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The Logistics Handbook James F. Robeson, William C. Copacino and R. Edwin Howe (Eds) Free Press, 1994, 954 pp., $100.00, ISBN 0-02-926595-9
The second comprehensive logistics reference book published during 1994 was The Logistics Handbook. Its orientation is pragmatic, and it utilizes more than 50 authors to present topical coverage of every major logistics activity. It is similar in scope and orientation to The Distribution Management Handbook. The editors identify the objective of the book as follows: "...to meet the needs of those interested in finding solutions to logistics problems...to serve as a single source to which those interested in logistics could turn for complete, authoritative information".
The authors of the various chapters represent well-known practitioners, consultants and academics within the logistics discipline. Each author is well qualified to write on his or her respective topic. The focus...