The Analysts' Bookshelf

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Book Reviews —C. West Churchman, Russell L. Ackoff, and E. Leonard Arnoff, Introduction to Operations Research , John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1957, 645 pages, $12.00—reviewed by John G. Brainerd and Ralph M. Showers; —Franklin A. Lindsay, New Techniques for Management Decision Making , McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1958, 173 pages, $15.00—reviewed by Robert S. Weinberg; —Kenneth J. Arrow, Samuel Karlin, and Herbert Scarf, Studies in the Mathematical Theory of Inventory and Production , Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 1958, 340 pages, $8.75—reviewed by Thomas L. Saaty; —Kenneth J. Arrow, Leonid Hurwicz, and Hirofumi Uzawa, Studies in Linear and Non-Linear Programming , Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 1958, 229 pages, $7.50—reviewed by C. E. Lemke; —Saul I. Gass, Linear Programming: Methods and Applications , McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1958, 223 pages, $6.50—reviewed by Carl N. Klahr; —Earl O. Heady and Wilfred Candler, Linear Programming Methods , Iowa State College Press, Ames, Iowa, 1958, 597 pages, $5.95—reviewed by Paul H. Randolph; —Robert Dorfman, Paul A. Samuelson, and Robert M. Solow, Linear Programming and Economic Analysis , McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1958, 527 pages, $10.00—reviewed by Harvey M. Wagner; —S. Vajda, Readings in Linear Programming , John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1958, 99 pages, $3.00—reviewed by Robert B. Fetter; —Friedrich Wendt, Kaffee in Gemeinsamen Markt , Hamburgisches Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv, Hamburg, Germany, 1958, 68 pages—reviewed by Fred Hanssmann; —Vera Riley and Saul I. Gass, Linear Programming and Related Techniques: A Comprehensive Bibliography on Linear, Nonlinear, and Dynamic Programming , The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1958, 613 pages, $6.00—reviewed by Jack B. Dennis; —F. Pollaczek, Problèmes Stochastiques, Posés par le Phénomène de Formation d'une Queue d'Attente a un Guichet et par des Phénomènes Apparentes , Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1957, 122 pages, 2,500 fr—reviewed by A. R. Bloemena; — Joint IBM-NYU Symposium on Digital Computing in the Aircraft Industry, January 31–February 1, 1957 , IBM-NYU Symposium, New York, 1958, 399 pages, $8.00—reviewed by William D. Jones; —Burnard H. Sord and Glenn A. Welsch, Business Budgeting , Controllership Foundation, New York, 1958, 367 pages, $12.50—reviewed by Robert S. Weinberg; —Frederick F. Stephan and Philip J. McCarthy, Sampling Opinions , John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1958, 451 pages, $12.00—reviewed by Robert S. Weinsberg; —Robert N. Lehrer, Work Simplification: Creative Thinking about Work Problems , Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1957, 394 pages, $9.25—reviewed by Robert H. Roy; —Paul Wasserman with Fred S. Silander, Decision-Making: An Annotated Bibliography , Graduate School of Business and Public Administration, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1958, 111 pages, $3.50—reviewed by J. Sayer Minas. The Periodicals Books Received