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Over the years, risk management has developed separately in both the insurance and financial fields. Today, the two are finding value in each other's tools and techniques. Integrated Risk Management combines the best of the two notions of risk management, insurance and financial, to develop solutions ideal for taday's complex risk environment. Tools go beyond hedging strategies to also examine leveraging, post-loss financing, contingent financing, and fiversification.
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Integrated Risk Management combines the best of the two notions of risk management, insurance and financial, to develop solutions ideal for today's complex risk environment.
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It is the best of what is available in a book format........2001-11-17
The book is a delight to read, especially if the reader has a corporate finance background. For those with out, Doherty devotes the first six chapters to a thorough review of key corporate finance concepts. I strongly recommend it. The book does not provide quick solutions or "to do lists". It is designed to create in you an in depth understanding of the issues surrounding the field of risk financing and the interrelationship between insurable risk, business risk and economic value. This is a book well worth the trees it took to make the paper for its 600 plus pages. If you want more, perhaps you need to enroll in an MS program...
Good strategic read - let down only by its editor.......2000-11-03
This book is an excellent read on the importance of integrated risk management (although as the previous reviewer indicated it does not attempt to describe in any detail an integrated risk measurement system - although it does hint at the use of simulation for this purpose at the end of Chp 14). It also highlights rather well the tools that exist in the insurance markets that can be used to achieve risk management ends consistent with corporate finance theory. The book does not attempt to focus on any particular risk since the theme of the entire book is that the effect of risk, not its source, is the most important factor in managing risk.
As with many first releases this book suffers a large number of editorial oversights but given the simple presentation of the many examples in the book these errors are fairly straightforward to pick.
Risk Aggregation?.......2000-10-16
Having read the text on the flap of the book, as advertised by Amazon, I immediately asked our library to purchase the book. Its contents however did not contain some details that I was hoping to find. Integrated risk management is not treated comprehensively (as it is supposed to do), as risk measurement and the possible aggregation of risk measures in the framework of integrated risk management are left out. There is a long introduction into the basics, which is admittedly very good. Later on, there is a wonderful discussion on risk management strategies. As a textbook, this would do fine, since the basics are explained, and the structure of the discussion is good. But I do miss the real integration of risk measures into one figure. And also, the text of the flap mentioned how insurance methods have been incorporated into finance. This is however only in the level of strategies. Nothing on for example how credit risk measurement has taken up methods used in insurance management. In any case, the book is quite useful for those involved in strategical risk management.
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PC Projects for Human Resource Management, 3rd
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This market leading text is a user friendly computer project manual using realistic data on personnel issues and projects. The manual and software give students hands-on experience with real-world human resource projects. It features the integration of computer projects in line with current trends and AACSB recommendations and can be used with Schulers HRM texts, other core texts, or on its own.
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One of Kenji Mizoguchi's undisputed masterpieces, Sansho Dayu (1954) is a version of a famous Japanese folktale about an eleventh-century feudal official forced into exile by his political enemies. In his absence, his children fall under the corrupting influence of the malevolent Sansho.
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Useful and Interesting.......2006-08-07
A short introduction to Kenji Mizoguchi's cinematic masterpiece Sansho Dayu, one of the very greatest films ever made. Contains two essays offering two different perspectives and evaluations. Carole Cavanaugh compares and contrasts the film with its literary sources and lauds Mizoguchi's version as a profoundly beautiful vision of indissoluble family ties and a trenchant critique of the Confucian militarism implicit in some earlier versions of the story. Dudley Andrew examines the socio-political aspects of the film's creation & international reception and criticizes what he perceives as Mizoguchi's bleak existentialist vision, quietism, and "inhuman humanism". Each essay contains much useful information and many interesting insights. The prose is clear but a bit stiff and academic.
