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Hadrian's Wall and the End of Empire
There is no synthetic or comprehensive treatment of any late Roman frontier in the English language to date, despite the political and economic significance of the frontiers in the late antique period. Examining Hadrian’s Wall and the Roman frontier of northern England from the fourth century into the Early Medieval period, this book investigates a late frontier in transition from an imperial border zone to incorporation into Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, using both archaeological and documentary evidence. With an emphasis on the late Roman occupation and Roman military, it places the frontier in the broader imperial context. In contrast to other works, Hadrian’s Wall and the End of Empire chall...
Living on the Edge of Empire
“Beautiful . . . an essential book for anyone with an interest in the material culture of the Roman frontier in its wider context.” —Current Archaeology Dr. Rob Collins and the curators of the remarkable collections from Hadrian’s Wall present a striking new contribution to understanding the archaeology of a Roman frontier. This highly illustrated volume showcases the artifacts recovered from archaeological investigations along Hadrian’s Wall in order to examine the daily lives of those living along the Northern Frontier of the Roman Empire. Presented by theme, no other book offers such a diverse and thorough range of the rich material culture of the Wall. The accompanying text pro...
Robism's |2|
Robism's was Rob Collins' first ever published book. Since then he has gone on to write When They Close the Lid, Your Relationships Matter, Your Relationships Matter Workbook, Next Steps and I Was Afraid of That! And now, in his seventh published book, Robism's |2|, Rob writes part two of Robism's and introduces, once again, the ism's, catch phrases and inspirational thoughts that he has used throughout the years to impact the lives of many. Rob has always had a love and appreciation for words and their original meaning, context and application. He also loves those "catch phrases" that make you think in a way that forms the truth and crafts the revelation, making the thought become an a-hah ...
Un-Roman Sex
Un-Roman Sex explores how gender and sex were perceived and represented outside the Mediterranean core of the Roman Empire. The volume critically explores the gender constructs and sexual behaviours in the provinces and frontiers in light of recent studies of Roman erotic experience and flux gender identities. At its core, it challenges the unproblematised extension of the traditional Romano-Hellenistic model to the provinces and frontiers. Did sexual relations and gender identities undergo processes of "provincialisation" or "barbarisation" similar to other well-known aspects of cultural negotiation and syncretism in provincial and border regions, for example in art and religion? The 11 cha...
The Value Imperative
Organizational executives must change the way they think about how to invest in and manage IT if they want to get lasting value from computer-based innovations. The old way of thinking has not served organizations well. They continue to experience high levels of technological and operational failures even though they apply a wide variety of industry best practices. The rapid pace of technological advancement has tended to hide some fundamental problems that have existed from the start. These involve, not the technology only, but also the management and application of that technology. The human and organizational factors have not kept pace. They have remained relatively static and, to a shock...
Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Statistics Practice Book
Exam board: EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: StatisticsFirst teaching: 2017, First exam: 2019Packed with quick reminders, graded practice and exam-style questions for Grades 9-1, this Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Statistics Practice Book is for Foundation and Higher tiers.- Easy to use with all the content in one book and clear Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Statistics specification and assessment objective match- Revise key points at the start of a topic with quick reminders- Prepare for the new assessments with up to date exam-style questions- Motivate and challenge students at Foundation and Higher tiers with graded questions- Plenty of practice for homework or for use in class
Life in the Limes
Lindsay Allason-Jones has been at the forefront of small finds and Roman frontier research for 40 years in a career focussed on, but not exclusive to, the north of Britain, encompassing an enormous range of object types and subject areas. Divided into thematic sections the contributions presented here to celebrate her many achievements all represent at least one aspect of Lindsay’s research interests. These encompass social and industrial aspects of northern frontier forts; new insights into inscribed and sculptural stones specific to military communities; religious, cultural and economic connotations of Roman armour finds; the economic and ideological penetration of romanitas in the frontiers as reflected by individual objects and classes of finds; evidence of trans-frontier interactions and invisible people; the role of John Clayton in the exploration and preservation of Hadrian’s Wall and its material culture; the detailed consideration of individual objects of significant interest; and a discussion of the widespread occurrence of mice in Roman art.
A Whole Life
Shortlisted for the Booker International Prize. Like John Williams' Stoner or Denis Johnson's Train Dreams, A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler is a tender book about finding dignity and beauty in solitude. An exquisite novel about a simple life, it has already demonstrated its power to move thousands of readers with a message of solace and truth. It looks at the moments, big and small, that make us what we are. Andreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. He is a man of very few words and so, when he falls in love with Marie, he doesn't ask for her hand in marriage, but instead has some of his friends light her name at dusk across the mountain. When Marie dies in an avalanche, pregnant with their first child, Andreas' heart is broken. He leaves his valley just once more, to fight in WWII – where he is taken prisoner in the Caucasus – and returns to find that modernity has reached his remote haven . . . 'It is at once heart-rending and heart-warming. A Whole Life, for all its gentleness, is a very powerful book.' - Jim Crace, author of Harvest
Rethinking Expertise
What does it mean to be an expert? In Rethinking Expertise, Harry Collins and Robert Evans offer a radical new perspective on the role of expertise in the practice of science and the public evaluation of technology. Collins and Evans present a Periodic Table of Expertises based on the idea of tacit knowledge—knowledge that we have but cannot explain. They then look at how some expertises are used to judge others, how laypeople judge between experts, and how credentials are used to evaluate them. Throughout, Collins and Evans ask an important question: how can the public make use of science and technology before there is consensus in the scientific community? This book has wide implications for public policy and for those who seek to understand science and benefit from it. “Starts to lay the groundwork for solving a critical problem—how to restore the force of technical scientific information in public controversies, without importing disguised political agendas.”—Nature “A rich and detailed ‘periodic table’ of expertise . . . full of case studies, anecdotes and intriguing experiments.”—Times Higher Education Supplement (UK)
When They Close the Lid
"When They Close the Lid" reminds us of those things we don't like to talk about; things like the fragility of life, death and eternity. It reminds us life is a gift therefore we must make the most of each day that has been entrusted to us. Life is fleeting, resembling a vapor that appears briefly in the world only to vanish just as quickly. Pastor and author Rob Collins has experienced this "human minded" transition from earth to heaven first hand while dealing with life's uncertainties during his twenty years of pastoral ministry. These encounters have helped him see how people spend their years in the short amount of time presented as a gift from God. In his first published book, "When Th...
