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Recent additions to the list

Books added 16 February

Books added in 2011

Recent Additions (added 24 May 2012)
TITLE AUTHOR(S) PUBLISHER PAGES ISBN Condition
Economics (5th ed) Stanley Fischer & Rudiger Dornbusch McGraw-Hill, 1997 634 0077094123 Very good. Library markings.
Economics Workbook (5th ed) Peter Smith & David Begg McGraw-Hill, 1997 304 0077094131 Very good. Library markings.
The Essential Pensions Trustee Guide Colin Burgess Gee Pub, 1994 269 0852589808 Like new
The Equitable Guide to Saving for Your Retirement Eric Short Bloomsbury, 1992 217 0747511349 Good. Library markings. Spine creased.
The Interactive Project Workout (2nd ed.) Robert Buttrick Financial Times, 2000 464 027364436x New
Life Insurance, Annuities and Pensions: A Canadian text (2nd ed) Arthur Pedoe Univ of Toronto Press, 1970 489   Very good. No dust jacket.
Loss Distributions Robert Hogg & Stuart Klugman John Wiley, 1984 235 0471879290 Like new. Library stamp on title page.
Mathematical Methods in Risk Theory Hans Buhlmann Springer-Verlag, 1970 210   Good.  Some ink & pencil marks.  Dust jacket worn.
Mathematical Models for the Growth of Human Populations J H Pollard Cambridge Univ Press, 1973 186 052120111x Very good clean copy. Library markings inside front cover. Dust jacket worn.
Migration and Economic Growth: a study of Great Britain and the atlantic economy Brinley Thomas Cambridge Univ Press, 1954 362   Very good clean copy. Library markings inside front cover. Dust jacket worn.
The Motley Fool UK Investment Guide David Berger Boxtree, 2000 335 0752219014 Like new
Pitman's Dictionary of Commercial Correspondence in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian (New ed)   Sir Isaac Pitman & sons, [1917?] 718   Good. Foxing.  Binding tight. Library marking inside front cover.
Post Index 2000: UK General Insurance Market Analysis (1st ed)   Timothy Benn Pub, 2000 367   Very good. Bottom of spine torn.
Post Index 2001: UK General Insurance Market Analysis (2nd ed) (2 copies)   Timothy Benn Pub, 2001 366   Very good.
Practical Experiences with Modelling and Forecasting Time Series Gwilym M Jenkins Gwilym Jenkins & Partners, 1979 146 0950642304 Very good
The Principles and Methods of Taxation G Armitage-Smith John Murray, 1906   195   Good. Foxing throughout. Binding tight. Library marking inside front cover. No dust jacket.
The Royal Exchange Assurance: a history of British insurance 1720-1970 Barry Supple Cambridge Univ Press, 1970 584 0521072395 Very good clean copy. Signature inside front cover. Dust jacket with some markings.
Books added 16 February 2012
TITLE AUTHOR(S) PUBLISHER PAGES ISBN  
1989 Centennial celebration proceedings of the actuarial profession in North America, June 12-14, 1989, Washington DC.  Volume 1  

Society of Actuaries, 1990

 

093895914x

 

1989 Centennial celebration proceedings of the actuarial profession in North America, June 12-14, 1989, Washington DC.  Volume 2  

Society of Actuaries, 1990

 

093895914x

 

2nd AFIR International Colloquium, Brighton, April 17th-20th 1991 (2 copies available)

 

Actuarial Approach for Financial Risks (AFIR), 1991

     

Actuarial investigations

Luffrum, Graham G

Institute of Actuaries, 1992

264

 

 

Actuarial approaches to financial management: Proceedings of a one-day seminar at Great Western Royal Hotel, Paddington, 16 November 1993 (4 copies available) 

 

Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, 1994

278

0901066435

 

Annals 1834-1934

 

Royal Statistical Society, 1934

 

 

 

Britain and the world economy 1919-1970

Williams, L J

London, 1971

 

 

 

British economic growth 1688-1959: Trends and structure, 2nd edition

Deane, P & Cole, W A

Cambridge University Press, 1967

350    

British economic statistics: A report

Carter, C F

Cambridge Univ. Press, 1954

188    

British national finance

Root, J W

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1909

203    

Centenary assembly 1948: An informal record (2 copies available)

 

Institute of Actuaries, 1948

48    

Centenary Year, 1864 - 1964: Pearl Assurance Company Limited

 

George Pulman & Sons, 1964

     

Choice and chance: an elementary treatise on permutations, combinations, and probability, with 300 exercises (3rd edition)

