Risks Books


Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies Best Price: $20.00 This was a very good look at the complexities of modern technology although the analysis and...	Sport Facility Management: Organizing Events and Mitigating Risks (Sport Management Library) Best Price: $46.10 This book was used in my sport facilities class and was a great read. The way the chapters are...	The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters Best Price: $16.95 Amazon destroyed this review in error and I failed to keep a file copy. This is a reconstructed...	Integrated Environmental Modeling: Pollutant Transport, Fate, and Risk in the Environment Best Price: $92.11 A unified presentation of environmental model development, implementation, and testing ...	System Safety Engineering And Risk Assessment: A Practical Approach (Chemical Engineering) Best Price: $75.00 System Safety Engineering And Risk Assessment is an excellent reference on how to engineer...



Contractors Guide to Green Building Construction: Management, Project Delivery, Documentation, and Risk Reduction Best Price: $57.00 Written for contractors and endorsed by the Associated General Contractors of America ...	Guerrilla Capacity Planning: A Tactical Approach to Planning for Highly Scalable Applications and Services Best Price: $39.96 I've read the other reviews and they seem to ignore the "Guerrilla" concept. The fact...	Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) Best Price: $38.79 Ulrich Beck argues that industrial society that used to be known as the distribution of goods...	Nanotechnology: Health and Environmental Risks (Perspectives in Nanotechnology) Best Price: $35.96 Interested in Nanotechnology but Can’t Bear to Wade through Detailed Technical...	Aircraft Systems Best Price: $18.39 As a new aircraft owner, I am trying to learn as much as I can about my aircraft. This book is...



World Risk Society Best Price: $25.64 This major new book draws together key essays by one of Europe's leading social and political...	Pipeline Risk Management Manual, Third Edition: Ideas, Techniques, and Resources Best Price: $96.50 Here's the ideal tool if you're looking for a flexible, straightforward analysis system for your...	Layer of Protection Analysis: Simplified Process Risk Assessment (Ccps Concept Book) Best Price: $92.00 I have not yet received this item, and is because of this is impossible to make any book review....	Too Far From Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space Best Price: $12.30 Jones is a very compelling writer; however, in his attempt to novelize his non-fiction account,...	System Engineering Management Best Price: $72.99 Blanchard is a master name on System Engineering and Life Cycle Costs. This books explains many...

Guidelines for Process Hazards Analysis (PHA, HAZOP), Hazards Identification, and Risk Analysis Best Price: $142.69 This is a very practical and probably one of the best books available for everyone who wants to...	Asbestos: Risk Assessment, Epidemiology, and Health Effects Best Price: $115.16 While there are hundreds of books available on many different aspects of asbestos, none contain...	Risk Management in the Fire Service Best Price: $29.00 As a safety officer myself, I found this book truly captivating. I couldn't put it down. If you...	Watch It: The Risks And Promises Of Information Technologies For Education Best Price: $17.98 Watch IT is an examination of several critical issues in the potential of new information...	Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety Best Price: $114.00 Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety provides guidelines for industries that manufacture,...

Fundamentals Of Aquatic Toxicology: Effects, Environmental Fate And Risk Assessment Best Price: $84.30 This textbook is literally a constructive piece of scientific genius. Rand is perhaps one of...	Theory and Applications of the Analytic Network Process: Decision Making with Benefits, Opportunities, Costs, and Risks Best Price: $25.00 I bought this book for a class, and it was a useful reference, but it was very dense and...	Probabilistic Risk Analysis: Foundations and Methods Best Price: $67.00 A very clear text, what is not usual in this kind of book.	Evaluating Mineral Projects: Applications and Misconceptions Best Price: $70.25 Whether you're an experienced evaluator of mineral projects, a student, or a decision maker who...	Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change Best Price: $3.55 1. It is more expensive today than renewables when decommissioning costs and waste disposal are...

Ecological Risk Assessment, Second Edition Best Price: $94.73 The definitive reference in its field, Ecological Risk Assessment, Second Edition details the...	When Technology Fails: Significant Technological Disasters, Accidents, and Failures of the Twentieth Century As a welding/metals inspector, I have both a professional and personal fascination with...	Radiation Protection and Dosimetry: An Introduction to Health Physics Best Price: $67.46 This is a much needed book. I good modern overview of what you would encounter in the field of...	Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology Best Price: $8.21 Excellent collection of information about failed quality assurance programs and human...	Cyanide in Water and Soil: Chemistry, Risk, and Management Best Price: $173.21 The presence of cyanide is a significant issue in industrial and municipal wastewater treatment...

