{"product_id":"you-bet-your-life-sheila-buff-9780789270177","title":"You Bet Your Life: Your Guide to Deadly Risk","description":"What are your chances of living through the next 24 hours? This week? This month? This decade? Will your job kill you? Your car kill you? Your spouse kill you? Will your own bad habits kill you? Or will a rogue asteroid just kill us all? \u003cp\u003eEach time you lay your head on the pillow at night or set your feet on the floor come morning, you bet your life. Exactly what odds do you face 24\/7?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eYou Bet Your Life\u003c\/em\u003e applies to you, the individual, the analytical approach insurance companies use to calculate risk: actuarial science. The result is a comprehensive, encyclopedic, real world assessment of more than 1,000 of the risks we take every day of our all-too-finite lives, from boarding an airplane to tempting a shark attack by dipping a toe in the ocean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eYou Bet Your Life\u003c\/em\u003e is introduced by an authoritative essay explaining how professional actuaries calculate risk and how less objective entities--in government, finance, science, technology, and religion--apply their own competing calculi of risk and reward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sheila Buff, Joe Buff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 078927017X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780789270177\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Half Full Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/19\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.60w x 2.20d","brand":"Sheila Buff","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44043439505663,"sku":"9780789270177","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d9e4d03c-8f07-46af-895c-4863b9c2a1b1.jpg?v=1684967160","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/you-bet-your-life-sheila-buff-9780789270177","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}