Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Wiley $19.95
A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller"Ambitious and readable . . . an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and fatalism." -The New York Times"An extraordinarily entertaining and informative book." -The Wall Street Journal"A lively panoramic book . . . Against...

Introduction to Emergency Management, Fourth Edition by Butterworth-Heinemann $59.95
Learn about the discipline of emergency management as it has developed over the past six decades, including the rapid evolution of the field since the turn of the century. Haddow, Bullock, and Coppola bring the ideal combination of practical and academic experience to their presentation of disaster preparedness, mitigation, response, recovery and communications. Extensive case studies cover the...

Red-Blooded Risk: The Secret History of Wall Street by Eric Kim $34.95
An innovative guide that identifies what distinguishes the best financial risk takers from the restFrom 1987 to 1992, a small group of Wall Street quants invented an entirely new way of managing risk to maximize success: risk management for risk-takers. This is the secret that lets tiny quantitative edges create hedge fund billionaires, and defines the powerful modern global derivatives economy....

Identifying and Managing Project Risk: Essential Tools for Failure-Proofing Your Project by AMACOM $32.95
"There's a good reason project risk management is one of the most vital of the nine content areas of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (TM). Important projects tend to be time constrained, pose huge technical challenges, and suffer from a lack of adequate resources. It's no wonder that project managers are increasingly focusing their attention on risk identification. Identifying and...

Trading Options For Dummies by For Dummies $24.99
Thinking of trading options, but not sure where to start? Trading Options For Dummies starts you from the beginning with clear, step-by-step advice on how to use top option strategies to reduce your risk while boosting your income and enlarging your retirement portfolio with index, equity, and ETF options.This plain-English guide explains the common types of options and helps you choose the right...

Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate Suicide by Wiley $27.95
Long-listed for the FT & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011The true story of how risk destroys, as told through the ongoing saga of AIGFrom the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, the subject of the financial crisis has been well covered. However, the story central to the crisis-that of AIG-has until now remained largely untold. Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG's...

The Failure of Risk Management: Why It's Broken and How to Fix It by Wiley $49.95
An essential guide to the calibrated risk analysis approachThe Failure of Risk Management takes a close look at misused and misapplied basic analysis methods and shows how some of the most popular "risk management" methods are no better than astrology! Using examples from the 2008 credit crisis, natural disasters, outsourcing to China, engineering disasters, and more, Hubbard reveals critical...

Risk: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Oxford University Press, USA $11.95
We find risk everywhere--from genetically modified crops, medical malpractice, and stem-cell therapy to heartbreak, online predators, identity theft, inflation, and robbery. They arise from our own acts and they are imposed on us. In this Very Short Introduction, Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany draw on both the sciences and humanities to illuminate both the similarities and differences of...

Introduction to Risk Management and Insurance (9th Edition) by Prentice Hall $126.67
This book focuses on problem-solving from managerial, consumer, and societal perspectives. It emphasizes both the business managerial aspects of risk management and insurance and the numerous consumer applications of the concept of risk management and insurance transaction. Specific chapter topics include insurance Regulation and contracts, basic property and liability insurance contracts,...

Principles of Risk Management and Insurance (11th Edition) by Prentice Hall $226.67
Complete and current coverage of major risk management and insurance topics. Focusing primarily on the consumers of insurance, this text blends basic risk management and insurance principles with consumer considerations.This edition addresses the unprecedented events that have occurred in today’s economy, highlighting the destructive presence of risk to readers.