On The Curve

Author : Jenny Rushmore
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781787138728

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Ahead of the Curve by Jenny Rushmore Pdf

Ahead of the Curve is the first sewing book to empower curvy and plus size women to feel body confident by sewing a wardrobe that fits. Don’t change your body to fit your clothes – change your clothes to fit your body! Ahead of the Curve includes 5 basic garment patterns (UK sizes 16–36/US size 12–32/EUR sizes 44–64), which includes a pair of trousers, a t-shirt, a sleeveless top and two dress designs. Jenny takes you through a series of “Fit Clinics” – tutorials and case studies demystifying the fitting process – showing you how to adjust these patterns to master the perfect fit for your body shape. Once you have got to grips with this, you can go on to customize your closet and create an unlimited array of fantastic clothes that celebrate your body. If you’re curvy or plus size, trying to find clothes that fit and reflect your personal style can be incredibly difficult and frustrating. Plus size women feel constantly excluded and like they can’t express their personality through clothes. This book finally changes that.

Author : Jeremy Blachman,Cameron Stracher
Publisher : Ankerwycke
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1634253264

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The Curve by Jeremy Blachman,Cameron Stracher Pdf

The students at Manhattan Law School, a decrepit institution on the edge of the toxic Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, are geographically-challenged and mad as hell - in debt up to their eyeballs and fighting over the few legal jobs left for those who are far outside the Ivy League. Our hero, Adam Wright, is a newly minted professor with high hopes and low expectations. But nothing has prepared him for a classroom of digitally distracted students, a rebellion of grade grubbers, a Law Journal staff at the helm of a school-wide scam, and a corrupt administration that runs the school as if it were a personal ATM. Adam regrets leaving his lucrative corporate law firm for the wilds of academia, until he finds an ally in the brilliant and fetching Laura Stapleton, a colleague with her own troubling secrets. Now the two professors may just have to save legal education... or join their students in the unemployment line...or worse. With its colorful cast of eccentrics and law school misfits, a satirical plot that - without too much of a stretch - could be ripped from the headlines, and a proven author duo who know this world and have six previous books between them, The Curve continues Ankerwycke's trend of publishing high quality/highly readable legal fiction with an edge. The Curve is a hugely entertaining and deeply felt novel that satirizes the current state of higher education and reads like a cross between Dangerous Minds and The Paper Chase.

Author : Joshua P. Howe
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780295805092

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Behind the Curve by Joshua P. Howe Pdf

In 1958, Charles David Keeling began measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. His project kicked off a half century of research that has expanded our knowledge of climate change. Despite more than fifty years of research, however, our global society has yet to find real solutions to the problem of global warming. Why? In Behind the Curve, Joshua Howe attempts to answer this question. He explores the history of global warming from its roots as a scientific curiosity to its place at the center of international environmental politics. The book follows the story of rising CO2—illustrated by the now famous Keeling Curve—through a number of historical contexts, highlighting the relationships among scientists, environmentalists, and politicians as those relationships changed over time. The nature of the problem itself, Howe explains, has privileged scientists as the primary spokespeople for the global climate. But while the “science first” forms of advocacy they developed to fight global warming produced more and better science, the primacy of science in global warming politics has failed to produce meaningful results. In fact, an often exclusive focus on science has left advocates for change vulnerable to political opposition and has limited much of the discussion to debates about the science itself. As a result, while we know much more about global warming than we did fifty years ago, CO2 continues to rise. In 1958, Keeling first measured CO2 at around 315 parts per million; by 2013, global CO2 had soared to 400 ppm. The problem is not getting better - it's getting worse. Behind the Curve offers a critical and levelheaded look at how we got here.

Author : M. Wylie Blanchet
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786258342

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The Curve Of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet Pdf

“Time did not exist; or if it did it did not mater. Our world then was both wide and narrow—wide in the immensity of the sea and mountain; narrow in that the boat was very small, and we lived and camped, explored and swam in a little realm of our own making...” This is the fascinating true adventure story of a woman who packed her five children onto a twenty-five-foot boat and explored the coastal waters of British Columbia summer after summer in the 1920s and 1930s. Acting single-handedly as skipper, navigator, engineer and of course, mother, Muriel Wylie Blanchet saw her crew through exciting—and sometimes perilous—encounters with fog; rough seas, cougars, bears and whales, and did so with high spirits and courage. On these pages an independent woman with a deep respect for the native cultures of a region, and a refreshing wonderment about the natural world, comes to life. In The Curve of Time, she has left us with a sensitive and lyrically written account of their journeys and a timeless travel memoir not to be missed.

