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J. Opl Res. Soc. Vol. 42, No.8, pp. 721-724, 1991 0160-5682/ 91 $3.50 + 0.00 Printed in Great Britain. All rights reserved Copyright © 1991 Operational Research Society Ltd Book Selection Edited by RICHARD EGLESE and MIKE PIDD H. J. MISER and E. S. QUADE (Editors): Handbook of Systems Analysis-Craft Issues and Procedural Choices 721 K. K. LAu: Linear Programming: A Computational Approach (2nd Edition) 722 C. MoRRIS: Quantitative Approaches in Business Studies (2nd Edition) 723 BRIAN WILSON: Systems: Concepts, Methodologies and Applications (2nd Edition) 723 H. J. MISER and E. S. QUADE (Editors) John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1988. 681 pp. £55.00 ISBN 0 471 92020 7 This book is the second in the three-volume culmination of a major project in the wide world of systems analysis initiated by IIASA in 1974 in response to a proposal of the USSR National Member Organization. After initial studies, in 1978 a three-volume format was chosen: the first, Overviews of Uses, Procedures, Applications and Practice, 'aimed at a widely varied audience of producers and users of systems analysis', has already been published: the third, Cases, to be devoted to extended descriptions of outstanding work, is yet to come. This book aims