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Agents Bookstore Find Local Agents combed the Internet for the widest selection of books for your insurance business before we partnered with Powells Books, Inc. to bring you this wide array  of insurance books.  From risk management to insurance  marketing and management to license exam manuals, these books are provided for you, the agent, broker, insurance company executive, financial advisor.       Trade Paper Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L Bernstein Publisher Comments Scientific and mathematical pioneers employed bold thinking to embark on a remarkable adventure of intellectual discovery. Bernstein, an economic consultant, describes in "Against the Gods" how the rational process of risk taking propelled the process of... read more about this title check for other copies Trade Paper Passtrak Property and Casualty Insurance License Exam Manual by Passtrak Synopsis This textbook helps students master important definitions and concepts in preparation for state insurance licensing exam. Includes study hints, review questions, and a comprehensive glossary.... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover Pricing the Priceless: A Health Care Conundrum by Joseph P Newhouse Publisher Comments The health care industry differs from most other industries in that medical pricing is primarily administered by the government and private insurers and in that it uses several types of contracts. Providers may receive a fixed sum for all necessary... read more about this title check for other copies Trade Paper Pooling Health Insurance Risks by Mark Pauly Synopsis Pauly (health care systems, Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania) and Herring (Ph.D. candidate at the Wharton School) investigate the extent of risk pooling in private health insurance markets in the United States. The primary focus of the study is the... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover Pension Planning: Pension, Profit-Sharing, and Other Deferred Compensation Plans by Everett T Allen Synopsis This book can be used in continuing education courses and schools with strong insurance programs and/or human resource management programs which offer an upper-level elective on pension planning. Due to its strengths, this text has been used by the... read more about this title check for other copies Trade Paper Universal Life Insurance by Dearborn Synopsis Provides a comprehensive introduction to universal life products, including variable universal life and equity-indexed universal life.... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover   Operational Risk: The New Challenge for Banks by Gerri Van Den Brink Publisher Comments Operational risk is one of the oldest risks in the banking sector, and yet regulatory bodies including the Basle Committee are still working on a regulatory framework. Damage control measures introduced by banks have often proved ineffective. The... read more about this title check for other copies Trade Paper Hippa Compliance Solutions by Steve Bass Publisher Comments Based on Microsoft BizTalk™ Server 2000 plus technology from WPC, this standards-based solution for electronic data interchange helps reduce HIPAA compliance costs by accelerating transactions and eliminating paper-shuffling among providers, plans... read more about this title check for other copies Trade Paper   Rate Regulation of Workers' Compensation Insurance by Patricia Munch Danzon Synopsis In the 1980s and early 1990s, America's system of workers' compensation insurance was in trouble. Costs grew rapidly because of escalating medical costs, the increased involvement of attorneys in claims disputes, growing residual markets, and the... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover The Art of Risk Management: Alternative Risk Transfer, Capital Structure, and the Convergence of Insurance and Capital Markets by Christopher L Culp Publisher Comments Learn about today’s hottest new risk management tools One of the hottest areas of finance today, alternative risk transfer, or ART, refers to the use of various insurance products to manage market, credit, operational, legal, environmental, and other... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover Loss Reserving: An Actuarial Perspective by G. C. Taylor Book News Annotation All property and casualty insurers are required to carry out loss reserving as a statutory accounting function. Divided into two parts, this graduate level textbook covers both the conventional techniques widely used in practiceparticularly chain... read more about this title check for other copies Trade Paper Financial Risk in Insurance by Guiseppe Ottaviani Synopsis Financial Risk in Insurance is aimed at encouraging research on the theoretical bases of actuarial sciences, its interaction with finance and corporate finance, together with mathematical methods such as probability and stochastic processes. The book is... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover Risk Management by Emmett J. Vaughan Publisher Comments This book reflects the trend in industry toward an increased focus on risk management in insurance. Combining both the theoretical and practical, it explores what today's risk managers need to know.... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover The Financing of Catastrophe Risk by Kenneth Froot Publisher Comments Is it possible that the insurance and reinsurance industries cannot handle a major catastrophe? Ten years ago, the notion that the overall cost of a single catastrophic event might exceed $10 billion was unthinkable. With ever increasing property... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover Insurance Regulation in the United States: An Overview for Business and Government by Peter M. Lencsis Synopsis A unique, objective description of the insurance regulatory system in the United States.... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover Fundamentals of Risk & Insurance by Emmett J. Vaughan Publisher Comments Retaining the purpose, organization and approach of its successful predecessors, this consumer-oriented update summarizes the pervasive nature of pure risk on the individual and society, illustrating the way in which insurance can be used to deal with... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover   Risk Management & Insurance by James Trieschmann Synopsis This proven market-leader provides a thorough, current introduction to risk management and insurance, stream-lined in this edition without loss of coverage. It assists the reader in identifying, analyzing, and managing risk through insurance and... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover Alternatives to Social Security: An International Inquiry by James Midgley Synopsis An essential collection of alternative approaches to social security.... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover Life Insurance: A Financial Planning Approach by Mark Dorfman Publisher Comments This edition includes enhanced computer exhibits and improved practice cases for Chapter 15 on life insurance planning for the early adult years, Chapter 16 on pre-retirement financial planning and Chapter 17 on estate planning. The heart of the text... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover The Theory of Demand for Health Insurance by John A. Nyman Book News Annotation Intended for an audience of professional health economists, this work presents a unified theory of consumer demand for health insurance that posits that the consumer demands insurance in order to obtain a transfer of income from the healthy in case... read more about this title check for other copies Trade Paper Life Insurance Today by Dearborn Synopsis Describes the design and application of each of the major types of life insurance policies currently on the market today: term life, whole life, universal life, variable life, and variable universal life.... