Risk Assessment

"The Risk Management of Everything"

Rethinking the Politics of Uncertainty

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Paperback, Weight: 505g.

Author: Power, Michael
ISBN: 1841801275
Publisher: Demos
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Risk Assessment

"Evaluation of Fire Safety"

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Newsworthy disasters, such as fires and explosions in buildings housing hazardous materials, have focused attention as never before on methods of evaluating and controlling hazards. In the first coherent treatment of the subject, this title details the application of hazard and risk analysis to fire safety. With illustrations. Hardback, 496 pages. Size: 255 x 182 mm. Weight: 1072g.

Author: Rasbash, D.J. Ramachandran, G. Kandola, Baldev Watts, John M. Law, Margaret
ISBN: 0471493821
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Risk Assessment

"Risk Assessment in People With Learning Disabilities"

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This work arose out of the author's awareness that there was little material relating to the assessment of risks for people with learning disabilities. It aims to provide a readily understood explanation of the concept of risk. With 0. Paperback, 176 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 271g.

Author: Sellars, Carol
ISBN: 0631235477
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Date: 2002 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Risk Assessment

"Risk-Based Reliability Analysis"

And Generic Principles for Risk Reduction

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Offers a shift in the existing paradigm for conducting reliability analyses. This book covers risk-based reliability analysis and generic principles for reducing risk. It provides a measure of risk based on the distribution of the potential losses from failure as well as the basic principles for risk-based design. With illustrations. Hardback, 400 pages. Size: 240 x 165 mm. Weight: 788g.

Author: Todinov, Michael
ISBN: 0080447287
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Risk Assessment

"The Project Manager's Guide to Handling Risk"

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The author introduces the nature of risk and the basis of risk analysis; explores how and where different patterns of risk emerge within the life of a project; and explains the variety of tools and techniques for risk analysis and management and shows how to use them. With index. Hardback, 160 pages. Size: 244 x 250 mm. Weight: 517g.

Author: Webb, Alan
ISBN: 0566085712
Publisher: Gower Publishing Ltd
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Risk Assessment

"Nato, Security and Risk Management"

Paradoxes and Possibilities

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"Contemporary Security Studies" series; Explores the crisis in transatlantic relations and analyses the role of NATO following the collapse of the Soviet Union. This book offers a theory of cooperation in the security paradigm to explain the state of transatlantic relations and NATO's failure to adequately transform itself into a security institution for the 21st century. With 4 black & white illustrations. Hardback, 160 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 392g.

Author: Williams, Michael J.
ISBN: 0415452163
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Risk Assessment

"Representation"

Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices

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"Culture, Media and Identities Series" series; This text outlines how visual images, language and discourse work as systems of representation. It analyzes questions of meaning, truth, knowledge and power in representation, and the relations between representation, pleasure and fantasy. With illustrations (some colour) facsimiles, portraits. Paperback, 408 pages. Size: 246 x 189 mm. Weight: 986g.

Author: (Hall, Stuart, ed.)
ISBN: 0761954325
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Date: 1997 (United States)
Readership: Tertiary Education (Us: College) Semiology

"The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies"

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In this collection of essays, Roland Barthes examines the mundane and exposes hidden texts, causing the reader to look afresh at the famous landmark and symbol of Paris, and also at the Tour de France, the flooding of the Seine - and other shared events and aspects of everyday experience. Paperback, 152 pages. Size: 210 x 140 mm. Weight: 220g.

Author: Barthes, Roland
ISBN: 0520209826
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Date: 1997 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Semiology

"Elements of Semiology"

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999/1300 Paperback, Size: 203 x 133 mm. Weight: 106g.

Author: Barthes, Roland
ISBN: 0374521468
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Date: 1997 (UK)
Readership: Undergraduate Semiology

"Coding and Redundancy"

Man-Made and Animal-Evolved Signals

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Explores the strikingly similar ways in which information is encoded in nonverbal man-made signals and animal-evolved signals. This book also considers some coding principles for reducing certain unwanted redundancies and explains how desirable redundancies enhance communication reliability. With 25 line illustrations, 14 tables. Hardback, 222 pages. Size: 235 x 159 mm. Weight: 562g.

Author: Hailman, Jack P.
ISBN: 0674027957
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date: 2008 (United States)
Readership: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Semiology

"Human Communication Theory and Research"

Concepts, Context and Challenges

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"Lea's Communication (Hardcover)" series; This work covers such topics as: the anatomy of the communication process; language, meaning and messages; information and uncertainty - concepts and contexts; persuasion - concepts and contexts; and interpersonal communication - relationships, expectations and conflict. With illustrations. 2 rev ed. Hardback, 464 pages. Weight: 894g.

Author: Heath, Robert L. Bryant, Jennings
ISBN: 0805830073
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc
Date: 2000 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Semiology

"The Rhetoric of Social Intervention"

An Introduction

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Discusses the rhetorical model of social invention [RSI] for students and scholars. This model provides students with a systemic framework for interpreting, analyzing, and critiquing social and cultural change from a rhetorical perspective. With illustrations. Paperback, 280 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 378g.

Author: Opt, Susan K. Gring, Mark
ISBN: 1412956900
Publisher: Sage Publications Inc
Date: 2008 (United States)
Readership: Tertiary Education (Us: College) Semiology

"Rhetorical Argumentation"

Principles of Theory and Practice

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Approaches argumentation from a rhetorical point of view and demonstrates how logical and dialectical considerations depend on the rhetorical features of the argumentative situation. This book identifies how argumentation as a communicative practice can best be understood by its rhetorical features. Paperback, 224 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 312g.

Author: Tindale, Christopher W. (Trent University, Canada)
ISBN: 1412904005
Publisher: Sage Publications Inc
Date: 2004 (United States)
Readership: Tertiary Education (Us: College) Semiology

"Undoing Aesthetics"

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"Published in Association With Theory, Culture & Society" series; Inkpin, Andrew (trans.) In this work by the author of Aesthetic Thinking the differing aesthetic codes of advertising, architecture, the Internet and everyday images are used as examples of the disorientation which a multiplicity of codes creates. Paperback, 224 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 386g.

Author: Welsch, Wolfgang
ISBN: 0761955941
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Date: 1997 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Semiology