Economic Risk in Hydrocarbon Exploration

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Economic Risk in Hydrocarbon Exploration provides a total framework for assessing the uncertainties associated with exploration risk from beginning to end. Numerous examples with accompanying microcomputer algorithms illustrate how to quantitatively approach economic risk. The text compares detailed assumptions and models of economic risk, and presents numerical examples throughout to facilitate hands-on calculations using popular spread-sheet packages on personal computers.

Key Features
* Covers economic risk from exploration through production models
* Brings methods to a level where all can be done on a PC
* Analyzes numerical examples from the real world
* Removes "mystery" from how economics is done
* Addresses assumptions in models and shows how they influence projections

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Finally a modern approach.......2000-08-17

This text provides a rich combination of theory, practical explanation, and numerical examples. You even get some computer code! Monte Carlo techniques are at the heart of any complex risk/uncertainty estimation procedure, and the authors have embraced this as an extension to the old tools of the past, that were basically limited by number crunching power. A bonus is the chapter on maximizing economic value of a discovery, which is really beyond the challenges of exploration risking, going into the development and operations phases.

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This is the first atlas to document the morphology and development of Arabidopsis thaliana, the small flowering plant which emerged during the 1980's as the primary model for research in the surging field of plant biology. Arabidopsis is the plant of choice for many studies in genetics, biochemistry, development, and radiation biology. This atlas consists of contributions from many of the world's leading Arabidopsis laboratories and is a "must have" volume for plant biologists. Its extensively illustrated chapters cover five principal areas: embryogenesis, vegetative growth, root growth, reproductive structures, and host-pathogen interactions.

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El libro proporciona la información en 76 especies de pájaros, de plantas, de mamíferos y de insectos de Ecuador. Cada descripción de la especie es acompañada por una ilustración así como la información sobre la ecología, los nombres locales y las aplicaciones. Los beneficios de la venta de esta guía irán hacia la conservación del bosque en Ecuador.

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An overview of the wide variety of sword arts

Keiko Shokon: Classical Warrior Traditions of Japan (Classical Warrior Traditions of Japan, 3)

Manufacturer: Koryu Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Koryu Bujutsu: Classical Warrior Traditions of Japan

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Classical Fighting Arts of Japan: A Complete Guide to Koryu Jujutsu (Bushido--The Way of the Warrior)

ASIN: 1890536067

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Keiko Shokon is the third volume in a series that demystifies the rare and often misunderstood fighting arts of the Japanese warrior. Do these arts still have relevance in a modern technological world? How are they being preserved? What are the pitfalls for practitioners struggling to maintain these arts in a culture so foreign to that of their origins? These questions are discussed by a unique group of practitioner/writers.

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An overview of the wide variety of sword arts.......2002-08-11

Deftly edited by Diane Skoss (who holds black belts in several modern martial arts, as well as the classical licenses of okuden in Toda-ha Buko-ryu naginatajutus, okuiri-sho, and Shinto Muso-ryu jojutsu), Keiko Shokon: Classical Warrior Traditions Of Japan is the third in a fascinating series of compiled of essays and interviews. Of special note are those contributions which are expertly translated from Japanese and focus upon the traditions, martial disciplines, and way of life of the warrior in pre-industrial Japan. From a U.S. marine's observations on the Japanese warrior traditions, to an overview of the wide variety of sword arts and the men who founded them, Keiko Shokon presents a wealth of information and knowledgeable opinions. Keiko Shokon is especially recommended reading for anyone interested in learning more about the history and traditions of Japanese swordsmanship.

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Answerbook to the exercises.......2006-07-11

This answerbook is very handy for the self-taught. It has translations for all the exercises in the text book. The exercises in English are translated into Arabic and vice versa. There are also translations for the supplement in the back of the text book. It is strictly an answer book, there is no study material in this key.

