Do a quick scan of your favorite online book retailer and you’ll find ā plethora of resources on risk management. It can actually be quite overwhelming. I’ve helped narrow the field by picking resources that are most helpful, particularly when starting out.

Bernstein, Peter L. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk.New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998.

Bessis, Joël. Risk Management in Banking. 3rd ed. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2009.

Brealey, Richard A., Stewart C. Myers, and Franklin Allen. Principles of Corporate Finance. 9th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007.

Chapman, Chris, and Stephen Ward. Project Risk Management: Processes, Techniques and Insights. 2nd ed. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2003.

Cooper, Dale, Stephen Grey, Geoffrey Raymond, and Phil Walker. Project Risk Management Guidelines: Managing Risk in Large Projects and Complex Procurements. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2005.

Fabozzi, Frank J. Duration, Convexity, and Other Bond Risk Measures. New Hope, PA: FJF Associates, 1999.

Grey, Stephen. Practical Risk Assessment for Project Management. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1995.

Hoffman, Douglas G. Managing Operational Risk: 20 Firmwide Best Practice Strategies. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

Hull, John C. Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives. 7th ed. New York: Prentice Hall, 2008.

Jorion, Philippe. Value at Risk: The New Benchmark for Managing Financial Risk. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006.

Koller, Glenn. Risk Assessment and Decision Making in Business and Industry, A Practical Guide. 2nd ed. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2005.

Lam, James. Enterprise Risk Management: From Incentives to Controls. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2003.

Martin, Duncan. Managing Risk in Extreme Environments: Front-Line Business Lessons for Corporates and Financial Institutions. London: Kogan Page, 2008.

Marrison, Christopher. The Fundamentals of Risk Measurement. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.

Matten, Chris. Managing Bank Capital: Capital Allocation and Performance Measurement. 2nd ed. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2000.

Oakland, John. Statistical Process Control. 6th ed. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007.

Oltedal, S., B. Moen, H. Klempe, and T. Rundmo. “Explaining Risk Perception: An Evaluation of Cultural Theory.” Rotunde,no. 85, 2004.

Tweeddale, Mark. Managing Risk and Reliability of Process Plants.Amsterdam: Gulf Professional Publishing, 2003.

Vose, David. Risk Analysis: A Quantitative Guide. 3rd ed. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2008.