Fundamentals of Risk and Insurance

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This consumer-oriented textbook addresses the principles of risk management without skimping on the discussion of insurance. It summarizes the nature of pure risk on the individual and on society and illustrates how insurance can be used to deal with the problems posed by such risk. Mirroring the diverse experience of its authors, the text is equally effective in presenting the principles of insurance theory and offering how-to advice to students. Throughout, the main emphasis is on the insurance product and the use of insurance within the risk management framework. The traditional fields of life insurance, health insurance, property and liability insurance, and social insurance are treated in terms of their relationship to the wide range of insurable risks to which the individual and the business firm are exposed.

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Very Good.......2007-01-18

I thought it would be a sleeper,but quite the contrary..I wish I would have read this book 20 years ago.

How Do I Write a Review about an Insurance Book?.......2003-03-04

Well, I guess I can try to review this book from the only perspective I read it from: that of a student. I had to read it for my CFP class on Insurance, and, as an introduction to most forms of insurance, it explains the forms in a very methodical and systematic way; it was very easy to follow and tough to get completely lost.

Honestly, I was never really fascinated with insurance. My life-licensing class was 24 hours of classroom time spread out over one weekend, so maybe that has created some insurance-related intellectual scars. The sections on Life Insurance and the basic components of any insurance contract and the whole insurance process were already familiar to me, so I found those sections incredibly uninteresting. The other forms of insurance were much more interesting and gave me a great foundation for other insurance studies I've done since.

The prose of the book, too, flows extremely well. In fact, I usually just lightly read passages explaining computations and formulas because I come back later to review them in-depth; however, while reading this book, I actually felt I fully understood most of the computations even while I read (which almost never happens because most formula-explaining reads much like Kant's "Metaphysics of Morals").

Just one closing point... I guess you'd have to be either Insurance Commissioner or a professor of insurance to be really interested in this material, but the authors write in a way that allows even the average CFP or insurance student to come away from the book with a good sense of how insurance works and where it fits into an individual's financial plan.

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Fundamentals Of Corporate Finance (Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate)
Stephen A. Ross , Randolph W. Westerfield , and Bradford D. Jordan
Manufacturer: Irwin/McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Hardcover

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Fundamentals of Risk and Insurance (Cram101 Textbook Outlines - Textbook NOT Included)
Vaughan
Manufacturer: AIPI
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included.look no further for study resources or reference material. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes, and practice-tests for your textbook. Only Cram101 is Textbook Specific. Cram101 is NOT the Textbook.

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Fundamentals of Insurance
Tena B. Crews
Manufacturer: South-Western Educational Pub
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ASIN: 0538432012

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While opening the door for new career opportunities, this book will provide an understanding of the concepts of insurance. It includes an industry review, various types of insurance, rates and claims, career opportunities, and more.

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Insurance Fundamentals Textbook

Manufacturer: Dearborn a Kaplan Professional Company
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Binding: Paperback

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Agents, corporate employees or anyone who needs a basic understanding of how insurance works will benefit from this program. It provides explanations of a number of important terms and concepts. Insurance Fundamentals will allow an agent or broker to become a more valuable member of the insurance community by adding to his or her intellectual capital. With its knowledge base in property casualty, the course provides a life/health agent with a good way to study the P/C side of the business. The beginning P/C agent or insurance professional will find a good overview of the property and casualty and life and health sides of the industry.

If you are taking this course for CE, the CE exam will automatically be added to your basket when selecting CE credit. Certain states require that a proctor/monitor supervise the exam taking process.

