The Analyst's Bookshelf

Book Reviews ---Russell L. Ackoff, Scientific Method: Optimizing Applied Research Decisions , John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1962, 464 pages, $10.25---reviewed by Walter L. Deemer;---James H. Batchelor, Operations Research, An Annotated Bibliography , Vol. 2, St. Louis University Press, St. Louis, Mo., 1962, 628 pages, $12.50---reviewed by Joseph F. McCloskey;---Ronald W. Clark, The Rise of the Boffins , Phoenix House Ltd., London, 1962, 268 pages, 25 shillings---reviewed by Walter L. Deemer;---A. Descloux, Delay Tables for Finite- and Infinite-Source Systems , McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1962, 440 pages, $15.00---reviewed by Alfred G. Aswad;---M. Heister, Rentabilitatsanalyse von Investitionen (Rentability Analysis for Investment), Westdeutscher Verlag, Koln and Opladen, 1962, 151 pages, no price---reviewed by Fred Hanssmann;---Samuel Karlin, Mathematical Methods and Theory in Games, Programming, and Economics , Vol. I, Matrix Games, Programming, and Mathematical Economics , 433 pages, Vol. II, The Theory of Infinite Games , 383 pages, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Mass., 1959, $12.50 each---reviewed by Bruno Contini. Books Received (to be reviewed) Other Books Received Periodicals Theses --- An Analysis of a Motor Freight Scheduling Problem , Robert Frederick Miller, Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1961;--- A Queuing Theory Approach to the Control of Hospital Inpatient Census , John P. Young, D.Eng., The Johns Hopkins University, June 1962, 206 pages