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover Directors' and Officers' Liability Insurance: A Guide to International Practice by Ian Youngman Synopsis Directors' and Officers' Liability Insurance scrutinizes new legal developments and case law, new insurers and challenges in ownership, and new types of policy and marketing methods. Each chapter is constructed as a separate module for ease of use and... read more about this title check for other copies Trade Paper Introduction to Life Underwriting by Dearborn Financial Institute Book News Annotation New edition of a textbook for a basic training course in the life insurance industry. Covers how life insurance works, how insurance is sold today, life insurance as a source of income, types of life insurance products, the life insurance premium... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover Automobile Insurance: Road Safety, New Drivers, Risks, Insurance Fraud and Regulation by Georges Dionne Synopsis This book is for people concerned about road crashes (prevention and compensation) and about the insurance problems they pose -- namely private and public institutional authorities, consultants, administrators, practitioners, and researchers interested... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover Paying the Price: The Status and Role of Insurance Against Natural Disasters in the United States by Howard Kunreuther Publisher Comments This book considers the effectiveness of insurance coverage for low-probability, high-consequence events such as natural disasters -- and how insurance programs can successfully be used with other policy tools, such as building codes and standards, to... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover Changes in the Life Insurance Industry: Efficiency, Technology, and Risk Management by J. David Cummins Book News Annotation Ten chapters explore the determinants of firm performance in the life insurance industry by identifying the best practices employed by leading insurers to succeed in the changing business environment. Particular attention is devoted to strategic... read more about this title check for other copies Trade Paper Deregulating Property Liability Insurance: Restoring Competition and Increasing Market Efficiency by J. David Cummins Synopsis In light of recent sweeping financial modernization legislation in airline, trucking, railroad, telecommunications, and banking sectors of the insurance industry, this timely volume examines the basis for continued regulation of rates and forms of the U... read more about this title check for other copies Trade Paper Market Conduct for Life Insurance Agents by Dearborn Financial Publishing Synopsis Clarifying the day-to-day roles, responsibilities and ethical standards for insurance agents, this guide outlines sound business sales practices and compliance with market conduct standards.... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover International Risk and Insurance: An Environmental-Management Approach by Harold D., Jr. Skipper Publisher Comments This text can be used in International Insurance courses, in topical seminars, and as a supplement to Principles of Insurance/Risk Management or Risk Management texts where the instructor wants a more global emphasis. It will also draw interest in the... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover Actuarial Models for Disability Insurance by Steven Haberman Book News Annotation Deals with the actuarial structure of disability insurance, long-term care insurance, and critical illness coverage in the developed countries. The material examines the actuarial problems in the design and development of a range of insurances. The... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover Fundamentals of Risk and Insurance by Emmett J. Vaughan Synopsis This classic, comprehensive book is divided into three sections. The first section examines the concept of risk, the nature of the insurance device, and the principles of risk management. This section also provides an overview of the insurance industry... read more about this title check for other copies Trade Paper Variable Universal Life by Dearborn Financial Institute Synopsis For insurance and securities salespeople who need to explain this popular but complex insurance/investment vehicle, this brand new guide and professional reference outlines all the considerations in detail.... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover Risk Management & Insurance by S. Travis Pritchett Synopsis This consumer-oriented text focuses on the policy holder as opposed to the insurer. "Consumer Applications" and expanded "Risk Management Case Problems" provide opportunities for students to apply what they have learned. New coverage in this edition... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover The Fair Value of Insurance Business by Irwin T. Vanderhoof Book News Annotation Academics, consulting actuaries, and corporate executives discuss the fair value reporting rule as it applies to insurance companies and consider its implications for other financial institutions. The seven papers included here discuss the... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover Sharing the Burden: Strategies for Public and Private Long-Term Care Insurance by Joshua M. Weiner Synopsis The United States is engaged in a critically important and contentious debate on how to overhaul the way it delivers and pays for long-term care. The authors of this book examine a wide range of financing approaches to reforming long-term care and the... read more about this title check for other copies Other Theory & Practice of Insurance by J. Francois Outreville Book News Annotation A textbook for a graduate or advanced undergraduate course for students of business or management. Describes the significance of insurance institutions, the reasons they exist, and how they function. Emphasizes fundamentals that can be applied to any... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover Life & Health Insurance by Kenneth Black Publisher Comments This current, accurate and detailed industry guide for financial service professionals examines life and health insurance "simultaneously from the viewpoints of the buyer, the advisor, and the insurer"--providing a comprehensive and unbiased treatise on... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover Insurance: From Underwriting to Derivatives: Asset Liability Management in Insurance Companies by Eric Briys Synopsis This important publication, by two premier financial experts, explores the unique convergence of finance and insurance. Insurance is now regarded as an emerging asset class, with insurance risks being priced and traded on the markets. Addressing the... read more about this title check for other copies Hardcover Maximizing Performance in Insurance Operations by Julia Prichard Publisher Comments Examine potential issues in the insurance industry with Maximising Performance in Insurance Operations. Explore the critical management tools required to secure successful change and the delivery of substantial results. Each chapter is supported with... read more about this title check for other copies Trade Paper Long-Term Care by Jason G. Goetze Synopsis As the U.S. population ages, interest in long term care continues to grow. Insurance and financial professionals are introduced to the issues, problems and solutions of long term care including Medicare, Medicare supplement insurance, Medicaid, long term... read more about this title check for other copies

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