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Best Risk Management

Principles of Risk Management and Insurance (13th Edition) (Pearson Series in Finance)
Fully updated and revised, the Thirteenth Edition now covers global topics ranging from natural disasters and terrorism, to domestic issues like the ever-evolving Affordable Care Act and Healthcare Reform.
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"Risk management may not be the most exciting material but this particular textbook balances brevity with enough details to be very helpful and educational."
"Very pleased with this product."
"Little bit worn I receive it, but a good book."
"This book provides good insight on the main financial investment products available today and the benefits versus risks associated with them."
"Higher quality than expected, fast shipping, version works fine for class."
"The book Amazon sent me starts with chapter one and midway through, skips to chapter five."
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Options as a Strategic Investment: Fifth Edition
The market in listed options and non-equity option products provides investors and traders with a wealth of new, strategic opportunities for managing their investments. Lawrence G. McMillan is a professional trader and the author of the bestselling Options as a Strategic Investment .
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"I liked it so much that I bought two of McMillan's subsequent publications: McMillan on Options, Second Edition (Wiley Trading) (cited as McMillan, 2004) and Options for Volatile Markets: Managing Volatility and Protecting Against Catastrophic Risk (Bloomberg Financial) (cited as McMillan, 2011). Although new to this book, much of the information on volatility was previously published in McMillan 2004 (pages 241-568) and McMillan 2011 (pages 171 - 204). While one might criticize McMillan for repackaging the same material in different books, on the positive side: If you buy this book, you do not need to buy the other two. While hypothetical examples are useful in explaining how to construct a position or to illustrate a position's sensitivity to individual variables (i.e., the Greeks: delta, gamma, vega and theta), they often do not give one a practical sense of whether the trade would be profitable or even feasible. Throughout the book McMillan advises his readers to construct option positions that are insensitive or "delta-neutral" to changes in the price of the underlying stock (e.g. Chapter 40 explains how to create a position that is neutral with respect to both gamma and delta and would profit at a specific rate (vega) if implied volatility increases or decreases (pages 835 - 836). Unlike McMillan's example, the only way I could come close to achieving a delta / gamma neutral position was to specify a more modest return from vega e.g. -100.00 < position vega < 100.00. McMillan 2004 (page 505) includes a similar example of a huge position (555 contracts) that is delta/gamma neutral with limited vega risk. Later (page 516) McMillan concedes that this is a "theoretical example", but in this book, McMillan appears to be advising his readers to actually make these large trades. Note that in "Options for Volatile Markets" (McMillan 2011) McMillan recommends a different collar strategy: buy six-month puts and sell one month calls with strike prices approximately 2% OTM (page 149)."
"That said, I would recommend reading the early introductory chapters but then concentrating only on chapters that describe the trading technique that you are interested in (Calls, Puts, Vertical Spreads, etc)."
"One of the best options book that I have read!"
"This is the absolute bible of options trading strategies."
"Very Comprehensive reference text."
"Quite a comprehensive book."
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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and fatalism." "With his wonderful knowledge of the history and current manifestations of risk, Peter Bernstein brings us Against the Gods. -John Kenneth Galbraith Professor of Economics Emeritus, Harvard University. In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past. Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today. this challenging volume will help you understand the uncertainties that every investor must face." "There's a growing market for savants who can render the recondite intelligibly-witness Stephen Jay Gould (natural history), Oliver Sacks (disease), Richard Dawkins (heredity), James Gleick (physics), Paul Krugman (economics)-and Bernstein would mingle well in their company." Bernstein (Capital Ideas) animates his narrative with a colorful cast of risk-analyzers, including gambling addict Girolamo Cardano, 16th-century Italian physician to the Pope; and John Maynard Keynes, whose concerns over economic uncertainty compelled him to recommend an active, interventionist role for government.
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"Well written, builds nicely, good pacing."
"This is the history of risk management through risk measurement."
"Love the book!"
"I can recommend this book to anyone interested in thinking propabilities and how they can affect your decision making."
"I am trained in mathematics and have worked extensively in the area of risk management. I enjoyed learning about the inventors of the major developers of gambling, probability, utility theory and risk."
"Have bought extra copies and gave them to business associates."
"I work in insurance and have studied math most of my adult life so I am biased but tracing the intellectual history of what I do today was worth every minute I spent reading this book."
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Best SAP R3 Networking

