Robert Griffin: 13 books
by Robert Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This collection of original essays is designed for undergraduate and graduate courses in methods of teaching. While speaking to all the topics covered in traditional methods textbooks, the author also reflects on his own experiences as a student and teacher. He adopts a unique conversational and reflective...
Challenger 2
The British Main Battle Tank
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
For much of the Cold War, the British Army's main battle tanks (MBT) were first the Centurion and then the Chieftain. The question of the latter's replacement became urgent when in 1980 MBT80 was canceled. While the Royal Ordnance Challenger (originally the Shir 2) was acquired as a stop gap its design...
by Robert Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
During the Second World War the British infantry found itself lacking suitable transport to cope with the fast moving German Blitzkrieg tactics. Various stopgap measures were introduced with mixed success but, with the postwar nuclear biological and chemical threat, it was imperative that a robust...
While There's Time
Conservatism and Individualism in Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2005
When I refer to schools in the five essays on education that comprise While Theres Time, I have elementary and secondary schools in mind. I approached this writing from the perspective of an insider, so to speak, as I have worked extensively in the field of education, first as a high school teacher...
The Royal Armoured Corps in the Cold War 1946 - 1990
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
The Royal Armoured Corps’ composition may have changed dramatically during the four and a half decades of The Cold War but its role in the nation’s defence has been predominant. This highly informative book focuses on the deployment of the British Army’s armoured regiments from the end of the...
The Pocket-Size God
Essays from Notre Dame Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Fr. Robert Griffin, C.S.C. (1925–1999), was a beloved member of the Notre Dame community. With his cocker spaniel, Darby O’Gill, he was instantly recognizable on campus. He was well known for his priestly work counseling students as university chaplain for thirty years, his summer ministry to...
In Principle, In Practice
Museums as Learning Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2007
The science museum field has made tremendous advances in understanding museum learning, but little has been done to consolidate and synethesize these findings to encourage widespread improvements in practice. By clearly presenting the most current knowledge of museum learning, In Principle, In Practice...
Underachievers in Secondary Schools
Education Off the Mark
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Underachievement is approached from a broad, integrated perspective in this insightful look at the talented adolescent who always performs below his or her optimum level of achievement. Professor Griffin examines the psychological, social, and scholastic reasons behind the phenomenon of the distracted...
by Bruce Yandle, Clay J. Landry, Robert B. Naeser
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2001
The Technology of Property Rights combines the understanding of institutions and institutional change with a discussion of the latest technologies and their influence on the measurement and monitoring of property rights. The contributors analyze specific applications for fisheries, whales, water quality,...
The Search for Tactical Success in Vietnam
An Analysis of Australian Task Force Combat Operations
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
From 1966 to 1971 the First Australian Task Force was part of the counterinsurgency campaign in South Vietnam. Though considered a small component of the Free World effort in the war, these troops from Australia and New Zealand were in fact the best trained and prepared for counterinsurgency warfare....
by Gerald Griffin, Robert Giddings
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
A romantic melodrama set in rural Ireland in the early 19th century, this complex story of love, rivalry, secrecy, and betrayal, based on a real case of 1829, was one of the most successful thrillers of its day
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Young Hardress Cregan is a collegian and a rogue, with a wicked,...
This Bridge We Call Communication
Anzaldúan Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
This Bridge We Call Communication: Anzaldúan Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis explores contemporary communication research studies, performative writing, poetry, Latina/o studies, and gender studies through the lens of Gloria Anzaldúa’s theories, methods, and concepts. Utilizing different...
Cerebral Aneurysms
Microvascular and Endovascular Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Surgical repair of cerebral aneurysms is a core aspect of neurosurgical practice. While open microvascular technique has dominated Western surgical practice, surgeons in the former USSR have developed endovascular techniques that have gained acceptance among surgeons here. This text demonstrates both...