Book reviewed in this article:MANAGING QUALITY AND PRODUCTIVITY IN AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE, by D. Scott Sink and Paul E. Rossler.THE AMERICAN STEEL NAVY (1883–1909) by John Alden, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 1990, 408.MARITIME ACCIDENTS: WHAT WENT WRONG, by Edward T. Gates, Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, Texas, 1989.ADVANCES IN TURBULENCE, edited by W.K. George and R. Arndt, Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, New York, 1989.THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF INDIVIDUAL SUBSTANCES, Fourth Edition, edited by L.V. Gurvich, I.V. Veyts, C.B. Alcock, Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, New York.CHANNELIZED RIVERS — PERSPECTIVES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT by Andrew Brookes, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 326.FIREBOATS, by Paul Ditzel, Fire Buff House, New Albany, Ind., 1989, 125.MANAGEMENT OF MARINE DESIGN by Stian Erichsen, Butterworths, London. 239.