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Book Synopsis The Great Train Race by : Allan Mitchell†
Download or read book The Great Train Race written by Allan Mitchell† and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From their origins, railways produced an intense competition between the two major continental systems in France and Germany. Fitting a new technology into existing political institutions and social habits, these two nations became inexorably involved in industrial and commercial rivalry that eventually escalated into the armed conflict of 1914. Based on many years of research in French and German archives, this study examines the adaptation of railroads and steam engines from Britain to the continent of Europe after the Napoleonic age. A fascinating example of how the same technology, borrowed at the same time from the same source, was assimilated differently by the two continental powers, this book offers a groundbreaking analysis of the crossroads of technology and politics during the first Industrial Revolution.
Book Synopsis The Great Race (Thomas & Friends) by : Kerry Milliron
Download or read book The Great Race (Thomas & Friends) written by Kerry Milliron and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertie the Bus wants to race, and Thomas happily takes up the challenge. Bertie takes an early lead, but a patient Thomas proves there are advantages to riding on tracks instead of roads. Beginning readers will delight in this charming adaptation of the classic Thomas the Tank Engine story Thomas and Bertie. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Book Synopsis The Great Train Race by : Allan Mitchell
Download or read book The Great Train Race written by Allan Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From their origins, railways produced an intense competition between the two major continental systems in France and Germany. Fitting a new technology into existing political institutions and social habits, these two nations became inexorably involved in industrial and commercial rivalry that eventually escalated into the armed conflict of 1914. Based on many years of research in French and German archives, this study examines the adaptation of railroads and steam engines from Britain to the continent of Europe after the Napoleonic age. A fascinating example of how the same technology, borrowed at the same time from the same source, was assimilated differently by the two continental powers, this book offers a groundbreaking analysis of the crossroads of technology and politics during the first Industrial Revolution.
Book Synopsis China's Great Train by : Abrahm Lustgarten
Download or read book China's Great Train written by Abrahm Lustgarten and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid account of China's unstoppable quest to build a railway into Tibet, and its obsession to transform its land and its people In the summer of 2006, the Chinese government fulfilled a fifty-year plan to build a railway into Tibet. Since Mao Zedong first envisioned it, the line had grown into an imperative, a critical component of China's breakneck expansion and the final maneuver in strengthening China's grip over this remote and often mystical frontier, which promised rich resources and geographic supremacy over South Asia. Through the lives of the Chinese and Tibetans swept up in the project, Fortune magazine writer Abrahm Lustgarten explores the "Wild West" atmosphere of the Chinese economy today. He follows innovative Chinese engineer Zhang Luxin as he makes the train's route over the treacherous mountains and permafrost possible (for now), and the tenacious Tibetan shopkeeper Rinzen, who struggles to hold on to his business in a boomtown that increasingly favors the Han Chinese. As the railway—the highest and steepest in the world—extends to Lhasa, and China's "Go West" campaign delivers waves of rural poor eager to make their fortunes, their lives and communities fundamentally change, sometimes for good, sometimes not. Lustgarten's book is a timely, provocative, and absorbing first-hand account of the Chinese boom and the promise and costs of rapid development on the country's people.
Book Synopsis The Great Train Race by : John Thomas Fowler
Download or read book The Great Train Race written by John Thomas Fowler and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Children's Book) Trotting Sally is the legendary fiddle playing Carolina folk hero who could outrun horses and automobiles, as well as make his violin talk. While playing down at the local train station he was challenged to race the Carolina Special, a passenger train, twelve miles down the line to the next depot. Without hesitation he accepted the challenge. All eyes were on Trotting Sally when he took his position at the starting line. Get on your mark, get set and.....BANG! (32pg.)
