Perils of Protection
Perils of Protection

Author: Susan Honeyman

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2018-12-18

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1496819926

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Winner of the Children’s Literature Association’s 2020 Honor Book Award Unrecognized in the United States and resisted in many wealthy, industrialized nations, children’s rights to participation and self-determination are easily disregarded in the name of protection. In literature, the needs of children are often obscured by protectionist narratives, which redirect attention to parents by mythologizing the supposed innocence, victimization, and vulnerability of children rather than potential agency. In Perils of Protection: Shipwrecks, Orphans, and Children's Rights, author Susan Honeyman traces how the best of intentions to protect children can nonetheless hurt them when leaving them unprepared to act on their own behalf. Honeyman utilizes literary parallels and discursive analysis to highlight the unchecked protectionism that has left minors increasingly isolated in dwindling social units and vulnerable to multiple injustices made possible by eroded or unrecognized participatory rights. Each chapter centers on a perilous pattern in a different context: “women and children first” rescue hierarchies, geographic restriction, abandonment, censorship, and illness. Analysis from adventures real and fictionalized will offer the reader high jinx and heroism at sea, the rush of risk, finding new families, resisting censorship through discovering shared political identity, and breaking the pretenses of sentimentality.

Introduction to Risk and Insurance
Introduction to Risk and Insurance

Author: Ralph H. Blanchard

Publisher: Beard Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781587981005

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A collection of thirty-five articles by this renowned specialist in the sytematic study of insurance, and covering a broad range of topics.

Peril and Protection in British Courtship Novels
Peril and Protection in British Courtship Novels

Author: Geri Giebel Chavis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-10-07

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1000195546

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Peril and Protection in British Courtship Novels: A Study in Continuity and Change explores the use and context of danger/safety language in British courtship novels published between 1719 and 1920. The term "courtship novel" encompasses works focusing on both female and male protagonists’ journeys toward marriage, as well as those reflecting the intertwined nature of comic courtship and tragic seduction scenarios. Through careful tracking of peril and protection terms and imagery within the works of widely-read, influential authors, Professor Chavis provides a fresh view of the complex ways that the British novel has both maintained the status quo and embodied cultural change. Lucid discussions of each novel, arranged in chronological order, shed new light on major characters’ preoccupations, values, internal struggles, and inter-actional styles and demonstrate the ways in which gender ideology and social norms governing male-female relationships were not only perpetuated but also challenged and satirized during the course of the British novel’s development. Blending close textual analysis with historical/cultural and feminist criticism, this multi-faceted study invites readers to look with both a microscopic lens at the nuances of figurative and literal language and a telescopic lens at the ways in which modifications to views of masculinity and femininity and interactions within the courtship arena inform the novel genre’s evolution.

Handbook of Risk and Insurance Strategies for Certified Public Risk Officers and other Water Professionals
Handbook of Risk and Insurance Strategies for Certified Public Risk Officers and other Water Professionals

Author: Frank Spellman

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2021-10-19

Total Pages: 1037

ISBN-13: 1000449203

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This book serves as a technical yet practical risk management manual for professionals working with water and wastewater organizations. It provides readers with a functional comprehension of water and wastewater operations as well as a broad understanding of industry derivations and various stakeholder interconnectivity. This knowledge is imperative, as most administrative professionals are proficient in their respective areas of expertise but sometimes lack fluency on the broader technical aspects of their organization’s purpose, operations, and externalities. It also examines risk management best practices and provides an actionable review of doing the right thing, the right way, every time through a combination of core risk management principles. These include enterprise, strategic, operational, and reputational risk management, as well as risk assessments, risk/frequency matrixes, checklists, rules, and decision-making processes. Finally, the book addresses the importance of risk transfer through insurance policies and provides best practices for the prudent selection of these policies across different scenarios. Features: Provides an understanding of water and wastewater technical operations to properly implement sound risk management and insurance programs. Emphasizes the importance of building well-designed, resilient systems, such as policies, processes, procedures, protocol, rules, and checklists that are up to date and fully implemented across a business. Offers a detailed look into insurance policy terms and conditions and includes practical checklists to assist readers in structuring and negotiating their own policies. Handbook of Risk and Insurance Strategies for Certified Public Risk Officers and Other Water Professionals combines practical knowledge of technical water/wastewater operations along with the core subjects of risk management and insurance for practicing and aspiring professionals charged with handling these vital tasks for their organizations. Readers will also gain invaluable perspective and knowledge on best-in-class risk management and insurance practices in the water and wastewater industries.

Banking, Risk and Insurance Management
Banking, Risk and Insurance Management

Author: Mohan Prakash, N.R.

Publisher: Vikas Publishing House

Published:

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13: 9325994054

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India has seen landmark changes in its financial system in recent times, which has transformed the economic scenario of the country in a big way. This has necessitated a thorough revision of this textbook. This edition incorporates these changes in all their complexities, yet retains the original focus on the analysis of the principles and practices in the money market, capital market and foreign exchange market of India.This all?inclusive textbook — covering major concepts, regulations and practices in the working of financial intermediaries, capital market, money market and foreign exchange market — puts the Indian financial system in the right perspective, making it a “must have” for the students of MBA and economics, as also for those appearing in professional examinations such as CA, CFA and ICWAI.The book has been thoroughly revised and includes the latest available data.

