This thorough guide to the insurance industry is authored by Lucy Heckman, Head of Reference at Davis Library, St. John's University, and the author of How to Find Business Information: A Guide for Businesspeople, Investors, and Researchers, among other books. As that title suggests, Heckman is committed to providing research guides that will be accessible to the broad public, including consumers and industry professionals, as well as an academic audience. Lucy Heckman makes a convincing case for the importance of the topic in the preface. She believes insurance is of strong interest not just to academics, but to the general public as well. She uses the example of the Affordable Care Act to make her case. Heckman has taken great care to include entries that will be of interest to consumers, and the guide is as likely to include an entry for Suze Orman's website, for example, as it is to include an academic monograph. This inclusive approach is admirable, although one wonders if titles like Insurance for Dummies or The Complete Idiot's Guide to Insurance, merited inclusion.
展开▼
