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  • Risk | | 9780198541547

    Risk

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    Modern science and industry have prolonged human life and expanded its scope to an almost incalculable degree, but the disaster in Bhopal, India, is only the latest and most horrible reminder that a...
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  • Organizational Encounters with Risk

    Organizational Encounters with Risk

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    Organizational encounters with risk range from errors and anomalies to outright disasters. This collection of essays addresses the varied ways in which modern organizations understand, process and...
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  • Risk and Precaution

    Risk and Precaution

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    The precautionary principle has been labeled simplistic and the rational approach to decision-making under risk was modeled on well-specified games of chance. How then are we to manage the risks,...
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  • Political Risk

    Political Risk

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    From New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and Stanford University professor Amy B. Zegart comes an examination of the rapidly evolving state of...
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  • Calculated Risks | | 9780743254236

    Calculated Risks

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    At the beginning of the twentieth century, H. G. Wells predicted that statistical thinking would be as necessary for citizenship in a technological world as the ability to read and write. But in the...
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  • Should We Risk It?

    Should We Risk It?

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    How dangerous is smoking? What are the risks of nuclear power or of climate change? What are the chances of dying on an airplane? More importantly, how do we use this information once we have it? The...
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  • Risk | | 9780521171977

    Risk

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    Recent events from the economic downturn to climate change mean that there has never been a better time to be thinking about and trying to better understand the concept of risk. In this book,...
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  • E. O. Wilson: Biophilia, the Diversity of Life, Naturalist (LOA #340)

    E. O. Wilson: Biophilia, the Diversity of Life, Na…

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    A landmark collected edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and world-renowned biologist, illuminating the marvels of biodiversity in a time of climate crisis and mass extinction.Library of...
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  • The Dynamics of Risk | | 9780691165370

    The Dynamics of Risk

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    Earthquakes are a huge global threat. In thirty-six countries, severe seismic risks threaten populations and their increasingly interdependent systems of transportation, communication, energy, and...
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  • Men at Risk

    Men at Risk

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    Presents a unique approach to HIV prevention at the intersection of sociological and public health researchAlthough the first AIDS cases were attributed to men having sex with men, over 70% of HIV...
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  • Should We Risk It? | | 9780691004266

    Should We Risk It?

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    How dangerous is smoking? What are the risks of nuclear power or of climate change? What are the chances of dying on an airplane? More importantly, how do we use this information once we have it? The...
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  • The Risk Pool

    The Risk Pool

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    480 pp. "This second novel from the author of "Mohawk" offers a Dickensian plot concerning the introspective Ned and his attempt to win the favor of his father, whose total disregard for all rules of...
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  • Compensation Mechanisms for Job Risks

    Compensation Mechanisms for Job Risks

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    In this major new work, Michael J. Moore and W. Kip Viscusi explore the question, "How are workers compensated for exposing themselves to the risk of physical injury while on the job?" The authors...
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  • Lives at Risk

    Lives at Risk

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    Lives at Risk describes the introduction of Western medicine into Egypt. The two major innovations undertaken by Muhammad Ali in the mid-nineteenth century were a Western-style school of medicine and...
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  • Shouldering Risks

    Shouldering Risks

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    At the world's some 440 nuclear power plants, experts continually monitor their wide safety margins, and at signs of trouble seek out the sources and recommend changes. Too often for their comfort,...
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  • Economic and Financial Decisions under Risk

    Economic and Financial Decisions under Risk

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    An understanding of risk and how to deal with it is an essential part of modern economics. Whether liability litigation for pharmaceutical firms or an individual's having insufficient wealth to...
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  • The Risk of Education

    The Risk of Education

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    Luigi Giussani, a high school religion teacher throughout the 1950s and 1960s, grounded his teachings in the vast body of experience to be found in Christianity's two-thousand-year history. He told...
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  • The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable in Financial Risk Management

    The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable in Fina…

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    A clear understanding of what we know, don't know, and can't know should guide any reasonable approach to managing financial risk, yet the most widely used measure in finance today--Value at Risk, or...
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  • Risks and Decisions for Conservation and Environmental Management | | 9780521543019

    Risks and Decisions for Conservation and Environme…

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    This book outlines how to conduct a complete environmental risk assessment. The first part documents the psychology and philosophy of risk perception and assessment, introducing a taxonomy of...
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  • Regulating the Risk of Unemployment | | 9780199676934

    Regulating the Risk of Unemployment

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    Regulating the Risk of Unemployment offers a systematic comparative analysis of the recent adaptation of European unemployment protection systems to increasingly post-industrial labour markets. These...
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