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Worldtariff provides Customs Duty & Tax information in a simplified, standardized, easy-to-read format. Our clients find it an invaluable planning, logistics operations and auditing resource.
Guidebook covers all HS Chapters 1-97. Includes Customs Duty & Tax information, including Harmonized System (HS) classification number, English language classification description, import duty (Most Favored Nation applied), selected preference duties for origin preference countries (intra-NAFTA, intra-MERCOSUR & preferences for EU and US-origin goods where preference programs exist), VAT, excise, turnover and other miscellaneous taxes.
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Naples & Sorrento Travel Guide
Globetrotter ,
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Manufacturer: New Holland Publishers (UK) LTD
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Naples and Sorrento (Globetrotter Travel Guide)
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Naples and Sorrento Travel Pack (Globetrotter Travel Packs)
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This pack offers exceptional value for money, including both a guidebook and a softcover version of the fold-out Globetrotter map, in a pocket-sized printed plastic wallet.
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The Principle of Equality in European Taxation (Eucotax Series on European Taxation, 2)
Gerard Meussen
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Financial Accounting Tutor 99
Dan Gode , and
Rachana Gode
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
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ASIN: 0471353175 |
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The Financial Accounting Tutor 99 is a self-paced tutorial that teaches the logic underlying the financial accounting concepts from an economics and finance perspective and accounting procedures from an information-systems perspective.
The software uses interactive and graphical tools to make the material engaging and interesting thereby dramatically enhancing the learning process. The discussions and examples are intertwined with brief, interactive problems that provide immediate feedback to the reader. The software uses a drag and drop format of journal entry that significantly speeds learning.
It explains every concept with simple examples so you learn more thoroughly and at a faster pace. By accelerating the learning of the basics, it allows more time to be spent on the judgment required for real world applications of financial accounting.
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* Links to numerous web sites enable students to explore business sites and access current financial information about real companies.
* Unparalleled search, navigation, and annotation features make the software user friendly.
* Built-in tools -- such as an on-line financial calculator that can solve most of the problems -- make this one of the most convenient, all-in-one learning tools you can buy.
*The content can be printed, and the screen layout is designed for easy reading, which makes it easy to review the material.
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Review on Financial Accounting and Financial Reporting.......1999-11-17
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1. Auditing Theory 2. Management Advisory Services 3. Auditing Problems 4. Financial Accounting 5. Theory of Accounts 6. Business Law 7. Taxation 8. Practical Accounting 9 Government Accounting
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North by South: The Two Lives of Richard James Arnold
Charles G. Hoffmann , and
Tess Hoffmann
Manufacturer: Univ of Georgia Pr
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North by South. The Two Lives of Richard James Arnold.
Charles HOFFMAN
Manufacturer: (ARNOLD, RICHARD JAMES). HOFFMAN, Charles and HOFFMAN, Tess. North by South. The Two Lives of Richard James Arnold. Athens [Ga.] and London, [1988]. 1st ed. Facs. xxii, 318pp. A fine copy in orig. cloth, d/j.
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The compendium is an armchair companion for viewing the classic television series "Combat!," starring Vic Morrow as Sergeant Saunders. "Combat!" was television's longest-running World War II drama and honored the frontline U.S. infantryman.
Airing originally on ABC from 1962 through 1967, "Combat!" followed the exploits of the fighting men of Company K's second platoon as they battled their way across Europe. A critical and popular success, "Combat!" lives on in syndication, where it continues to attract new fans.
The gritty drama attracted an impressive roster of guests, including luminaries from the past, current film stars, and the risingn stars of tomorrow. Lee Marvin, Mickey Rooney, Tom Skerritt, James Caan, Beau Briges, Sal Mineo, Eddie Albert, Frankie Avalon, Neville Brand, Charles Bronson, and more all came to "play soldier" with the men of "Combat!"
The book includes comments from Rick Jason, Dick Peabody, Tom Lowell, Pierre Jalbert, Conlan Carter, Jack Hogan, Robert Altman, Robert Blees, Georg Fenady, A.D. Flowers, and Earl Parker. The book has production notes, backstage stories, recollections of the actors, bloopers, reviews of all 152 episodes, and photos. A section of color photos of "Combat!" collectibles is also included.
The compendium is printed on high-quality paper, with a gloss color cover and over 150 photos throughout (both black-and-white and color). Softbound, 8-1/2 by 11 inches.
With a foreword written by Rick Jason (who played Lt. Hanley in the series).
