Books with author Thomas Barr

Kevin the little crane helps mend engines at the Sodor Steamworks, but has a lot to learn. Can he show that he’s more than just a clumsy crane? Find out in this new engine adventure featuring Thomas and his friends from the Island of Sodor! Engine Adventures is the newest series in the Thomas Range. Children will love meeting Thomas and his engine friends. From Thomas to Gordon to Harold the Helicopter, there is a railway adventure to thrill every Thomas fan. These fun, short stories come with a fun, bonus spot-and-see activity at the end. Thomas & Friends have been teaching children lessons about life and friendship for over 70 years. Thomas ranks alongside other beloved character such as Paddington Bear, Winnie-the-Pooh and Peter Rabbit as an essential part of our literary heritage.

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.

Sixteen-year old Henry “Sandy” Alessandro Kane invents a world-changing new technology that he must keep secret, at least until he can figure out what it can do and if he can introduce it to the world safely. He has to in order to keep a promise of secrecy to his boss, because this new technology not only has the potential for tremendous good, but also for horrific evil.The technology he invented is not Sandy’s only secret. His dad disappeared and Sandy has successfully avoided being discovered as a minor on his own for years but one of his secrets might betray the other, if he is not careful.Along with the secrets that Sandy needs to protect, he also must navigate the relationship with his beautiful childhood friend, Tasha. After years of ignoring and avoiding him, Tasha is suddenly back in Sandy’s life. Sandy finds his relationship with her more difficult than any secret he could keep, including that of his world- changing technology: Bubble Tech, a technology that renders what it surrounds both invisible and seemingly invincible.

This book rediscovers all the 200+ postseason games Babe Ruth played from 1914-1935 in the continental United States and Canada. Anywhere the money offered satisfied Ruth, he would go. It made no difference if the place was Oil City or Sleepy Eye or Pratt--or Denver of Seattle or Kansas City. The extensive research using local newspapers at each stop show Ruth to be an enthusiastic showman, including stealing bases during the games and giving exhibitions before. He accepted the hospitality in towns by going to dances, eating dinner at the homes of local people. This story has never been told before. in all of the Ruth books before or now in 2018. My other Ruth book, Babe Ruth and the Creation of the Celebrity Athlete, looks at a few barnstorming games, but examines Ruth as brand, while dealing with Ruth as a commodity to be sold to the public.

This Babe Ruth book marks my seventh full length volume. It is a 272 page work of scholarship and employs notes, a bibliography, a list of local newspapers read, and an alphabetical list of the 201 places Ruth played or scheduled. For one of my books a reviewer Ron Briley in the journal "Nine," wrote "Barthel will delight those seeking a detailed chronicle of baseball in the 1930s." My books have been reviewed in "The Journal of Sport History," "Aethlon," "Elysian Fields Quarterly," and "Sports Collectors Digest" as well.A graduate of the Master's writing program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Barthel is a professor emeritus of the State University of New York. He lives in central New York.

Will the great innovations of the twenty-first century be American or Chinese? Who is winning the innovation race? And what are the implications for the people of other nations? There is a contest for technological supremacy occurring across the Pacific – a contest of historic importance, for its outcome will shape the world during the coming century and the winner will claim not just economic, military, and political ascendancy, but also superiority in their values and system of government. For those who grasp that technological innovation underlies economic strength, this book unravels some of the most important, but least well understood dimensions of American and Chinese competition. In a succinct, informative, and evidence-based manner, it analyzes whether China can match American levels of invention and innovation. Along the way, it draws conclusions for other nations caught between the Eagle and the Dragon - nations like Australia, Japan, and Korea - who are weighing the advantages of strategic alliances and trade links with both great powers. There has never been more a more important time to understand the implications of escalating American and Chinese competition. For those who believe technological innovation underlies economic strength, this book presents the facts in a straightforward but compelling manner.

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.

While camping in the Adirondacks teenage best friends Doug and Loop fall in with Ernie and her belligerent brother, as a Soviet missile attack heralds the beginning of a dangerous war with biological weapons and the entire country enters a state of chaotic emergency conditions.While backpacking in the Adirondacks with friends, Doug and his companions are horrified to discover that war has broken out between the U.S. and the Soviet Union