Book Synopsis The Great Train Robbery by : Michael Crichton
Download or read book The Great Train Robbery written by Michael Crichton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes an enthralling novel about Victorian London’s most notorious gold heist. London, 1855, when lavish wealth and appalling poverty exist side by side, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease. Edward Pierce preys on the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of his century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England’s industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, but studded with all the suspense and style of fiction, here is a classic historical thriller, set a decade before the age of dynamite—yet nonetheless explosive…
Book Synopsis The Great Train Race by : Allan Mitchell
Download or read book The Great Train Race written by Allan Mitchell and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The breadth of [this] comparative study of French and German railroad development - the largest and most important railway systems on the continent - is a signal achievement... A brief sketch of the book's trajectory does justice neither to the wealth of detail nor to the arresting insights that future historians will draw on for years to come." - Central European History "... a fine book. Indeed, it is a labour of love, informed by intensive research and a lifetime's interest. All historians of European railways will be greatly in its debt." - The International History Review "The Great Train Race is a well-researched book, full of useful comparative insights into French and German railway development, and doubtless an important contribution to the history of Franco-German rivalry before World War One ... [R]ecommended to economic historians as a study which shows, in well-balanced comparative perspective, the great importance of their field for understanding political history." - Journal of Modern History "For Mitchell, this was clearly a labor of love, and it is a pleasure to see a job well done. The book has a full scholarly apparatus along with vital charts and maps to keep things clear." - H-German "Allan Mitchell is presenting, with The Great Train Race, a highly informed and ambitious study, in which the fundamental importance of trains for the societies of both countries has been convincingly argued." - Historische Zeitschrift "...Presents a rich and understandable overview...The book provides an excellent model for researching and writing comparative railway histories. Such analyses of the relationship between state and railway are rare events." - The Journal of Transport History From their origins, railways produced an intense competition between the two major continental systems in France and Germany. Fitting a new technology into existing political institutions and social habits, these two nations became inexorably involved in industrial and commercial rivalry that eventually escalated into the armed conflict of 1914. Based on many years of research in French and German archives, this study examines the adaptation of railroads and steam engines from Britain to the continent of Europe after the Napoleonic age. A fascinating example of how the same technology, borrowed at the same time from the same source, was assimilated differently by the two continental powers, this book offers a groundbreaking analysis of the crossroads of technology and politics during the first Industrial Revolution.
Book Synopsis Triple-track Train Race! by : Mary Tillworth
Download or read book Triple-track Train Race! written by Mary Tillworth and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All aboard as the Bubble Guppies learn all about trains.
Book Synopsis The Great Train Mystery by : Carole Marsh
Download or read book The Great Train Mystery written by Carole Marsh and published by Gallopade International. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christina, Grant, Mimi, and Papa go "All aboard!" the train Papa's borrowed train for a fast-adventure across America - and try to keep from being "Derailed" by mysterious mishaps, spooky surprises, and - oh, it's so dark in here! - those treacherous tunnels! Look What's Inside This Mystery - people, places, history and more! Places: Washington, D.C. - Union Station Š The National Mall Š Washington Monument Š Lincoln Memorial; Nebraska - Union Station Š Union Pacific Railroad Historical Museum Š Chimney Rock; Missouri - Museum of Westward Expansion Š Independence Š Eads Bridge, St. Louis; Colorado - Union Station; Utah - Salt Lake City Š Promontory Summit; and Mississippi River and Sierra Nevada Mountains People: Lewis and Clark Š Harry S. Truman Š Shakespeare Š Abraham Lincoln Š Pioneers Educational Items: Cattle drives Š Union Station's history Š Steam Engines Š Louisiana Purchase Š Transcontinental Railroad Š Westward Expansion Š Oregon Trail Š Manifest Destiny Š Golden Spike ceremony Š The Old West Š Bethel Granite Š Sierra No. 3 Š The Gateway Arch Š California Trail Š California Gold Rush Š Kerosene Š Coal Š Oil Š The Pony Express Š Pinto horses Š Historic trains: No. 119 and Jupiter Like all of Carole Marsh Mysteries, this mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that will keep kids begging for more! This mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, built-in book club and activities. Below is the Reading Levels Guide for this book: Grade Levels: 3-6 Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 3.6 Accelerated Reader Points: 2 Accelerated Reader Quiz Number: 150376 Lexile Measure: 610 Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Level: Q Developmental Assessment Level: 40
Book Synopsis The Great Train Journey by : Ruskin Bond
Download or read book The Great Train Journey written by Ruskin Bond and published by Rupa Publication. This book was released on 2018 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Signal Red written by Robert Ryan and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edge-of-your-seat caper based on one of the most sensational crimes in British history In August 1963, a Royal Mail train traveling between Glasgow and London was forced to make an unscheduled stop. Led by a charismatic jewel thief, a gang of fifteen unarmed men boarded the train, incapacitated the driver, and made off with more than £2 million. Divided equally, it was more than enough money for them to disappear forever—if they could all keep quiet. Incensed by the brazenness of the crime, Scotland Yard investigators employed every means they could think of to get the thieves to turn on one another. Soon, a meticulous plan descended into a desperate free-for-all as the gang went down one by one. This heart-racing novel inspired by the Great Train Robbery asks the most fascinating question of all: Who talked? This ebook includes an afterword by Bruce Reynolds, mastermind of the Great Train Robbery. Signal Red is the 3rd book in the Great British Heroes and Antiheroes Trilogy, which also includes Empire of Sand and Death on the Ice.