A New Arabic Grammar of the Written Language

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Good Reference Work, Poor Teaching Text
grammer reference for beginners
Don't listen to those who adorn their houses with flowers
A good grammar reference
The Best Arabic Learning Book Around

A New Arabic Grammar of the Written Language
John A. Haywood , and H. M. Nahmad
Manufacturer: Lund Humphries Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 085331585X

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Good Reference Work, Poor Teaching Text.......2007-08-08

The text adequately explains the basic patterns and syntax of Modern Standard Arabic, but it offers very little in the way of explaining the meaning and usage of grammatical forms. It also commits the cardinal sin of perpetuating the misconception that Arabic is poor in tenses. Arabic has a tense system that is quite subtle, precise, and complex (as you would expect from a language that is comprised almost entirely of verbs and their derived forms), but non-native grammarians tend to misunderstand or ignore the ways in which Arabic auxiliary verbs denote aspect. Best used as a handy reference when you need to refresh your memory about a rule or pattern. Beginners would do better with the Al-Kitaab series.

grammer reference for beginners.......2006-08-12

A very handy reference grammer. Not as extensive as Wright's with a relatively more modern treatment. Best suited for a beginning student as a reference grammer. More advanced students of classical arabic should consider wrights.

Don't listen to those who adorn their houses with flowers.......2006-06-08

This is the kind of translation exercise you get in this book. Other reviewers have commented on the stilted language and subject matter, both in English and Arabic. How about, "I have seen many spiders. The beys' and pashas' rooms must be swept afresh," or "Follow the well-known plan and put the olives in the barrels." These are not sentences from 1965, the date of the first edition, but from the British mandate.

If you want to learn Arabic, you need to use a text book, not a grammar book. There are lots of good ones available, and there are lots of grammar books available with more authentic examples.

A good grammar reference.......2006-04-24

This book is excellent in explaining the labyrinth of Arabic grammar. It wisely introduces the verb forms in groups that have consistent vowelling and participle formation which is the easiest format I've seen so far. It's explanations are remarkably clear. I think the advantage is since one of the authors is not a native speaker they are able to explain clearly to other non-natives what native speakers probably take for granted. It is also consistently and scrupulously vowelled (essential for a grammar text book.)

As other users have remarked however, the book is not without flaws. The conjugation charts are wretched. Everytime I look at them, I get confused and forget how to conjugate verbs. The print quality, as others have said, is not the greatest. The vocabulary at the end of each chapter is bizarrely not in alphabetical order (English or Arabic) and the order seems quite random so looking up words is a pain (there is a decent root-based dictionary in the back however.) And indeed the sentences in the exercises are quite stilted. Check out this gem:

"We have described all these events to you so that you may know that piety is preferable to despair, and we have put our ideas in our many letters to you during a period of two years."

Come again?? (And this was BEFORE translation.) Still, they are designed to illustrate and reinforce grammatical concepts and they do that quite well. Interestingly my teacher, who is a native speaker, hates the book because of the stilted wording and bad examples-e.g. to illustrate the 10 verb forms, they use some verbal variants that don't actually exist.

Finally, it really bugs me that they use the Egyptian style of printing the final "ya" which means they don't put the dots underneath. Thus, it looks identical to the character alif maqsura. There is a whole chapter about defective verbs (those that end with wow, ya or alif) and the authors actually say "Look how the ya changes to alif maqsura in some of these examples." Well, actually I can't tell guys because you didn't dot your letters. Absolutely unacceptable that a grammar book designed for non-natives would make this omission.

Despite this book's flaws, this is an excellent guide to Arabic grammar especially considering other options and for the Amazon price you'd be hard pressed to find a better deal. If you are studying on your own, there is also a teacher's manual available.

The Best Arabic Learning Book Around.......2006-03-18

John A. Haywood, the author, spent many years as a British civil servant and academic in Sudan. His grammar is the outcome of a lifetime of study of Arabic. Haywood and Nahmad, as the grammar is affectionately called by students of Arabic, came out in 1965. It is used in universities all over the world, and has been translated into Spanish.

The grammar gives the English grammatical terms, so it is also a useful grammar for anyone teaching English in the Middle East where English can be simplified by pointing out its differences with Arabic. Arabic is a much older language than English and has dropped most of the awkward complexities that English still has in favor of a logical simplicity that was, one might say, codified, in the Abbasid period in Iraq in the 9th century AD. The enumeration of the differences between English and Arabic for the purpose of making English easier for Arabic speakers has yet to be done, but Haywood's grammar would provide a starting point and a skeleton for such an endeavor.

Haywood and Nahmad provide the Arabic terms in brackets (one time) for the grammatical points he mostly describes in English, of course. You have to know your English grammar from the old school pretty well. There are none of the modern English grammar neologisms such as "Demonstrators" for indefinite or definite article, or "helping verb" for present and past perfect. There is no present or past perfect in Arabic. As in yet another language which is older than English, French, these problems have dropped by the wayside in the Arabic language, and Arabic has only the present, the past, the future and the "command" forms. A better example of what I mean by the fact that you have to know the "real" basis of English grammar, and not the neologisms, to appreciate this book, is that you have to know what subjunctive and jussive mean, for example.

