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  • If You Come To A Bridge, You've Gone Too Far!

    by Jan Sumner ...
    This is a compilation of humorous, interesting and hard to believe tales from over thirty years of conducting insurance inspections on unsuspecting and unbelievable businesses. Whoever said, "You can't make this stuff up", had this adventure in mind. ... Read more

    $2.88 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hell-Bent

    Obsession, Pain and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Bikram Yoga

    by Benjamin Lorr ...
    Benjamin Lorr walks into his first yoga studio on a whim, overweight and curious. A run-in with a competitive yoga champion means his simple desire to tone up soon transforms into obsessive training for a national championship. But this is Bikram Yoga, distinguished from more 'conventional' forms by extreme heat, an overt, almost masochistic focus on pain, and the rabid materialism of its founder, ... Read more

    $17.99 NZD

  • The Hidden Pleasures of Life

    A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future

    The story of a search for a new art of living. How can one escape from work colleagues who are bores and from organisations that thrive on stress? What new priorities can people give to their private lives? When the romantic ideal is disappointing, how else can affections be cultivated? If only a few can become rich, what substitute is there for dropping out? If religions and nations disagree, ... Read more

    $19.99 NZD

  • The Wisdom of Finance

    How the Humanities Can Illuminate and Improve Finance

    by Mihir Desai ...
    Longlisted for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2017Finance is shrouded in mystery for outsiders, while many insiders are uneasy with the disrepute of their profession. How can finance become more accessible and also recover its nobility?Harvard Business School professor Mihir Desai takes up the cause of restoring humanity to finance. With deft wit, he draws upon a rich knowledge ... Read more

    $12.99 NZD

  • Double Indemnity

    by James M. Cain ...
    A true crime masterpiece, and highly acclaimed 1940s movie'DOUBLE INDEMNITY is among the finest of all American novels, regardless of genre or style' LA TIMES'Cain is the master' Tom WolfeDOUBLE INDEMNITY is the classic tale of an evil woman motivated by greed who corrupts a weak man motivated by lust.Walter Huff is an insurance investigator like any other until the day he meets the beautiful and ... Read more

    $16.99 NZD

  • Predictive Modeling Applications in Actuarial Science: Volume 2, Case Studies in Insurance

    Series series International Series on Actuarial Science
    Predictive modeling uses data to forecast future events. It exploits relationships between explanatory variables and the predicted variables from past occurrences to predict future outcomes. Forecasting financial events is a core skill that actuaries routinely apply in insurance and other risk-management applications. Predictive Modeling Applications in Actuarial Science emphasizes life-long ... Read more

    $149.99 NZD

  • Making Money out of Property in South Africa

    by Jason Lee ...
    New, updated edition of this bestseller! More than 60 000 readers can attest to finding Making Money out of Property an indispensable guide to investing in the lucrative South African property market. This bestselling property book has been updated to include the most current tax requirements and the latest developments relating to the local property market. Author and property expert Jason Lee ... Read more

    $17.99 NZD

  • The Failure of Risk Management

    Why It's Broken and How to Fix It

    A practical guide to adopting an accurate risk analysis methodologyThe Failure of Risk Management provides effective solutionstosignificantfaults in current risk analysis methods. Conventional approaches to managing risk lack accurate quantitative analysis methods, yielding strategies that can actually make things worse. Many widely used methods have no systems to measure performance, resulting in ... Read more

    $64.99 NZD

  • We've Got You Covered

    Rebooting American Health Care

    From a MacArthur Genius MIT economist and pre-eminent Stanford economist comes a lively and provocative proposal for American health insurance reformFew of us need convincing that the American health insurance system needs reform. But many of the existing proposals focus on expanding one relatively successful piece of the system or building in piecemeal additions. These proposals miss the point.As ... Read more

    $24.99 NZD

  • Uncertainty and Risk

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    �This is a major, and deeply thoughtful, contribution to understanding uncertainty and risk. Our world and its unprecedented challenges need such ways of thinking! Much more than a set of contributions from different disciplines, this book leads you to explore your own way of perceiving your own area of work. An outstanding contribution that will stay on my shelves for many years.� Dr Neil T. M. ... Read more

    $80.99 NZD

  • Practical Instruction for Detectives

    First published in 1916. According to the Preface: " Having been connected for many years with two of the largest and most successful private detective agencies in this country, both as an operator and as an official, and having been requested to outline briefly and concisely the most modern and up-to-date methods employed by leading detectives and private detective agencies of today, I shall ... Read more

    $1.99 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Myth of the Rational Market

    A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street

    by Justin Fox ...
    Chronicling the rise and fall of the efficient market theory and the century-long making of the modern financial industry, Justin Fox's "The Myth of the Rational Market" is as much an intellectual whodunit as a cultural history of the perils and possibilities of risk. The book brings to life the people and ideas that forged modern finance and investing, from the formative days of Wall Street ... Read more

    $31.99 NZD

  • Dynamic Risk Assessment

    The Practical Guide to Making Risk-Based Decisions with the 3-Level Risk Management Model

