Book Reviews

Bazaara, M. S. and John J. Jarvis, Linear Programming and Network Flows , John Wiley & Sons, 1977, 565 pp---reviewed by John J. Bartholdi IIIBeck, James V. and Kenneth J. Arnold, Parameter Estimation in Engineering , John Wiley & Sons, 1977, 501 pp., $24.95---reviewed by Carl BatesBradley, Stephen P., Arnoldo C. Hax and Thomas L. Magnanti, Applied Mathematical Programming , Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1977, 716 pp---reviewed by L. S. LasdonGoodman, S. E. and S. T. Hedetriemi, Introduction to the Design and Analysis of Algorithms , McGraw-Hill, 1977, 371 pp---reviewed by Harvey J. GreenbergHaseman, William D. and Andrew B. Whinston, Introduction to Data Management , Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1977, 432 pp---reviewed by Daniel P. HeymanKapur, K. C. and L. R. Lamberson , Reliability in Engineering Design , John Wiley & Sons, 1977, 586 pp---reviewed by A. L. HainesLadany, Shaul P. and Robert E. Machol, Optimal Strategies in Sports , North Holland Publishing Co., 1977, 231 pp., $20.00---reviewed by Zev UllmanCourtois, P. J., Decomposability: Queueing and Computer System Applications , Academic Press, 1977 (201 pp, incl. 4 appendices, bibliography, and index). Price $17.50, IBSN №0-12-193750-X---reviewed by Robert L. Farrell, Diane P. O'Leary, and Ralph L. DisneyRothberg, Robert R., Corporate Strategy and Product Innovation , The Free Press/A Division of Macmillan, 1976, 518 pp; Midgley, David F., Innovation and New Product Marketing , Halsted Press, 1977, 296 pp, $15.95; Pessemier, Edgar A., Product Management: Strategy and Organization , John Wiley & Sons, 1977, 478 pp---reviewed by Glen UrbanRoy, Robert H., The Cultures of Management , The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1977, 431 pp., $19.95---reviewed by Walton M. HancockRustagi, Jagdish S., Variational Methods in Statistics , Academic Press, Inc., 1976, 236 pp., $19.50---reviewed by Nozer SingpurwallaScherer, Charles R., Estimating Electric Power System Marginal Costs , North-Holland Publishing Company, 1977, 340 pp., $48.95---reviewed by Paul RandolphSpulber, Nicolas and Ira Horowitz, Quantitative Economic Policy and Planning Theory and Models of Economic Control , W. W. Norton & Co., 1976,413 pp., $16.95---reviewed by W. T. Stanbury and Fred Thompson