Books with author Thomas B. Barker

This book will have you laughing. It’ll have you crying. But most of all you will be fascinated by the events and the people you meet in this sixty-six year span of American history. Grow up with an extraordinary American family in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Watch as automobiles increase in number, entertainment evolves, and electronic devices are invented. Experience the joys of the Pikestein family as it matures and prospers. Enjoy their triumphs and cope with their tragedies. This is the continuing saga of the “Legend of the Pikesville Cave” – Tom’s book that covers the Civil War and the immediate years after that conflict.Tom Barker continues to spin a tale that will keep you cheering for his heros and the characters they meet along the way, including W B Selden holder of the first patents on the automobile, Lee de Forest the father of Radio, A. C. Gilbert inventor of the Erector set, and characters you never knew existed. Illustrated with drawings and photographs reminiscent of the past. You can visit the fictional village of Pikesville right in Tom’s basement where it is a part of his operating toy train collection.

Keeping it simple and profitableThe purpose of this book can be summarized in three actionable tasks:1. Understand your existing inventory situation and define improvement objectives2. Simplify planning, purchasing, and stocking of spare parts, consumables, raw and bulk materials, MRO and engineering parts3. Realize savings by executing the strategy of "Classify & Cash-In."To achieve these goals, the following three questions shall be answered:1. How can your inventory be analyzed? 2. How can your inventory be classified into relevant groups?3. How can you develop rules for the groups and implement them?Introducing: SWOT Analysis of inventoryPlus: ABC XYZ analysis explainedUseful concepts for supply chain, purchasing, procurement, planning, warehousing, logistics and inventory control professionals and managers are explained in a practical manner.Inventory has become a significant cost driver due to large investments made by companies. Intermittent and irregular nature of many demands complicates the balancing of stocks and their holding costs. Many expensive parts, although low in demand, are critical to operations. By an appropriate classification system, various categories are identified. Specific recommendations and procedures are suggested for each of the classified group.

The goal of this book is three-fold:1. Understand your existing inventory situation and define improvement objectives2. Simplify planning, purchasing, and stocking of spare parts, consumables, raw and bulk materials, MRO and engineering parts3. Realize savings by executing the strategy of "Classify & Cash-In"To achieve these goals, the following three questions shall be answered:1. How can your inventory be analyzed?2. How can your inventory be classified into relevant groups?3. How can you develop rules for the groups and implement them?Introducing: SWOT Analysis of inventoryPlus: ABC XYZ analysis explainedUseful concepts for supply chain, purchasing, procurement, planning, warehousing, logistics and inventory control professionals and managers are explained in a practical manner. Inventory has become a significant cost driver due to large investments made by companies. Intermittent and irregular nature of many demands complicates the balancing of stocks and their holding costs. Many expensive parts, although low in demand, are critical to operations. By an appropriate classification system, various categories are identified. Specific recommendations and procedures are suggested for each of the classified group.

This book will have you laughing. It’ll have you crying. But most of all you will be fascinated by the events and the people you meet in this sixty-six year span of American history. Grow up with an extraordinary American family in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. See automobiles evolve, entertainment mature, technological devices get invented, and lives that encounter joy, and cope with tragedy.

It wasn’t until I began writing Child and dredging up long buried memories that I rediscovered just what a wonderful and extraordinary childhood I was privilege too. What started out as a short narrative quickly turned into a full-length book. Though I have gone on to do many things throughout life looking back I have to concede that being a kid ranks right at the top. Child provides the reader insight into places and times far removed from what exists today; it chronicles a young boy’s struggles and adventures as he comes of age and how he copes to reconcile living in two distinct worlds.

Walter Foster's classic How to Draw and Paint series provides aspiring artists with an exceptional array of art instruction books featuring all subject areas and media. Each title includes easy step-by-step exercises as well as finished illustrations or paintings that will inspire artistic talent in anyone. Packed with practical information, helpful tips, and fundamental techniques, the How to Draw and Paint series offers a complete library of resources to which artists of all skill levels can refer again and again. ¥ Discover how easy oil painting can be with 14 stunning demonstrations ¥ Find out what materials and colors you'll need to get started painting right away ¥ Choose your favorite subjects--from still lifes, flowers, and landscapes to street scenes, buildings, portraits, and more ¥ Follow along step-by-step to create textural, color-filled works of art ¥ Learn the secrets of composing with the color white and "suggesting" details ¥ Master the techniques for painting with a palette knife

Child in Paradise is the story of an American boy growing up in a foreign land; it chronicles his everyday trials and triumphs as he makes the convoluted journey from childhood into adolescence. A story that takes place predominately in the tiny tropical Central American Colony of British Honduras, now Belize. It is a collection of memories as told by the old man this boy became. Biographical materials are usually written to combine the person with the significance they have with particular names, dates, places, or events, history abounds with them. For the vast majority of us who live in everyday anonymity the only important dates and places were where and when we were brought into the world and again when we leave it. Thus it is with my life, it cannot in large part be measured or pinned to any extraordinary events or dates, but rather to a series of everyday happenings some major most minor each woven and intertwined together so that over time they create the tapestry of a person's life, so it is for all of us. This is how I see mine and how I have attempted to write it. There comes a time in one's life when the daily pressures of living life ease and one finally finds time to participate in a little introspection, to look back in an attempt to determine where the forks in the road had been and the consequences of taking the ones chosen. I was able to pinpoint with some measure of certainty just how and when the views I possess of life and my surroundings were formed, thankfully most were beneficial though there were a few I found somewhat disturbing. I found as I dredged up some of my earliest memories I had a tendency to write them down as if I were still that little boy, So in essence much of what follows is seen through the eyes of that child over fifty years ago.