The Muse’s Visitors, an anthology compiled by Suvarna. Pilli. It contains beautiful pieces of 31 amazing writers across the world who penned down their feelings. This book consists of a mixed genre of short stories, poems and articles based on variety of themes. In compiling this new candidate for favour, the one aim has been to pack between its covers the greatest possible amount of practical information of real value to all, especially to the inexperienced. In this book, you can find both our experiences and how they changed us. You’ll find stories and momentos that we hope will touch your heart.

Between the World Wars, New Orleans transformed its image from that of a corrupt and sullied port of call into that of a national tourist destination. Anthony J. Stanonis tells how boosters and politicians reinvented the city to build a modern mass tourism industry and, along the way, fundamentally changed the city's cultural, economic, racial, and gender structure. Stanonis looks at the importance of urban development, historic preservation, taxation strategies, and convention marketing to New Orleans' makeover and chronicles the city's efforts to domesticate its jazz scene, "democratize" Mardi Gras, and stereotype local blacks into docile, servile roles. He also looks at depictions of the city in literature and film and gauges the impact on New Orleans of white middle-class America's growing prosperity, mobility, leisure time, and tolerance of women in public spaces once considered off-limits. Visitors go to New Orleans with expectations rooted in the city's "past": to revel with Mardi Gras maskers, soak up the romance of the French Quarter, and indulge in rich cuisine and hot music. Such a past has a basis in history, says Stanonis, but it has been carefully excised from its gritty context and scrubbed clean for mass consumption.

The first book length study of the environmental justice movement, tourism, and the links between race, class, and waste