    Dynamic Risk Assessment is the key tool to support a holistic risk management framework. This book aims to help employers, managers and staff alike to understand how they can effectively integrate dynamic risk assessment into business management processes and systems to improve safety.With tips, examples and solutions throughout, this multi-disciplinary text delivers an effective and comprehensive ... Read more

    $106.99 NZD

  • The Insurance Aftershock:The Christchurch Fiasco Post-Earthquakes 2010-2016

    There has been much media activity both in the press and on Radio since the Canterbury earthquakes in September 2010 and February 2011.The five-year aftermath of those earthquakes offered the Author a rare opportunity to examine aspects that the media did not cover, such as the national policies and effectiveness of Government funding and management of catastrophe on a national scale. She was also ... Read more

    $15.01 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Predictive Modeling Applications in Actuarial Science: Volume 1, Predictive Modeling Techniques

    Series series International Series on Actuarial Science
    Predictive modeling involves the use of data to forecast future events. It relies on capturing relationships between explanatory variables and the predicted variables from past occurrences and exploiting this to predict future outcomes. Forecasting future financial events is a core actuarial skill - actuaries routinely apply predictive-modeling techniques in insurance and other risk-management ... Read more

    $119.99 NZD

  • Think and Grow Rich

    by Napoleon Hill ...
    Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill is one of the bestselling motivational books of all-time. Inspired by a suggestion from industrialist Andrew Carnegie, Hill explains the philosophy that helped the wealthiest and most accomplished members of society succeed. ... Read more

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  • Risk Management in Post-Trust Societies

    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    �A thought-provoking and invaluable book for anyone who cares about risk communication and management in the 21st century�Anna Jung, Director General, European Food Information Council�Professor Ragnar L�fstedt has once again produced a most interesting book on risk management and trust, well-based on theory and built on empirical findings�Mikael Karlsson, President, Swedish Society for Nature ... Read more

    $78.99 NZD

  • An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

    by Adam Smith ...
    Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. Written in clear and incisive prose, The Wealth of Nations articulates the concepts indispensable to an understanding of contemporary society. ... Read more

    $0.99 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 50 Classic Self-Help And Motivational Books You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)

    CONTENTS: 1. Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich 2. Benjamin Franklin - The Way to Wealth 3. Charles F. Haanel - The Master Key System 4. Florence Scovel Shinn - The Game of Life and How to Play it 5. Wallace D. Wattles - How to Get What You Want 6. Wallace D. Wattles - The Science of Getting Rich 7. Wallace D. Wattles - The Science of Being Well 8. Wallace D. Wattles - The Science of Being Great ... Read more

    $0.99 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Project Risk Analysis

    Techniques for Forecasting Funding Requirements, Costs and Timescales

    by Derek Salkeld ...
    Projects overspend and overrun. Business cases perform less well than expected. Managers tighten their grip and initiate more procedure. But little changes and the scenario repeats, and it has done so for decades. Losing other peoples' money and goodwill is almost an innate characteristic of projects. This may be a norm but it need not be the natural state of affairs. In Project Risk Analysis, ... Read more

    $106.99 NZD

  • The Health Gap

    The Challenge of an Unequal World

    'Punchily written … He leaves the reader with a sense of the gross injustice of a world where health outcomes are so unevenly distributed' Times Literary Supplement'Splendid and necessary' Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm, New StatesmanThere are dramatic differences in health between countries and within countries. But this is not a simple matter of rich and poor.A poor man in Glasgow is rich ... Read more

    $16.99 NZD

  • Safety Critical Systems Handbook

    A Straight forward Guide to Functional Safety, IEC 61508 (2010 EDITION) and Related Standards, Including Process IEC 61511 and Machinery IEC 62061 and ISO 13849

    Safety Critical Systems Handbook: A Straightfoward Guide to Functional Safety, IEC 61508 (2010 Edition) and Related Standards, Including Process IEC 61511 and Machinery IEC 62061 AND ISO 13849, Third Edition, offers a practical guide to the functional safety standard IEC 61508. The book is organized into three parts. Part A discusses the concept of functional safety and the need to express targets ... Read more

    $142.99 NZD

  • Moral Hazard in Health Insurance

    Series series Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
    Addressing the challenge of covering heath care expenses—while minimizing economic risks.Moral hazard—the tendency to change behavior when the cost of that behavior will be borne by others—is a particularly tricky question when considering health care. Kenneth J. Arrow’s seminal 1963 paper on this topic (included in this volume) was one of the first to explore the implication of moral hazard for ... Read more

    $24.99 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Girl in Glass

    Dispatches from the Edge of Life

    by Deanna Fei ...
    Winner of 2016 Books for a Better Life AwardA Washington Post Book Club SelectionA Public Books Favorite Book of 2015When her daughter was born nearly four months premature, Deanna Fei confronted a shattering question: Had she delivered a child or lost one? Over months in the hospital, as she held the hand of a tiny baby fighting for her life inside a glass box, she came to grips with parent... ... Read more

    $18.99 NZD