Welcome to the IRM’s book review section. This page contains links to a collection of reviews that have appeared in InfoRM magazine since January 2006 (with a selected few from earlier editions) or Risk Management Professional magazine. The most recent reviews will appear at the top of the page. Price and other details were correct at the time of the review. The dates are when the publication was reviewed.

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Managing Risk in Projects

David Hillson (September 2009)

Fraud Casebook: Lessons from the Bad Side of Business

Joseph T. Wells (November 2008)

Tools for Complex Projects

Kaye Remington and Julien Pollack (November 2008)

Practical Project Risk Management - the ATOM Methodology

David Hillson and Peter Simon (November 2008)

Mergers: Leadership, Performance & Corporate Health

David Fubini, Colin Price and Maurizio Zollo (March 2008)

Countering Terrorist Finance: A Training Handbook for Financial Services

Tim Parkman and Gill Peeling (March 2008)

Risk & Crisis Management in the Public Sector

Lynn Drennan and Allan McConnell (March 2008)

Safety Quality Tricks and Lies

Steve Martin (November 2007)

Tolley's Handbook of Disaster and Emergency Management, 3rd Edition

Tony Moore and Raj Lakha, editors (November 2007)

Risks and Decisions for Conservation and Environmental Management

Mark Burgman (January 2007)

Understanding and Managing Risk Attitude

David Hillson and Ruth Murray-Webster (January 2007)

Barriers and Accident Prevention

Erik Hollnagel (November 2006)

Proactive Risk Management in a Dynamic Society

Jens Rasmussen and Inge Svedung (November 2006)

Risk and Society

David Denney (July 2006)

Auditing the Risk Management Process

KH Spener Pickett (July 2006)

Risk Management in Post Trust Societies

Ragner Lofstedt (May 2006)

Patient Safety

Charles Vincent (May 2006)

The New Western Way of War

Martin Shaw (May 2006)

Mumpsimus Revisited

Felix Kloman (Jan 2006)

Risk Management and Innovation in Japan, Britain and the United States

Edited by Professor Ruth Taplin (Jan 2006)

Resilience Engineering Concepts and Precepts

Edited by Erik Hollnagel, David Woods & Nancy Leveson

Business Continuity Management, a Crisis Management Approach
Dominic Elliott, Ethne Swartz and Brahim Herbane

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