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Very good blended "Combat!" resource!.......2006-06-29
This is everything you could want as a fan of the show. The author does a great job of giving us a reasonable amount of insight to move us from season to season. This blended nicely with the information about each episode.
I wish there had been a bit more room to expand the information about each episode, but, then again, I'd like to have had a bit more information about the participants lives outside of "Combat!". But I do understand the limitations publishers impose.
I would have preferred the author not to attempt to give each episode a rating (0-4 bayonets), or a least put this in an appendix. Critics can give ratings, but fans just really shouldn't try to tell another fan he's wrong (and charge them for it)!
A must have!.......2006-05-17
This publication is a must have for the discriminating fan of Combat! As the title states, it is a true "Viewer's Companion to the WWII TV Series". Author Jo Davidsmeyer provides an indepth and detailed look at what I consider one of THE best television series ever! A perfect addendum to Combat!, the complete series.
Combat! a good read, too........2006-05-03
There's nothing like an avid fan to author a great book to an already epic tv show. Jo's affection really lends itself nicely to the anecdotes given by the former cast members.
Also, if you're ever in the LA area, you can still visit Franklin Canyon where a lot of episodes were filmed. There's a road near the corner of Cold Water Canyon Dr. and Mulholland Dr. that takes you right there (can't remember the exact name,sorry). Anyway, the same trees and water still exist that were in the episodes (this is also the same place where the opening of The Andy Grifith Show was filmed, where Opie skips a rock across the water while the theme is playing). It's now a recreation area and is a nice place to hike and stow down a few beers...
A Wonderful Book!.......2005-09-27
This is a great book for all those fans of the "COMBAT!" TV show, produced in the 1960's. I highly recommend it if you have invested in the "COMBAT!" DVD's or if you just want to understand why this series was, and indeed still is, so popular. Ms. Davidsmeyer even included her hand written autograph in my copy!--A wonderful and unexpected surprise!!! Indeed, this entire book is "A wonderful and unexpected surprise! You'll enjoy it without a single doubt!
Combat! A Viewer's Companion is Superb!.......2005-09-22
Well written, and chock full of excellent information on the making of Combat!, the stars (especially Vic Morrow, who WAS Sgt. Sanders), the story lines, directors, ground-breaking filming techniques, etc. For anyone who understands how far ahead of its time this program was when it aired, this book is a must.
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Solar Architecture: The Direct Gain Approach (Energy Learning Systems Book)
Timothy E. Johnson
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- Easy to comprehend
- Finally, a true IMC text!
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MP IMC: Using Advertising and Promotion to Build Brands with PowerWeb
Tom Duncan
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This is an applied text with a strong brand message. Most texts on the market teach functions but neglect integration and organization, which should be the very foundation of Marketing. This text answers the questions of “when to use, how to use, and who should be involved” in the interrelated functions of Marketing today. This text also teaches the cost effectiveness of developing brand relationship (managing the ongoing dialogue between buyer and seller)¿and how to truly integrate the consumer into Business-to-business marketing vs. Business-to-consumer marketing (B2B and B2C).
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Easy to comprehend.......2003-12-24
As a student I found this book easy to understand. It is extremely practicle and interesting.
Finally, a true IMC text!.......2002-03-02
This text is the first to take a management perspective on Integrated Marketing Communication. It does a wonderful job, using brand building as its foundation.
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- An invaluable comprehensive resource of today's musicians.
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Contemporary Musicians: Profiles of the People in Music : Includes Cumulative Indexes (Contemporary Musicians)
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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An invaluable comprehensive resource of today's musicians........1999-07-03
It is to her credit that Ms. Brennan has been able to consistently and coherently assemble a literary piece on the intangibles of so many lives. It is a must read for the passive and impassioned lovers of music alike. Mavens of the music world this is your bible!
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Often overlooked in accounts of World War II is the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens, a campaign that included, we now know, war crimes for which the Soviet and Russian governments only recently admitted culpability. Standing in the shadow of the Holocaust, this episode of European history is often overlooked. Wesley Adamczyk's gripping memoir, When God Looked the Other Way, now gives voice to the hundreds of thousands of victims of Soviet barbarism.
Adamczyk was a young Polish boy when he was deported with his mother and siblings from their comfortable home in Luck to Soviet Siberia in May of 1940. His father, a Polish Army officer, was taken prisoner by the Red Army and eventually became one of the victims of the Katyn massacre, in which tens of thousands of Polish officers were slain at the hands of the Soviet secret police. The family's separation and deportation in 1940 marked the beginning of a ten-year odyssey in which the family endured fierce living conditions, meager food rations, chronic displacement, and rampant disease, first in the Soviet Union and then in Iran, where Adamczyk's mother succumbed to exhaustion after mounting a harrowing escape from the Soviets. Wandering from country to country and living in refugee camps and the homes of strangers, Adamczyk struggled to survive and maintain his dignity amid the horrors of war.
