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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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  • 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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  • An Age of Risk

    An Age of Risk

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    In "An Age of Risk", Emily Nacol shows that risk, now treated as a permanent feature of our lives, did not always govern understandings of the future. Focusing on the epistemological, political, and...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Reforms at Risk

    Reforms at Risk

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    Reforms at Risk is the first book to closely examine what happens to sweeping and seemingly successful policy reforms after they are passed. Most books focus on the politics of reform adoption, yet...
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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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  • 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 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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  • Our Nation at Risk

    Our Nation at Risk

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    The nation's top political scientists, historians, and legal scholars propose solutions for democracy's futureIn recent years, the sight of gun-wielding citizens patrolling ballot boxes and voting...
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  • The American West at Risk

    The American West at Risk

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    The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United States - America's legendary, even mythical, frontier. When...
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