by Rick Dalrymple ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 22, 2013
A debut guidebook for corporate decision-makers seeking to increase the efficiency of their workers’ compensation programs.
Using a comprehensive approach, the author, an insurance professional, looks at how executives can cut their insurance costs by addressing a wide range of factors, including risk factor calculations and employee relationships. The book offers a blend of overviews, examples and case studies to reinforce the author’s money-saving advice. He repeatedly encourages executives to account for indirect costs—such as lower productivity, administrative expenses and employee training—that often dwarf a company’s total insurance and settlement payments. To reduce costs at all levels, the author recommends that companies focus on four key moments: before hiring a new employee, after making an offer of employment, before problems arise and after the employee files a workers’ compensation claim. The book encourages companies to hire ethical employees and provide them with the training they need to do their jobs safely and to reduce expensive processing errors by maintaining active relationships with insurance providers and ensuring that all information is accurate and current. The author also includes other industry professionals’ perspectives from article reprints and original interviews. Although the book provides apparently solid information, it sometimes feels like a sales pitch, as it contains frequent references to metrics and services provided by the author’s company and an offer, displayed prominently on the cover, of a free consultation with purchase. Readers also have to accept certain style quirks—particularly the use of unnecessary quotation marks (“if you have gone through a ‘risk survey’ ”; “to the best of ‘his’ knowledge”; “using a ‘best guess’ ”). Overall, however, the book conveys a large amount of information in a compact text, and professionals will likely find it useful. A solid overview of techniques that can help companies save money on workers’ compensation and related expenses.
Pub Date: Oct. 22, 2013
ISBN: 978-0989015004
Page Count: 256
Publisher: Opportunity Press
Review Posted Online: July 7, 2013
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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by William Strunk & E.B. White ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 15, 1972
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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by E.T.A. Hoffmann ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 28, 1996
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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