Out Of The Desert

Author : Ali Al-Naimi
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241978399

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Out of the Desert by Ali Al-Naimi Pdf

The extraordinary memoir of global oil's former central banker Ali Al-Naimi is the former Saudi oil minister - and OPEC kingpin - a position he held for the two decades between August 1995 and May 2016. In this time, Al-Naimi's briefest utterances moved markets. But it wasn't always that way. Al-Naimi was born into abject poverty as a nomadic Bedouin in the 1930s, just as US companies were discovering vast quantities of oil under the baking Arabian deserts. From his first job as a shepherd boy, aged four, to his appointment to one of the most powerful political and economic jobs in the world, Out of the Desert charts Al-Naimi's extraordinary rise to power. Described by Alan Greenspan as 'the most powerful man you've never heard of', Al-Naimi's incredible journey proves that anyone can make it - even a poor Bedouin shepherd boy. This is his exclusive inside story of power, politics and oil. His Excellency Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi is the former Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. One of the most powerful economic and political jobs in the world, he held this post from August 1995 to May 2016. Prior to that he held a wide range of leadership positions in the Kingdom's national oil company, Saudi Aramco. He was the first Saudi national to be named President of the company in 1984 and became the first Saudi CEO in 1988. Al-Naimi joined the company, then called Aramco, as an office boy in 1947. A Bedouin, he was born in the deserts of eastern Arabia in 1935.

Author : Kenneth Pollack
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812976427

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A Path Out of the Desert by Kenneth Pollack Pdf

The greatest danger to America’s peace and prosperity, notes leading Middle East policy analyst Kenneth M. Pollack, lies in the political repression, economic stagnation, and cultural conflict running rampant in Arab and Muslim nations. Pollack asserts that we must continue to make the Middle East a priority in our policy, but in a humbler, more realistic, and more cohesive way. In his long-term strategy, Pollack suggests that America engage directly with the governments of the Middle East and indirectly with its people by means of cultural exchange, commerce, and other “soft” approaches. He carefully examines each of the region’s most contested areas, as well as the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and explains how the United States can address each through mutually reinforcing policies. At a time when the nation is facing critical decisions about our continued presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, A Path Out of the Desert is guaranteed to stimulate debate about America’s humanitarian, diplomatic, and military involvement in the Middle East.

Author : T. J. Marsh,Jennifer Ward
Publisher : Rising Moon Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-07
Category : Animals
ISBN : 0873588029

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Way Out in the Desert by T. J. Marsh,Jennifer Ward Pdf

A counting book in rhyme presents various desert animals and their children, from a mother horned toad and her little toadie one to a mom tarantula and her little spiders ten. Numerals are hidden in each illustration.

Author : Eirlys G. Richards,Joyce Hudson,Pat Lowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:30000095786236

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Out of the Desert by Eirlys G. Richards,Joyce Hudson,Pat Lowe Pdf

Within only one generation, the Walmajarri desert dwellers left their traditional lands of the Great Sandy Desert behind to face station life and a world far beyond the sandhills. A compelling collection of art and stories from the Walmajarri people.

Author : Matthew R. Simmons
Publisher : Wiley + ORM
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118040522

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Twilight in the Desert by Matthew R. Simmons Pdf

Twilight in the Desert reveals a Saudi oil and production industry that could soon approach a serious, irreversible decline. In this exhaustively researched book, veteran oil industry analyst Matthew Simmons draws on his three-plus decades of insider experience and more than 200 independently produced reports about Saudi petroleum resources and production operations. He uncovers a story about Saudi Arabias troubled oil industry, not to mention its political and societal instability, which differs sharply from the globally accepted Saudi version. Its a story that is provocative and disturbing, based on undeniable facts, but until now never told in its entirety. Twilight in the Desert answers all readers questions about Saudi oil and production industries with keen examination instead of unsubstantiated posturing, and takes its place as one of the most important books of this still-young century.

Author : Dusti Bowling
Publisher : Youth Large Print
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9798885794152

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Across the Desert by Dusti Bowling Pdf

One girl sets out on a journey across the treacherous Arizona desert to rescue a young pilot stranded after a plane crash in this gripping story of survival, friendship, and rescue from a bestselling and award-winning author. ​ Twelve-year-old Jolene spends every day she can at the library watching her favorite livestream: The Desert Aviator, where twelve-year-old "Addie Earhart" shares her adventures flying an ultralight plane over the desert. While watching this daring girl fly through the sky, Jolene can dream of what it would be like to fly with her, far away from her own troubled home life where her mother struggles with a narcotic addiction. And Addie, who is grieving the loss of her father, finds solace in her online conversations with Jolene, her biggest--and only--fan. Then, one day, it all goes wrong: Addie's engine abruptly stops, and Jolene watches in helpless horror as the ultralight plummets to the ground and the video goes dark. Jolene knows that Addie won't survive long in the extreme summer desert heat. With no one to turn to for help and armed with only a hand-drawn map and a stolen cell phone, it's up to Jolene to find a way to save the Desert Aviator. Packed with adventure and heart, Across the Desert speaks to the resilience, hope, and strength within each of us. Don't miss Dusti Bowling's new novel, Dust, available for preorder now.

