Risk and society, a rapidly growing area of historical research, interests sociologists, psychologists, and other social scientists. Americans have learned to tame risk in both the workplace and the home.
Sebastian Ryan, the risk analyst for the insurance company, takes one look at her history of winding up in the wrong place at the wrong time and deems her a "statistical nightmare.
History now shows that Susan, the risk taker, was amazingly good and the audience cheered. But let's say she'd been pathetically awful and croaked out an off-key rendition with the audience going into an uncontrollable laughing jag.
All games, RISK included, are matrices in which one decision affects another.
Their prolific and converging efforts have established Risk Analysis as a vivid new discipline, a discipline which this new Routledge collection enables users to discover--or to understand better.
In this ground-breaking, compulsively readable book, Dan Gardner shows how our flawed strategies for perceiving risk influence our lives, often with unforeseen and sometimes-tragic consequences.
Join Oliver and the Wikk kids as they land the Phoenix on planet Evad and descent into its ancient jungle.
* Is risk always measurable? * Why are some risks more important? * Do we take a lot more risks now? * On whom can we rely for advice?...
RISK Brother of Ink and Steel (Book 4) is a standalone novel. There's no need to read the earlier titles beforehand, but this book features charming cameos by title characters from the Brothers of Ink and Steel and True North Series.
The book is a concise overview of the principles of risk management and decision making.
In Risk, now available in paperback, Niklas Luhmann develops a theoretical program for such research. His premise is that the concept of risk projects essential aspects of our description of the future onto the present.
The book includes examples of the ways in which risk is experienced in everyday life.