A new perspective and oveview of the entire oil and gas sector:from exploration to production and with an emphasis on future perspectives for both non-technical and technical people. It explores the occupational and business opportunities and thus helps to provide a platform for careers in the sector.In some detail the different sectors of the industry are explained as well as key principles of exploration, development and production. The concise but complete information is complem...

This book was is intended to provide insight into the challenges we all face concerning the need for renewable energy and, especially to support professionals in oil and gas, who realise they must adapt to the new world of Green Energy. Now when we look across the industry we have to realise it consists of people at various levels, many technical and many business managers; all have a challenging time ahead unless they change and adapt.The Energy Transition is possible and must be ...

This book is an innovative insight into the challenges faced by organisations and communities arising from oil spillage and pollution, as well providing a total and comprehensive coverage of approaches and techniques for dealing with this, what we call Oil Spillage Response (OSR). It is part of the Energy Series educating people everywhere to the need for sustainable oil and gas production, the transition to renewables and of course the required knowledge to safeguard the health, safety an...

Floral Hill is not accustomed to murder scenes. It had been 24 years since the last murder in Floral Hill and back then the body was discovered with the murderer standing over the body with the knife in his hands.Judge Brennan's is a rag to riches tale which winds up with a murder and another death in the current day.But how could the Burke family squander an empire of small businesses. It was actually easy:They actually tried to deceive everyone around the bar, but ultimat...

The Village of Floral Hill had not seen a murder in 40 years until the murder of Jack McMullin in Judge Brennan's, the best Floral Hill drinking establishment. Today we have a series of murders and deaths tied to illicit drugs laced with fentanyl and motorcycles. Detective Kelli O'Brien is her own force of nature when she had to deal with crimes in Floral Hill. And she gets the job done.Floral Hill Murders is the second novel by David Day and presents the r...

The companion volume to YOUNG HAWKE: the making of a larrikin from the award-winning historian and author of CURTIN and CHIFLEYBob Hawke was one of the most influential Australians of the twentieth century, firstly as Australia's most powerful trade union leader in the 1970s before becoming the longest serving Labor prime minister in the 1980s. The government of this formerly hard-drinking womaniser did much to transform the Australian economy, reorient Australian foreign policy to...

From Rhodes Scholar to union leader to political powerhouse: how Bobbie became Bob, the iconic PM. The new biography from award-winning historian David Day sheds fresh light on the formative years of Australia's most charismatic leader, who became a political legend.David Day's biography of the young Bob Hawke takes readers on a journey, from his humble beginnings as the often-neglected son of religious zealots on the South Australian frontier to his wild ways at a...

From Rhodes Scholar to union leader to political powerhouse: how Bobbie became Bob, the iconic PM. The new biography from award-winning historian David Day sheds fresh light on the formative years of Australia's most charismatic leader, who became a political legend.David Day's biography of the young Bob Hawke takes readers on a journey, from his humble beginnings as the often-neglected son of religious zealots on the South Australian frontier to his wild ways at a...

"Quest for King Arthur is the most enlightening single text on King Arthur to have been written since Malory first laid his hero to rest" Terry Jones, medievalist and director of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Quest For King Arthur traces Arthur’s evolution from the earliest records of the historical Artorius Dux Bellorum through countless incarnations to the idealized figure of the King Arthur we know today – emblematic of the perfect ruler of ...

Since the first sailing ships spied the Antarctic coastline in 1820, the frozen continent has captured the world's imagination. David Day's brilliant biography of Antarctica describes in fascinating detail every aspect of this vast land's history--two centuries of exploration, scientific investigation, and contentious geopolitics. Drawing from archives from around the world, Day provides a sweeping, large-scale history of Antarctica. Focusing on the dynamic personalities drawn to this unco...

As the leadership field continues to evolve, there are many reasons to be optimistic about the various theoretical and empirical contributions in better understanding leadership from a scholarly and scientific perspective. The Oxford Handbook of Leadership and Organizations brings together a collection of comprehensive, state-of-the-science reviews and perspectives on the most pressing historical and contemporary leadership issues - with a particular focus on theory and research -...

An entire race was born when J.R.R. Tolkien scrawled on a leaf, 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' From the invention of that single word (hobbit) Tolkien became the explorer and chronicler of the character, their race and their significant role in his fantastical world, Middle-earth.Here in his latest book, Tolkien expert David Day unpicks the myriad of riddles, puns and mystical meanings in Tolkien's works; The Hobbit and The Lord of the...