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  • Letters on God and Letters to a Young Woman

    Letters on God and Letters to a Young Woman

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    For Rainer Maria Rilke, letter writing was a discipline and art unto itself. Some seven thousand of his letters have survived, among them works of profound beauty and insight to rival his poems and...
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  • Duino Elegies | | 9781324005407

    Duino Elegies

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    A new translation of Rilke’s classic elegies—ten mystical, radiant poems that bring together the beautiful and the sacred.Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies are one of the great literary masterpieces...
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  • The Poetry of Rilke

    The Poetry of Rilke

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    For the past twenty-five years, North Point Press has been working with Edward Snow, "Rilke's best contemporary translator" (Brian Phillips, The New Republic), to bring into English Rilke's major...
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  • Poems from the Book of Hours

    Poems from the Book of Hours

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    Although The Book of Hours is the work of Rilke's youth, it contains the germ of his mature convictions. Written as spontaneously received prayers, these poems celebrate a God who is not the Creator...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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