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The study overviews the most relevant, current intergovernmental fiscal issues in the Czech Republic, centered on the options available to prod policy planning. Fragmentation at the lowest tier of government is the most striking feature of the administrative structure. This suggests a strategic direction for further administrative reforms to sustain fiscal decentralization, which includes empowering territorial self-governing units; establishing a multilevel government coordinating body to define autonomous functions on expenditures, and revenues; and by creating financial and legal incentives to facilitate an asymmetric assignment of revenue and expenditure. Specific policy actions should include institutional inter-governmental cooperation and dialogue through a broad based commission to recommend regional expenditures, and the Budget Rules Law should be amended to preempt unfounded mandates to local governments. Revenue autonomy should be boosted by increasing predictability of local budgets, restoring tax-effort incentives, and reviewing the adopted adjustment coefficient for tax-sharing distribution; while a rationalized transfer system should focus on decreasing the number of specific subsidies, and prioritizing programs to stabilize transfers within a medium-term expenditure framework. Institutional framework and prudential rules would ensure fiscally responsible borrowing, and encourage a competitive financial market.

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An award now, eh? - He won! Draw Ana!.......1997-01-03

Clever, often dazzling use of language and image: Mr. Hansen must have taken advantage of ancient mystical techniques to create such strange, witty drawings for his inspired palindromes, the best illustrated collection I've seen.

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He won! Draw Ana! Ana, Craig, o yes! U use yogi arcana? An award now, eh?

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This 1921 classic guide to the "Monarch of all Instruments" supplies various names of each stop in different languages, traces their origins, and describes their construction, tonal characteristics, and value in artistic combination and registration. A "must-have" for the organist's library. Introduction by Rollin Smith. Includes 5 plates of illustrations.

Customer Reviews:

a fundamental work.......2007-03-22

One of the best books on the topic. A "must have", I think. I appreciated a lot the taxonomy of stops in different languages, but the rest is good too

Organ Stops.......2006-02-22

Detailed descriptions of every stop, rank and division of the organ. This book even explains how the pipes are made.

Organ-Stops and Their Artistic Registration: Names, Forms, Construction, Tonalities, and Offices in Scientific Combination

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Organ-Stops and Their Artistic Registration: Names, Forms, Construction, Tonalities, and Offices in Scientific Combination
George Ashdown Audsley
Manufacturer: Warner Bros Pubns
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Organ-Stops and Their Artistic Registration
George Ashdown Audsley
Manufacturer: H.W. Gray
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NP2TCO

Organ-stops and Their Artistic Registration: Names, Froms, Construction, Tonalities, and Offices in Scientific Combination

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Organ-stops and Their Artistic Registration: Names, Froms, Construction, Tonalities, and Offices in Scientific Combination
George Ashdown Audsley
Manufacturer: The H.W. Gray Co.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NRF95Q

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While vampire stories have been part of popular culture since the beginning of the nineteenth century, it has been in recent decades that they have become a central part of American culture. Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture examines how vampire stories—from Bram Stoker's Dracula to Blacula, from Bela Lugosi to Love at First Bite—have become part of our ongoing debate about what it means to be human.

William Patrick Day looks at how writers and filmmakers as diverse as Anne Rice and Andy Warhol present the vampire as an archetype of human identity, as well as how many post-modern vampire stories reflect our fear and attraction to stories of addiction and violence. He argues that contemporary stories use the character of Dracula to explore modern values, and that stories of vampire slayers, such as the popular television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, integrate both current feminist ideas and the image of the Vietnam veteran into a new heroic version of the vampire story.

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Blake's 7, Terry Nation's science fiction tale of cosmic freedom fighters, became a hit series in Great Britain when it premiered in 1978. Eight years later, the show quickly became a cult program in America. A dramatization of futuristic outlaw heroes who defend the innocent from both alien and human conquering forces, the series might better be said to be equal parts Robin Hood and The Magnificent Seven. The series defied traditional genre elements of science fiction television, and developed the concept of the continual "story arc" years before such shows as Babylon 5 and Deep Space Nine. This book provides a critical history and episode guide for Blake's 7, including commentaries for all 52 episodes. Also included are analytical essays on the show, dealing with such topics as themes, imagery and story arc; a consideration of the series as a futuristic Robin Hood myth; cinematography and visual effects; and an overview of Blake's 7 in books, comics and videos. A detailed appendix lists the genre conventions found in the series. The author also includes information about Blake's 7 fan clubs and Internet sites.

