Foreword 2 Introduction 4 Risk tradition and risk trading 6 From conjecture to calculation 8 The birth of modern insurance 10 Global expansion 16 Reinsurance 24 San Francisco 26 Swiss Re History 30 Money matters 38 World War II 44 Booming economy and growing problems 46 More money matters 50 A poor start for the 21st century 54 Natural catastrophes 56 Financial catastrophes, regulation, and a positive outlook 60
7.1 Learn what Big Data is and how it is changing the world of analytics 7.2 Understand the motivation for and business drivers of Big Data analytics 7.3 Become familiar with the wide range of enabling technologies for Big Data analytics 7.4 Learn about Hadoop, MapReduce, and NoSQL as they relate to Big Data analytics 7.5 Compare and contrast the complementary uses of data warehousing and Big Data technologies 7.6 Become familiar with select Big Data platforms and services 7.7 Understand the need for and appreciate the capabilities of stream analytics 7.8 Learn about the applications of stream analytics
1. Listen and talk about travel 2. Read about what can be learnt from traveling 3. Write an introduction to your home town 4. Practice reading skills: pragmatic meaning 5. Practice translating skills: synthesis 6. Learn and practice paragraph development by comparison and contrast 7. Learn to write a trip itinerary
During the height of the ice age, between 34,000 and 30,000 BC much of the world’s water was frozen into ice sheets. Because of the drop in sea level, a land bridge, known as Beringia, emerged between Asia and North America
