Author: Joseph V. Rodrick
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: risks, chemicals, environment, health, human, toxicity, calculated
Number of Pages: 358
Published: 2006-12-04
List price: $44.00
ISBN-10: 0521788781
ISBN-13: 9780521788786
Safeguarding economic prosperity, whilst protecting human health and the environment, is at the forefront of scientific and public interest. This book provides a practical and balanced view on toxicology, control, risk assessment and risk management, addressing the interplay between science and public health policy. This fully revised and updated new edition provides a detailed analysis on chemical and by-product exposure, how they enter the body and the suitability of imposed safety limits. New chapters on dose, with particular emphasis on children and vulnerable subpopulations, reproductive
Author: Janet Hanso
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: defining, success, own, terms, risks, taking, women, making, career, choices, broads
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-03-13
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0071423680
ISBN-13: 9780071423687
More Than 85 Broads introduces us to a remarkable group of strong, passionate, and talented women who all define success on their own terms. Along with author Janet Hanson’s riveting account of how she built 85 Broads into a groundbreaking global network community, each of these women candidly tells her own powerful story. Meet Trailblazers who need no roadmap or formula for success-just their own optimism, confidence, and gut instincts. Meet Adventurers who push past boundaries and find new ways to define success for themselves. Meet Parents who are building true partnerships rather tha
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: risks, retirement, restructuring
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0199204659
ISBN-13: 9780199204656
This book higlights the importance of retirement security as a major policy concern of our time. A generation of ’Baby Boomers’ is on the verge of retirement, yet pension systems confront crushing challenges, and governments often appear confused about which direction they should move in.
Author: Margaret Wander Bonanno
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Keywords: risks
Number of Pages: 345
Published: 1989-11
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0312034210
ISBN-13: 9780312034214
Author: Eddie Cade
Publisher: Gresham Books,Abingto
Keywords: risks, banking, managing
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1997-06-24
List price: $245.00
ISBN-10: 1855732068
ISBN-13: 9781855732063
This book fills a gap in banking literature by providing a professional and sophisticated ’risk’ primer for bank directors, executives and staff at every level as well as students, analysts and commentators on the banking scene. The breadth of focus is exceptional in covering the full range of banking risks, rather than the customary specialist segment.
Author: Akio Inui
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: cloning, risks, epigenetic
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2005-07-25
List price: $162.95
ISBN-10: 0849325277
ISBN-13: 9780849325274
Cloning has the potential to be an extremely valuable tool across many fields. In agriculture, the reproductive cloning of farm animals could prove to be advantageous. In clinical medicine, the employment of therapeutic cloning for cell, tissue, and organ replacement appears to be imminent. However, as with any advancement that is poised to touch human lives, the process of cloning must be looked at through the lens of the medical communitys obligation to do no harm. Epigenetic Risks of Cloning includes contributions from 32 leading researchers who are intimately involved with various aspects
Author: Peter G. Neumann
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Keywords: risks, related, computer
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1994-10-28
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 020155805X
ISBN-13: 9780201558050
This fascinating and useful book by noted expert Peter Neumann contains accounts of mishaps, failures, and other disasters attributed to computers. Computer-based systems are everywhere in our lives, from the smallest radio components to the largest aerospace installations; and while computers can make our lives easier, they can also fail, and the people using them can make errors-causing inconvenience or even catastrophe. Neumann characterizes different kinds of computer-related risks, discusses risk causes and effects, and considers their implications. He also suggests ways to minimize such