Dust Explosion Prevention and Protection: A Practical Guide (Know the Risk) Best Price: $96.19 John Barton has written a very worthwhile reference book on dust explosions. It is not a book...	Non-Chemical Weed Managament: Principles, Concepts and Technology (Cabi Publishing) Best Price: $115.60 Following several decades of popularity after the Second World War, the use of synthetic...	Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering Best Price: $145.00 The increasing sophistication of buildings and bridges demand new analytical techniques....	Handbook of Warnings (Human Factors/Ergonomics) (Human Factors and Ergonomics) Best Price: $132.42 A technical discussion that includes theory, research, and application, this book describes...	Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2006 Best Price: $129.00 From 1962 to 1971, the U.S. military sprayed herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle...

Burying Uncertainty: Risk and the Case Against Geological Disposal of Nuclear Waste Best Price: $4.00 Shrader-Frechette discusses the problem of radioactive waste, with primary emphasis on that...	Lethal Arrogance: Human Fallibility and Dangerous Technologies Best Price: $29.50 Someone has a used copy for sale here for 91 cents. Too expensive for this nonsense. ...	Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management: When Performance is Measured Performance Improves Best Price: $50.00 To achieve consistent software project success under the pressures of today's software...	Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis Best Price: $41.00 This monograph is intended as a general introduction to methods of seismic hazard and risk...	A Basic Introduction to Pollutant Fate and Transport : An Integrated Approach with Chemistry, Modeling, Risk Assessment, and Environmental Legislation Best Price: $72.94 A uniquely accessible text on environmental modeling designed for both students and industry...

Reliability Engineering and Risk Analysis: A Practical Guide (Quality and Reliability, 55) Best Price: $79.95 An introduction and explanation of pragmatic methods and techniques for reliability and risk...	Thermal Safety of Chemical Processes: Risk Assessment and Process Design Best Price: $112.28 Based on the author's many years of experience in practicing safety assessment in industry and...	Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia Best Price: $11.99 This book, by a physicist and science fiction writer, starts off well with a philosophical...	Introduction to Emergency Management Best Price: $64.52 The book does a fair job of giving an overview of emergency management. The veiw of FEMA is...	Risk Assessment in the Federal Government: Managing the Process Best Price: $37.06 The regulation of potentially hazardous substances has become a controversial issue. This volume...

Risk Assessment Of Power Systems: Models, Methods, and Applications (IEEE Press Series on Power Engineering) Best Price: $101.04 Power system risk assessment is becoming an important and mandatory task in planning, operation,...	Managing Risk and Reliability of Process Plants Best Price: $75.14 The book is an important contribution to the risk management of process facilities. It will be...	Quality and Risk Management in the IVF Laboratory Best Price: $36.32 This essential survival guide for successfully managing the modern-day IVF clinic condenses a...	Risk Analysis in Engineering: Techniques, Tools, and Trends Best Price: $103.96 I took the professional course associated with this text (from RiAC) and I high recommend it. ...	Species Sensitivity Distributions in Ecotoxicology Best Price: $164.16 In spite of the growing importance of Species Sensitivity Distribution models (SSDs) in...

A Guide to Compliance for Process Safety Management/Risk Management Planning (PSM/RMP) Best Price: $188.26 Establishing, maintaining and refining a comprehensive Process Safety Management (PSM) and Risk...	Managing Risk: in Construction Projects Best Price: $61.80 Written by a group of academics and practitioners, this guide is for construction practitioners...	Ecological Risk Assessment for Contaminated Sites Best Price: $43.97 Love Canal. Exxon Valdez. Times Beach. Sacramento River Spill. Amoco Cadiz. Seveso. Every area...	The Nuclear Power Deception: US nuclear mythology from electricity "too cheap to meter" to "inherently safe" reactors Best Price: $19.94 This book provides critical analysis and historical evidence to refute the claims of the nuclear...	Environmental Biotechnology: Reducing Risks from Environmental Chemicals through Biotechnology Best Price: $282.72

Risk Management for Hazardous Chemicals Best Price: $404.47 The key to successfully ensuring adequate protection of life, health, property, and the...	Guidelines for Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Analysis Best Price: $157.28 I expected more reliability data in the book, but the revision of the several aspects of risk...	Chemicals in the Environment: Assessing and Managing Risk (Issues in Environmental Science and Technology) Best Price: $67.46 Rising concern in recent years over the possible adverse environmental consequences of the use...	Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Management for Engineers and Scientists Electrical Engineering Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Management for Engineers and Scientists...

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