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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Michael Andrew Cook
Despite its size and importance, a surprising lack of basic knowledge exists about the oil and gas industry. With their timely new book, authors Andrew Inkpen and Michael H. Moffett have written a nontechnical book to help readers with technical backgrounds better understand the business of oil and gas. They describe and analyze the global oil and gas industry, focusing on its strategic, financial, and business aspects and addressing a wide range of topics organized around the oil and gas industry value chain, starting with exploration and ending with products sold to consumers. The Global Oil & Gas Industry is a single source for anyone interested in how the business of the worldís largest industry actually works: business executives, students, government officials and regulators, professionals working in the industry, and the general public.
The Global Oil and Gas Industry
Andrew Inkpen; Michael H. Moffett; Kannan Ramaswamy
PennWell Books
2017
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The Global Oil & Gas Industry: Stories from the Field relates specific examples of challenges in decision making, changing business practices, and the difficulties in executing complex projects across the global industry. From contentious border disputes over mineral rights to the emergence of industry disrupters shaking the status quo, each story presents contemporary issues to distill lessons that are transferrable to management challenges both inside and outside of the global oil and gas industry.Bestselling PennWell authors Andrew Inkpen and Michael Moffett join with industry expert Kannan Ramaswamy to provide a narrative of 18 stories, each highlighting a different aspect of the industry. This collection provides an enriching, thought-provoking look into a business that many believe to be globally mature, but as these stories intimate, are increasingly local, emerging, and evolving with the global economy.Features and Benefits:Examples of the complex business situations in oil and gas and how excellent (and sometimes less-than-excellent) leaders navigate these difficult circumstances.Insights into the decision making of oil and gas companies from around the worldDifferent themes that span the entire industry value chain: upstream, midstream, and downstreamTimeless truths for the hydrocarbon sector and for many other businesses
Spine and Spinal Cord Tumors
Andrew Fanous; Michael Wang; Allan Levi
THIEME MEDICAL PUBLISHERS INC
2025
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A comprehensive guide to managing spinal tumors from global spine experts With recent advances in molecular genetics and biotechnology, understanding of spinal tumors is rapidly advancing and significantly altering treatment paradigms for these pathologies. Spine and Spinal Cord Tumors: Classification, Management, and Treatment fills a void in the literature, providing an in-depth, current resource on the diagnosis, classification, and management of spinal column and spinal cord tumors. Edited by renowned spine surgeons Andrew A. Fanous, Michael Y. Wang, and Allan D. Levi, this reader-friendly textbook features contributions from leading international experts across nine countries and six continents. The text is divided into six parts, with 44 chapters encompassing the latest standard of care, including state-of-the-art radiation therapy and surgical treatment. The introductory part discusses spinal anatomy, as well as general classification, presentation, evaluation, and diagnosis of spinal tumors. Part II on primary tumors of the vertebral column includes chapters on staging, classification, pathology, and cytogenetics of adult and pediatric lesions. Parts III and IV cover spinal cord, meningeal, and peripheral nerve tumors, and metastatic spinal tumors. Part V discusses adjuvant treatment modalities, including chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and angiographic embolization. The last part features 17 chapters dedicated to surgical management, including intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring, technological advances, surgical approaches, and reconstruction techniques. Key Highlights Contributions from experts in various subspecialties provide diverse perspectives and treatment philosophiesInvaluable clinical pearls provide insights on complications and pitfall prevention strategiesA wealth of illustrations and perioperative images enhance understanding of pathologiesThis book lays a solid foundation of knowledge on the management of spinal tumors, making it an essential resource for training and practicing neurosurgeons and orthopaedic surgeons, interventional radiologists, radiation oncologists, and medical oncologists. This print book includes complimentary access to a digital copy on https://medone.thieme.com. Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.