SAP BW on SAP HANA: Implementation Guide, BW on HANA Migration
* Explore your SAP BW on SAP HANA implementation options. * Get step-by-step instructions for migration, including pre- and post-steps. * Learn how SAP HANA changes data modeling, reporting, and administration for an SAP BW system. * In-memory technology. * Implementation options. * LSA++. * Migration steps. * Data modeling in SAP HANA Studio. * In-memory optimized InfoCubes. * Process chains. * Hot/warm/cold data. * Administration in SAP HANA Studio. * SAP HANA Views. * SAP Lumira. At Camelot ITLab GmbH, he leads the Center of Excellence for SAP HANA and provides consultation for enterprises, particularly in the area of SAP BW on SAP HANA. His working fields in the SAP BW on SAP HANA environment include SAP HANA XS development, SAP HANA administration, nearline storage, and the evaluation of new functions.
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Best Life Insurance

SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Now authors. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with more iconoclastic insights and observations in SuperFreakonomics —the long awaited follow-up to their New York Times Notable blockbuster. The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling over four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Now, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with SuperFreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first. Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling like no one else, whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically. By examining how people respond to incentives, they show the world for what it really is – good, bad, ugly, and, in the final analysis, super freaky. The spread of cable and satellite television. C. Projects that pay women to not abort female babies. D. Condoms made specially for the Indian market Question 2: 3 points. Among Chicago street prostitutes, which night of the week is the most profitable? A. Saturday. B. Monday. C. Wednesday. D. Friday Question 3: 5 points. You land in an emergency room with a serious condition and your fate lies in the hands of the doctor you draw. Is female. C. Gets high ratings from peers. D. Spends more money on treatment Question 4: 3 points. Which cancer is chemotherapy more likely to be effective for? A. Public-awareness campaigns to discourage consumption. B. Cap-and-trade agreements on carbon emissions. C. Volcanic explosions. D. Planting lots of trees Question 9: 5 points. In the 19th century, one of the gravest threats of childbearing was puerperal fever, which was often fatal to mother and child. C. The psychological effects of the attacks caused people to cut back on their consumption of alcohol, which led to a decrease in traffic accidents. D. The increase in border security was a boon to some California farmers, who, as Mexican and Canadian imports declined, sold so much marijuana that it became one of the states most valuable crops. While Friday nights are the busiest, the single greatest determinant of a prostitute’s price is the specific trick she is hired to perform. Expensive medical procedures, while technologically dazzling, are responsible for a remarkably small share of the improvement in heart disease. Question 7. B, Shifting less than one day per week’s worth of calories from red meat and dairy products to chicken, fish, eggs, or a vegetable-based diet achieves more greenhouse-gas reduction than buying all locally sourced food, according to a recent study by Christopher Weber and H. Scott Matthews, two Carnegie Mellon researchers. Every time a Prius or other hybrid owner drives to the grocery store, she may be cancelling out its emissions-reducing benefit, at least if she shops in the meat section. Emission from cows, as well as sheep and other ruminants, are 25 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than the carbon dioxide released by cars and humans.
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"In a few areas it kind of moves off in a tangent but brings itself back by the end of the chapter..... if a little abruptly."
"If folks would just open their minds to the possibilities of what actual data will reveal they might find what they believe to be true because of gut feelings is really false thinking."
"It contains a few pieces data now discredited, but it is a fountain of thought provoking data."
"The reasons people act as they do in activities is interesting."
"A new insight to how societies interact."
"Good perspective on things."
"Great follow up to Freakonomics."
"While I loved the Freakonomics I was disappointed by the sequel."
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Best Business Insurance

