Thursday, January 20, 2005

Terror Inc
Author:Loretta Napoleoni

This books propels the reader into the center of illegal organizations, and explains how they fund their activities. From the PLO to Al-Qaeda to the IRA, Loretta Napoleoni maps out the arteries of an international economic system that feeds armed groups the world over. She follows the money and gets to the truth of 'the new economy of terror' - a 1.5 trillion dollar system - and assesses the full extent of the role of the West in developing the economies of armed organizations.

The Great Deception
Author:Richard North;Christopher Booker;

As the European Union moves next year towards adopting the constitution which will mark its final emergence as a 'United States of Europe', The Great Deception shows how the most ambitious political project of our time has for more than 50 years been based on a colossal confidence trick - the systematic concealment from the peoples of Europe of what the aim of this project has always been since its inception in the late 1940s.

As it reveals for the first time the true story behind the long-term plan to build a politically united Europe, the authors show how all previous attempts to reconstruct the history of this project - whether written by Europhiles of Eurosceptics - have got it wrong, at almost every step along the way.

With all the suspense of a detective story, drawing on thousands of books, papers and official documents, many of which have only become publicly available in the past few years, the book traces how a handful of determined visionaries set out more than half a century ago to weld the countries of Europe into a single political state.

The Great Deception should immediately become a standard reference work for all students of politics. Yet so disturbing is the picture that emerges that, at a time when Britain's future in the EU is a subject of national debate, it will also spark much wider concern.
The Global Custody Yearbook 2005: The Fact Book
Author:John Giudice;

The Fact Book is an in-depth view - quantitative in nature - of the global custody industry. Key areas explored are worldwide assets-in-custody, country rankings, market share trends, securities lending balances and basis points spreads and subcustodian network expansions plans.

The Global Custody Yearbook 2005: Industry Forum
The world's largest global custodians discuss those important issues and trends which are shaping the global custody industry.