Bøker av Ian Robinson

The world was in the grips of the Coronavirus pandemic, and Santa was determined to make Christmas especially magical this year. Santa read all the children's letters and wish lists and had decided that this year there would be no naughty list. Santa and the Elves worked around the clock to make sure the workshop remained open throughout lockdown.

The READY project is in four parts, all based on the meeting of research with practical experience.The first one is the book which lays out the multiple levels of the challenge the church now faces. By looking over the many answers that have arisen, it states that the missional leadership task has not been taken up among most of the denominations and short-cuts and avoidance have dominated.The second part -FRESH WORDS AND DEEDS - unpacks a healthy mission in a healthy congregation for our time. It also asks: Why would you bother to turn the church around?The third part - READY TO TURN AROUND - lists the key leadership principles and processes that grow people into the kind of ministry that can turn the church towards flourishing in this era.The fourth part - readyleadership.org - contains all the research data that lies behind READY, for those who like to get to the research. It also has a list of peer coaching questions, and two learning games that you can order to work through all these ideas with your teams - READY a board game and CHAOS & GRACE a card game. So if you don't read research, you can still play along.

Discover how graph databases can help you manage and query highly connected data. With this practical book, you'll learn how to design and implement a graph database that brings the power of graphs to bear on a broad range of problem domains. Whether you want to speed up your response to user queries or build a database that can adapt as your business evolves, this book shows you how to apply the schema-free graph model to real-world problems. This second edition includes new code samples and diagrams, using the latest Neo4j syntax, as well as information on new functionality. Learn how different organizations are using graph databases to outperform their competitors. With this book's data modeling, query, and code examples, you'll quickly be able to implement your own solution. Model data with the Cypher query language and property graph modelLearn best practices and common pitfalls when modeling with graphsPlan and implement a graph database solution in test-driven fashionExplore real-world examples to learn how and why organizations use a graph databaseUnderstand common patterns and components of graph database architectureUse analytical techniques and algorithms to mine graph database information

Ian Robinson traces the legacy of prose writing as a form distinct from verse. Engaging with histories of rhetoric and the work of the great prose writers, Robinson provides a bold reappraisal of this literary form, and shows how the sentence itself is historically conditioned and no older than the post-medieval world.

The New Idea of a University is an entertaining and highly readable defence of the philosophy of liberal arts education and an attack on the sham that has been substituted for it. It is sure to scandalize all the friends of the present establishment and be cheered elsewhere.