The Analysts' Bookshelf

Book Reviews --- Operational Research in Practice: Report of a NATO Conference , Editors: Max Davies and Michel Verhulst, Pergamon Press, Inc., New York, 1958, 201 pages, $12.00---reviewed by R. H. Collcutt;---J. H. Shera, A. Kent, and J. W. Perry, Editors; Information Resources, a Challenge to American Science and Industry , Based on the Proceedings of a Special Meeting of the Council on Documentation Research, February 1958, 211 pages, $5.00, Information Systems in Documentation , Based on the Symposium on Systems for Information Retrieval, Western Reserve University, April 1957, 639 pages, $12.00, Interscience Publishers, Inc., New York---reviewed by Timothy Ewald;---Nyles V. Reinfeld and William R. Vogel, Mathematical Programming , Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, 1958, 274 pages, $9.00---reviewed by Zepartzatt Gozinto;--- Recent Research in Maritime Transportation , Proceedings of the Second Symposium Convened by the Maritime Cargo Transportation Conference, Publication 592, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1958, 134 pages, $2.00---reviewed by William H. Sutherland;---James G. March and Herbert A. Simon, with the collaboration of Harold Guetzkow, Organizations , John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1958, 262 pages, $6.00---reviewed by J. F. McC;---Robert B. Wheelan, Corporate Records Retention , Volume I: A Guide to U.S. Federal Requirements , Controllership Foundation, Inc., New York, 1958, 223 pages, $10.00---reviewed by J. F. McC. Books Received