The Learning Curve

Author : Mandy Berman
Publisher : Random House
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399589348

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The Learning Curve by Mandy Berman Pdf

How are young women supposed to see each other clearly when they can't even see themselves? This razor-sharp novel “perfectly captures [the] power dynamics and identity issues that . . . women are forced to face.”—Marie Claire (Best Books of the Year) Fiona and Liv are seniors at Buchanan College, a small liberal arts school in rural Pennsylvania. Fiona, who is still struggling emotionally after the death of her younger sister, is spending her final college year sleeping with abrasive men she meets in bars. Liv is happily coupled and on the fast track to marriage with an all-American frat boy. Both of their journeys, and their friendship, will be derailed by the relationships they develop with Oliver Ash, a ruggedly good-looking visiting literature professor whose first novel was published to great success when he was twenty-six. But now Oliver is in his early forties, with thinning hair and a checkered past, including talk of a relationship with an underage woman—a former student—at a previous teaching job. Meanwhile, Oliver’s wife, Simone, is pursuing an academic research project in Berlin, raising their five-year-old son, dealing with her husband’s absence, and wondering if their marriage is beyond repair. This sly, stunning, wise-beyond-its-years novel is told from the perspectives of the three women and showcases Mandy Berman’s talent for exploring the complexities of desire, friendship, identity, and power dynamics in the contemporary moment. Praise for The Learning Curve “Readers expecting a typical love triangle won’t find one. Instead, Berman delivers a thorough and incredibly timely investigation into relationship power imbalances that’s sure to start a lot of conversations.”—The Millions “Fiona and Liv are two best friends who became inseparable after Fiona experienced a family tragedy. Senior year of college, their lives are headed in different directions, and their differences are only highlighted by the sudden arrival of famed writer and controversial figure Oliver Ash. It’s not what you think—at least, not entirely. This novel, through different perspectives, explores loss, grief, sex, friendship, power dynamics, and much more.”—Betches “You win some, you learn some. The Learning Curve by Mandy Berman follows two roommates who develop relationships with a visiting professor with a questionable past. Spoiler: things get complicated.”—The Skimm

Author : Mohamad Y. Jaber
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781439807408

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Learning Curves by Mohamad Y. Jaber Pdf

Written by international contributors, Learning Curves: Theory, Models, and Applications first draws a learning map that shows where learning is involved within organizations, then examines how it can be sustained, perfected, and accelerated. The book reviews empirical findings in the literature in terms of different sources for learning and partia

Author : William J. Dobson
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307477552

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The Dictator's Learning Curve by William J. Dobson Pdf

In this riveting anatomy of authoritarianism, acclaimed journalist William Dobson takes us inside the battle between dictators and those who would challenge their rule. Recent history has seen an incredible moment in the war between dictators and democracy—with waves of protests sweeping Syria and Yemen, and despots falling in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya. But the Arab Spring is only the latest front in a global battle between freedom and repression, a battle that, until recently, dictators have been winning hands-down. The problem is that today’s authoritarians are not like the frozen-in-time, ready-to-crack regimes of Burma and North Korea. They are ever-morphing, technologically savvy, and internationally connected, and have replaced more brutal forms of intimidation with subtle coercion. The Dictator’s Learning Curve explains this historic moment and provides crucial insight into the fight for democracy.

Author : Jared Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1737290405

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Learning Curve by Jared Smith Pdf

Personal development is not easy. So why do so many leadership and self-help books read like an author's highlight reel? Learning Curve pushes back against conventional literature by discussing the real, behind-the-scenes challenges of a developing school leader. Blending authentic anecdotes with relevant research, Learning Curve transforms complicated life principles into useful pearls of wisdom. Whether you are looking for a few helpful ideas-or are searching for a complete mental makeover-Learning Curve serves as a practical resource for motivated, everyday school leaders.

Author : Alice Giarrusso
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780578197753

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The Learning Curve: Navigating the Road to High School Success by Alice Giarrusso Pdf

In The Learning Curve: Navigating the Road to High School Success, career educator and academic coach Alice Giarrusso uses clear, concise, easy-to-follow language to guide students along a path of increased academic performance. The author draws on her more than thirty years of classroom experience to help students navigate the twists and turns of high school, putting them squarely in the driver's seat. Her message revolves around Four Key Elements of Success: Assign Value to What You Are Doing, Intend to Succeed, Be Your Own Cheerleader, and The Value of Practice. The Learning Curve creates a mindset for academic success while developing practical skills for achieving that success. Like a roadmap, it requires readers to think about where they are now, where they'd like to be in the future, and how they intend to get there. Whether you are a student, parent, or teacher, avail yourself to a host of detailed and specific strategies to succeed in high school with The Learning Curve.

