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Book Reviews —Raiffa, Howard, Decision Analysis: Introductory Lectures on Choices Under Uncertainty . Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1968, 309 pp,, paperback $4.95; —Johnsen, Erik, Studies in Multiobjective Decision Models . Lund: Studentlitteratur, 1968, 628 pp; —Page, Alfred N., Utility Theory: A Book of Readings . New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1968, 454 pp., paperbound $6.95, cloth $10.95; —Bass, Frank M., Charles W. King, Edgar A, Pessemier (eds.), Applications of the Sciences in Marketing Management . New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1968, 456 pp., $11.50; —Massy, William F., Ronald E. Frank, Thomas M. Lodahl, Purchasing Behavior and Personal Attributes . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968, 174 pp., $5.95; —Cox, Donald F. (ed.), Risk Taking and Information Handling in Consumer Behavior . Boston: Division of Research, Harvard Business School, 1967, 667 pp., $10; —Green, Paul E., Patrick J. Robinson, Peter T. Fitzroy, Experiments on the Value of Information in Simulated Marketing Environments . Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1967, 194 pp., $7.95; —Chase, Samuel B. (ed.), Problem in Public Expenditure Analysis . Washington, D.C: The Brookings Institution, 1968, 269 pp., paperback $2.50; —Quade, E. S. and W. I. Boucher (eds.), Systems Analysis and Policy Planning; Applications in Defense . New York: American Elsevier Publishing Co., 1968, 453 pp., $11.50; —Lyden, Fremont J. and Ernest G. Miller (eds.), Planning-Programming-Budgeting: A Systems Approach to Management . Chicago: Markham Publishing Co., 1967, 443 pp., hard cover $6, paperback $4.50; —Alfandary-Alexander, Mark (ed.), Analysis for Planning, Programming and Budgeting . Washington, D.C.: Washington Operations Research Council, 1968, 162 pp., $6.80; —Prepared by Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cost-Effectiveness in Traffic Safety . New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., 1968, 167 pp., $10; —Gue, Ronald L. and Michael E. Thomas, Mathematical Methods in Operations Research . New York: The Macmillan Co., 1968, 385 pp., $12.95; —Bracken, Jerome and Grath P. McCormick, Selected Applications of Nonlinear Programming . New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1968, 110 pp., $8.95; —Lieberstein, H. Melvin, A Course in Numerical Analysis . New York: Harper & Row, 1968, 258 pp., $14.95; —Sauer, R. and I. Szabo, Mathematiache Hilfsmittel des Ingenieurs; Teil I and Teil III . Berlin and New York: Springer-Verlag, 1967 and 1968, 496 pp. and 535 pp., $22 and $24.50; —Loomis, Elisha Scott, The Pythagorean Proposition . Washington, D.C: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1968, 285 pp., $3; —Chiang, Chin Long, Introduction to Stochastic Processes in Biostatistics . New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1968, 313 pp., $13.95; —Chung, Kai Lai, A Course in Probability Theory . New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1968, 331 pp., $12; —Breiman, Leo, Probability . Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Inc., 1968, 421 pp., $13.50; — Selected Translations in Mathematical Statistics and Probability , Vol. 7. Providence, R. I.: American Mathematical Society, 1968, 302 pp., $15.40; —Yaspan, Arthur, Essentials of Probability . Boston: Prindle, Weber & Schmidt, Inc., 1968, 200 pp., $7.95; —Willerding, Margaret, A Probability Primer . Boston: Prindle, Weber & Schmidt, Inc., 1968, 145 pp., paperback, $2.95; —Riordan, John, Combinatorial Identities . New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1968, 256 pp., $15; —Oliver, A. L. (ed.), Operational Research; French-English, English-French Vocabulary . New York: American Elsevier Publishing Co., Inc., 1968, 148 pp., $9.75; —Frazer, J. Ronald, Applied Linear Programming . Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968, 174 pp., $7.95; —Dent, J. B. and H. Casey, Linear Programming and Animal Nutrition . Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1968, 111 pp., $7.50; —Bartos, Otomar J., Simple Models of Group Behavior . New York: Columbia University Press, 1967, 345 pp., $8; — Mathematical Model Building in Economics and Industry . New York: Hafner Publishing Co., 1968, 165 pp., paperback $6.30.