risk management

An examination of the rapidly evolving state of political risk, and how to navigate it, discussing what businesses from startups to Fortune 500 companies can do to navigate it.

"Discusses risk management and insurance, including identifying risk, understanding the different types of insurance, examining the parts of an auto insurance policy, and making smart decisions to protect your financial life in the future"--Provided by publisher.

"[Examines] the real reasons behind many of the global safety rules and security regulations we obey without question, ... [concluding that these reasons] range from the surprisingly pointless to shockingly dangerous."--Provided by publisher.

Draws on the work of brain scientists, trauma psychologists, and disaster experts to explore the human response to disaster, revealing how a person's attitude, beliefs, gender, upbringing, and personality influences whether or not they will survive a disaster.

Traces mankind's reactions to various disasters throughout history, from the explosion of the "Mont Blanc" munitions ship in 1917 to the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, in order to reveal how individuals overcome fear and find the will to survive. Includes full-color and black-and-white photographs of various historical and modern disasters.

Chronicles the rescue efforts to bring U.S. astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox and Russian flight engineer Nikolai Burdarin back to Earth after their space shuttle "Columbia" disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere in 2003.

Defines the mastery of risk as the boundary that delineates modern times from the past, telling the story of a group of thinkers whose vision brought humanity to an understanding of how to use numbers to scrutinize what happened in the past as a means of predicting the future.

Recounts the dangerous realities of space travel, describing the many events that could cause an astronaut's death and chronicling the efforts of Russian and American Mission Controls to bring back three astronauts left orbiting Earth in the Space Station after the "Columbia" exploded on February 1, 2003.