This new guide is designed to introduce corporations and researchers to the organizations and literature of international commerce. It presumes no prior knowledge and provides basic data and elementary explanations. The handbook is divided into three parts: a survey of government, international agencies, and business and trade organizations; an encyclopedia of the language of foreign commerce; and a bibliographical section emphasizing mainstream periodicals. An appendix follows with listings of local Chambers of Commerce, embassies, and other groups that can assist businesses operating abroad.

For the beginning student, this book is a lot more practical than a weighty text. The bibliography, though by no means complete-ignores such basic foreign publications as Far Eastern Economic Review or the International Currency Review -is a good way to start exploring the dozens of business publications and guides that are available. Among the several hundred detailed citations, the Business Periodicals Index. the Multinational Marketing and Employment Directory, and the Guide to American Directories should prove particularly useful for researchers.

This is the fifth, and most impressive yet annual guide to the lobbyists and organizations that link the public and private sectors in Washington.

There are two major listings in this directory. The first catalogs lobbyists and special interest representatives, their prior governmental experience, and the corporations and groups they -represent. The second compendium is of organizations, their activities, and who represents -them. This book documents 1,000 corporate offices, 1,700 labor unions and trade associations, 1,000 `special interest representatives, and another 750I,000 lawyers acting as representatives of organizations. The directory concludes with a 34 page subject index, so that one can find all the people and groups interested in one topic or industry, and a listing of representatives of foreign interests on a country-by-country basis.

No comparable volume lays bare the sociology of organizational Washington like this one. To discover who influences public policy outside Congress o and the executive,, there is no better reference guide available. Although primarily geared to a corporate audience, it is equally useful for researchers, job seekers, activists, and government officials.