Author : Philip Delves Broughton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781440629624

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Ahead of the Curve by Philip Delves Broughton Pdf

Two years in the cauldron of capitalism-"horrifying and very funny" (The Wall Street Journal) In this candid and entertaining insider's look at the most influential school in global business, Philip Delves Broughton draws on his crack reporting skills to describe his madcap years at Harvard Business School. Ahead of the Curve recounts the most edifying and surprising lessons learned in the quest for an MBA, from the ingenious chicanery of leveraging and the unlikely pleasures of accounting, to the antics of the "booze luge" and other, less savory trappings of student culture. Published during the one hundredth anniversary of Harvard Business School, this is the unflinching truth about life in the trenches of an iconic American institution.

Author : Nick Nanton, Esq.,Brian Tracy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0996688714

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Beat the Curve by Nick Nanton, Esq.,Brian Tracy Pdf

Beat The Status Quo! Those who wish to improve are willing to make changes, others are dreamers. As Henry Ford so aptly put it: "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got." While this does not mean you have been unsuccessful, aspirations to move to a higher standard will require changes. What changes can a book like this offer? Beat The Curve is a compilation of authors who have outperformed the status quo. Their fields are different and their approaches are varied. Their ability and passion for their work, coupled with their perseverance, have allowed these Celebrity Experts(r) to soar to a higher level. While they have developed their successes in different ways, there are the common threads throughout. Why not be guided by a mountain climber who has been to the top before? To quote the Chinese philosopher, Confucius: Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. With the expert help available in the pages of this book, you will not only learn from their successes and their failures, but you will now have their guidance to help Beat The Curve.

Author : Nicholas Lovell
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780670923229

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The Curve by Nicholas Lovell Pdf

The Curve by Nicholas Lovell is a breakthrough business idea: Chris Anderson's The Long Tail meets Seth Godin's Purple Cow The Curve is a new way of doing business and of seeing the world. For most of the last century, companies strived to sell more and more products at uniform prices. But the future of business is about variation: tailoring products for customers of all stripes, and letting your biggest fans spend as much as they like on things they value. The Curve shows us not to be afraid of giving some things away for free. The internet helps you forge direct relationships with a vast global audience, and take them on a journey from freeloaders into superfans. Value lies in how you make people feel, by building communities, bespoke products and experiences. Small numbers of high spenders are enough to fuel a profitable business. In games, free is becoming the norm, but some people now spend hundreds or thousands of dollars playing a single game. You can already see the Curve transforming areas like music, books and film, and it will rapidly spread to the physical world as 3D printing becomes reality. With stories drawn from artists, toymakers, sports, food, manufacturing and more, The Curve is nothing short of a business thinking revolution. 'An astute and perceptive guide to the new rules for making money in a radically disrupted internet economy. This book deserves to be a hit' -David Rowan, editor, WIRED Nicholas Lovell is an author and consultant who helps companies embrace the transformative power of the internet. His blog, GAMESbrief, is read by those seeking to learn how digital is transforming gaming - and how to apply that knowledge to other industries. His clients have included Firefly, nDreams and Square Enix (creators of Tomb Raider), as well as Channel 4 and IPC Media. His articles have appeared in TechCrunch, Wired, and the Wall Street Journal. He lives in London. @nicholaslovell www.nicholaslovell.com

Author : Cathy Converse
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781926741901

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Following the Curve of Time by Cathy Converse Pdf

Who was this skipper, this mother, this writer? These questions motivated Cathy Converse to re-trace the route of famous pacific seafarer M. Wylie Capi Blanchet, and write a biography in the process. Widowed in 1926, Blanchet cruised the coast with her five children and their dog in a 25-foot boat that had been rescued from the seafloor. The Curve of Time, Blanchet's resulting book, remains a bestseller and a classic in the annals of nautical literature, but little is known about the rest of her life. Converse offers insiders' recollections of this enigmatic woman, along with updated information about the villages, inlets and islands described in Curve, making Following the Curve of Time essential reading for anyone who has ever been captivated by the West Coast or Capi herself.

