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Gospels and Grit

Work and Labour in Carlyle, Conrad and Orwell

By: Rob Breton

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Gospels and Grit

Work and Labour in Carlyle, Conrad and Orwell

By: Rob Breton

Examines the literary representations of work and labour in the Victorian works of Carlyle, and the 20th century writings of Conrad and Orwell.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802038883

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9780802038883

The Oppositional Aesthetics of Chartist Fiction

Reading against the Middle-Class Novel

By: Rob Breton

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The Oppositional Aesthetics of Chartist Fiction

Reading against the Middle-Class Novel

By: Rob Breton

Redressing a gap in Chartism studies, Rob Breton focuses on the fiction that emerged from the movement, placing it in the context of the Victorian novel and reading it against the works aimed at the middle-class. Breton examines works by well-known writers such as Ernest Jones and Thomas Cooper alongside those of obscure or anonymous writers, rejecting the charge that Chartist fiction fails aesthetically, politically, and culturally. Rather, Breton suggests, it constitutes a type of anti-fiction in which the expectations of narrative are revealed as irreconcilable to the real world. Taking up a range of genres, including the historical romance and social-problem story, Breton theorizes the emergence of the fiction against Marxist conceptualizations of cultural hegemony. In situating Chartist fiction in periodical print culture and specific historical moments, this book shows the ways in which it serves as a critique of mainstream Victorian fiction.

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194

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Routledge

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1317022262

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9781317022268

Community Archaeology on Hadrian’s Wall 2019–2022

By: Rob Collins,Jane Harrison,Ian Kille,Kathryn Murphy,Kerry Shaw

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Community Archaeology on Hadrian’s Wall 2019–2022

By: Rob Collins,Jane Harrison,Ian Kille,Kathryn Murphy,Kerry Shaw

The Hadrian’s Wall Community Archaeology Project (WallCAP) was funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund to promote the value of heritage – specifically of the Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site – to local communities and provide opportunities for volunteers to engage with the archaeology and conservation of the Wall to better ensure the future of the monument. This short book provides a summary of the project, communicating the range of activities undertaken during the project and key results. The structure and aims of the project are communicated, and an overview of the many different people and communities that participated are explored. Archaeological fieldwork resulted in a number of new discoveries and insights into Hadrian’s Wall. Revolutionary new work to explore the stones of Hadrian’s Wall, its source geology and how stones were reused from the monument is also discussed. Each chapter is supported by full color illustrations and contributions from project volunteers also bring the project into a vibrant focus.

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129

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Oxbow Books

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1789259606

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9781789259605

Fabric of the Frontier

Prospection, Use, and Re-Use of Stone from Hadrian’s Wall

By: Rob Collins,Ian Kille,Kathleen O’Donnell

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Fabric of the Frontier

Prospection, Use, and Re-Use of Stone from Hadrian’s Wall

By: Rob Collins,Ian Kille,Kathleen O’Donnell

What is Hadrian’s Wall made of, where did this material come from and how has it been reused in other buildings in the communities that emerged in the centuries after the Roman Empire? By studying the fabric of Hadrian’s Wall using a geological approach combined with archaeological methods, is it possible to refine our answers to these questions? This study describes how the relationship between the geology of the Wall’s landscape and its fabric may be used to further understand the Wall and presents a significant set of new geological and archaeological data on the Wall’s stones from across the length of the Wall. This data set has been collected in two complementary ways. First as a citizen-science project, where volunteers from local communities were trained to visually characterize sandstones and resulting in data collecting on large numbers of the Wall’s stones along the length of the Wall. Secondly, analytical research was used to gather in scientific data for a selected sets of rocks and stones. Geochemical data was captured using an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, and petrographic observations made using a petrographic microscope and thin sections. The combined methods provide a framework for geological analysis of the Wall supported by robust data. It builds on earlier work on Roman quarrying and stone preparation highlighting not only stone sources, but the criteria for choosing stone, stone preparation methods, and the implied routes to the Wall. At the heart of this study lies the ability to uniquely identify different sandstone types. Geological methods used to achieve this are explored, as are the ways in which the sandstones form. This highlights both the possibilities and limits of this approach.

