Calvin A Allen

Westward Ha!: Bicycling Cross-Country with My Two Sons

Dad was having a mid-life crisis. His teenage sons wanted to avoid summer jobs. The solution? Ride across America on bicycles. They set out from the east coast in June, loaded down and looking for adventure. They rode straight into the Appalachian Mountains, and into the hottest summer in recorded h...

Oman Under Qaboos: From Coup to Constitution, 1970-1996

This is an examination of the political, economic and social development of Oman from the accession Sultan Qaboos in a palace coup in 1970 to the promulation of the basic law of 1996. The book argues that the sultanate does not follow the "rentier" model but the patriarchal tradition.

Oman (Creation of the Modern Middle East)

Oman's modern history has been dominated by its role in global trade and its search to be ruled by a righteous leader to guide the country in the Ibadi Muslim tradition.

Allen Adventures Short Stories: 4 Shorts Plus four short Stories (Volume 1)

Short stories setting along and around the great river herself, the great river of the Mississippi. Stories eminating from a city Greenville, Mississippi located along the path that houses the lakes, tributaries and levee that hold back the waters or over flow of this great river. The River-Book Hij...

Oman: the Modernization of the Sultanate (Routledge Library Editions The Gulf)

Until the 1970s Oman was an isolated, almost medieval kingdom, virtually unknown to the outside world. The 1970 palace coup that brought Sultan Qaboos b. Sa’id Al-Sa’id to power also brought Oman into the twentieth century. Development programmes made modernization a rapid process, and Oman’s locati...

Westward Ha!: Bicycling Cross-Country With My Two Sons

Oman

Oman Under Qaboos: From Coup to Constitution, 1970-1996

Oman Under Qaboos: From Coup to Constitution, 1970-1996

Oman: The Modernization of the Sultanate