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Minister in Oman
"Minister in Oman" is the autobiography of Mr. Neil M. Innes who served the then Sultan of Muscat and Oman (now Oman) Said bin Taimur. The theme of the book revolves around two main events: the occupation of Buraimi Oasis by the Saudis and the collapse of the last Imam of the Interior of Oman, Imam Ghalib.
The first few chapters are very motivating to the extent that I was entertaining the idea of translating the book. However, as I preceded that idea kept fading out until I no longer think it is a good one.
Things that I don't like about the book:
1.Mr. Innes is too partial to Sultan Said; he describes and explains the course of events as a Sultan's correspondent which gives questionable scholastic credit to his work; He and his wife, from his narration, held a defensive attitude towards Sultan Said's critiques, either journalists or people they knew.

2.Mr. Innes' excessive usage of acronyms, for places, military units, organizations and even people. It took me so long to search for the whole meanings to some of these acronyms. I think these acronyms were unreviewed shorthand he used in the handwriting of the manuscript!
This book is good for those who are curious about life and governmental management in Oman before 1970. I learnt a lot on this from Mr Innes, I just wish if he added more pictures.It also added a lot to the little I know about Sultan Said, a man whom I think deserves the devotion of some academic work.

History of a Transition
This is a specialist's book really.Not that it is overly technical or difficult to read, but that it will appeal chiefly to those with a knowledge of present-day Gulf society who might like to broaden their understanding of the last days in isolation of the Sultanate of Oman.While broadly contemporary with both "Arabian Sands" and Edward Henderson's "Strange Eventful History", it is much closer to the latter because the author ("foreign minister" to Sultan Said) had a similar insider's view of the activities of government.The sympathetic study of the present Sultan's father is truly poignant in places, but in general this is a fairly dry depiction of life in Oman during eventful years.Perhaps unintentionally, it also gives an amusing portrayal of the tail-end of British colonial influence in the Middle East - an uneasy partnership between Oxbridge mandarins and Oriental potentates.The best accompanying photograph is one of the recently deposed Sultan in the author's English country garden. ... Read more

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Chapters: Bernard Cribbins, Benny Hill, Bill Bailey, Joyce Grenfell, Neil Innes, Fred Wedlock, Max Bygraves, Vic Reeves, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, the Wurzels, George Formby, Jr., Frisky and Mannish, Max Miller, 64 Spoons, Anna Russell, Richard O'brien, Mike Harding, Gracie Fields, Jasper Carrott, Flanders and Swann, the Temperance Seven, Mitch Benn, Clive Dunn, Chas ... Read more

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Chapters: People From Chelmsford, People From Danbury, Neil Innes, Charlotte Atkins, Richard Dannatt, Ben Smith, Greg Halford, Grayson Perry, Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, Michael Richard Lynch, Richard Martin, Penny Lancaster, Chris Mullin, Steve Blame, Tom Mcrae, Steve Malone, Robin Tilbrook, Leanne Lakey, Sarah Cracknell, James Harper, Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland, Rachel Elnaugh, Mervyn Day, Andy Turner, Denis Wick, Luis Cumbers, James Pullen, Everett True, Alan Heath, Noel Stephen Paynter, Simon Brown, Daniel Debourg, Mildred Bruce, Nigel Spink, Damien King, Sarah Hardcastle, Neil Cole, Peter Ashdown, Ian Bruce, James Milner Phillips, Joel Etienne-Clark, Eugene Martinez, David Acfield, Bruce Bastin, Peter Nugent, Paul White, Baron Hanningfield, Peter Collins, Jamie Rickers, Armstrong Gibbs, Simon Clarke, Philemon Holland, Harold Sandford Mugford, Frederic Alonzo Carrington, Sarah Ainsworth, Scott Sherrin, Mark Cousins, Marcus Huxley, Nick Moorcroft, Mike Edmonds, Chris Childs, June Thomson, George Charles Coppley. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 209. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: General Sir Francis Richard Dannatt, GCB, CBE, MC (born 23 December 1950) is a senior British Army officer. In 2006 he was appointed Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the army, and was succeeded by General Sir David Richards on 28 August 2009. On 1 August 2009 Dannatt was appointed to the ceremonial position of Constable of the Tower of London. The son of an architect, Dannatt was born in Chelmsford in Essex on 23 December 1950. He was educated at Felsted School and St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate. He also attended Hatfield College, Durham University, where he was elected president of the Durham Union Society. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economic History. Dannat...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6197738 ... Read more

