Product Description: This volume presents a piece of the proto-lexicon of Semito-Hamitic or Afro-Asiatic, the language macrofamily with the oldest records in world history. The reconstruction of the underlying parental language is, however, a little cultivated and endangered field known to very few researchers, whose number hardly exceeds one dozen all over the world (half of them is retired) in spite of relatively better established positions of inner Semitological, Egyptological, Berberological, Cushitological, Omotic, and Chadic comparative research...read more

Product Description: Sucker-Rod Pumping Handbook presents the latest information on the most common form of production enhancement in today’s oil industry, making up roughly two-thirds of the producing oilwell operations in the world. The book begins with an introduction to the main features of sucker rod pumping and an explanation and comparison of lift methods...read more

Product Description: This is the third volume of the Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian. It comprises the Egyptian words with initial m-. The amount of material offered, the extensive treatment of scholarly discussions on each item, and the insights into the connections of Egyptian and the related Afro-Asiatic (Semito-Hamitic) languages, including many new lexical parallels, will make it an indispensable tool for comparative purposes and an unchallenged starting point for every linguist in the field...read more

Product Description: Artificial lift methods are employed to regain proper pressure in the well after natural pressure has ceased. There are a handful of methods used under various situations, one of which is pumping. This updated version of the PennWell classic, Modern Sucker-Rod Pumping, provides detailed technical information on a popular century-old, and still very popular, worldwide artificial lift method―sucker-rod pumping...read more

Product Description: This volume is paying homage to the memory of Werner Vycichl (1909-1999), one of the most outstanding figures of Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) comparative linguistics. The contributions by well-known specialists comprise almost all principle branches of the Semito-Hamitic macrofamily...read more

Product Description: The multi-volume "Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian" by Gabor Takacs "promises to open a new chapter in Egyptian and Afro-Asiatic comparative lingustics" (A. Dolgopolsky, in "Israel Oriental Studies"). The amount of material offered, the extensive treatment of scholarly discussions on each item, and the insights into the connections of Egyptian and the related Afro-Asiatic (Semito-Hamitic) languages, including many new lexical parallels, will make it an indispensable tool for comparative purposes and an unchallenged starting point for every linguist in the field...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the introductory volume to the first dictionary on the etymological relations between ancient Egyptian and other Afro-Asiatic languages. Gabor Takacs new multi-volume Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian (now to appear at regular intervals of about 12-18 months) will be a hallmark in Egyptian and Afro-Asiatic linguistics...read more