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Memories that Haunt may be real.......2006-07-09
This is an excellent novel about a mother and daughter living in France in the 1990's. The mother was a child during the Nazi occupation, was raped at age 6 and witnessed her family tortured and murdered by local thugs who became collaborators of the occupation. The mother suffers from a severe mental disorder (likely posttraumatic stress disorder) that has left her disabled. Her daughter is illegitimate from a liaison the mother had years after the war while in a mental institution. The daughter's life is 24-hour care of her disabled mother. The mother lives her life rapidly alternating between 1943 and the present and often mistakes people and current situations for her persecutors of that time. In the midst of this horrible situation, this family, living in poverty, is served with eviction and collection notices by a process server. For most of the book, the process server is a cardboard character, purposely left undeveloped, simply a literary device. He is real and the situation is serious, The unnamed process server proceeds to inventory the family's meager possessions. The daughter attempts to influence the process server by describing the history of her family, particularly her mother who frequently bursts on the scene from her bedroom cursing and accusing the process server of being a collaborator and working for the government of occupation. The daughter's explanations and accounts of her family and mother's violation under the occupation, persecutions and the mental and physical consequences of those horrors are revealed as the process server dispassionately and unmoved goes about his work. The author brings him into the narrative at intervals, subtly and in passing to remind us that he is there and as a reminder that the present is 1996 and not 1943. The process server responds neither in word nor deed to the horrible atrocities and aftermath that we know happened and haunt this family and household as so many ghosts of the past. His intrusion is seen as little different from that of the occupation forces and the corrupt thugs who posed as officials. The process server has come to collect possessions of value and is violating the family. The difference is that this process server is acting under the current law and does not act in any manner other to make a list of possessions of worth. As the daughter's narrative ends, there is a second part of the novel that consists of a lecture given by the process server to others in the field. He spends much time discussing the various reactions of the persons they may encounter, various shams and frauds that are attempted and gives dispassionate advice on how to deal with them. He recounts his interaction with the aforementioned family and describes the mother as an alcoholic who was deranged and delusional and the daughter as trying to seduce him. He acts as if the described atrocities were fiction. In a jarring and disturbing ending he expresses, again dispassionately, his disgust over the mother and daughter's unmerited and vile comments about the people and government who ran France "with dignity" between 1941 and 1944. By denying the past abuses of the Jews and other persecuted people of France during the war, his mentality is little different that that of his predecessors of WWII. A denial takes the worst human suffering and dissipates it in dispassionate bureaucracy. One initially dismisses the mother and daughter's reaction to the process server, their claim of another violation and reliving this event in the shadow of 1943, with pathos but as unreal. The lecture of the process server hits you in the gut that perhaps the perspective of the wounded is not so wrong after all.
The author sets the reader up for a conclusion that will have you thinking and rethinking the seemingly ordinary. As the victims of the age of Nazi terror die, their voices must live on lest we, as the process sever, forget or never learn and risk repeating such harm.
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Her first book, The Cosmic Ordering Service (Hampton Roads, ISBN 1-57174-272-7, 2001, 50,000 sold)--with more than 1 million in sales in Mohr's home country of Germany--recently exploded across England after Noel Edmonds, popular host of "Deal or No Deal," revealed that he followed the book's principles and they had changed his life. We have all had an experience where we've secretly wished for something--from finding the right partner to scoring a good parking spot--then voila! had that wish become reality. While some might write it off as coincidence, Barbel Mohr explains through her theory of cosmic ordering, that it's anything but random luck. In Cosmic Ordering, The Next Adventure, author Barbel Mohr delves deeper into the idea of placing orders with the universe, with more hints and ideas behind the belief that we are in charge of our own reality. Mohr's playful, simple approach to this popular concept is both entertaining and inspirational. Cosmic Ordering includes more of Mohr's experiences as well as stories from readers who've used the Cosmic Ordering Service themselves. Learn why it's best not to tell people about your cosmic orders before they are delivered, what you need to know to get started, plus more tricks to get what you want.
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Fun to do, makes one feel good.......2007-09-08
Barbel has done a good job here, compared to her first little book (Bestellungen beim Universum)this book is more structured and gives the necessary details how to manifest your desires.
Law of attraction fun!.......2007-07-29
A great book. Have fun with it! Love her style. I highly recommend it. If you are interested in law of attraction, this is a must read.
Order something else.......2007-07-18
This book seeks to amplify the author's earlier effort, the Cosmic Ordering Service. It finally acknowledges that there is a bit more to manifestation than merely sending a request out to the universe. There is at least a requirement of desire, expectation and belief fueled by a relaxed mental state. The author does, to some extent, concede that negative or strong emotion interfere with the process.She clutters this clumsily written book with lengthy and uninteresting anecdotes from people she knows and plugs for her friends, including a bretharian (someone who supposedly lives on air and prana), a reverse speech expert and a poet/musician. She also shares revelations at some therapy session she attended that are neither interesting nor helpful. One chapter is pretty much an excerpt of a book authored by her pals.
In this age of The Secret, there are many, many superior offerings in this field. Try the Secret, any of the Abraham-Hicks materials, the dynamic Laws of Prosperity by Catherine Ponder, Excuse Me Your Life is Waiting by Lynn Grabhorn or the Attractor Factor by Joe Vitale. They are all far more accessible than this paltry offering.
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Bailiff
Robert P. Schock Jr.
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Release Date: 2006-12-11 |
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This is a legal thriller about a bailiff, Preston Boemen, and his brother, Frady. As the story unfolds, Preston finds himself working as a bailiff in a jury trial where the defendant is a previously convicted pedophile, charged with hundreds of counts of child pornography. The strain of this trial on Preston is so immense that he suffers a nervous breakdown, which prompts him to kill the defendant during closing arguments. After this episode, Frady comes to Preston's side to represent him in his trial for first-degree murder. Bailiff presents courtroom drama from a brand-new perspective that will certainly capture the attention of all legal thriller enthusiasts.