Baptist leader Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) deals with the issue of backsliding: when genuine Christians lose their passion for Christ and his kingdom. This was not a theoretical issue for Fuller, therefore, and his words, weighty when he first wrote them, are still worthy of being pondered-and acted upon. Included as an appendix is a poetic application of dealing with such a backslidden heart, written by Samuel Pearce (1766-1799) a close friend and co-labourer for Christ with Fuller. This updated edition is co-published by The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Typical of eighteenth-century thinkers, both Christian and non-Christian, Fuller believed that there was such a thing as truth, and that it could be known. His essay is thus a primer of what he calls "evangelical truth." Here he lays out, with copious biblical support, what is the truth about the present state of humanity, that is, their fallenness, and the sole remedy for that state, namely, faith in the crucified and risen Christ as Lord. This is updated and freshly formatted edition by H&E Publishing in partnership with the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer
Andrew Berridge; Michael Phillips
Packt Publishing Limited
2019
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Create innovative informatics solutions with TIBCO SpotfireKey FeaturesGet to grips with a variety of TIBCO Spotfire features to create professional applicationsUse different data and visualization techniques to build interactive analyses.Simplify BI processes and understand data analysis and visualizationBook DescriptionThe need for agile business intelligence (BI) is growing daily, and TIBCO Spotfire® combines self-service features with essential enterprise governance and scaling capabilities to provide best-practice analytics solutions. Spotfire is easy and intuitive to use and is a rewarding environment for all BI users and analytics developers.Starting with data and visualization concepts, this book takes you on a journey through increasingly advanced topics to help you work toward becoming a professional analytics solution provider. Examples of analyzing real-world data are used to illustrate how to work with Spotfire. Once you've covered the AI-driven recommendations engine, you'll move on to understanding Spotfire's rich suite of visualizations and when, why and how you should use each of them. In later chapters, you'll work with location analytics, advanced analytics using TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R®, how to decide whether to use in-database or in-memory analytics, and how to work with streaming (live) data in Spotfire. You'll also explore key product integrations that significantly enhance Spotfire's capabilities.This book will enable you to exploit the advantages of the Spotfire serve topology and learn how to make practical use of scheduling and routing rules.By the end of this book, you will have learned how to build and use powerful analytics dashboards and applications, perform spatial analytics, and be able to administer your Spotfire environment efficientlyWhat you will learnWork with Spotfire on its web, Cloud, PC, Mac and mobile clientsDeploy Spotfire's suite of visualization types effectively and intelligentlyBuild user-friendly analytics frameworks and analytics applicationsExplore Spotfire's predictive analytics capabilitiesUse Spotfire's location analytics capabilities to create interactive spatial analysesWrite IronPython scripts with the Spotfire APILearn the different ways Spotfire can be deployed and administeredWho this book is forIf you are a business intelligence or data professional, this book will give you a solid grounding in the use of TIBCO Spotfire. This book requires no prior knowledge of Spotfire or any basic data and visualization concepts.
Mathematics scares and depresses most of us, but politicians, journalists and everyone in power use numbers all the time to bamboozle us. Most maths is really simple - as easy as 2+2 in fact. Better still it can be understood without any jargon, any formulas - and in fact not even many numbers. Most of it is commonsense, and by using a few really simple principles one can quickly see when maths, statistics and numbers are being abused to play tricks - or create policies - which can waste millions of pounds. It is liberating to understand when numbers are telling the truth or being used to lie, whether it is health scares, the costs of government policies, the supposed risks of certain activities or the real burden of taxes.
Limitless Encounters Vol. 1
Andrew Hand; Michael E Johnson; Benjamin Baer
Limitless-Adventures
2018
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173 new DnD 5e encounters to expand your campaign setting, fill in sandbox or hex crawl adventures, and provide inspiration for writing your own campaigns. Encounters can easily be strung together to create thousands of possible quests and adventures. Seventeen distinct environments, including new monsters, spells, and magic items. Pre-rolled treasure to reduce DM prep time, and Over 500 Further AdventureTM hooks to aid in writing follow-up quests.
Go beyond simple random encounters in your 5th Edition campaign, these encounters can fill your sandbox world, or provide inspiration for your setting. Expands on our first volume with OGL stat blocks for all monsters. Creative, CR appropriate treasure, 300+ Further Adventure writing prompts
Limitless Monsters vol. 1
Andrew Hand; Michael Johnson; Benjamin Baer
Limitless-Adventures
2017
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Limitless Monsters contains one hundred monsters ready to drop into any 5th Edition campaign setting, filling in the gaps in the original 5E source material. But these aren't just monsters, they're designed to save the GM time and trouble, adding Lore checks to simplify game play, pregenerated treasure relevant to the beast, harvest mechanics and monster tactics. Every monster includes three Further Adventure hooks to help inspire the GM expand on the encounter, a total of 300 writing prompts to help expand any campaign setting.
Limitless Encounters vol. 1
Andrew Hand; Michael E. Johnson; Benjamin Baer
Limitless-Adventures
2018
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173 new DnD 5e encounters to expand your campaign setting, fill in sandbox or hex crawl adventures, and provide inspiration for writing your own campaigns. Encounters can easily be strung together to create thousands of possible quests and adventures. Seventeen distinct environments, including new monsters, spells, and magic items. Pre-rolled treasure to reduce DM prep time, and Over 500 Further AdventureTM hooks to aid in writing follow-up quests.