Author : Sue Davenport,Peter Johnson,Yuwali
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 0855757108

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Cleared Out by Sue Davenport,Peter Johnson,Yuwali Pdf

In 1964, a group of 20 Aboriginal women and children in the Western Desert made their first contact with European Australians. They had been pursued by patrol officers for several weeks. Yuwali, 17 at the time, remembers every detail of the drama.

Author : Jeannette Walls
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416544661

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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Pdf

A triumphant tale of a young woman and her difficult childhood, The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience, redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and wonderfully vibrant. Jeannette Walls was the second of four children raised by anti-institutional parents in a household of extremes.

Author : Ken Layne
Publisher : MCD
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780374722388

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Desert Oracle by Ken Layne Pdf

The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.

Author : Janet Morrissey,Peter Mudge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0733908373

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Out of the Desert by Janet Morrissey,Peter Mudge Pdf

Good and evil - Major Christian denominations - A study of ancient and indigenous religions - Scaraments, liturgy and prayer, eucharist - Morality and juctice ____________

Author : Gregory J. Davenport
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780811744683

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Surviving the Desert by Gregory J. Davenport Pdf

• Travel safely through extreme environments • Find water, dress for the environment, create a campsite, signal, and navigate in the desert • Series author Greg Davenport has appeared on ABC's Primetime Thursday and CBS's 48 Hours The techniques and equipment necessary for surviving in the desert are made more challenging by the intense sunlight, wide temperature range, sparse vegetation, and sandstorms, but Greg Davenport shares how to deal with the toughest conditions. Learn how to avoid insects and snakes. Photos and drawings illustrate gear and techniques necessary for survival in the rough and dangerous terrain.

Author : Harry Whittington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Desert Stake-Out by Harry Whittington Pdf

Author : Kathleen Alcal‡
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0816526273

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The Desert Remembers My Name by Kathleen Alcal‡ Pdf

My parents always told me I was Mexican. I was Mexican because they were Mexican. This was sometimes modified to ÒMexican American,Ó since I was born in California, and thus automatically a U.S. citizen. But, my parents said, this, too, was once part of Mexico. My father would say this with a sweeping gesture, taking in the smog, the beautiful mountains, the cars and houses and fast-food franchises. When he made that gesture, all was cleared away in my mindÕs eye to leave the hazy impression of a better place. We were here when the white people came, the Spaniards, then the Americans. And we will be here when they go away, he would say, and it will be part of Mexico again. Thus begins a lyrical and entirely absorbing collection of personal essays by esteemed Chicana writer and gifted storyteller Kathleen Alcal‡. Loosely linked by an exploration of the many meanings of Òfamily,Ó these essays move in a broad arc from the stories and experiences of those close to her to those whom she wonders about, like Andrea Yates, a mother who drowned her children. In the process of digging and sifting, she is frequently surprised by what she unearths. Her family, she discovers, were Jewish refugees from the Spanish Inquisition who took on the trappings of Catholicism in order to survive. Although the essays are in many ways personal, they are also universal. When she examines her family history, she is encouraging us to inspect our own families, too. When she investigates a family secret, she is supporting our own search for meaning. And when she writes that being separated from our indigenous culture is Òa form of illiteracy,Ó we know exactly what she means. After reading these essays, we find that we have discovered not only why Kathleen Alcal‡ is a writer but also why we appreciate her so much. She helps us to find ourselves.

Author : Nikki Potts
Publisher : Picture Window Books
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781977114198

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Meerkat Moves Out of the Desert by Nikki Potts Pdf

"Meerkat is feeling crowded. There are meerkats everywhere! She needs some personal space. It's time to move out! But where will Meerkat go?" -- Page [4] of cover.

Author : Debi Holmes-Binney
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580054188

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Desert Sojourn by Debi Holmes-Binney Pdf

The idea of a journey without companions is too daunting for most travelers. Not so the women of this collection. These contemporary pioneers savor the ultimate freedom of solo travel. Marybeth Bond discovers the dubious pleasures of desert camel-riding when she decides to follow an ancient Indian trading route. Faith Adiele, a black Buddhist nun, enters a deserted train station at 3:00 a.m. in a Thai village controlled by armed bandits. Ena Singh negotiates with Russian police to visit the blue-domed city of Samarkand. In A Woman Alone, these women and others tell their funny, thrilling, occasionally terrifying, ultimately transformative stories of navigating some of the most unusual destinations on the globe.