Author : Brian Michael Bendis
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780785171188

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Ultimate Spider-Man Vol.2 by Brian Michael Bendis Pdf

Driven by a desire for revenge, Spider-Man sets out to take down Wilson Fisk, the infamous Kingpin of Crime, who employed the man who killed Peter's beloved Uncle Ben. Collects Ultimate Spider-Man (2000) #8-13.

Author : Thomas Carothers
Publisher : Carnegie Endowment
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780870033414

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Aiding Democracy Abroad by Thomas Carothers Pdf

Aid to promote democracy abroad has emerged as a major growth industry in recent years. Not only the United States but many other Western countries, international institutions, and private foundations today use aid to support democratic transitions in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Though extensive in scope, these activities remain little understood outside the realm of specialists. Debates among policymakers over democracy promotion oscillate between unhelpful poles of extreme skepticism and unrealistic boosterism, while the vast majority of citizens in aid-providing countries have little awareness of the democracy-building efforts their governments sponsor. Aiding Democracy Abroad is the first independent, comprehensive assessment of this important new field. Drawing on extensive field research and years of hands-on experience, Thomas Carothers examines democracy-aid programs relating to elections, political parties, governmental reform, rule of law, civil society, independent media, labor unions, decentralization, and other elements of what he describes as "the democracy template" that policymakers and aid officials apply around the world. Steering a careful path between the inflated claims of aid advocates and the exaggerated criticisms of their opponents, Carothers takes a hard look at what such programs achieve and how they can be improved.

Author : Joop Swieringa,André F. M. Wierdsma
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X002219071

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Becoming a Learning Organization by Joop Swieringa,André F. M. Wierdsma Pdf

Author : Gail Henderson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0822319659

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The Social Medicine Reader by Gail Henderson Pdf

To meet the needs of the rapidly changing world of health care, future physicans and health care providers will need to be trained to become wiser scientists and humanists in order to understand the social and moral as well as technological aspects of health and illness. The Social Medicine Reader is designed to meet this need. Based on more than a decade of teaching social medicine to first-year medical students at the pioneering Department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina, The Social Medicine Reader defines the meaning of the social medicine perspective and offers an approach for teaching it. Looking at medicine from a variety of perspectives, this anthology features fiction, medical reports, scholarly essays, poetry, case studies, and personal narratives by patients and doctors--all of which contribute to an understanding of how medicine and medical practice is profoundly influenced by social, cultural, political, and economic forces. What happens when a person becomes a patient? How are illness and disability experienced? What causes disease? What can medicine do? What constitutes a doctor/patient relationship? What are the ethical obligations of a health care provider? These questions and many others are raised by The Social Medicine Reader, which is organized into sections that address how patients experience illness, cultural attitudes toward disease, social factors related to health problems, the socialization of physicians, the doctor/patient relationship, health care ethics and the provider's role, medical care financing, rationing, and managed care.

Author : Whitney Johnson
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781633693654

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Build an A-Team by Whitney Johnson Pdf

Lead each person on your team up the learning curve. What's the secret to having an engaged and productive team? It's having a plan for developing all employees--no matter where they are on their personal learning curves. Better morale and higher performance happen through learning, argues Whitney Johnson. In over twenty years of coaching, investing, and consulting, Johnson has seen that employees need continuous learning and fresh challenges to stay motivated. The best bosses know this, and they know how to make it happen by thoughtfully designing people’s jobs around the skills they have today as well as the skills they'll need to be even more valuable tomorrow. That's how entire organizations stay competitive in an unpredictable, rapidly changing business environment. In this book, Johnson explains how to become one of those bosses and how to build your A-team by: Identifying what your employees already know and what they need to learn Designing their jobs to maximize engagement and learning Applying a seven-step process for leading each person up their learning curve We all want opportunities to learn, experiment, and grow in our jobs. When our bosses work with us to help us leap to new challenges, the result is a team that knows how to thrive, no matter what the future holds.

Author : Alan Fletcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0952610574

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The Learning Curve by Alan Fletcher Pdf

Author : Aaron Shechet Esq
Publisher : Aaron Shechet
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 1737731908

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Skipping the Learning Curve by Aaron Shechet Esq Pdf

Today, new lawyers are at a greater disadvantage than ever. Law school teaches them how to practice competently, but not how to excel. This book gives you practical and straightforward lessons on how to litigate like you have been doing it forever. Lessons that you did not learn in law school, will not find in practice guides, and which you are unlikely to learn at a firm. From adjusting your attitude to detailed strategies and counterstrategies. These lessons do not require you to practice law in an ideal world where your clients tell you everything, your budget is unlimited, opposing counsel is reasonable and coherent, and the judge has time to thoroughly analyze your case. This book applies to you: the modern practitioner of the legal arts, whose clients fall behind on their bills, who has cases that lack necessary pieces of crucial evidence, and who appears regularly before judges who don't have time to fully consider the arguments or spend more than five minutes to hear an important motion. Whether you are brand new and looking to get an edge over your peers, or have been practicing for decades, you can practice law better. This book teaches you how!

