Business & Economics
The Chronicles of America Volume 09 - Colonial Folkways
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Charles Mclean Andrews and Charles Morris
This work according to the subtitle is "a chronicle of American life in the reign of the Georges." It describes land, locales, hou…
Report of the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms (The Brady Report)
Read by Patrick McHaffie
Presidential Task Force On Market Mechanisms
From the close of trading on Tuesday, October 13, 1987, to the close of trading on October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ("…
Ads and Sales: A Study of Advertising and Selling from the Standpoint of the Ne…
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Herbert Newton Casson
This book is a treatise on advertising as it was in the United States in 1911."This book is the first attempt, as far as I know, to app…
Triumphant Democracy
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Andrew Carnegie
Subtitled "Fifty Years' March of the Republic," this is steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie's love letter to America, first published in …
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
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Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…
Making Home Profitable
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Kate Saint Maur
A new life in the country was another chance for Kate Saint Maur and her husband after a business failure left them in dire straits in the c…
A Battle of the Books
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Gail Hamilton
"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for an author to dissolve the bands which have connected him with his publis…
The American Bee Journal. Vol. XVII, No. 11, Mar. 16, 1881
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The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and sa…
The Trial of a New Society
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Justus Ebert
In 1912 textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, mostly immigrants, went on strike in response to a pay cut, speedups, and unsafe working…
The History of the Fabian Society
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Edward R. Pease
"The History of the Fabian Society" describes the growth of Socialist theory in England, and the influence of Socialism on the pol…
A History of the Comstock Silver Lode and Mines
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Dan Dequille
This is a brief account of the Comstock Lode silver mines, and description of the geographic features of the state of Nevada including the r…
The American Bee Journal. Vol. XVII, No. 14, Apr. 6, 1881
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The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and sa…
Tea: Its History and Mystery
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Joseph M. Walsh
Utility, not originality, has been aimed at in the compilation of this work. The obstacles and difficulties its author had met with in his e…
The Rural Magazine and Literary Evening Fire-Side Vol 1 No 2
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This is the second issue of a monthly agricultural magazine for the year 1820. From the introduction: "A leading object of the Rural Ma…
The American Bee Journal. Vol. XVII, No. 12, Mar. 23, 1881
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The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and s…
Gloves Past and Present
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Willard M. Smith
From the preface: "For thirty years I have devoted myself to the practical problems of the glove industry, and my connection with one o…
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report
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Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
Here is the final report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission into the causes of the global financial crisis of 2007-2009. Two thoroug…
The Seven Stairs
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Stuart Brent
An Autobiography of Stuart Brent, who in 1946 followed his bliss and opened an independent bookstore in Chicago, which became very popular a…
The Great Lakes and the Vessels That Plough Them
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James Oliver Curwood
The author sets forth the facts of the Great Lakes' largest fleet of freighters in the world, explaining what an enormous role Great Lakes c…
When Railroads Were New
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Charles Frederick Carter
This history of American railroads originated as a series of articles in Railroad Man's Magazine before being compiled into a book in 1909. …