Author: Bernard Diederich
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Keywords: years, golden, haiti, papa, bon
Number of Pages: 211
Published: 2008-03
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1558764658
ISBN-13: 9781558764651

This is Haiti, pearl of the Antilles, during the presidency of General Paul E. (Bon Papa) Magloire (1950-56). It was an exciting time, when Haitians stood tall, and their country flourished, as reported in the pages of the Haiti Sun newspaper. It was a time when the arts blossomed and tourists discovered a wonderful, bewitching land with the most friendly people in our hemisphere. It was a time when President and Mrs. Paul E. Magloire were welcomed and wined and dined at the White House by President Dwight Eisenhower and Mamie Eisenhower, and yes, they slept in the Lincoln bedroom. Haiti Sun&

Author: Kevin Reilly
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Keywords: world, west, amp, ancient, history, civilization
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1997-01-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1558761527
ISBN-13: 9781558761520

This text engages students and provokes discussion by presenting the past through the prism of current and perennial issues. Interpretive chapters on such topics as gender, religion, war, ecology, and nationalism create both thematic narratives and the strands of a larger chronological account. The book makes great ideas accessible, explores major historical turning points, and reveals the dynamic of increasing global interactions (trade, migrations, etc.). It also compares cultures and civilizations while giving voice to individual lives. This volume explores perennial issues. Gender relation

Author: Miklos A. Vasarhelyi
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Keywords: accounting, future, rutgers, applications, series, knowledge, intelligence, auditing, artificial, representation
Number of Pages: 263
Published: 1990-03-01
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 1558760784
ISBN-13: 9781558760783

These volumes contain articles about knowledge-enriched systems that are applicable to accounting and auditing. The articles advance the state-of-the-art in the fie ld, and explore methodologies and future trends.

Authors:Romulo Lachatanere, Christine Ayorinde,
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Keywords: orishas, yemaya, myths, cuban, afro
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 155876318X
ISBN-13: 9781558763180

"The essay "The Afro-Cuban Festival ’Day of the Kings’" by Fernando Ortiz, founder of Afro-Cuban studies, describes how, as in Brazil, Catholic priests and the colonial government as early as 1573 allowed and encouraged the African slaves to celebrate Epiphany, the Festival of the Three Kings...Free people joined in and the dances, music and costumes paraded by the various eyewitnesses demonstrate how early and how immense were the African contributions to what was to become the carnival of the African Diaspora.

Author: Molly Greene
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Keywords: empire, ottoman, minorities
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2005-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1558762280
ISBN-13: 9781558762282

Author: Richard N. Frye
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Keywords: princeton, series, middle, east, expansion, turkish, central, asia, antiquity, heritage
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1996-11
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 1558761101
ISBN-13: 9781558761100

A study of the heritage of Central Asia. It brings together such distinct elements as the world of Zoroaster, the Achaemenid ecumene, the Sakas and later waves of nomadic invaders, the spread of Buddhism along the Silk Road, the historic role of the Turks, and more.

Authors:Miklos A. Vasarhelyi, Miklos A. Vasarhelyi,
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Keywords: accounting, rutgers, series, information, perspectives, systems, international, intelligence, amp, auditing, artificial
Number of Pages: 225
Published: 2005-07-01
List price: $129.95
ISBN-10: 1558761799
ISBN-13: 9781558761797

The aim of this volume is to provide an international perspective of the types of artificial intelligence research being undertaken in accounting and finance. It contains a collection of papers which were presented at the 2nd and 3rd International Meetings on Artificial Intelligence in Accounting, Finance and Tax, held in Punta Umbria, Spain, in 1996 and 1997, as mid-year international conferences of the AI/ES Section of the American Accounting Association. Most of the above paradigms, as well as fuzzy logic, intelligent agents, and natural language understanding applications, are represented