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graduate students. Certainly juniorlevel mathematics, statistics, and computer programming should be prerequisites to trying to master the material contained therein. The book, however, covers modeling and simulation in general. Chapters 1 through 4, 15, 18, and 19 provide an overview of the how and why of simulation. Even if you have been or are contemplating using a simulation language other than SLAM II, or you want to acquaint yourself with the general topic of simulation languages, these chapters provide a good introduction to the subject, including why simulation is useful and how it has been and can be employed to solve practical problems and aid in the decision-making process. The author's comments about simulation on the book jacket are also noteworthy. Of particular interest are the comments relating the use of networks to corporate executives. Industrial engineers and operations researchers should read the discussions about materials handling and flexible manufacturing, topics of current interest to professionals in these fields. Chapter 16 contains the Material Handling Extension to SLAM II and Chapter 15 addresses MAP/I, a special-purpose simulation language applicable to models of manufacturing systems. The book is one of the best organized texts I have encountered. Each chapter contains a table of contents, an introduction, exercises, and references. This makes it easy for the reader to easily find a topic of interest. A solutions manual and an education guide are also available from the publisher. Some of the reference sections are extensive. Chapter 4, Applications of Simulation, lists 67 references; Chapter 19, Statistical Aspects of Simulation, contains 88 references. Because it is well organized, the text could be used for self-instruction. This is also a good reference book. I did find a typo on page 782 (BATH versus BATCH), and I would like to make a suggestion for the next edition of the book. The simulation of computer systems, which includes hardware and software interactions in an integrated fashion, is a topic of interest to system architects and analysts. While references to the modeling of computer systems are made, the topic seems worthy of more extensive treatment and would make the book more appealing to computer scientists.