Some of the most judiciously researched parts of the book are the introduction and the selections from Arabic Literature. His selection reads like high points of Arab, and thus, "humanity's" culture: Ibn Khaldun, The Arabian Nights, Tawfiq al-Hakim's "Diary of a Country Prosecutor," for example.

I also benefited from his overview of the differences in the Arabic dialects, which included some differences in Sudanese Arabic as well as the more familiar Iraqi, Egyptian, Palestinian and Syrian dialects.

All in all, Haywood and Nahmad is a book one can come back to often and pick up many tidbits one might not have noticed in that first intensive Arabic summer courses.

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Welcome to the renaissance of animation. The box office success of Toy Story has inspired a whole new generation of boundary-breaking work. Featuring eleven of today's top studios and software development firms, Computer Animation: A Whole New World lets you witness the animation process firsthand. Animators discuss their creative process and techniques for bringing a project from the drawing board to the screen. The evolution of big screen projects and commercials, plus the cutting edge of research and development is shown through sketches, screen-shots, and selected key segments of animated effects. Tips and tricks of the trade relating to tools, color, sound, and more are featured, as well as galleries of new work.

Chapters include:

--A brief history of the industry

--Step-by-step breakdowns of animation projects-from concept to completion

--An inside look at eleven top animation studios and software developers, including Pixar, Microsoft Softimage, Industrial Light & Magic, Mainframe, Medialab, Pacific Data Images, Alias/Wavefront, and many more.

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Great book, fit to satisfy the animation hunger.......2000-06-26

I'd really liked this book as it presents the latest work being done by the top Animation Studios. It provides a deep insight into the subject and is really an encouraging work

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Making Service Count: How To Deliver Outstanding Customer Service And Make Your Small Business More Profitable
Tom Borg
Manufacturer: Inkwater Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1592990487

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Real Customer Service does not happen by accident but rather through planning and doing. In this practical and action-oriented book, Tom Borg shows you how to keep you customers satisfied. As a result you company, or business will be more profitable and you'll have more fun and less stress. In this book you will learn how to: make it fun and easy for your customer to do business with you, become a problem solver, do the little things that make a big difference, set a new pace for service, recover from the mistakes you make with your customers, use a suggestion box, increase the productivity of your employees, market to ethnic groups, and look at service contracts. Thought provoking questions and exercises after each chapter will help business owners, employees, co-workes and managers all put the ideas in this book to work.

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Globalization is theorized in this book as an emerging new stage of capitalism. Robert Went takes us on a journey from the historical roots of globalization through to its relevance in the modern day.
The Enigma of Globalization is a timely addition to an important debate and covers such themes as:
* International trade
* Free trade and international movement of capital
* The role of the world economy
This accessible and intriguing book is a must, not only for students and academics working in the field, but will also prove an interesting read for all those with a general interest in the modern global political economy.

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At last - a comprehensive alternative to the orthodoxy!.......2004-01-31

Written in a concise, well-argued style, the book offers a deep and critical analysis of the controversies of globalisation. Went systematically reviews major approaches to globalisation, and offers an original, historically and socially inspired vision of the global change. The text provides plenty of ground for those dissatisfied with the reductionist economistic formulas of globalisation. It critically examines complex issues of free trade and capital movements, structures of accumulation and their social, politico-economic and historical elements. Well-timed and exhaustive in its overview of literature, the book would be an invaluable addition to reading lists of both researchers and students of global political economy and social sciences generally.

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The demise of communism in the Soviet Union could not have occurred without the activism of dissident, anticommunist leaders who created a climate that gave ordinary Russians the courage to stand up to and defeat communist control. But with communism ousted, what new form of government and what new leaders will emerge in Russia, a society that has never known democracy? Michael McFaul, a Western scholar studying at Moscow State University, and Segel Markov, an assistant professor at Moscow State University, interviewed anticommunist parties in the months preceding and immediately following the August 1991 attempted coup d'tetat. To examine the range of the political spectrum in Russia, they also talked to procommunist leaders who emerged to oppose Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, nationalist and anti-Semitic leaders of movements such as Pamyat', labor unions, Christian movements, and organizations opposed to the division of the Soviet Union.

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