Book Synopsis Learn to Read with SpongeBob and Friends! by : Various
Download or read book Learn to Read with SpongeBob and Friends! written by Various and published by Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soak up these six SpongeBob Ready-to-Read books in one carry-along boxed set at an incredible value! Learn to read with SpongeBob and friends! Six popular Ready-to-Read titles starring everyone’s favorite sponge are included in this carry-along boxed set with a plastic handle and Velcro closure. Perfect for SpongeBob fans who are beginning readers, this collection includesSpecial Delivery!,The Song That Never Ends,The Bikini Bottom Bike Race,The Great Train Mystery,The Best Mom, andGood Times!
Book Synopsis The Great Big Little Red Train by : Benedict Blathwayt
Download or read book The Great Big Little Red Train written by Benedict Blathwayt and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Huffitty-chuffitty . . . huffitty-chuffitty . . . huffitty-chuffitty puff went the smoke from the Little Red Train's funnel.' When a lorry driver scoffs at the Little Red Train for looking old and useless, Duffy is quite upset. But the Little Red Train soon proves its worth when terrible traffic, breakdowns and faulty lights stop the lorries being able to deliver. And the Little Red Train doesn't look quite so useless, or little, after all! Ben Blathwayt's Little Red Train books, full of intricate detail, have proved a big hit with children. With a minimal text and big, busy pages Ben's books have enormous appeal for young children. Now enjoy this classic picture book with the accompanying audio CD, read by Richard Briers with music and sound effects.
Download or read book Race Cars written by Jenny Devenny and published by Frances Lincoln Limited. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race Cars is a picture book that serves as a springboard for parents and educators to discuss race, privilege, and oppression with their kids.
Book Synopsis The Great Turkey Race by : Steve Metzger
Download or read book The Great Turkey Race written by Steve Metzger and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kit contains 2 books and a CD.
Book Synopsis Little Red Train: Faster, Faster by : Benedict Blathwayt
Download or read book Little Red Train: Faster, Faster written by Benedict Blathwayt and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Click-clack, clicketty-clack, whoo . . . eee! Disaster! The fast rain to Pebblecombe has broken down. Everyone on the train wants to get to the fair and enjoy a great day out but now they're all stuck on the tracks. It is up to the Little Red Train and Duffy Driver to save the day! A classic Little Red Train story - now available as an ebook with narration by Richard Briars
Download or read book Iron War written by Matt Fitzgerald and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic account of an unforgettable endurance test, now updated with a new introduction The 1989 Ironman World Championship was the greatest race ever in endurance sports. In a spectacular duel that became known as the Iron War, the world's two strongest athletes raced side by side at world-record pace for a grueling 139 miles. Driven by one of the fiercest rivalries in triathlon, Dave Scott and Mark Allen raced shoulder to shoulder through Ironman's 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike race, and 26.2-mile marathon. After 8 punishing hours, both men would demolish the previous record--and cross the finish line a mere 58 seconds apart. In Iron War, sports journalist Matt Fitzgerald writes a riveting epic about how Allen and Scott drove themselves and each other through the most awe-inspiring race in sports history. Iron War goes beyond the pulse-pounding race story to offer a fascinating exploration of the lives of the world's two toughest men and their unquenchable desire to succeed. Weaving an examination of mental resolve into a gripping tale of athletic adventure, Iron War is a soaring narrative of two champions and the paths that led to their stunning final showdown.
