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Hedging Demystified is an essential guide to any business that deals with commodities, debt, international trade, or weather. This primer on hedging brings clarity and direction to make your business more sustainable.

A journalist recounts the surprising history of accidents and reveals how they’ve come to define all that’s wrong with America. We hear it all the time: “Sorry, it was just an accident.” And we’ve been deeply conditioned to just accept that explanation and move on. But as Jessie Singer...

Cyber risk management is one of the most urgent issues facing enterprises today. This book presents a detailed framework for designing, developing, and implementing a cyber risk management program that addresses your company's specific needs. Ideal for corporate directors, senior executives, security risk practitioners, and auditors at many levels, this guide offers both the strategic insight and tactical guidance you're looking for.

Authored by a medical expert with vast experience in social security disability adjudication and who served as medical director for a major private disability insurance carrier, this audiobook explains the most effective way to document the strongest medical case possible. It’ll also help you sidestep common pitfalls. This book is also valuable to attorneys, doctors, educators, physicians who provide disability evaluations and court testimony, insurance and government administrators, financial planners, disability advocates, and case managers.

Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development.

No incidents. No injuries. Everything looks fine until it isn’t. We often ask, “What caused the accident?” But what if we asked: “What was happening before it went wrong?” This book is built around a simple idea: the seeds of failure are often planted in success. It follows John, a senior Safety Director navigating the complex, and all-too-real journey of implementing Learning from Normal Work in a large organization. This isn’t a textbook.

In Zero Trust and Third-Party Risk, veteran cybersecurity leader Gregory Rasner delivers an accessible and authoritative walkthrough of the fundamentals and finer points of the zero trust philosophy and its application to the mitigation of third-party cyber risk. In this book, you'll explore how to build a zero trust program and nurture it to maturity. You will also learn how and why zero trust is so effective in reducing third-party cybersecurity risk.

In How I Rob Banks: And Other Such Places, renowned ethical hacker FC delivers a gripping and often hilarious discussion of his work: testing the limits of physical bank security by trying to "steal" money, data, and anything else he can get his hands on. In the book, you'll explore the secretive world of physical assessments and follow FC as he breaks into banks and secure government locations to identify security flaws and loopholes.

The instant NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER #1 PERSONAL FINANCE EXPERT Revised & updated for 2025 THE PATH TO YOUR ULTIMATE RETIREMENT STARTS RIGHT HERE! Retirement today is more complex than ever before. It is most...

The story of a search for a new art of living. How can one escape from work colleagues who are bores and from organisations that thrive on stress? What new priorities can people give to their private lives? When the romantic ideal is disappointing, how else can affections be cultivated? If only...

A legendary CEO tells the inside story of building the world's largest insurance company - and the dramatic tale of its near-destruction after he left in early 2005, as successors transformed AIG and drove it to the center of the financial crisis of 2008. 

This book details all business income and time element coverages from beginning to end. It includes in-depth analysis of the purpose of business income, how to complete the business income worksheet, the factors that affect the "period of restoration," how to calculate the proper coinsurance percentage, options to coinsurance, and how to develop the proper coverage limit. Also included are detailed instructions for completing the business income application.

One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr Makary, one of the nation's leading health care experts, travels across America and details why health care has become a bubble. Drawing from on-the-ground stories, his research and his own experience, The Price We Pay paints a vivid picture of price-gouging, middlemen and a series of elusive money games in need of a serious shake-up.

Wish you had the super power of persuasion or manipulation that can allow you to get people to do exactly what you want? Wish you had the ability to convince, manipulate, persuade, and influence people to think, speak, and act like you want them to? Imagine being able to manipulate people into doing good or acting in the larger interest of mankind? Fortunately, being able to persuade or manipulate people is not an inborn skill. It can be developed with practice and consistent application. Though it has negative connotations, manipulation can also be leveraged in a positive manner.

The traditional car dealership is dying—but innovative F&I approaches are creating record profits for those willing to evolve. Today's car buyers want a 45-minute in-store process, transparent pricing, and digital options—and they'll go elsewhere if you can't deliver. In The Future of Automotive Finance & Insurance, industry veteran Joel Kansanback reveals how forward-thinking dealerships are meeting these demands while significantly increasing their F&I profits.

A bold new remedy for the sprawling and wasteful health care industry. In this provocative book, Jonathan Bush, cofounder and CEO of athenahealth, calls for a revolution in health care to give customers more choices, freedom, power, and information, and at far lower prices.

America's elite have been using cash value life insurance to stockpile wealth for centuries. Used correctly, it is better described as a personal bank on steroids, and a financial bunker for tough times. To be clear, this audiobook is not about the typical garbage peddled by most insurance agents. Rather, an alternative to the risky investment strategies taught by Wall Street. It details a highly efficient form of cash value life insurance designed to supercharge your savings and stockpile wealth.

Six decades ago, visionary doctors achieved the impossible: the humble kidney, acknowledged since ancient times to be as essential to life as the heart, became the first human organ to be successfully replaced with a machine. Yet huge dialysis corporations, ambitious doctor-entrepreneurs, and Beltway lobbyists soon turned this medical miracle into an early experiment in for-profit medicine—and one of the nation's worst healthcare catastrophes. With powerful insight and on-the-ground reporting, Tom Mueller introduces an unforgettable cast of characters.

Insurance is a very unique product. It is the only product you purchase and hope to never use. The best case with insurance is that your rates go up every year, and you never even get to use it. If your agency is not growing premium every single year, odds are you might need to re-examine one or all of these things....

What if you could scale your Property & Casualty Insurance Agency from $3 million to $150 million in just 84 months – WITHOUT cold calling, outrageous franchise fees, or outdated sales tactics? Pete Poggi did EXACTLY that. Now, the founder of John Galt Insurance reveals the specific blueprint that's helped agents like Tyler Nagle (a college dropout) build a $4 million book in 36 months and Zane Lefko go from writing $3,000 per week to a $30 million book of business before turning 30.