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Fairfax: The Rise and Fall

Author : Colleen Ryan

Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Page : 231 pages

File Size : 18,30 MB

Release : 2014-08-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0522867227

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Fairfax - once a great Australian media company - faces a grim future. Newspapers worldwide are faltering in the face of competition from the internet, but the fate of Fairfax stands out as being particularly cruel. The carnage is barely credible. Massive printing plants are being dismantled. Hundreds of fine journalists have been ushered from the building. The newspapers themselves are on notice. The future of the company is shaky. Fairfax: The Rise and Fall is a story that is book-ended by young Warwick Fairfax and Gina Rinehart—the eccentric beneficiaries of two of the greatest family fortunes Australia has ever seen. But the real players in the Fairfax saga are the business and political giants. They include Kerry Packer, Rupert Murdoch, Conrad Black, John Howard, Paul Keating, Neville Wran, David Gonski, Roger Corbett and Fred Hilmer. The once-mighty Fairfax has been a victim of them all. Colleen Ryan gives the definitive account of the fate of Fairfax, a drama-filled saga that reveals how far Fairfax has fallen



The Rise and Fall of the East Asian Growth System, 1951-2000

Author : Huang Xiaoming

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 362 pages

File Size : 19,22 MB

Release : 2004-11-10

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1134263511

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Huang examines a recurring pattern of rapid economic growth in East Asia from 1951 to the present and explores how far a single East Asian Growth model can be said to exist. Assessing the various theories put forward to explain the phenomenon and supported by the most comprehensive data, the book finds that methods of institutional enhancement were at the core of the growth. This institutional enhancement affected state structure and functions, economic policy, corporate arrangements, social structure and relations, individual behaviour, and domestic and international interaction. Each of these elements was a critical aspect of the growth system that defined and propelled the rapid growth.



Born to Rule

Author : Paddy Manning

Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Page : 370 pages

File Size : 27,60 MB

Release : 2015-10-26

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0522868819

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Born to Rule is the unauthorised biography that unravels the many layers of the man who has just become the 29th Prime Minister of Australia. The highs and lows of Malcolm Turnbull's remarkable career are documented here in technicolour detail by journalist Paddy Manning. Based on countless interviews and painstaking research, it is a forensic investigation into one of Australia's most celebrated overachievers. Turnbull's relentless energy and quest for achievement have taken him from exclusive Point Piper to Oxford University; from beating the Thatcher government in the Spycatcher trial to losing the referendum on the republic; from defending the late Kerry Packer—codenamed Goanna—in the Costigan Royal Commission to defending his own role in the failure of HIH, Australia's biggest corporate collapse. He was involved in the unravelling of the Tourang bid for Fairfax, struck it rich as co-founder of OzEmail, and fought his own hotly contested battle for Wentworth. As opposition leader he was duped by Godwin Grech's 'Utegate' fiasco; as the most tech-savvy communications minister he oversaw a nobbled NBN scheme. And now he has assumed the leadership of the Liberal Party for the second time after wresting the prime ministership from first-term PM Tony Abbott. Will Turnbull crash and burn as he has before or has his entire tumultuous life been a rehearsal for this moment?





Heralds and Angels

Author : Gavin Souter

Publisher :

Page : 388 pages

File Size : 43,84 MB

Release : 1992

Category : Consolidation and merger of corporations

ISBN : 9780140173307

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First published in 1991 this paperback edition has been updated to include the latest chapter in the rise and fall of the Fairfax media dynasty, the proprietorship of Conrad Black and the Tourang syndicate. The book won the A A Phillips Prize for Australian Studies in the 1991 Victorian Premier's Awards. The author, a former journalist on the 'Sydney Morning Herald' and company historian of the John Fairfax Group, has also written an earlier history of the group, TCompany of Heralds'.



Hitler's Cross

Author : Erwin W. Lutzer

Publisher : Moody Publishers

Page : 250 pages

File Size : 33,75 MB

Release : 2015-12-15

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0802493300

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The story of Nazi Germany is one of conflict between two saviors and two crosses. “Deine Reich komme,” Hitler prayed publicly—“Thy Kingdom come.” But to whose kingdom was he referring? When Germany truly needed a savior, Adolf Hitler falsely assumed the role. He directed his countrymen to a cross, but he bent and hammered the true cross into a horrific substitute: a swastika. Where was the church through all of this? With a few exceptions, the German church looked away while Hitler inflicted his “Final Solution” upon the Jews. Hitler’s Cross is a chilling historical account of what happens when evil meets a silent, shrinking church, and an intriguing and convicting exposé of modern America’s own hidden crosses. Erwin W. Lutzer extracts a number of lessons from this dark chapter in world history, such as: The dangers of confusing church and state The role of God in human tragedy The parameters of Satan's freedom Hitler's Cross is the story of a nation whose church forgot its call and discovered its failure way too late. It is a cautionary tale for every church and Christian to remember who the true King is.





Richard S. Ewell

Author : Donald C. Pfanz

Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press

Page : 678 pages

File Size : 18,22 MB

Release : 2000-11-09

Category : History

ISBN : 0807888524

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General Richard Stoddert Ewell holds a unique place in the history of the Army of Northern Virginia. For four months Ewell was Stonewall Jackson's most trusted subordinate; when Jackson died, Ewell took command of the Second Corps, leading it at Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Spotsylvania Court House. In this biography, Donald Pfanz presents the most detailed portrait yet of the man sometimes referred to as Stonewall Jackson's right arm. Drawing on a rich array of previously untapped original source materials, Pfanz concludes that Ewell was a highly competent general, whose successes on the battlefield far outweighed his failures. But Pfanz's book is more than a military biography. It also examines Ewell's life before and after the Civil War, including his years at West Point, his service in the Mexican War, his experiences as a dragoon officer in Arizona and New Mexico, and his postwar career as a planter in Mississippi and Tennessee. In all, Pfanz offers an exceptionally detailed portrait of one of the South's most important leaders.



Reinventing Local and Regional Economies

Author : Gerald L. Gordon

Publisher : CRC Press

Page : 391 pages

File Size : 33,7 MB

Release : 2011-09-28

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1439846251

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Recent US economic history is rife with examples of cities and regions that have experienced significant decline. Many of those localities began to slide after decades, even generations, of feeling immune to economic disaster. Boeing and Kodak, the steel industry in Pittsburg, and the automotive industry in Detroit all expected to make it golden in