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339

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Oxbow Books

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1789259517

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Pearl S. Buck’s Novels of China and America

The Battle of Life

By: Rob Hardy

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Pearl S. Buck’s Novels of China and America

The Battle of Life

By: Rob Hardy

This book, the first single-authored book-length study of Buck’s fiction for over twenty years, shows how Buck’s thought developed through the medium of her fiction - from her early turbulent years in China to her last lonely days in the United States, with chapters examining her loss of faith in Christianity, her reflections on Chinese life during and after the breakdown of Old China, her voluminous reading, her confrontation with the horrors of American racism and sexism after her return to the United States, and her final metaphorical search for home as she approached death. The book argues that Buck, the first American woman to win both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes for literature, was a heroic forerunner of those who, while occupying a place in the world, never feel fully at home there; in Buck’s case because her Chinese identity throughout her life struggled with her American. For this reason Pearl S. Buck’s fiction deserves to be considered alongside that of writers such as Anchee Min, Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan. The book’s central claim is that Buck is a major novelist, capable of speaking to the distress of our times, richly deserving the honor she has received in China, and deserving greater recognition in the United States.

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182

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Springer Nature

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9811635560

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9789811635564

Mastering Mathematics for OCR GCSE

Higher 2higher 2

By: Gareth Cole,Heather Davis,Sophie Goldie,Linda Liggett,Robin Liggett,Andrew Manning,Richard Perring,Keith Pledger,Rob Summerson

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Mastering Mathematics for OCR GCSE

Higher 2higher 2

By: Gareth Cole,Heather Davis,Sophie Goldie,Linda Liggett,Robin Liggett,Andrew Manning,Richard Perring,Keith Pledger,Rob Summerson

Exam Board: OCR Level: GCSE Subject: Mathematics First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2017 Build your students' knowledge and understanding so that they can confidently reason, interpret, communicate mathematically and apply their mathematical skills to solve problems within mathematics and wider contexts; with resources developed specifically for the OCR GCSE 2015 specification by mathematics subject specialists experienced in teaching and examining GCSE. - Supports you and your students through the new specifications, with topic explanations and new exam-style questions, written in line with the new assessment objectives. - Measure progress and assess learning throughout the course with graduated exercises and worked examples. - Enables students to identify the appropriate remediation or extension steps they need in order to make the best progress, through easy to follow progression strands that help to identify gaps in learning. - Supports all abilities and provides full coverage of the GCSE grade range with three books, meaning that content is focused at the right level for each student. - Offers a seamless five year progression when used in conjunction with KS3 Mastering Mathematics

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Hodder Education

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1471840034

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9781471840036

Mastering Mathematics for OCR GCSE

Foundation 2/Higher 1

By: Gareth Cole,Heather Davis,Sophie Goldie,Linda Liggett,Robin Liggett,Andrew Manning,Richard Perring,Keith Pledger,Rob Summerson

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Mastering Mathematics for OCR GCSE

Foundation 2/Higher 1

By: Gareth Cole,Heather Davis,Sophie Goldie,Linda Liggett,Robin Liggett,Andrew Manning,Richard Perring,Keith Pledger,Rob Summerson

Exam Board: OCR Level: GCSE Subject: Mathematics First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2017 ENDORSED FOR OCR Build your students' knowledge and understanding so that they can confidently reason, interpret, communicate mathematically and apply their mathematical skills to solve problems within mathematics and wider contexts; with resources developed specifically for the OCR GCSE 2015 specification by mathematics subject specialists experienced in teaching and examining GCSE. - Supports you and your students through the new specifications, with topic explanations and new exam-style questions, written in line with the new assessment objectives. - Measure progress and assess learning throughout the course with graduated exercises and worked examples. - Enables students to identify the appropriate remediation or extension steps they need in order to make the best progress, through easy to follow progression strands that help to identify gaps in learning. - Supports all abilities and provides full coverage of the GCSE grade range with three books, meaning that content is focused at the right level for each student. - Offers a seamless five year progression when used in conjunction with KS3 Mastering Mathematics

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1471840026

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Book's by Rob Summerson

Gospels and Grit

Gospels and Grit

The Oppositional Aesthetics of Chartist Fiction

The Oppositional Aesthetics of Chartist Fiction

Community Archaeology on Hadrian’s Wall 2019–2022

Community Archaeology on Hadrian’s Wall 2019–2022

Fabric of the Frontier

Fabric of the Frontier

Pearl S. Buck’s Novels of China and America

Pearl S. Buck’s Novels of China and America

Mastering Mathematics for OCR GCSE

Mastering Mathematics for OCR GCSE

Mastering Mathematics for OCR GCSE

Mastering Mathematics for OCR GCSE

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