The Analysts' Bookshelf

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Book Reviews —Operational Research—Recollections of Problems Studied, 1940–45—reviewed by Hugh J. Miser; —Richard S. Burrington and Donald C. May, Handbook of Probability and Statistics with Tables , Handbook Publishers, Inc., Sandusky, Ohio, 1954. ix + 332 pp. $4.50—reviewed by Scott E. Forbush; —Philip Sporn, The Integrated Power System as the Basic Mechanism for Power Supply , McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., New York, 1950, 245 pp.—reviewed by John Bliss; —F. H. Kellogg, Construction Methods and Machinery , Prentice-Hall, Inc., New York, 1954. xv + 415 pp., $10.00—reviewed by Charles E. Lewald; —Willis Jackson, Communication Theory , Academic Press, New York, 1953, xii + 532 pp. $11.00—reviewed by R. M. Page; —Morris H. Hansen, William N. Hurwitz and William G. Madow, Sample Survey Methods and Theory (Two volumes), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1953, xxii + 638, xiii + 332 pp., $8 and $7—reviewed by C. West Churchman; —Communications Problems—reviewed by T. L. P.; —A Human Engineering Approach to the Design of Man-Operated Continuous Control Systems—reviewed by F. V. T.; —Unclassified Operations Research Papers Published in the Department of Defense—reviewed by H. J. M.; —Die Ablauf- und Planungsforschung (Planning and Operations Research)—reviewed by M. K. Books Received Operations Research , ISSN 0030-364X, was published as Journal of the Operations Research Society of America from 1952 to 1955 under ISSN 0096-3984.