Whitworth, William Allen

Deighton Bell, 1878

244    Binding loose

The conditions of economic progress, 3rd edition

Clark, Colin G

Macmillan & Co, 1957

720    

Cycles of unemployment in the USA 1903-1922

Berridge, W A

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923

87    

Debrett's correct form

Montague-Smith, Patrick

Headline, 1992

423

0747239266

 

A dictionary of modern English usage, 2nd edition

Fowler, H W

Oxford University Press, 1965

725

0198691157

 

A dictionary of modern English usage, 2nd edition

Fowler, H W

Oxford University Press, 1965, 1991 reprint

725

0198691157

 

The economic background to investment

Rose, H B

Cambridge University Press, 1960

 

 

 

The Equitable guide to saving for your retirement

Short, Eric

Bloomsbury Publishing, 1992

217

0747511349

 

Facile princeps: The story of the beginnings of life insurance in America

Mackie, Alexander

Presbyterian Ministers' Fund, 1956

292

 

 

General Insurance Convention 2004, 31st, Killarney Convention

 

General Insurance Study Group

354

1903965101

 

General Insurance Convention 2005, 32nd, Blackpool Convention (5 copies)

 

General Insurance Study Group

354

190396511x

 

General Insurance Convention 2007, 34th, Celtic Manor Convention

 

General Insurance Study Group

419

1903965136

 

General Insurance Convention 2008, 35th, Hilton Sorrento Palace, Italy

 

General Insurance Study Group

419

1903965152

 

Heredity

Watson, JAS

Dodge Publishing, [1911?]

 

 

 

How old age pensions came to be

Stead, Francis Herbert

Methuen, [1909]

328

 

 Binding loose

IBNR: the prize-winning papers in the Boleslaw Monic Fund competition held in 1971

Boleslaw Monic Fund

Nederlandse Reassurantie Group NV (NRG), 1972

132    

Insurance directory 2006: [The Post Magazine green book]

 

Incisive Media, 2006

  0900414839  

Insurance Company Performance 2001: a statistical summary of the top 250 UK insurance groups (part I)

Centre for Risk and Insurance Studies

Standard & Poor’s Thesys, [2001]

187    

Insurance Company Performance 2001: a statistical summary of the top 250 UK insurance groups (part II)

Centre for Risk and Insurance Studies

Standard & Poor’s Thesys, [2001]

222    

Insurance Company Performance 2002: a statistical summary of the top 250 UK insurance groups (part I)

Centre for Risk and Insurance Studies

Standard & Poor’s Thesys, [2002]

197    

Insurance Company Performance 2001: a statistical summary of the top 250 UK insurance groups (part II)

Centre for Risk and Insurance Studies

Standard & Poor’s Thesys, [2002]

166    

Insurance Statistics Year Book, 1986-1996

 

Association of British Insurers, 1997

94    

The Institute of Actuaries 1848-1948. An account of the Institute of Actuaries during its first one hundred years

Simmonds, Reginald C

Cambridge University Press, 1948

318    

Introduction to economic history 1750-1950

Cole, G D H

Macmillan & Co, 1953

     

The Labouring classes in early industrial England, 1750-1850

Rule, John

Longman, 1986

408

058249172X

 

London and Lancashire history: The history of the London and Lancashire insurance company limited

Francis, E V

Newman Neame, 1962

171    

The London Assurance: A second chronicle, Revised edition

Drew, Bernard

Curwen Press, 1949

334    

Memoirs of Sir Michael Ogden, QC: Variety is the spice of legal life

Ogden, Michael

Book Guild, 2002

225 1857766083  

The mortality experience of industrial policyholders (1916-1920)

 

Colonial Life Insurance Co., New York, 1923

150    

National income statistics: Sources and methods

Central Statistical Office

HMSO, 1956

387    

Number words and number symbols: A cultural history of numbers

Menninger, Karl

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969

480 0262130400  

Official UK: the essential guide to Government websites

Jellinek, Dan

The Stationery Office, 1998

279 0113121814  

On forty years' industrial changes in England and Wales

Welton, Thomas A

1898

     

Our centenary. Being the history of the first hundred years of the Clerical, Medical and General Life Assurance Society

Besant, Arthur Digby

Clerical, Medical and General Life Assurance Society, 1924

342    

Pitman's dictionary of commercial correspondence in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian

 

Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, [1917?], New Edition

718    

Rapid statistical calculations (2nd edition)

Quenouille, MH

Charles Griffin, 1972

37

0852642148

 

The repayment of local and other loans: Sinking funds

Turner, Edward H

Manchester University Press, 1913

536    

A sense of security: 150 years of Prudential

Dennett, Laurie

Granta Editions, 1998

438

185757060X

 