Fundamental Aspects of Operational Risk and Insurance Analytics
Fundamental Aspects of Operational Risk and Insurance Analytics

Author: Marcelo G. Cruz

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-02-23

Total Pages: 939

ISBN-13: 1118118391

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A one-stop guide for the theories, applications, and statistical methodologies essential to operational risk Providing a complete overview of operational risk modeling and relevant insurance analytics, Fundamental Aspects of Operational Risk and Insurance Analytics: A Handbook of Operational Risk offers a systematic approach that covers the wide range of topics in this area. Written by a team of leading experts in the field, the handbook presents detailed coverage of the theories, applications, and models inherent in any discussion of the fundamentals of operational risk, with a primary focus on Basel II/III regulation, modeling dependence, estimation of risk models, and modeling the data elements. Fundamental Aspects of Operational Risk and Insurance Analytics: A Handbook of Operational Risk begins with coverage on the four data elements used in operational risk framework as well as processing risk taxonomy. The book then goes further in-depth into the key topics in operational risk measurement and insurance, for example diverse methods to estimate frequency and severity models. Finally, the book ends with sections on specific topics, such as scenario analysis; multifactor modeling; and dependence modeling. A unique companion with Advances in Heavy Tailed Risk Modeling: A Handbook of Operational Risk, the handbook also features: Discussions on internal loss data and key risk indicators, which are both fundamental for developing a risk-sensitive framework Guidelines for how operational risk can be inserted into a firm’s strategic decisions A model for stress tests of operational risk under the United States Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) program A valuable reference for financial engineers, quantitative analysts, risk managers, and large-scale consultancy groups advising banks on their internal systems, the handbook is also useful for academics teaching postgraduate courses on the methodology of operational risk.

Fundamentals of Risk and Insurance
Fundamentals of Risk and Insurance

Author: Emmett J. Vaughan

Publisher:

Published: 1989-01-26

Total Pages: 806

ISBN-13:

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A new edition of the standard insurance text, revised to reflect changes that have occurred in the insurance industry and its environment since 1986. Incorporates changes wrought by the Risk Retention Act of 1986, the Tax Reform Act of 1986, the Revenue Act of 1987, and the Medicare Expansion Act of 1988. Covers legal changes, revisions in policy forms, and the introduction of new forms of insurance. As in previous editions, emphasis is on the insurance product and its use within a risk-management framework. The three sections cover the concept of risk, the nature of the insurance device, and the principles of risk management. Specific contracts are examined in detail in order to illustrate insurance principles in action. An appendix contains specimen copies of most major types of policies.

The Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice
The Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice

Author: Jason McElligott

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-09

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1137415320

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This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns—both practical and theoretical—related to the study of print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the reliability of digitized resources to concerns with the limiting parameters of 'national' book history.

General Insurance, Reinsurance and Risk Management Glossary
General Insurance, Reinsurance and Risk Management Glossary

Author: Lajpat Ray Chandnani

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2017-03-14

Total Pages: 850

ISBN-13: 1946556963

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General Insurance, Reinsurance and Risk Management Glossary is designed to provide accurate and authoritative yet simplistic and understandable definitions on commonly used words, terms, concepts and abbreviations used in the Industry. It is divided into sections in alphabetical order and wherever applicable, terms are cross-referenced with other terms. This glossary is a must for: • Insurance personnel • Surveyors and other claims specialists, • Advocates, • Insurance consultants, • Financial and legal consultants, • Agents, • Brokers, • Risk managers, • Loss control managers, • Insurance authorities, • CEOs and other corporate managers, • Corporate or school, college, university and other libraries • Students of insurance, reinsurance and risk management as well Bancassurance courses • Laymen who wish to better understand their own insurance coverage.

The Perils of Global Legalism
The Perils of Global Legalism

Author: Eric A. Posner

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-10-15

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0226675920

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The first months of the Obama administration have led to expectations, both in the United States and abroad, that in the coming years America will increasingly promote the international rule of law—a position that many believe is both ethically necessary and in the nation’s best interests. With The Perils of Global Legalism, Eric A. Posner explains that such views demonstrate a dangerously naive tendency toward legalism—an idealistic belief that law can be effective even in the absence of legitimate institutions of governance. After tracing the historical roots of the concept, Posner carefully lays out the many illusions—such as universalism, sovereign equality, and the possibility of disinterested judgment by politically unaccountable officials—on which the legalistic view is founded. Drawing on such examples as NATO’s invasion of Serbia, attempts to ban the use of land mines, and the free-trade provisions of the WTO, Posner demonstrates throughout that the weaknesses of international law confound legalist ambitions—and that whatever their professed commitments, all nations stand ready to dispense with international agreements when it suits their short- or long-term interests. Provocative and sure to be controversial, The Perils of Global Legalism will serve as a wake-up call for those who view global legalism as a panacea—and a reminder that international relations in a brutal world allow no room for illusions.