Principles of Risk Management and Insurance (13th Edition) (Pearson Series in Finance)
Fully updated and revised, the Thirteenth Edition now covers global topics ranging from natural disasters and terrorism, to domestic issues like the ever-evolving Affordable Care Act and Healthcare Reform.
Reviews
"Risk management may not be the most exciting material but this particular textbook balances brevity with enough details to be very helpful and educational."
"Very pleased with this product."
"Little bit worn I receive it, but a good book."
"This book provides good insight on the main financial investment products available today and the benefits versus risks associated with them."
"Higher quality than expected, fast shipping, version works fine for class."
"The book Amazon sent me starts with chapter one and midway through, skips to chapter five."
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Best Health Insurance

An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems. In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans place in their healthcare. Breaking down this monolithic business into the individual industries—the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and drug manufacturers—that together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal exposes the recent evolution of American medicine as never before. In clear and practical terms, she spells out exactly how to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve. “Bold, insightful, well-researched analysis.” — Nature “Truly remarkable for the extensive interviews and range of documentation it provides.” — American Psychological Association “In this in-depth analysis of a malfunctioning system, Rosenthal makes a compelling case against the hospital and pharmaceutical executives behind the “money chase,” and it’s hard to imagine a more educated, credible guide…The patients she interviewed share mind-boggling stories…She builds her case with one damning statistic after another…Rosenthal presents solutions both personal and societal in this commanding and necessary call to arms.” —. Booklist (starred) “Provocatively analyzes...Rosenthal unveils with surgical precision the "dysfunctional medical market"...a startling cascade.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review). “Elisabeth Rosenthal’s meticulous history of the crisis in American health care should be required reading for our generation. Bold, imaginative, tautly written and filled with fury and compassion, this book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.” —. Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene. Elisabeth Rosenthal, a physician turned tenacious reporter, shows how the ‘highly dysfunctional’ American health care system turned the Gentle Art of Healing into a Greedy Arsenal of Profit, where everybody does well—except the patient. Both a fascinating history of dysfunction, and a clear manifesto for change.” —Sheri Fink, M.D., Ph.D., Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Five Days at Memorial and War Hospital “Through vivid, heart wrenching stories and trenchant analysis, Libby Rosenthal unveils the irrationality, indifference, harmfulness, and downright unfairness of the American health care system that can often seem more driven by profit than caring and compassion. She also offers tremendously helpful advice to patients on how to navigate the system to ensure they get the best outcomes.” —Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Reinventing American Health Care.
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"An American Sickness is a gripping, fast paced and revolting dive from 50,000 feet above into the morass of what passes for healthcare in the USA. Patients are barely tolerated in a system optimized to pass money from bank accounts to providers. Because Rosenthal (an MD herself) was a columnist for the New York Times, she received thousands of contacts over the years. She researched them and they provide the vivid and shameful examples of financial abuse in the industry (with real names). She has distilled them into a perverse list of principles of US healthcare that explains everything and forms the backbone of the book: 1. As the American economy freefalls into dysfunction, doctors and nurses have become “independent contractors”, just like everyone else. Administrators are no longer senior caregivers but numbers people who must limit the poorly insured and maximize the profit on every square foot. The rest of the western world and history are the proof: “If the March of Dimes was operating according to today’s foundation models, we’d have iron lungs in five different colors controlled by iPhone apps – but we wouldn’t have a cheap polio vaccine,” Rosenthal quotes Dr. Michael Brownlee. Rosenthal provides really useful links and sample letters, because customers are all in this same situation – ignorant and powerless. This book is worth far more than a month’s health insurance; it can save you a fortune, and give you back your life."
"I have been a nurse since 1978 and have had a front row seat to the changes in health care in the ensuing decades."
"Not a subject matter I would normally be interested in, but in the current political climate I felt I should get a better understanding of what is going on in the healthcare industries. I am not a big fan of the government getting involved in healthcare, however if we are going to let free enterprise control the costs I think it is important to know if the healthcare industries will respond to true competition like other industries such as the telecommunication and automotive industries."
"While we cannot mandate morals, consumers can choose alternatives to products and services born from financial incentives. But the greed of corporate organizations, a select few physicians and physician group practice managers who want to 'maximize' income charge prices that far exceed the value of what is given."
"Dr. Rosenthal's background makes her uniquely qualified to write this well-researched book."
"Not much more needs to be added to her call for action on our part."
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Best Casualty Insurance