Statistics for economists

Allen, Roy G D

Hutchinson's University Library, 1949, 1951

     

A survey of public attitudes towards and ownership of life insurance in Norway, 1949

 

Norwegian Life Insurance Companies, Statistical Bureau, 1950

22    

Tables of compound interest and annuities proceeding by intervals of one-sixteenth per cent. From 1 to 120 years or periods, and carried to 9 decimal places. 48 rates from 1/16 to 3 per cent, with miscellaneous tables appended

McKie, D

Edinburgh, 1903, 1911

     

The Times Atlas of the World (family ed)

 

Times Books, 1992

156 0723004900  

Transactions: 24th International Congress of Actuaries, volume 1

 

 

     

Transactions: 24th International Congress of Actuaries, volume 2

         

Transactions: 24th International Congress of Actuaries, volume 3

         

Transactions: 24th International Congress of Actuaries, volume 4

         

Transactions: 26th International Congress of Actuaries, volume 2

 

 

     

Transactions: 26th International Congress of Actuaries, volume 3

 

 

     

Transactions: 26th International Congress of Actuaries, volume 6

 

 

     

Transactions: 26th International Congress of Actuaries, volume 7

 

 

     

Transactions: 26th International Congress of Actuaries, volume 9

 

 

     

Tudor family portrait

Winchester, Barbara

Jonathan Cape, 1955

330    

UK general insurance market analysis: The Post Index 2000

Post Magazine

Timothy Benn Publishing, 2000

367    

UK General insurance market analysis: The Post Index 2001 (2 copies)

Post Magazine

Timothy Benn Publishing, 2001

368    

The universal history of numbers: From prehistory to the invention of the computer

Ifrah, Georges

 Harvill Press, 1998

633 186046324x  

Vingt-Cinquieme anniversaire de la populaire, 1910 – 29 Decembre – 1935 (text is in French)

 

Acheve D’Imprimer sur les presses de l’impimerie Lahure 28 December 1936

212    

Witherby’s Dictionary of Insurance, 1st edition

Cockerell, Hugh

Witherby, 1980

235

0900886501

 

Whitaker’s Almanac 2007

Whitaker, Joseph

A & C Black, 2006

1,364

0713676590

 

Who’s Who 2007, 159th edition

 

A & C Black, 2007

 

9780713675276

 

World Economic Survey, seventh year 1937/38

Economic Intelligence Service

League of Nations: Geneva, 1938

244

 

 

 

 

 

