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

Authors:Murray Webster Jr., Martha Foschi,
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: research, theory, new, generalization, status
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 1988-08-01
List price: $84.95
ISBN-10: 0804714215
ISBN-13: 9780804714211

Authors:Thomas H. Murray, Willard Gaylin, Ruth Mackli,
Publisher: Humana Pre
Keywords: ethics, issues, biomedicine, contemporary, society, drug, doing, nontherapeutic, feeling
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 1984-12-05
List price: $59.50
ISBN-10: 089603061X
ISBN-13: 9780896030619

An examination of the complex moral, social, medical and legal issues surrounding the widespread consumption of nontherapeutic drugs today - whether they are mind-altering susbtances taken to increase pleasure.

Authors:Dennis Webster,  Kim Webster Cunningham,
Publisher: David R Godine
Keywords: wild, absolutely
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2008-10-15
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1567923755
ISBN-13: 9781567923759

The publisher first saw Kim Cunningham’s artwork - and her father’s clever and witty poetry - at an exhibition of New Hampshire artists near the company’s warehouse in Peterborough. With two young children and bookcases brimming over with alphabet, animal, nonsense, and every other kind of children’s book, it takes a lot to impress him. This work did; even an amateur could see at a glance that here was the Real Thing - both the rhymes and the images.The verses by her father, a New York copywriter, are original, catchy, and sophisticated (or as sophisticated as you can g

Authors:Fred Webster, Marie S. Webster,
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: series, gorgas, science, foundation, nature, treasures, cielo, mexico, forest, clouds, road
Number of Pages: 311
Published: 2002-03-15
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0292791402
ISBN-13: 9780292791404

"The Websters have produced an entertaining and informative account of a magical place. . . . Their book should be of interest not only to those familiar with El Cielo or with other natural areas in Mexico, but also to anyone drawn to natural history, travel, and memorable places." --Lane Simonian, author of Defending the Land of the Jaguar: A History of Conservation in Mexico Hidden high in the Sierra de Guatemala mountain range of northeastern Mexico in the state of Tamaulipas is the northernmost tropical cloud forest of the Western Hemisphere. Within its humid oak-sweetgum woodlands, tr