Author : Dave Power
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137464354

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The Curve Ahead by Dave Power Pdf

Why do most growth companies stop growing? And what can their leaders do to overcome the barriers to growth? The Curve Ahead tackles these questions, filling a void in the literature on innovation and growth strategy that has focused on either start-ups or large public companies. Growth companies are different. Their challenge is to transition from entrepreneurial focus to a repeatable process for innovation and sustained growth - and the stakes are high. The Curve Ahead utilizes the power of storytelling to teach growth company leaders how to sustain long-term growth. Using the example of a "gazelle," a high-growth company that is increasing revenue by at least 20% annually for four years or more, this book explores the struggles faced during business growth - something that plagues many businesses. These mid-size companies, typically with annual revenues of $10 million to $100 million, are the engines of economic growth and wealth creation. Tragically, most fall behind the curve before they reach their potential and are sold by investors too ready to throw in the towel. This book doesn't just lay out a fresh approach to innovation and growth strategy. It also helps professionals and business leaders avoid common pitfalls by illustrating the various ways in which growth companies get stuck and flame out. Author Dave Power then tells leaders how to get un-stuck. In addition to a myriad of real-world stories and case studies, each chapter of The Curve Ahead begins with the story of a fictional company called NaviMark. Navimark is emblematic of many growth companies—it faces the same business problems, personal challenges and strategic dilemmas encountered by Power in his 25 years managing, investing in and advising growth companies. Following Navimark throughout the book allows Power to provide a highly complex model of typical struggles and scenarios faced by growth companies and deliver that story to his readers in an extremely edifying, play-by-play manner. The strategy allows readers to follow along—observing, in real time, the way that Navimark evolves, and responds (correctly or incorrectly) to external obstacles and demands. This practical and fast-paced book uses realistic characters, dialogue, and business settings to: • Help readers anticipate the predictable challenges of business model maturity. • Demonstrate proven tools and approaches for overcoming the barriers to growth. • Translate abstract concepts about innovation into actionable programs that can become a part of the rhythm of the business. This book will help thousands of midsized companies overcome the growth hump by providing the tools necessary to not only succeed but thrive in the future. The Curve Ahead provides a roadmap for leaders who want to sustain growth over the long term. This roadmap is based on five premises: 1. Every business model matures, following the familiar S-Curve. 2. You can and must stretch the S-Curve, but that won't work forever. 3. To sustain growth you need to find the next S-Curve 4. Finding your next S-Curve, with some predictability, requires an innovation process, something every company should have in place. 5. Driving innovation while keeping the core business healthy is the responsibility of leaders.

Author : Nicholas Lovell
Publisher : Portfolio Trade
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 1591846633

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The Curve by Nicholas Lovell Pdf

"For most of the last century, companies strived to control costs and shift as many units as possible. But now the price of many digital products has dropped to zero, requiring a new kind of business model. [This book encourages] accepting that millions of people now expect your product for free--because a small number of high spenders are enough to build a profitable business"--

Author : Süleyman Şenyurt,Davut Canli
Publisher : Infinite Study
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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On The Tangent Indicatrix of Special Viviani’s Curve and iIts Corresponding Smarandache Curves According to Sabban Frame by Süleyman Şenyurt,Davut Canli Pdf

The paper revisits the special Viviani’s curve and introduces some special Smarandache curves according to Sabban frame. First, Frenet-Serret frame is obtained for the curve, second Saban frame is constructed by considering the tangent indicatrix. Then, the Smarandache curves are defined according to Saban frame. Finally, for each Smarandache curve, the geodesic curvatures are calculated and expressed with the principal curvatures of the special Viviani’s curve.

Author : Edward John Routh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Motion
ISBN : UOM:39015067081649

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A Treatise on the Stability of a Given State of Motion, Particularly Steady Motion by Edward John Routh Pdf

Author : Hermann Ludwig F. von Helmholtz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590476397

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On the sensations of tone as a physiological basis for the theory of music, tr. with notes by A.J. Ellis by Hermann Ludwig F. von Helmholtz Pdf

Author : Douglas B. Reeves
Publisher : Solution Tree Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781934009840

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Ahead of the Curve by Douglas B. Reeves Pdf

This anthology brings the ideas and recommendations of many of the world’s education leaders into one resource that illustrates the many perspectives on effective assessment design and implementation. From involving students in the assessment process to ensuring accuracy and applying assessments to English learners and students with special needs, you will find compelling insights and proven strategies.

Author : Gülnur ŞAFFAK ATALAY
Publisher : Infinite Study
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Surfaces family with a common Mannheim geodesic curve by Gülnur ŞAFFAK ATALAY Pdf

In this paper, we analyzed surfaces family possessing a Mannheim partner curve of a given curve as a geodesic. Using the Frenet frame of the curve in Euclidean 3-space, we express the family of surfaces as a linear combination of the components of this frame and derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for coefficients to satisfy both the geodesic and isoparametric requirements. The extension to ruled surfaces is also outlined. Finally, examples are given to show the family of surfaces with common Mannheim geodesic curve.