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Bicycling Cross-Country with My Two Sons

By: Calvin H. Allen

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Westward Ha!

Bicycling Cross-Country with My Two Sons

By: Calvin H. Allen

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 history. Sure, the pioneers struggled with starvation, disease, and wilderness. But did they have to pedal a loaded bike all day against the wind, wash in the sheriff¡_s bathroom, and camp in 90 degree heat on the courthouse square surrounded by jacked-up Chevies?

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243

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iUniverse

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0595210546

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9780595210541

Oman Under Qaboos

From Coup to Constitution, 1970-1996

By: Calvin H. Allen,W. Lynn Rigsbee II

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Oman Under Qaboos

From Coup to Constitution, 1970-1996

By: Calvin H. Allen,W. Lynn Rigsbee II

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.

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276

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Routledge

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1135314373

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9781135314378

The Diary of Calvin Fletcher, Volume 6: 1857-1860

By: Calvin Fletcher

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The Diary of Calvin Fletcher, Volume 6: 1857-1860

By: Calvin Fletcher

Calvin Fletcher, born in Vermont in 1798, came to Indiana from Ohio in 1821, and in the next forty-five years made a fortune, raised eleven children, and was a pillar of the community. This pioneer Indianapolis lawyer, banker, and philanthropist kept a diary for most of his long life, and in it he recorded both the growth of his family and his community. Whether complaining, criticizing, observing shrewdly, or agonizing, Fletcher emerges as both a complex and unforgettable human being. Each of the set's nine volumes has a preface, chronology, and index. Volume nine includes a cumulative index.

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748

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Indiana Historical Society

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0871950235

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9780871950239

Mesenteric Principles of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Basic and Applied Science

By: John Calvin Coffey,Rishabh Sehgal,Dara Walsh

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Mesenteric Principles of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Basic and Applied Science

By: John Calvin Coffey,Rishabh Sehgal,Dara Walsh

Mesenteric-based gastrointestinal and colorectal surgery has been practiced internationally for over a century. However, it is not yet universally adopted, and considerable variations exist. Such variations are explained by the historical disparity that has persisted between anatomic and surgical approaches to the intestinal mesentery. While mesenteric-based surgery is far from new, it is remarkable that its anatomic basis has only recently been formally described. This means that key mesenteric principles of intestinal and colorectal surgery can now be taught, conducted and developed, in an entirely standardised manner. This book is composed of two parts. In this new book surgical anatomy, activities and operations are carefully defined, and beautifully illustrated, to enable all surgeons to conduct mesenteric-based intestinal and colorectal surgery, appropriately and with confidence.

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583

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CRC Press

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1498780652

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9781498780650

Oman: the Modernization of the Sultanate

By: Calvin H. Allen, Jr

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Oman: the Modernization of the Sultanate

By: Calvin H. Allen, Jr

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 location at the entrance to the Straits of Hormuz gave the country an increasing importance to US security interests in the Gulf region. Yet despite modernization, Oman remains an unknown land. This book, first published in 1987, dispels some of the mystery by focusing on the land, the people and the history. It explores the influences on events of trade, foreign involvement in Omani affairs, and Ibadism (the principal sect of Islam in Oman). It also emphasizes the role of the Sultan in contemporary Oman. The architect of Oman’s ‘new age’, Qaboos has overseen significant changes in the country’s political system and rapid economic growth financed by oil exports.

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169

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Routledge

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1317291646

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9781317291640

Institutes of the Christian Religion

By: John Calvin

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Institutes of the Christian Religion

By: John Calvin

A colossal milestone of Christian thought—at an irresistible price! Here in a convenient one-volume edition is John Calvin’s magnum opus. Written as an introduction to the Christian life, the Institutes remains the best articulation of Reformation principles and is a marvelous introduction to biblical Christianity. Newly retypeset for clarity, this volume translated by Henry Beveridge offers a more affordable edition of one of the last millennium’s must-have works. This book will appeal to libraries, seminarians, pastors, and laypeople. Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin is an introduction to the Bible and a vindication of Reformation principles by one of the Reformation’s finest scholars. At the age of twenty-six, Calvin published several revisions of his Institutes of the Christian Religion, a seminal work in Christian theology that altered the course of Western history and that is still read by theological students today. It was published in Latin in 1536 and in his native French in 1541, with the definitive editions appearing in 1559 (Latin) and in 1560 (French). The book was written as an introductory textbook on the Protestant faith for those with some learning already and covered a broad range of theological topics from the doctrines of church and sacraments to justification by faith alone. It vigorously attacked the teachings of those Calvin considered unorthodox, particularly Roman Catholicism, to which Calvin says he had been “strongly devoted” before his conversion to Protestantism. The overarching theme of the book—and Calvin’s greatest theological legacy—is the idea of God’s total sovereignty, particularly in salvation and election. John Calvin (1509–1564), a French theologian and reformer, was persecuted as a Protestant. As a result, he traveled from place to place. In 1534 at Angouleme he began the work of systematizing Protestant thought in his Institutes of the Christian Religion, one of the most influential theological works of all time.

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1445

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Hendrickson Publishers

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1598565079

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9781598565072

Book's by Calvin H. Allen

Westward Ha!

Westward Ha!

Oman Under Qaboos

Oman Under Qaboos

The Diary of Calvin Fletcher, Volume 6: 1857-1860

The Diary of Calvin Fletcher, Volume 6: 1857-1860

Mesenteric Principles of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Mesenteric Principles of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Oman: the Modernization of the Sultanate

Oman: the Modernization of the Sultanate

Institutes of the Christian Religion

Institutes of the Christian Religion

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