     
Books listed in 2011
TITLE AUTHOR(S) PUBLISHER PAGES ISBN  
The Actuaries' Club, 1848-1948 GH Recknell Actuaries' Club, 1948 75    
The adjustment of errors in practical science RWM Gibbs Oxford Univ. Press, 1929 112    
Application of Linear Programming to the Theory of the Firm Robert Dorfman University of California Press, 1951 98    
An Approach to Cybernetics Gordon Pask Hutchinson, 1961 128    
Basic Ideas of Scientific Sampling Alan Stuart Charles Griffin & Co., 1962 99    
The British Economy Roy Harrod McGraw-Hill, 1963 240    
Business and economic forecasting: an econometric approach S Clark & Hoguet Richard Irwin, 1961 412    
Business Information Technology T Cleary Financial Times, 1998 326 0273634100  
Compound interest tables, 2% by 1/4% to 6% W.A. Forster Cambridge University Press, 1937 20    
Cybernetics and Management Stafford Beer English Universities Press, 1959 214    
The design and analysis of experiments O Kempthorne Wiley, 1952 631    
The design and analysis of industrial experiments OL Davies Imperial Chemical Industries, 1954 636    
Did Things Get Better? an audit of labour's successes and failures Polly Toynbee & David Walker Penguin, 2001 273 9780141000169  
Discovering modern algebra (in Chinese) KL Gardner Oxford Univ. Press, 1966 316    
Economic statistics and economic problems Nicholson McGraw-Hill, 1969 399    
Economics for Executives Eric Chalmers John Murray, 1971 275    
The economics of welfare policies MS Gordon Columbia Univ. Press, 1963 159    
Effective Interviewing for Employment Selection C.T. Goodworth Business Books, 1979 138 0220670056  
Elementary medical statistics: the principles of quantitative medicine D Mainland Saunders, 1952 327    
Elementary statistical analysis SS Wilks Princeton, 1951 284    
Elements of Linear Programming: with economic applications RC Geary & MD McCarthy Charles Griffin, 1964 126    
Executive Decisions and Operations Research David Miller & Martin Starr Prentice Hall, 1960 446    
Experimental designs WG Cochran & GM Cox Wiley, 1950 454    
Figures of Probablility density functions in statistics II, discrete univariate case.  Computer Science Monographs no. 20. K Hirano et al Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 1984 199    
Financial Aspects and the Valuation of Long Term Business Funds (Life Assurance Monograph) RH Ranson Institute of Actuaries, 1987 168    
The financial services act 1986 A Page & R Ferguson Sweet & Maxwell, 1987 - 0421366907  
Forecasting the UK Economy J.C.K. Ash & D.J. Smyth Saxon House, 1973 267 0347010202  
Formulae and Tables for Actuarial Examinations (1st ed)   Institute of Actuaries, 1980 125 0901066060  
The 40th Civil Service Year Book   Cabinet Office, 2003 744 0114301867  
Frequency arrays HE Soper Cambridge Univ Press, 1922 48    
Fundamentals of Cybernetics A. Ya. Lerner Plenum / Rosetta, 1972 294 030620018x  
A General Introduction to Institutional Investment AJ Frost & DP Hager Institute of Actuaries, 1986 228 0434905828  
Inside the City : a guide to London as a financial centre (2nd ed) William Clarke George Allen & Unwin, 1983 283 0043320910  
International economics G Donnelly Longman, 1987 234 0582296854  
Institute of Actuaries Students' Society.  The first fifty years 1910-1960. An appreciation (2 copies available) F.A.A. menzler Institute of Actuaries Students' Society, 1960 166    
An Introduction to Critical Path Analysis K.G. Lockyer Pitman, 1965 111    
An Introdcution to Cybernetics W. Ross Ashby Chapman, 1956 295    
An introduction to financial economics EL Furness Heinemann, 1972 275 434905968  
Introduction to Life Office Practice: Life Assurance Monograph P.H. Grace [unknown], [1988] 60    
Life tables.  The Registrar General's decennial supplement for England and Wales 1970-72 Office of Population Censuses and Surveys Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1979 20 011690691X  
Linear and Non-Linear Programming in Industry N. Williams Pitman, 1967 182    
Linear Programming and the Theory of the Firm Boulding & Spivey Macmillan, 1960 227    
Manual de Mathematicas Financiero-Actuariales [text is in Spanish] Julio G. Villalon Fernandez Ciudad, 1994 300 846051188X  
Measurement: definitions and theories C. West Churchman & Philburn Ratoosh Chapman, 1959 274    
The measurement of linkage in heredity K Mather Methuen, 1938 132    
Megatrends: ten new directions transforming our lives John Naisbitt Futura Macdonald, 1984 290 0708825087  
Modern Managerial Finance J.R. Franks & J.E. Broyles John Wiley, 1979, 1981 reprint 376 0471275638  
New Labour in Government Steve Ludlam & Martin J. Smith Macmillan, 2001 308 0333761014  
New Labour in Power David Coates & Peter Lawler Manchester University Press, 2000 318 0719054621  
New Labour: the progressive future? Stuart White Palgrave, 2001 234 0333915658  
Occupational Mortality: decennial supplement. 1970-1972, England & Wales Office of Population Censuses and Surveys Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1978 224 0116906448  
Operational Research in Management R.T. Eddison, et al English Universities Press, 1962 330    
Pension Planning (4th ed.) Everett Allen, Joseph Melone & Jerry Rosenbloom Richard Irwin, 1981 473 0256025037  
Planning by Mathematics S. Vajda Pitman, 1969 130    
The PMI Guide to Pensions Maurice Oldfield Heinemann Pub., 1988 198 0434914789  
Population and the family in the low countries, volume 1 HG Moors et al Martinus Nijhoff, 1976 179 9024718597  
Practical Pensions and Related Benefits Ron Spill Croner, 1989 141 1854520334  
Previews and Premises Alvin Toffler Pan Books, 1984 230 0330284215  
Private pension scheme finance  Tutt, Sylvia I M and Tutt, Leslie W G  Stone & Cox, London: 1971  311    
Profit forecasts: how they are made, reviewed and used CA Westwick Gower, 1983 248 0566022079  
Readings in Linear Programming S. Vajda Pitman, 1958 99    
Readings in Mathematical Programming (2nd ed) S. Vajda Pitman, 1962 130    
Reprints from the Course of Readings for the Examinations of the Institute of Actuaries, 1935   Institute of Actuaries Students' Society, 1938 283    
Reprints from the Course of Readings for the Examinations of the Institute of Actuaries, 1937   Institute of Actuaries Students' Society, [1937] 34    
Reprints from the Course of Readings for the Examinations of the Institute of Actuaries, 1938   Institute of Actuaries Students' Society, 1938 262    
Reprints from the Course of Readings for the Examinations of the Institute of Actuaries, 1946   Institute of Actuaries Students' Society, 1946 177    
Reviews of United Kingdom Statistical Sources (volume I).  Personal social services. Voluntary organizations in the personal social service field. B P Davies & G J Murray Heinemann Educational Books, 1974 126 + 54 0435825909  
Reviews of United Kingdom Statistical Sources (volume II).  Central government routine health statistics.  Social Security Statistics. Michael Alderson & Frank Whitehead Heinemann Educational Books, 1974

