Financial Times World Desk Reference 2005

Absolutely revised and up-to-date for 2005, DK's best-selling Financial occasions international table Reference supplies an entire evaluate of the trendy global. With greater than six hundred maps, 5,000 charts and diagrams, and together with over 25,000 proof and data at the world's 193 international locations, this sensible advisor is an ideal reference for the house, tuition, or place of work.

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