Customer Reviews:

fantastic!.......2004-07-02

This is a worthy addition to my Blake's 7 collection. It's very informative and well written. It's also obviously a labor of love. They don't come much better than this. A+

This John Muir book on Blake's 7 was a waste of my money........2004-02-16

I bought this John Muir book on Blake's 7 when it first appeared on Amazon.com and felt it was a waste of my forty dollars. I have been in B7 now for approximately 11 years and for a while collected everything that there was to collect. Now I am more selective. One reason I dislike this book is that it told me nothing new of importance that I did not already know. If you own Blake's 7: The Inside Story by S. Wells and her husband, The B7 Programme Guide (revised) by Attwood, and all the various comics, magazines, and poster books put out by Marvel (a total of 34 items), you have a good idea of Blake's 7. And not one of these items cost [$$$] apiece.

Now if you know absolutely nothing about B7 and have nothing else collected, then this book might be worthwhile. But for my money, I'd still say that you should buy Blake's 7: The Inside Story instead if you want a book about Blake's 7. And this book comes with plenty of interesting photos. The Muir book has no photos.

This Muir book is padded with a lot of trivia from other TV series that Muir has researched and written about. Frankly, I did not care which props that B7 recycled from other shows, for instance.

In many cases, the information was just a plot retelling of the 52 episodes with trivia added that I didn't care about.

If I had written this review when I first bought the book, it would be more detailed. But my memory has faded.

I really do not recommend this book. If you want to buy it, then I recommend you try to find it used and pay no more than [$$$] for it. Or better yet, borrow it from someone and reimburse them the postage. It truly is not worth the [$$$] that it costs new with postage, in my opinion.

The book I've waited twenty years for.......2003-12-07

Ever since watching the Blake's 7 television series on late night PBS stations in the 1980s, I've wanted someone to publish a book like this. Mr. Muir has created an objective and detailed analysis of the series, its creator, characters, scripts, symbolism, and influence. The author is not an agent of the BBC, he is a student of the science fiction genre with a lot of knowledge and research behind him. As a result, the text is very fresh and honest, free from institutional bias or propaganda, giving the book (if you'll pardon the expression) an almost "liberated" feel.

Included in the text are background on the series origins and history, a discription of Nation's intent to mix aspects of "The Dirty Dozen" and "Robin Hood" into the series, critical reviews on each of the 52 episodes, an excellent analysis of the Blake's 7 story arc, an examination of the shows place in science fiction history, and several essays on the characters of Blake and Avon and their relationship with each other. The commentary on the series finale is also the most complete and inspired analysis of the meaning of that episode that it has ever been my good fortune to come accross.

This is fantastic reading, and I found myself literally sitting up in my chair saying "Holy smoke, I've never noticed that before." The book sent me scrambling for my episode tapes to view the show again in a different light. There are so many layers to this show, and this book gave me a lot to think about.

A good start, but needs a bit more.......2002-03-24

I got this book because I love Blake's 7, have for years. I was quite interested in reading a professional opinion on the show.
Muir does an excellent job discussing the history of the show, citing some behind the scene stories of how things came about. He also does an excellent job of focusing on Terry Nation, his ideas of the future, and his take on social issues such as slavery, prejudice, tyranny, and genetics (to name just a few). But, unfortunatly, the analysis begins to fade after the discussion of series 2, and drops more into plot summaries and discussion of guest stars and their characters.

This book seems more devoted to Terry Nation and his stories, and after Nation left the show (after series 2), Muir has very liitle critical discussion left.

Also, the book is lacking in images, having only 9 images (b&w), none of them from the actual series (I am uncertain if he was unable to get the rights to publish photos. If he could not, then this is excusable).

However, having pointed out the books flaws, the first sections is well worth the read.

