Ackoff Russell Shiv Gupta Sayer (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. Hardcover in good condition, with unclipped dust jacket in acceptable condition. Jacket is scuffed, sunned and marked. Edges are creased and torn, with chips noted. Board corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Page block is lightly tanned. Previous owner's name penned to front endpaper. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Condition: Gut. 1. Auflage,. 464 Seiten, Buch gut erhalten, Einband leicht berieben und am oberen Buchrücken etwas bestoßen. Buch im Gesamten nachgedunkelt. Im Vorsatz Namenseintrag. Auf Titelei Namensstempelung. ISBN: 9780471002970 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1050 Gebundene Ausgabe, Leinen, ohne SU.

Hardcover. Condition: UsedGood. Hardcover, surplus library copy with the usual stampings; reference number taped to spine; exterior shows some wear and light soiling; otherwise in good condition with clean text, tight binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1962. Fine condition in a bright, shiny Very Good dust jacket (3 short closed tears). NOT a library discard. Clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Russell L. Ackoff was the protégé and first doctoral student of the legendary C. West Churchman -- founding father in the fields of operations research, system theory, and management science. Included here are chapters on: The Nature of Science and Methodology; The Mean of Optimal Solutions to Problems; Formulating the Problem; Models; Defining; Measurement; Sampling; Estimation; Testing Hypotheses; Experimentation and Correlation; Deriving Solutions from Models; Experimental Optimization; Testing and Controlling the Model and Solution; Implementation and Organization of Research; The Ideals of Science and Society: An Epilogue. Two appendices. Bibliographies. Author Index. Subject Index. Bound in the original two-tone cloth (tan and green), stamped in green on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "This book creates a new field, the scientific study of the scientific process. The author formulates the problems of conducting research in such a way that recent developments of the Decision Theory can be applied to the research process itself." . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. xii, 464pp.