145 + 112

0435825925  
Reviews of United Kingdom Statistical Sources (volume VI).  Wealth and Personal Incomes A.B. Atkinson & A.J. Harrison Pergamon Press, 1978 142 0080224504  
Sampling Inspection and quality control GB Wetherill Methuen, 1969 128    
Sampling inspection in statistical quality control WC Guenther Charles Griffin, 1977 206 0852642377  
Securitization of insurance risk: The 1995 Bowles Symposium (SOA Monograph M-F197-1) Society of Actuaries Society of Actuaries, Oct. 1997 69 0938959492  
The slide rule B Snodgrass English Univ. Press, 1955, 1967 207    
Sources of Social Statistics Bernard Edwards Heinemann, 1974 276    
The Spicer & Oppenheim Guide to Financial Statements Around the World - John Wiley, 1989 341 047150789X  
Spinning the Web: how to provide information on the Internet A Ford International Thomson Pub, 1995 227 1850321418  
Standard Tables of Mortality: the "80" series. Mortality Functions and Sample Values of Monetary Functions.   Institute of Actuaries & Faculty of Actuaries, 1992 93 0901066222  
Standard Tables of Mortality: the "92" series. Mortality Functions and Sample Values of Monetary Functions.   Institute of Actuaries & Faculty of Actuaries, 1999 111 0901066222  
Statistical analysis in biology (2nd ed) K Mather & RA Fisher Methuen, 1946 267    
Statistical method in biological assay DJ Finney Charles Griffin, 1952 661    
Statistical methods in biology (1st ed) N Bailey English Univ. Press, 1959 200    
Statistics and Experimental Design: in engineering and the physical sciences (vol. 1) Norman Johnson & Fred Leone John Wiley, 1964 523    
Statistics and Experimental Design: in engineering and the physical sciences (vol. 2) Norman Johnson & Fred Leone John Wiley, 1964 399    
Statutory Regulation of Long Term Business (Life Assurance Monograph) WM Abbott Institute of Actuaries, 1984 48    
The Students' Society Log 1960-1985: Twenty-five Years of Enterprise (3 copies available) C.M. Stewart The Institute of Actuaries Students' Society, London: 1985 204 0901066117  
The Taxation of Industry: fiscal barriers to the creation of wealth Barry Bracewell-Milnes Panopticum Press, 1981 182 0907256066  
The Third Wave Alvin Toffler Pan Books, 1980 543 0330263374  
TIMSAC-84. Part 1. Computer Science Monographs no. 22 H Akaike et al Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 1985 226    
TIMSAC-84. Part 2. Computer Science Monographs no. 22 H Akaike et al Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 1985 306    
The UK Economy: a manual of applied economics (5th ed) AR Prest & DJ Coppock Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974 292 0297768425  
The Web Empowerment Book Ralph Abraham Springer-Verlag, 1995 192 0387944311  
What is Cybernetics? G.T. Guilbaud Heinemann, 1959 126    
Demographic Yearbook 1990 (42nd issue)   United Nations, 1992 1020 9210510798  
Demographic Yearbook 1991 (43rd issue)    United Nations, 1992 567 9210510801  
Demographic Yearbook 1992 (44th issue)   United Nations, 1994 823 9210510836  
Demographic Yearbook 1993 (45th issue)   United Nations, 1995 1032 9210510844  
Demographic Yearbook 1994 (46th issue)   United Nations, 1996 1131 9210510852  
Demographic Yearbook 1995 (47th issue)   United Nations, 1997 1087 9210510860  
Demographic Yearbook 1996 (48th issue)   United Nations, 1998 1152 9210510836  
Demographic Yearbook 1997 (49th issue)   United Nations, 1999 582 9210510887  
Demographic Yearbook 1998 (50th issue)   United Nations, 2000 610 9210510895  
Demographic Yearbook 1999 (51st issue)   United Nations, 2001 609 9210510909  
Demographic Yearbook 2000 (52nd issue)   United Nations, 2002 674 9210510917