When God Looked the Other Way is a memoir of a boyhood lived in unspeakable circumstances, a book that not only illuminates one of the darkest periods of European history but also traces the loss of innocence and the fight against despair that took root in one young boy. It is also a book that offers a stark picture of the unforgiving nature of Communism and its champions. Unflinching and poignant, When God Looked the Other Way will stand as a testament to the trials of a family during wartime and an intimate chronicle of episodes yet to receive their historical due.
“Adamczyk recounts the story of his own wartime childhood with exemplary precision and immense emotional sensitivity, presenting the ordeal of one family with the clarity and insight of a skilled novelist. . . . I have read many descriptions of the Siberian odyssey and of other forgotten wartime episodes. But none of them is more informative, more moving, or more beautifully written than When God Looked the Other Way.”—From the Foreword by Norman Davies, author of Europe: A History and Rising ’44: The Battle for Warsaw
“A finely wrought memoir of loss and survival.”—Publishers Weekly
“Adamczyk’s unpretentious prose is well-suited to capture that truly awful reality.” —Andrew Wachtel, Chicago Tribune Books
“Mr. Adamczyk writes heartfelt, straightforward prose. . . . This book sheds light on more than one forgotten episode of history.”—Gordon Haber, New York Sun
“One of the most remarkable World War II sagas I have ever read. It is history with a human face.”—Andrew Beichman, Washington Times
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Much Needed Contribution.......2007-09-04
A marvelous book. The author is to be commended for his ability to recall these events from the vantage of so young an age at the time of occurrence. This story is little known, sometimes actively forgotten, almost always disregarded in the record of 20th century crimes against humanity. I had the privilege recently of speaking, literally for only a few minutes, at the funeral of an older man (born 1922) from Rowne--only a few miles from Adamczyk's hometown, Luck. A decade older, he tried to get to Hungary in October, 1939, failed, and was therefore a criminal for having made the attempt. His story, then, was of direct prisons rather than of being dumped by the side of the tracks. Each situation had its advantages and disadvantages. The man from Rowne was "amnestied" from Norilsk, above the Arctic Circle, in late 1941, and his story paralleled that of Adamczyk until arrival in Persia, emaciated--at 86 pounds at age 20 and suffering recurring malaria. There are a million of these stories; more should be published.
Thank You.......2007-04-04
I am sitting here struggling to find the words to begin to express my love for this book. I have just spent the past twenty-six hours not putting this book down. Now, I don't know if it is the fact that my family had delt with these similar circumstances and moved to the same area of Chicago, but i have never felt so connected/transported to individuals in a book as I did with this one.
The ugliness of reality balanced with hope, faith, and love render this reader, at least, speechless. I can only thank Mr. Adamczyk for a glimpse of what my family had found to difficult, with good reason, to talk about. This book has left me with a greater understanding of World War II, the atrocities of a Communist rule, and a deeper appreciation of my Polish faith and heritage.
This book reflects the resilience of the human spirit even in the most devistating of circumstances and stands as an inspiration to reflect on the freedom we too often take for granted.
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Outstanding Recollection of a Little-Known Tragedy.......2006-06-14
The teaching of history is often distorted by selective presentation of past events. Virtually everyone has heard of the 5-6 million Jews killed by the Germans. Few outside Polish circles have a clue about the fact that 2-3 million gentile Poles were also murdered by the Germans, and a few hundred thousand by the Soviets--first as Poland's sworn enemy and then as an "ally". While Churchill and Roosevelt were dilly-dallying with "Uncle Joe" Stalin, he was still murdering Poles and executing his plans to deprive "liberated" Poland from her rightful independence, freedom, and sovereignity. The western powers shamelessly disregarded the Atlantic Charter and betrayed the Poles--who all along had been fighting on their side on just about every front, and who had played a significant, if not decisive, role in preventing the Luftwaffe from achieving air supremacy over the English skies as a prelude to the planned German invasion (Operation Sea Lion).
