Albion Fellows BaconIndiana's Municipal HousekeeperRobert G. BarrowsExamines the career of a leading Progressive Era reformer.Born in Evansville, Indiana, in 1865, Albion Fellows was reared in the nearby hamlet of McCutchanville and graduated from Evansville High School. She worked for several years as a secretary and court reporter, toured Europe with her sister, married local merchant Hilary Bacon in 1888, and settled into a seemingly comfortable routine of ...

The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War. Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women in the work force, and the rapid advance of the cities had transformed American society.Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings together sixteen original essays that offer lively syntheses of modern scholarship while making their own interpretive arguments. These engaging pieces allow students to ...

Help students succeed now and in the future in any aspect of the hospitality field!Hospitality Management Education focuses on the academic aspect of hospitality--the mechanisms of hospitality education programs, their missions, their constituents, and the outcomes of their efforts. This book examines why people study hospitality management, the vast opportunities the field offers, and ways to best prepare students for a career in the industry or in academia. Within Hospitality Management ...

A collection of some of the world's most beloved pirate stories with an active table of contents.Works include:"Black Bartlemy's Treasure" by Jeffery Farnol"The Black Buccaneer" by Stephen W. Meader "Blackbeard" by Benjamin Barker"Blackbeard: Buccaneer" Ralph D. Paine"Captain Blood" by Rafael Sabatini "Captain Richard Ingle" by Edward Ingle"Captain Scraggs" by Peter B. Kyne"The Great Quest" by Charles Boardman Hawes"The Iron Pirate" by Max Pemberton"Kate Bonnet" by Frank R. Stockton...

The Barrows Popularity Factor explains how businesses of all kinds can now measure the effectiveness of their advertising with an easy-to-use mathematical formula called The Barrows Popularity Factor.The formula actually lets you quantify the relationship between your advertising and sales. Advertisers can use it to test and compare advertising copy and media, better, faster and less expensively than any other method.It can give you more of the information you need...