Authors:David Hillson, Peter Simon,
Publisher: Management Concepts Inc
Keywords: atom, methodology, management, risk, project, practical
Number of Pages: 241
Published: 2007-08-24
List price: $59.00
ISBN-10: 1567262023
ISBN-13: 9781567262025

Because all projects are risky, risk management proactively addresses implications of uncertainty in achieving project objectives. Practical Project Risk Management: The ATOM Methodology helps you apply risk management theories and tools to your project so you can manage risk properly, efficiently, and effectively. Not just another collection of theories, the Active Threat and Opportunity Management (ATOM) methodology enables you to make risk management ideas and processes work for your project. This valuable resource provides: -Best practice guidelines and standards translated into a com

Author: Ruth Murray-Webster and David Hillson
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: attitude, risk, group, managing
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 2008-05-22
List price: $94.95
ISBN-10: 0566087871
ISBN-13: 9780566087875

This book builds on the authors’ previous title "Understanding and Managing Risk Attitude" but this time looks exclusively at the challenges of understanding and managing those attitudes adopted by groups of people when faced with making decisions that they perceive as risky and important.The text makes the link between risk management and decision-making explicit, building on existing work from the economic and risk psychology schools but taking a pragmatic, practitioner-focused approach that is relevant to all decision-making groups in any situation.The insights in "Managing Group Risk

Authors:David Hillson, Ruth Murray-Webster,
Publisher: Gower Publishing Company
Keywords: attitude, risk, managing, understanding
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2005-07-01
List price: $94.95
ISBN-10: 0566086271
ISBN-13: 9780566086274

David Hillson’s and Ruth Murray-Webster’s Understanding and Managing Risk Attitude will help you understand the human aspects of risk management and to manage proactively the influence of human behaviour on the risk process. The authors introduce a range of models, perspectives and examples to define and detail the range of possible risk attitudes; looking both at individuals and groups. Using leading-edge thinking on self-awareness and emotional literacy they develop a powerful approach to address the most common shortfall in current risk management: the failure to manage the huma

Authors:David Hillson, Ruth Murray-Webster,
Publisher: Gower Technical Press
Keywords: attitude, risk, managing, understanding
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2007-03-30
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0566087987
ISBN-13: 9780566087981

David Hillson’s and Ruth Murray-Webster’s Understanding and Managing Risk Attitude will help you understand the human aspects of risk management and to manage proactively the influence of human behaviour on the risk process. The authors introduce a range of models, perspectives and examples to define and detail the range of possible risk attitudes; looking both at individuals and groups. Using leading-edge thinking on self-awareness and emotional literacy they develop a powerful approach to address the most common shortfall in current risk management: the failure to manage the huma

Author: Simon Hillson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: anthropology, dental
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 1996-09-28
List price: $58.00
ISBN-10: 0521564395
ISBN-13: 9780521564397

Teeth are among the best sources of evidence for both identification purposes and studies of demography, biological relationships, and health in ancient human communities. The anthropologist’s specimen may be a cast that a dentist has taken from a living mouth, or actual teeth from an archaeological site or forensic case. This text introduces the complex biology of teeth and provides a practical guide to all essential aspects of dental anthropology, including excavation, identification, microscopic study, and tooth age determination. Dental Anthropology is a concise yet comprehensive res

Author: Simon Hillson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: archaeology, manuals, cambridge, teeth
Number of Pages: 388
Published: 2005-09-05
List price: $146.00
ISBN-10: 0521837014
ISBN-13: 9780521837019

Teeth yield remarkable information about animals as well as the health, hygiene and diet of ancient communities. In this fully revised and up-dated edition of his classic text, Simon Hillson draws together a mass of information on dental studies in archaeology and related disciplines. The book’s treatment of mammals is extended to include mammals of North America and Asia north of the Himalayas. The form of roots are now detailed with figures showing root socket patterns in different genera. The new edition also includes an appendix on methods. First Edition Hb (1986): 0-521-30405-9

Author: Lilian Hobbs PhDSusan Hillson MS in CIS Boston U
Publisher: Digital Press
Keywords: warehousing, data, oracle8i
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1999-12-01
List price: $67.95
ISBN-10: 1555582052
ISBN-13: 9781555582050

Cutting-edge Oracle data warehousing from people creating the software.Oracle8i Data Warehousing explains how to design, develop, and administer powerful data warehouses and data marts on Windows NT using Oracle’s major new industry-leading database. This authoritative guide helps database developers, administrators, and designers master the major new data warehousing and Internet capabilities in Oracle8i and specifically plan and implement affordable and successful data warehouses and data marts. In one exciting package, this book brings together three hot computing topics: new Oracle d