This work provides an absorbing personal account of the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Poles by the Soviet Union following the German-Soviet conquest of Poland in 1939. Wes Adamczyk, then a boy of 7, was to lose his father in the infamous Katyn Massacre, and his entire family was uprooted and sent to a living death in Kazakhstan. He was one of the lucky few to be released and to eventually find his way to a new life in the United States. Decades later, he fulfilled his wish to visit the site of his father's murder near Smolensk, Russia.
The reader is exposed to the brutality of the Soviet police as they ransack the Adamczyk home, destroy objects related to Polish patriotism, and herd the family ("enemies of the people") into overcrowded trains for the fateful trip east. Every day becomes a battle for survival. They are near starvation. However, individual Kazakhs and Russians show friendship towards the Poles. The young Adamczyk befriends Mr. Petrovitch on a fishing boat. The moving account tells how the elderly Russian teaches the boy the truth about Communism. It is lies on top of lies on top of lies. In fact, the continued spying by the Soviet police on the captive Poles does not stem from the fact that they suspect that the Poles may escape or revolt. The spying comes from the fear that the locals may learn the truth about the outside world from the Poles--that the non-
Communist world is not rotten, and that the Soviet Union is no workers' paradise.
Nazi Germany turns against its erstwhile Soviet ally, creating a chance for the Poles, consigned to eventual death from starvation, overwork, and disease, to escape the Gulag. Negotiations "succeed" in securing the release of captive Poles. But the Soviets drag their feet, and only a fraction of still-living captive Poles end up being released. The Adamczyk family has to stage a near-escape adventure to reach Iran. The squalor of the just-freed Poles is indescribable. Thousands die right there, including Wes Adamczyk's mother--ironically just a short time after having finally left the clutches of the Soviet hell.
Tens of thousands of previously-captured Polish officers are found to be conspicuously and unexpectedly missing, and the Soviets say, "They all escaped to Manchuria". As time drags on, the Adamczyks realize the fate of their father and the remainder of the POWs. The Soviets don't admit responsibility for the Katyn Massacre until 1990. The long cover-up by western governments is little better than the decades-long Soviet one. The west needed a second coverup to cover its first coverup of the conspiracy of silence about this heinous Soviet crime.
The Adamczyks, like all surviving Poles, get a cruel blow when they learn that Roosevelt and Churchill have betrayed their faithful ally Poland by giving away eastern Poland to the Russians, and allowed a Communist puppet state to be forced on the rest of "liberated" Poland. In a sense, all of the Polish sufferings and sacrifices turn out to have been in vain. The Adamczyks, and millions of other Poles, have no home to return to. The only "happy ending" is a new life in America.
An insightful recollection by the innocent of the gruesome Soviet events .......2005-09-21
Simply stated, this book reiterates everything my grandpa told me about the Russians' way of life and their mentality brought on by the deceitful communist system full of oppression and anti-western propaganda. Read and you will begin to fathom the injustice inflicted upon the peoples, both Polish and Russian. It will take generations to undo the damage.
Why there's no Nuremberg trials for the Soviet Communists.......2005-09-11
Anyone with half a brain might wonder why the Nazis are still minced to pieces in all media 60 years after the war's end, while the Soviets, with 70 years of blood on their hands, have passed quietly out of their Communist terrorism without any great international trials or severe criticisms by the Western media. Is it because the leftists still believe that "true Communism" has yet to be attempted? Well, perhaps, there are such fringe lunatics still around (in the Frisco and NYC areas).
No, the real answer lies in the deadly dealings of the Allies in WWII, in cooperating with Stalin in the Lend-lease supply of materiel, and in not condemning the murders, exile, and starvation of the Poles before Germany attacked Russia. In our all-out effort to defeat the Nazis, the USA and England cooperated in suppressing the knowledge of the 5,000 Polish officers and Polish civilians shot and buried by the Soviets in 1939, when they invaded and took over Eastern Poland. This famous massacre in the Katyn Forest was for years blamed on Hitler, when the Germans had not yet been in that side of Poland. Only when Gorbachev came to power was the murder order signed by Stalin made public - but Roosevelt knew, as did Churchill.
This remarkable book takes us into the frightening world Wiesiu Adamczck, a seven-year-old boy when his father, then 47, was taken away and killed in Katyn Forest, unbeknownst to his family - Wiesiu's mother, older sister and brother. They are all packed up on trains and sent to Kazakistan, as members of a bourgeois oppresser class, they must be punished according to Soviet logic.
