Book Reviews

Adams, Everett E., Jr. and Ebert, Ronald J., Production and Operations Management: Concepts, Models, and Behavior, 2nd Edition, Prentice-Hall, 1982, $24.95—reviewed by Jack C. Hayya and Chao-Hsien Chu

Checkland, Peter, Systems Thinking, Systems Practice. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester and New York, 1981, xiv + 330 pp., $33.50—reviewed by Robert E. Machol

McClain, John O. and Thomas, L. Joseph, Operations Management Production of Goods and Services, Prentice-Hall, 1980, $26.95—reviewed by Jack C. Hayya and Chao-Hsien Chu

Richardson, George P. and Pugh, Alexander L. III, Introduction to System Dynamics Modeling with Dynamo, MIT Press, 1981, $25.00—reviewed by Paul Gray

Garcia, C. B. and Zangwill, W. I., Pathways to Solutions, Fixed-Points, and Equilibria, Prentice-Hall Series in Computational Mathematics, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1981, 495 pp., $32.50—reviewed by C. E. Lemke

Adam, Nabil R. and Dogramaci, Ali, Editors, Productivity Analysis at the Organizational Level, Studies in Productivity Analysis, Volume III, Kluwer, 190 Old Derby Street, Hingham, Massachusetts 02043, 1981, 181 pp., $25.00—reviewed by Martin K. Starr

Tempest, Paul (ed.), “International Energy Options: An Agenda for the 1980's” Oelgeschlager, Gunn, and Hain (U.S.A.), and Graham and Trotman (U.K.), Copyright 1981 by the International Association of Energy Economists, 304 pp., no price stated—reviewed by Reuven Karni

El-Hawary, M. E. and Christenson, G. S., Optimal Economic Operation of Electric Power Systems, Academic Press, New York, 1979, 278 pp., $32.50—reviewed by Derek Bunn

Papadimitriou, C. H. and Steiglitz, K., Combinatorial Optimization, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1982, 496 pp., $34.00—reviewed by K. Truemper

Axelrod, C. Warren, Computer Productivity, John Wiley Intersciences, New York, 1982, 254 pp., $24.95 and Sprague, R. H. and Carlson, E. Building Effective Decision Support Systems, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1982, 329 pp., $24.95—reviewed by Stephen R. Ruth