Author : Mandy Berman
Publisher : Random House
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399589324

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Perennials by Mandy Berman Pdf

“This highly anticipated coming-of-age novel . . . delivers the perfect sunny trifecta: summer camp drama, growing pains, and the enduring power of female friendships.”—Redbook At what point does childhood end and adulthood begin? Mandy Berman’s evocative debut novel captures, through the lens of summer camp both the thrill and pain of growing up. Rachel Rivkin and Fiona Larkin used to treasure their summers together as campers at Camp Marigold. Now, reunited as counselors after their first year of college, their relationship is more complicated. Rebellious Rachel, a street-smart city kid raised by a single mother, has been losing patience with her best friend’s insecurities; Fiona, the middle child of a not-so-perfect suburban family, envies Rachel’s popularity with their campers and fellow counselors. For the first time, the two friends start keeping secrets from each other. Through them, as well as from the perspectives of their fellow counselors, their campers, and their mothers, we witness the tensions of the turbulent summer build to a tragic event, which forces Rachel and Fiona to confront their pasts—and the adults they’re becoming. A seductive blast of nostalgia, a striking portrait of adolescent longing, and a tribute to female friendship, Perennials will speak to everyone who still remembers that bittersweet moment when innocence is lost forever. Praise for Perennials “Berman is at her most insightful when exploring the awkward unfurling of female adolescence. . . . Perennials is a sharp meditation on the changing female body, and the ways in which such changes are often involuntary and unwanted. . . . [She] skillfully captures the details and rituals of camp.”—J. Courtney Sullivan, The New York Times Book Review “Berman’s command of prose is astounding. The more you read, the more difficult it is to believe that this is a debut novel. . . . Charged with hope, longing, an unexpected sensuality, and a bruised tenderness, Perennials is a book you should most definitely put near the top of your reading list.”—Pop Dust “Snappy and irresistible, Perennials takes readers back to summer camp, where her characters’ first friendships and treasons play out in sharp dialogue and playful, generous prose.”—Kristopher Jansma, author of Why We Came to the City

Author : Dudley Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023089894

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Technological Change, the Learning Curve and Profitability by Dudley Jackson Pdf

Jackson (economics, U. of Wollongong, Australia), analyzes the impact of technological change and learning on the rate of profit in theory and in several case studies: the manufacturing industry in the US; the switch from steam to diesel locomotives in the railroad industry; automation in the pulp plant of a paper mill; the refining of petroleum to produce gasoline of a higher octane rating; and the building of Liberty ships in individual shipyards during World War II. Finally, the time constant progress function is introduced to show how learning increases profitability. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Ashish Kumar,Avinash Paul
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781782174707

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Mastering Text Mining with R by Ashish Kumar,Avinash Paul Pdf

Master text-taming techniques and build effective text-processing applications with R About This Book Develop all the relevant skills for building text-mining apps with R with this easy-to-follow guide Gain in-depth understanding of the text mining process with lucid implementation in the R language Example-rich guide that lets you gain high-quality information from text data Who This Book Is For If you are an R programmer, analyst, or data scientist who wants to gain experience in performing text data mining and analytics with R, then this book is for you. Exposure to working with statistical methods and language processing would be helpful. What You Will Learn Get acquainted with some of the highly efficient R packages such as OpenNLP and RWeka to perform various steps in the text mining process Access and manipulate data from different sources such as JSON and HTTP Process text using regular expressions Get to know the different approaches of tagging texts, such as POS tagging, to get started with text analysis Explore different dimensionality reduction techniques, such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and understand its implementation in R Discover the underlying themes or topics that are present in an unstructured collection of documents, using common topic models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) Build a baseline sentence completing application Perform entity extraction and named entity recognition using R In Detail Text Mining (or text data mining or text analytics) is the process of extracting useful and high-quality information from text by devising patterns and trends. R provides an extensive ecosystem to mine text through its many frameworks and packages. Starting with basic information about the statistics concepts used in text mining, this book will teach you how to access, cleanse, and process text using the R language and will equip you with the tools and the associated knowledge about different tagging, chunking, and entailment approaches and their usage in natural language processing. Moving on, this book will teach you different dimensionality reduction techniques and their implementation in R. Next, we will cover pattern recognition in text data utilizing classification mechanisms, perform entity recognition, and develop an ontology learning framework. By the end of the book, you will develop a practical application from the concepts learned, and will understand how text mining can be leveraged to analyze the massively available data on social media. Style and approach This book takes a hands-on, example-driven approach to the text mining process with lucid implementation in R.