Property and Casualty Insurance License Exam Cram
If you are preparing for a career in property and casualty insurance, you need to pick up a copy of Property and Casualty Insurance License Exam Cram . In addition to authoring 17 insurance training texts and editing 8 others, he has written newsletters and magazine articles, and he has developed materials for audio cassette/workbook, videotape, computer disk and the Web. Jennifer has also developed interactive web-based courses and written state insurance law digests, computer documentation, newsletters, online help, and corporate disaster recovery plans.
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"I originally signed up for Testeachers online, and I will be quite honest in that I thought the Testeachers books were a huge waste of money and time."
"However, it is a massive amount of information that will take months and months to get through and learn."
"Packaged good and delivered on time."
"Definitely helped a lot with the prep for the test."
"EXTREMELY HELPFUL!"
"The book is as good only if one reads them."
"Wish I had read this before taking the AZ test!"
"Loads of great info."
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Best Liability Insurance

MARK CUBAN - Top 15 Secrets To Success In Life & Business: The Sportsmanship Of Business
Mark Cuban is an American entrepreneur and investor. He is the owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theatres, and Magnolia Pictures, and is the chairman of the HDTV cable network AXS TV. Throughout this book, we'll explore some of Mark Cuban's most famous quotes, taking a look at the context and significance of his statements. Following each is a summary of how these learnings can be applied to both business, and our daily lives.
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"This was a Quick read but informative."
"Entertaining book and a quick read, not a very profound book and not explained by Cuban himself."
"Highly recommended this to anyone looking for success in business or life in general."
"Mark Cuban is the biggest Shark on the tank, and this book shares some of his famous words of wisdom."
"Nice little book to read and worth its money."
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Best Automotive Insurance

Dot Grid Notebook: 110 Dot Grid pages, (8 x 10) inches (Floral)
Good Quality paper with dot pattern (dots spaced 5mm apart - 1/5 inch).
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"The paper felt good quality, but my 0.38mm colored markers bled right through."
"The pages were thinner than expected but the journal itself was the perfect size for a beginner like myself."
"Love this, gotten lots of compliments on it too."
"But I'm only giving it 3 stars because I bought it to practice hand lettering and every single brush pen I have (Tombow, Cocoiro, Marvy, Pilot) ghosts so darkly through the paper that only one side of the page is usable."
"Fantastic!"
"I absolutely love this!"
"For the price, this is a winner!"
"I ended up leaving it at home since it's the only place that I can consistently sit at a desk to write."
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Best Property Insurance

Starting A Business: The 15 Rules For A Successful Business
No matter what you have heard before about business startups, you need to realize that starting a business takes a lot of hard work! The truth is that most people fail to start a successful business. This book provides high-quality content, true value to your business career, strategies, tips, advice and much more to ensure that you succeed in the field of business and entrepreneurship. The Essentials For A Successful Business Start-up Main Factors Why Most People Fail In Business 10 Mindsets That Will Radically Improve Your Business How To Turn Past Failures Into Success The Business Planning Process Step By Step What To Know About Business Law Ways To Grow Your Business Into A Million-dollar Corporation MUCH, MUCH MORE! Series: Starting A Business, Business Startups, How To Start A Business, Building A Business, Passive Income, Passive Income Ideas, Business Startup Guide, Successful Business Startups, Starting A Business, Starting A Business, Starting A Business, Business, Business Rules, Start A Business, Rules Of Business, Starting A Business, Starting A Business, Starting A Business, Starting A Business, Starting A Business, Starting A Business, Starting A Business Starting A Business Starting A Business Starting A Business. Life is meant to be enjoyed and working to make someone else’s dream come true was not the reason I wanted to get out bed for! Well, it all depends on if you want to spend your time on someone who is only interested in emptying your pockets or have someone like me to help whos main priority is to help you achieve your goals! My expertise comes from reading over a thousand books, learning through constant trial and error, hiring high-level coaches etc.
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