described. *Web Site with the SAS and SPSS programs and sample data.
Sacred Space, Beloved City: Iris Murdoch's London is a celebration
of Iris Murdoch's love for London and establishes her amongst
distinguished "London writers" such as William Blake, Charles
Dickens and Virginia Woolf. Individual chapters focus on the City,
London art galleries and museums, the Post Office Tower (now the BT
Tower), the statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Whitehall
and the River Thames. Each chapter identifies intricate links
between the environment and human consciousness and is accompanied
by a corresponding walk that links Murdoch's plots to landmarks and
routes. All essays and walks are illustrated with sketches by Paul
Laseau. These drawings not only illustrate locations for
identification but also conjure their atmosphere so that readers
engage with how Murdoch's characters experience their surroundings.
The final London Glossary is an annotated index of the London place
names mentioned in all of Murdoch's 26 novels.
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