"To examine the show in its historical context...".......2001-01-26

John Kenneth Muir's text on the British TV series Blake's 7 is an enthusiastically written and well researched one. Given Muir's writing pedigree, which includes similar analyses of programs such as Dr Who, Space 1999 and Battlestar Galactica, plus his examinations of the films of directors such as Wes Craven and John Carpenter, it is evident his knowledge of the sci-fi/horror genres is exhaustive and admirable. As opposed to previously books which offered little or no in depth analysis, Muir's book looks at each episode with a critical eye. This is not new, however: various Internet sites have forums and reviews of episodes in which fans offer their opinions. However it is comforting to be able to read a list of them in the old fashioned form of a book (the Luddite in me!). His analyses are very well written. Thankfully they skim over the plot descriptions (anyone reading this book would know the plots backwards anyhow), and offer many interesting points. I can't say I agree with all of his conclusions, but that is the wonderful thing we call democracy. If everyone agreed on everything, what a boring place it would be! Muir savages some episodes I hold in high regard; however I respect his opinions and uphold his reasoning, as I would anybody's. Apart from the episodes, Muir writes some very interesting essays - the "anti-Star Trek" one is, in my opinion, the best. The examination of the sci-fi story arc and the shorter piece on sexual machinations among the crew also hold the interest. Putting Blake's 7 into a historical context, relating it to sci-fi programs of its day and also more recent programs such as Babylon 5, is also well done, maintaining that Blake's 7 has not had its day and is still relevant in today's deconstructions of the genre. Although this book is excellent, there is one major irritating fault - the book seems to have not been proof read at all, with glaring mistakes. For example, his examination of the season B episode "Weapon" refers to Fen as Coser's companion, when she was Rashel. The cast list to "Traitor" (Season D) credits David Quilter as "The General" and not "The Tracer", while the essay on sex, naturally discussing the controversial gender themed episode "Power", constantly refers to it as "Rescue". There are countless others. This criticism may come across as nitpicking, but for an author of Muir's calibre, especially given his insights and knowledge of the program, along with his other writing efforts, they are unforgivable oversights. They may have been simple typographic errors, but Muir, of all people, should have noticed them before publication. However, this should not detract from the book's excellent writing and interesting observations. For a fan of Blake's 7, it is very worthwhile and engaging, able to be read and re-read.

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BradyGames' Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide Official Strategy Guide provides complete coverage of each class and new prestige class. Players will also find tips for using the Toolset Wizards for creating compelling plots for their own new adventures. An exhaustive training guide, featuring strategies for building exciting adventures with the enhanced Neverwinter Aurora Toolset, is also included. Resource lists covering all new monsters, weapons, feats, skills and spells. This full-color guide captures the game's look and feel, and adds to its value!

Customer Reviews:

Bland but at least shiny.......2006-08-29

The guide doesn't offer a great deal of content. Some nice shiny pictures, a lot of information rehashed from the game manual, a few good character ideas and a fairly good walkthrough. As some one who played this game way too much, it's clear the creators had only modest familiarity with the game just by the descriptions they offer for feats, items, etc. If you like having a walkthrough it does a solid job of that, but otherwise I found it mostly useless.

neverwinter nights: hordes of the underdark.......2006-03-12

pros: very informative, good flow with the game story line

cons: could have more information on the more involved areas of game play, needs more detailed maps of some areas

It's worth it.......2006-02-23

Well, I must say that the writer has a bit of a sence of Humor, however I think the book is a bit backwords. The detail for the story and quests are very good, however they should have placed it in the front of the book, not the back. Very colorful, well writen and full of info. This is a must for NWN players.

Barely worth the money.......2006-01-17

The text is too small. The book has too many screenshots taking up space that do not tell you anything. Needs to have more emphasis on the walkthrough with detailed maps. I often got the feeling the writer was holding back on me.

The Editorial Description is Misleading.......2004-01-30

There is no coverage of the Aurora toolset whatsoever in the book, the builder coverage was the only reason for my purchase of this book, I am very disappointed with what I received.

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