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Worth finding an out-of-print title,unique heroine,fun plot.......2003-01-15
I was a little hesitant to pay a bit more to get a copy of this out-of-print romance, but it was worth it. The heroine, Mimi, is half Indian(her grandfather is a rajah). She is unique and it is entertaining to follow her through her escapades as she tries to find a suitor for her friend Harriet, the vicar's daughter. Everyone is after Mimi for her dowry, so isn't looking at Harriet. The hero is also similarly plagued--he is a lord, and heir to wealth, but has had his heart broken by a fortune-hunter, and is unappreciated by his family. So, the lord goes in disguise, and it takes a kiss from "Princess" Mimi to set him free from his spell. The secondary romance between Harriet and her eventually successful suitor(won't spoil it by letting you know who it is!) adds a nice touch and it is like getting two romances for the price of one. Highly recommended!
Worth finding an out-of-print title,unique heroine,fun plot.......2003-01-15
I was a little hesitant to pay a bit more to get a copy of this out-of-print romance, but it was worth it. The heroine, Mimi, is half Indian(her grandfather is a rajah). She is unique and it is entertaining to follow her through her escapades as she tries to find a suitor for her friend Harriet, the vicar's daughter. Everyone is after Mimi for her dowry, so isn't looking at Harriet. The hero is also similarly plagued--he is a lord, and heir to wealth, but has had his heart broken by a fortune-hunter, and is unappreciated by his family. So, the lord goes in disguise, and it takes a kiss from "Princess" Mimi to set him free from his spell. The secondary romance between Harriet and her eventually successful suitor(won't spoil it by letting you know who it is!) adds a nice touch and it is like getting two romances for the price of one. Highly recommended!
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A shocking murder complicated by religious intolerance fuels one man's search for truth as well as his own soul. When a young boy is killed on Good Friday, is the assumption correct that a Christian has been murdered by Jews? This is the situation that Lord Godwin faces as he seeks a solution to the "Murder on Good Friday."
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Not as good as some medieval mysteries.......2003-03-27
It's obvious to the reader that the author has probably read every other medieval mystery in existence..there are bits in here from Ellis Peters, P.C. Doherty, Bernard Knight, Michael Jecks, etc. Unfortunately, the first 3/4 of the book is standard fare that we've read before...except that it is a bit slow moving and boring here, with somewhat wooden characters. What saves this novel is the final rush to an exciting ending.
Not as good as some medieval mysteries.......2003-03-27
It's obvious to the reader that the author has probably read every other medieval mystery in existence..there are bits in here from Ellis Peters, P.C. Doherty, Bernard Knight, Michael Jecks, etc. Unfortunately, the first 3/4 of the book is standard fare that we've read before...except that it is a bit slow moving and boring here, with somewhat wooden characters. What saves this novel is the final rush to an exciting ending.
an exciting read.......2001-05-29
I am an avid reader of historical mysteries, esp of mysteries set in the middle ages. So I was quite ecstatic to find a new historical mystery series set in 13th century England. "Murder On A Good Friday" by Sara Conway is a well researched and well written mystery set in the small northern town of Hexham, and features the detecting skills of the bailiff of Hexham, Lord Goodwin, and his cousin by marriage, Lady Constance of Broadweal Manor.
The novel opens with the discovery of a young child's body a few days after Good Friday. Alfred, the unfortunate victim, had been first strangled and then mutilated: his palms bear puncture wounds, as if nails had been driven through them. Horror and panic strikes the town, and in the grip of fear and superstition, the Christian townspeople turn on the small Jewish community that resides in Hexham. Lord Goodwin, the bailiff, does not believe his Jewish friends are at all responsible for the crime, and has a hard time preventing the rabid townsmen from taking revenge. His task is not made easier when one of the newly arrived brothers from the nearby priory of St. Andrews claims that he has had a vision: Alfred is a martyr to the Christian faith because he was slain by the enemies of Christ. Alfred seeks vengeance. The Jews must be punished. Goodwin realises that it is only a matter of time before all hell breaks loose. Will he be able to discover who murdered Alfred before it is too late?
"Murder On A Good Friday" is a really riveting read. Sara Conway maintained the level of tension and suspense throughout the novel. With each succeeding chapter you wonder if Goodwin will be successful in preventing the lynching of the Jews to take place, and if will discover who perpetrated such a foul deed. Conway also did a brilliant job in bringing the small, sleepy town of Hexham to life, and in portraying the various relationships the inhabitants had with each other -- the Jews with the Christians, Goodwin with his constables and the townspeople, and the priory with the town. Unfortuantely, the denouncement of the mystery left a little to be desired: key bits of information were only revealed at the very end, and certain incidents and discoveries took place 'offstage.' However this was an exciting and compelling read, and I enjoyed the novel very much.
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BAILIFF YERNEY
CANKAR
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Digging by Steam (Map Technical Publication)
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- Intermediate Accounting, Chapters 1-14, Problem Solving Survival Guide
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- Levy Processes in Finance: Pricing Financial Derivatives (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)
- Life Insurance Mathematics, 3rd Edition With Exercises Contributed by Samuel H. Cox
- Love and Money: A Life Guide to Financial Success
- Mastering Repos Markets: A Step-by-Step Guide to the Products, Applications & Risks (Financial Times Series)
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