LIBROS DEL AUTOR: paul griffin

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  • Water Cries
    Anthony Paul Griffin
    The Water Cries represents an ambitious search for the location of the slave auction houses in one of America’s most storied cities. The author plumbs historical documentation, sifting historical advertisements and archiving familial connections.The book is a history told by grandmothers and grandfathers.It addresses a history previously told under a different light or never to...
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    24,72 €

  • Service Systems Engineering and Management
    A. Ravi Ravindran / Paul M. Griffin / Vittaldas V. Prabhu
    This new textbook will provide state-of-the-art models, concepts and solution methods important in the design, control, operation, and management of service systems. It will cover supply chain management, warehouse & distribution, financial engineering, revenue management in airlines, retail engineering, health systems, and financial services. ...
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    89,09 €

  • A Line To The Sea
    Paul Griffin
    A Line to the Sea contains the reflections of Philip Burns on his life, his successes and failures as a teacher, poet, sea fisherman, operatic librettist, and husband. As a boy he discovered a flair for using words, enthusiasm for them, a distrust of religion, and no wish to be sociable. In this intensely personal final novel, Paul weaves a tale in three parts which contains ma...
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    15,10 €

  • Green Belt
    Paul Griffin
    Green Belt is a story about the people who live in that protected area around London which helps to prevent urban sprawl and gives the illusion of a rural countryside. Paul weaves a tale of crime, confusion and courtship as James, a young clergyman, attempts to woo Marie-Helene, a reluctant Swiss language student. Eventually we begin to realise that, despite their rural preten...
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    17,49 €

  • Greek to Uncle Raymond
    Paul Griffin
    Life with Uncle Raymond is never straightforward, so when he generously takes his two nephews on a trip to Greece and Cyprus, it is unsurprising that things soon become complicated. Has Uncle Raymond’s tendency to make much about very little put lives at risk? Drawing on his own experience of visiting Greece as a young man, and of later living and working in Cyprus, Paul Griffi...
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    17,43 €

  • Off Games
    Paul Griffin
    In a series of essays, Paul Griffin explores some of the lessons he learned from being an independent school headmaster in the Sixties, a time of rapid social change and challenge. ...
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    17,21 €

  • A Slippery Place
    Paul Griffin
    A novel set in Cyprus after the partition of 1974. When Maurice Elder returns to Cyprus where he once taught, he uncovers a network of connections from the time of conflict that had been carefully tidied away. His well-meaning desire to uncover the past unwittingly leads him into danger as the truth emerges. Paul Griffin uses his knowledge and understanding of the recent histor...
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    17,46 €

  • A Noisy Isle
    Paul Griffin
    A memoir by Paul Griffin who was the young Principal of the English School in Nicosia during the Cyprus Troubles of 1955-1960. ...
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    17,31 €

  • A Degree of Uncle Raymond
    Paul Griffin
    Short stories set in Cambridge where Peter Copley is attempting to study English, however his wife’s uncle is convinced that his education needs to cover a much wider curriculum. Unfortunately Uncle Raymond is prone to enthusiasms which prove a problem for an impressionable young man. ...
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    16,80 €

  • The Lost Battalion
    Paul Griffin
    The story of the young Paul Griffin who joined the army in 1940 at the age of 19 and opted for the Indian Army. He spent two years guarding the Khyber Pass with his battalion (the 3rd/6th Ghurkas) before training for warfare with the Chindits for whom he was GIII (Ops). He helped to evacuate the Broadway stronghold before being re-assigned to the invasion of Malaya. The Lost Ba...
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    17,28 €

  • The Other Six Days
    Paul Griffin
    A book of religious reflections which asks how we approach the other six days of the week, after the Eucharist. Do we behave like our hands with a hand-warmer: briefly warmed and then expected to remain hot for the whole week?The author’s answer is neatly presented in five meditative chapters - Prayer, Stability, Almsgiving, Light and Morality - as he sets out the sort of life ...
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    5,27 €

  • The Wall of Winter
    Paul Griffin
    A story of recovery and reconciliation. Michael Jeffries, now living in a small Midlands town, was injured in an ambush as a young officer in Cyprus during the EOKA Troubles of the late 1950s. The shock of that event proves to have been delayed, preventing him returning to a normal life. Eventually, by relating his story to a strange acquaintance, Michael manages to move onto a...
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    13,87 €

  • Changes and Chances
    Paul Griffin
    An autobiography of Paul Griffin 1922-2012, soldier, scholar, teacher, poet, lay reader. ...
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    23,06 €

  • Stay with Me
    Paul Griffin
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    12,72 €