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1959: The Year That Inflamed the Caribbean
	Diederich, Bernard Subject: Latin America, Caribbean	Certain years are pivotal in global history, and one such year was 1959, from which this book takes its title. 1959 was indeed a historic year during which, among other historic events, Fidel Castro’s guerrilla war in Cuba toppled dictator … More Information

Accounting and Performance Measurement: Issues in the Private and Public Sectors
	Lapsley, Irvine and Falconer Mitchell, editors Subject: Accounting	This collection, edited by Irvine Lapsley and Falconer Mitchell, comprises a broad range of chapters by a group of acknowledged accounting experts. Together they provide an investigation and analysis of these issues in both private and public sector settings. Their … More Information

Accounting for the Environment
	Gray, Rob, Jan Bebbington, and Diane Walters (edited by Martin Houldin) Subject: Accounting	In the last five years, accounting for the environment has taken an increasingly central role in shaping discussion within the international accounting profession. Environmental accounting is now seen as an essential element in any organization’s environmental response. This book … More Information

Accounting Research Directory: The Database of Accounting Literature
	Brown, Lawrence D., John C. Gardner and Miklos A. Vasarhelyi Subject: Accounting and Artificial Intelligence	The third edition of the Accounting Research Directory now includes citations from a new journal, Contemporary Accounting Research. Also provided are 30 years (1963-1993) of citations from the six leading accounting journals previously covered. The new directory is significantly … More Information

Accounting’s Changing Role in Social Conflict (Critical Accounting Research)
	Lehman, Cheryl R. Subject: Accounting and Artificial Intelligence	This work rejects the two most commonly held positions regarding the role of accounting in certain ongoing financial crises: the position of market theorists that accounting doesn’t matter and the position of theorists that support the view of “representational … More Information

Afghanistan on the Threshold of the 21st Century: Three Essays on Culture and Society
	Centlivres, Pierre and Micheline Centlivres-Demont Subject: Middle East	Two prominent anthropologists describe their long “journey” with the Afghan people, a journey that lasted thirty years and was punctuated by the events that caused Afghanistan’s transformation from the monarchic state of Zaher Shah to Daoud’s republic, from the Communist … More Information

Africa: A Short History
	Collins, Robert O. Subject: Africa, Textbook	This is a concise but sweeping account of the African past, its peoples, and their institutions. The book attempts to provide an overview of African history without getting bogged down in details and data. This approach is very useful for … More Information

The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam
	Hunwick, John and Eve Troutt Powell, editors Subject: Africa, Middle East, History of Slavery	For every gallon of ink that has been spilt on the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its consequences, only one very small drop has been spent on the study of the forced migration of black Africans into the Mediterranean world of … More Information

The African Experience in Spanish America
	Rout, Leslie, Jr. Subject: Africa, Latin America, History of Slavery	This pioneering book, a founding text of African diaspora studies, continues to hold a prominent place in any bibliography of its field and remains the only general history on the people of African descent in the Spanish-speaking nations of … More Information

African Geopolitics
	Hugon, Philippe (translated by Steve Randall) Subject: Africa, Colonial, World History	For over a thousand years, foreign powers, including the Arabs, Portuguese, Spanish, British, French, and now Chinese, interfered in African affairs to pursue economic and political gains. In a similar way, African rulers exploited this foreign presence for their own … More Information