A Few New Books - 3/7/09

Proving quite timely, the new Oxford Dictionary of Finance & Banking (332.03 D) has arrived just as our financial system makes the transition from a mixed economy to one of economic fascism, making it somewhat easier to understand things as they happen.

Hoover's Handbook of World Business (338.74025 H) offers profiles of "300 of the world's most influential companies outside the United States."

A third volume of George W. Bush's Public Papers of the Presidents from 2004 (353.035 U).

Dozier's Waterway Guide:  Northern 2009 (386.2 W), featuring nautical charts for "Long Island Sound & New England waters from New Jersey to Maine."