The writer, now a man in his 70's, is an excellent wordsmith, who doesn't stint in telling what Russian and Polish expressions mean. He dwells on his own family, his own people and the terrible consequences of the Communist regime for the people of the USSR, for the Poles, and for all nations which fell to its avarice and terror after WWII. His incredible adventures, if you want to call them that, in surviving such a deportation through the Eastern republics of the chaotic war years, into Persia and finally to England, then the USA, is a ten-year journey of incredible hardship, hunger, cold and homelessness. His mother dies, and the truth about the father is known at the end of years of hoping against hope.
What Hollywood or the BBC could do with this material! The story of the Soviet empire and all its disgusting inhumanity should be aired out thoroughly, even more so than the Nazis' philosophy. If it should take root again, woe betide the planet and the millions to be starved in the future.
This book should be mandatory reading in the US high schools, as many students will never know that non-Jewish-descended EUropeans also suffered dreadful consequences during the war.
A skewered history is often a false one, and that is slowly happening throughout the US media, in omitting the Communist side of the horrendous torture and killing from 1917-onwards.
Well, this book will make it clear: FDR knew it, as he knew that Pearl Harbor was to be bombed.
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- Forgotten History
- Brings dark times and events vividly to life
- A facinating perspective on a heartbreaking story
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Exiled to Siberia
Klaus Hergt
Manufacturer: Crescent Lake Publishing
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"Exiled to Siberia" is the biography of a Polish child deported by the Soviets in 1940.It tells about his early childhood until, as an adult, he declares "I am an American." The book also outlines the pertinent history and discusses the German and Soviet policies toward Poland during WW II.The protagonist's story gives a human dimension to these historical events. The book also testifies to his religious belief as a sustaining force. In addition it causes the author to compare his own childhood in Nazi Germany with that of the protagonist during this time.
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Forgotten History.......2007-01-03
When I initially read this book just after it was published I called the author and thanked him for writing the book. Most of my mother's family was killed in Ark Angel, Russia and my mother grandmother, and great-aunt were all interned in many of the same places that were described in the book. It is well researched and should be necessary reading for all school aged children. it is both inspiring and educational.
Brings dark times and events vividly to life.......2001-03-16
Exiled To Siberia: A Polish Child's WWII Journey is the engaging biography of a ten-year-old Polish boy deported by the Soviets at the outbreak of World War II. From Henryk Birecki's childhood in a Polish village to his ultimate integration into American society after the war, the reader is treated to a candid and informative story of the hardships and cruelties brought about by the forcible deportation of Polish men, women and children to the bleak and hazardous interior of the Soviet Union. Thousands of Poles died during transport and in the penal and forced labor camps, remote settlements, and the Kolkhozes to which they were banished. After the end of the war Henryk and his sister made it out of the Soviet Union (where his mother died), through Iran and Iraq, then Mexico, and finally to America. Exiled To Siberia is sobering reading and brings those times and events vividly to life for new generations of readers to know and understand the inhumanity and tragedy that afflicted the civilian populace of Eastern Europe during those dark and deadly days.
A facinating perspective on a heartbreaking story.......2001-01-24
This story of the forgotten victims of WWII is told from a unique perspective. Two friends--the author and the subject--were personally touched by the war in very different ways. One, a german child, victimized only by the disemination of misinformation and, the other, a polish child, victimized both physically and psychologically, enslaved by the Russian allies, separated from family, seizes the opportunity to search for better life for himself and his sister. The author artfully intertwines history and real life experiences. The story is, in many parts, heartbreaking and, in all parts, facinating.
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EXILE: A MEMOIR OF 1939
BRONKA SCHNEIDER
Manufacturer: Ohio State University Press
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An autobiographical account of the family\\\'s escape from Vienna in 1938 through Prague and Paris to South America.
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Memoirs of Dr. Eduard BenesĖ: From Munich to new war and new victory
Edvard BenesĖ
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Books:
- Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Investment & Business Guide (Russian Regional Investment & Business Guides)
- Yevreyskaya Autonomous Oblast Investment & Business Guide (Russian Regional Investment & Business Guides)
- Yugoslavia Business Law Handbook
- Alabama Investment and Business Guide (US Business and Investment Library)
- Altay Republic Regional Investment and Business Guide (Us Regional Investment & Business Library)
- Amerique latine: Guide des organisations internationales et de leurs publications : guia de las organizaciones internacionales y de sus publicaciones (Publications ... de la Sorbonne. Serie internationale)
- Antilles Netherlands Business Intelligence Report
- Antilles (Netherlands) Business Law Handbook
- Belgium Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook
- China And The Wto: Compliance And Monitoring: Hearing Before The U.s.-china Economic And Security Review Commission
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