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Chapters: Malcolm Mclaren, Damon Albarn, Neil Innes, Mark Wallinger, John Cale, Michael Landy, Cathy de Monchaux, Damien Hirst, Bridget Riley, Tang Da Wu, Tessa Jowell, Esther Cailingold, Lucian Freud, Cathy Jamieson, Graham Coxon, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Malcolm Laycock, Alex James, Julian Clary, Brian Molko, Arshiya Lokhandwala, Darren Johnson, Yinka Shonibare, Antony Gormley, Cyril Power, Gladys Mitchell, Artist-Led Initiatives Support Network, Wade Elliott, Richard Patterson, Chris Beckett, John Illsley, Fiona Mactaggart, Merlyn Rees, Baron Merlyn-Rees, Alex Zane, Dennis Kelly, Henry Bond, Aleksander Kolkowski, John Austin, Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Emily Booth, Hisham Matar, Graham Sutherland, Frances Morrell, Steve Mcqueen, Goldierocks, Mary Quant, Liam Gillick, Angus Fairhurst, Alan Rankle, Matthew Collings, Sarah Lucas, Gillian Wearing, Lucy Caldwell, Kerry Mccarthy, Robin Tanner, Sam Taylor-Wood, Molly Parkin, Roger Williams, John Vinelott, Mark Mcgowan, Alan Gilmour, Mary White, Julian Turner, Anya Gallaccio, John Harvey, Bader Ben Hirsi, Martyn Brabbins, Max Hattler, Sarah Sands, Ian Davenport, Julian Opie, Lala Meredith-Vula, Simon Hale, Les Back, David Mccalden, Rob Da Bank, Amelia Warner, Bill Burns, Matt O'dell, Ian Rickson, James Robert Ford, Peter Graham, Katherine Weare, Ian Mackenzie-Kerr, Ian Wright, Marcus Harvey, Kanya King, Jane and Louise Wilson, Moira Buffini, Wendy Mcmurdo, Rachel Howard, Patrick Jonathan, Amy Robbins, Simon Lewis, Gary Hume, C. Walter Hodges, Owen Hatherley, Pete Hoida, Paul Bush, Martin Maloney, Abigail Lane, Andrew Poppy, Cecil Higgs, Fiona Banner, Bernd Behr, Peter Lowe, Walter Landor, R. J. Unstead, Fiona Rae, Lijia Zhang, Chris Corner, Simon Slater, Stephen Park, Sarah Jones, Robert Hodgins, Ian Monroe, Donna Ong, Catherine Yass, Tom Macrae, Grenville Davey, Helen Clifton, John Doubleday, Brian Griffiths, David Tattersall, Simon Patterson, Diane S...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=293321 ... Read more

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Chapters: The Rutles, Allan Sherman, Neil Innes, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Stan Freberg, Steve Dahl, Capitol Steps, Michael V., Ogie Alcasid, Michaël Youn, Rob Balder, Worm Quartet, Luke Ski, Zombeatles, Jon Kinyon, Adam Roberts, Burton Silver, the Jimi Homeless Experience, Johnny Crass, Big Daddy, Mabel Maney, Anthony Copley. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 181. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (English pronunciation: ; born October 23, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter, music producer, actor, comedian, satirist, and a parodist. Yankovic is known in particular for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and that often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts. Since his first-aired song parody in 1979, he has sold more than 12 million albumsmore than any other comedy act in historyrecorded more than 150 parody and original songs, and has performed more than 1,000 live shows. His works have earned him three Grammy Awards among nine nominations, four gold records, and six platinum records in the United States. Yankovic's first top ten Billboard album (Straight Outta Lynwood) and single ("White ... Read more

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Sheet music for "sea Shells Waltz" by Frederick Neil Innes. Edited by Jaroslav Cimera. ... Read more

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Be it ever so crumbly, there's no place like home. Join us on a frightfully funny musical tour of a haunted house, featuring: Welcome Fellow Friends, It's a Haunted House, the Witch's Kitchen, In the Hall of the Mountain King, Beware!, Hobgoblins, and Monsters' Holiday. ... Read more

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Doom from not really funny money
This book gives a comical, yet enlightening description of our money's current enslaving nature in an economy. It is an out of print, but potentially collectors' book that can be bought 2nd hand.