Limitless Encounters vol. 1
Andrew Hand; Michael E Johnson; Benjamin Baer
Limitless-Adventures
2018
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173 new DnD 5e encounters to expand your campaign setting, fill in sandbox or hex crawl adventures, and provide inspiration for writing your own campaigns. Encounters can easily be strung together to create thousands of possible quests and adventures. Seventeen distinct environments, including new monsters, spells, and magic items. Pre-rolled treasure to reduce DM prep time, and Over 500 Further AdventureTM hooks to aid in writing follow-up quests.
Limitless Non Player Characters Vol. 1
Andrew Hand; Michael Johnson; David Auden Nash
Limitless-Adventures
2019
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One hundred Allies, Contacts, Quest Givers, Foes, and Merchants to expand your 5th Edition campaign world. Four Arch Enemies scale with the players through each tier of play, coming back for more. Full stat blocks and pregenerated treasure for every NPC. Merchant stores included items and pricing. Includes a handful of new magic items, spells, and other fun. Over 300 Further Adventuretm hooks to provide writing inspiration for how to continue the adventure.
Go beyond simple random encounters in your 5th Edition campaign, these encounters can fill your sandbox world, or provide inspiration for your setting. Expands on our first volume with OGL stat blocks for all monsters. Creative, CR appropriate treasure, 300+ Further Adventure writing prompts
5th Edition Adventure (Levels 1-6) Detailed NPCs, Locations, and Setting New monsters, spells, and magic items Pre-rolled treasure to reduce DM prep time. Further Adventure(TM) hooks connect side quests and storyAvailable as Full-color PDF, and Hardcover print book.
Limitless Non Player Characters vol. 2
Andrew Hand; Michael Johnson
Limitless-Adventures
2023
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100 more NPC Allies, Contacts, Foes, and Merchants for any 5th Edition campaign setting.New monsters, spells, and magic itemsPre-rolled treasure to reduce DM prep time300+ Further Adventure(TM) hooks to inspire your gameAllies are heroes that will adventure with the party, who will put their lives on the line for them and seek to help the world become a better place through sacrifice and a focus on the greater good. By adding an ally to your party, you can raise the Challenge Rating of the encounter.Contacts provide quest hooks, services, and information for the party. They're more likely to help the party if they're being paid. Contacts are unlikely to put their lives on the line for the party, so be careful.Foes level up when the party levels up, and have the opportunity to return time and again in each tier of play. A minor enemy now could become a major threat later in the game. They're not strictly enemies, though, as it may only be their goals that are at odds with the party. Sometimes they may even be allies early in the game, or contacts providing quest hooks, before they come into their own power later.Merchants provide materials, quest hooks, services, weapons, and armor for payment. Most of the time the payment is coinage, other times it may be favors or side quests. Prices may vary, you may need to haggle.
Limitless Non-Combat Encounters Vol. 1
Andrew Hand; Michael E Johnson
Limitless-Adventures
2025
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A collection of new non-combat random encounters that can be dropped into any fantasy setting. Crafting, Exploration, Magic Item Creation, Mini-Games, Mysteries, Puzzles, Skill Challenges, Traps, and Role-play challenges usable with any TTRPG system with a simple keyword-based system.Running games is like writing flash fiction week after week for your table. Limitless Non-Combat encounters can be used to craft a random encounter table for travel and exploration, to fill in the hexes of a sandbox, or whenever your players wander to a location for which you had not yet prepared. Feel free to change the names, treasures, and the number of creatures as you see fit.We've designed our keyword-based system that provides you useful information about an NPC, a skill challenge, hazard, or treasure. These keywords correspond directly to levels of difficulty. When an encounter reads"This trap does a dangerous amount of damage.", you may come up with your own values for this challenge, or you may look up conversions for your game system in the Appendix. For example, in 5E, this corresponds to a d12. Feel free to adjust the conversions as you see fit, you know your table best. This gives you the flexibility to alter encounters to your needs and game system, but also provides you usable numbers if you need them.Each Limitless Encounter will have a Further Adventure(tm) section to give the DM three ideas for additional quests that could spring from a seemingly random encounter. These hooks are merely suggestions for continuing a plot and should be used or ignored at your discretion. For example, if a hook suggests that the Duchess was the murderer, that is a just a possible twist you could build from and needn't be acted upon if it would disrupt your campaign.This is a toolbox ready to help you create a richer campaign world, for those encounters that might be more difficult to create.Includes ongoing murder investigation encounters that can be added to any campaign world, or used as a complete sidequest.