Book Reviews

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Book Reviews —Shooman, Martin L., Probabilistic Reliability: an Engineering Approach . New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1968, 524 pp., $16.50; —Evans, C. R. and A. B. J. Robertson, eds., Cybernetics . Baltimore, Md.: University Park Press, 1968, 289 pp., $7.95; —Rivett, Patrick, An Introduction to Operations Research . New York: Basic Books, Inc.; 1968, 206 pp., $5.95; —Meier, Robert C., William T. Newell, and Harold L. Pazer, Simulation in Business and Economics . Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1969, 369 pp., $9; —Beshers, James M., ed., Computer Methods in the Analysis of Large-Scale Social Systems . Cambridge, Mass.: The M.I.T. Press, 1968, 266 pp., $12.50; —Spencer, Donald D., Game Playing With Computers . New York: Spartan Books, 1968, 464 pp., $12.95; —Lukacs, Clara and Emma Tarjan, Mathematical Games . New York: Walker and Co., 1968, 200 pp., $4.95; —Drucker, Peter F., The Age of Discontinuity; Guidelines to Our Changing Society . New York: Harper & Row, 1969, 394 pp., $7.95; —Andrews, Frank; James Morgan; and John Sonquist, Multiple Classification Analysis . Ann Arbor, Mich.: Institute for Social Research, 1967, 211 pp., paper bound $3; —Farina, Mario V., Programming in Basic . Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968, 164 pp., paperbound $4.75; —Greenlaw, Paul S. and M. William Frey, FIN ANSIM . Scranton, Pa.: International Textbook Co., 1967, 200 pp., paperbound $3.75; —Iannone, Anthony L., Management Program Planning and Control with PERT. MOST, and LOB . Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1967, 202 pp., $17.95; —Miller, Ernest C., Objectives and Standards of Performance in Production Management . New York: American Management Association, 1967, 112 pp., $10.50; —Miller, James M., Automate on Conversion of a Trust Department . Boston: Bankers Publishing Co., 1967, 177 pp., paperbound $15; —Stankovich, Arthur, An Experimental Methodology to Plan the Organization and Delivery of Comprehensive Personal Health Services . Philadelphia: Lankenau Hospital, 1968, plastic binder $4.50; —Novick, David, ed., Program Budgeting , New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1969, 382 pp., paperback $3.95.