I quote J.D.Ritchie's review on the Amazon.co.uk website, as I could not better his description: "Simple explanation of the world of economics by the polymath genius Neil Innes, the musical genius behind The Rutles and Monty Python in Britain.
Written before the "Dummies" style books, this explains the past, present and future of money and economics in such a way as even I can understand it, and it shows where the world's current economic woes originated. If you want to be entertained and yet find yourself educated at the end of it, then go for this."

Money in the world's so called "democratic" nations has been created through debt for more than the last 200 years by the private banking system that has been restoring what was once in history a feudalistic (non-democratic) existence for the masses. The money created in this system has been, and is cause for all our booms and busts. We have got so used to its enslavement that we (especially governments believing in their economic advisors) cannot imagine the absence of "legally fraudulent" banks. Readers should also seek out a highly recommendable DVD called "Money as Debt" to complement the information in this book. Both items are ideal for educating the family about the true nature of our money in an entertaining manner.

I wish a demand for this book would bring it back in print: It would be an excellent book (along with the recommended "Money as Debt" DVD) for educating pupils at schools - if the powers that be (i.e. governments manipulated by the rapacious private banking and financial corporations) allow it, of course. ... Read more

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Chapters: Kenny Miller, Andy Thomson, Chris Innes, Lee Bullen, Neil Alexander, Steve Pittman, Brian Welsh, Alex Smith, Alan Lawrence, Willie Ormond, Colin Cramb, William Wallace, Craig O'reilly, Adam Coakley, José Quitongo, Alistair Brown, Gordon Lennon, Bill Mccafferty, Lindsay Hamilton, Keith Wright, Paul Jarvie, Ally Graham, John Paul Mcbride, Peter Cormack, Graeme Smith, Michael Renwick, Simon Mensing, Michael Mcgowan, Paul Mcgrillen, Roddy Mckenzie, Kevin Mckeown, Chris Mcgroarty, Alan Reid, Michael Oliver, Robbie Henderson, Darren Smith, Albert Craig, David Templeton, Keith Knox, Alan Morgan, Graeme Armstrong, Ian Ferguson, Harry Cairney, David Graham, Ian Harty, John Fraser, Brian Mclaughlin, Crawford Baptie, Ally Mcleod, Daniel Ogunmade, John Baird, Shaun Fagan, Stephen Connolly, Steven Hampshire, Lee Collins, George Mcgeachie, Craig Mcewan, Tommy Campbell, Kevin Bradley, Brian Martin, James Baird, Brian Mccolligan, Stewart Kennedy, Stephen Aitken, Isaac English, Graham Gibson, Eric Paton, Darren Henderson, Paddy Flannery, Craig Molloy, James Comrie, Scott Mcmanus, Andy Ferguson, Archie Aikman, Scott Mcculloch, Kevin Budinauckas, Tony Smith, James Hodge, Stephen Cosgrove, Arthur Grant, Brian Crawford, Derek Niven, Shaun Dillon, Jim Henry, Paul Murphy, Johnny Mcintyre, Jim Black, Robert Bruce, George Brown, Jimmy Sandison, Alec Mcnair, Bobby Dickson, David Mcfarlane, Harry Glasgow, Maurice Elliott, Bill Smith, Peter Fisher, Des Mckeown, Dick Black, John Hodge. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 277. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Appearances (Goals). National team caps and goals correct as of 21 March 2010Kenneth "Kenny" Miller (born 23 December 1979 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish footballer who currently plays for Scottish Premier League side Rangers and the Scottish nationa...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2240460 ... Read more