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The gritty and granular truth behind the wagers we make with our lives every single day - and, if we're unlucky, just once in a lifetime. 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? Each 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? You Bet Your Life 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. You Bet Your Life 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. AUTHORS: Sheila Buff has written or developed eight national best sellers. She is an honors graduate of Washington Square College at New York University. Her husband and coauthor, Joe Buff holds a master's in mathematics from MIT and is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA). After a long Wall Street career, he became a best-selling novelist. SELLING POINTS: . Indulge your morbid curiosity: More than one thousand types of lethal risk described and quantified, with tips on how to protect yourself. From cancer and car accidents to shark attacks and asteroid strikes . A thought-provoking introduction explores the nature of risk: How do professional actuaries calculate it? How do practitioners in various fields, such as soldiers, doctors, and first responders, decide an acceptable level of risk? . Written with dry humour by a duo of seasoned authors, one of whom is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries . Combines the novelty and browsability of a Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook with the surprising insights of a Freakonomics

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As serious as cancer yet laugh-out-loud funny in places, You Bet Your Life is a complete compendium of the many ways we can die. This outstanding book helps you assess the risks of daily living and make the best choices.--Dr. Rob Silverman, Westchester Integrated Health Informative and full of surprising facts and figures, You Bet Your Life explains your odds of death from all the usual causes--and plenty of unusual ones as well. The revealing discussions and health and safety tips could save your life!--Steve Amoils, M.D. and Sandi Amoils, M.D., medical directors, AIM for Wellbeing Want to live longer? Would you like to know how much risk you face in simply working, playing, traveling, going to school, and growing older? . . . As an easily understandable guide for navigating life's hazards, one can do no better.--Rick Severinghaus, CEO, CRTN Solutions and member, Editorial Review Board, The Submarine Review, the quarterly journal of the Naval Submarine League

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Sheila Buff is the author of numerous books on consumer-oriented health and medicine, including national and Amazon bestsellers. Her husband and co-author, Joe Buff, holds an MS in mathematics from MIT and, an expert on risk, has been a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA) since 1980. After a long Wall Street career and engagement as a partner in a Top 10 global management consulting firm, he created the bestselling USS Challenger future submarine warfare fiction series. Joe and Sheila live in the rural town of Milan in New York State’s beautiful mid-Hudson Valley with their dog Daphne.

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