Book Reviews

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Tompkins, James A. 1989, Winning Manufacturing: The How-to Book of Successful Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering and Management Press, Norcross, Georgia, 223 pp., $32.95 ($27.95 IIE members)—reviewed by Heungsoon Felix Lee Balachandra, R. 1989, Early Warning Signals for R&D Projects, Lexington Books, Lexington, Massachusetts/Toronto, 220 + xvii pp., $39.95—reviewed by Falguni Sen Kang, T. W. 1989, Is Korea the Next Japan? The Free Press Inc., New York, 196 pp., $19.95—reviewed by Holger Hinz Ermoliev, Y. and Wets, R. eds. 1988, Numerical Techniques for Stochastic Optimization, Springer-Verlag, New York, 571 pp., $74.00—reviewed by John R. Birge Tushman, Michael L. and Moore, William L. 1988, Readings in the Management of Innovation, second edition, Ballinger Publishing Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 769 + xiv pp., $22.95—reviewed by Francis W. Wolek Gnedenko, B. V. and Kovalenko, I. N. 1989, Introduction to Queueing Theory, second edition, Birkhauser, Boston, Massachusetts, 314 + xi pp., $59.00—reviewed by U. Narayan Bhat Gani, J. ed. 1988, A Celebration of Applied Probability, Applied Probability Trust, The University, Sheffield S3 7RH, England, 387 pp., $40.00—reviewed by David D. Yao Van Rijn, C.F.H., ed. 1989, Logistics: Where Ends Have to Meet: Proceedings of the Shell Conference on Logistics, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, 2–3 November 1988, Pergamon Press, New York, 234 + viii pp., $75.00—reviewed by Ton Volgenant Timpe, A. Dale, ed. 1989, Productivity, Kend Publishing, Emerson, New Jersey, 371 + xii pp., $29.95—reviewed by R. Gehani Shingo, Shigeo 1989, A Study of the Toyota Production System from an Industrial Engineering Viewpoint, Productivity, Inc., Norwalk, Connecticut, 257 + xxxiv pp., $39.95 (hard cover)—reviewed by P. S. Thomas Martins, John G. and Svensson, Morgan 1988, Profitability and Industrial Robots, IFS (Publications), Bedford, United Kingdom, 170 pp., $24.95—reviewed by Thomas Romeyke