Laura Thudium,author ofStage Makeup- The Actor's Complete Guide to Today's Techniques and Materials,was a professional makeup artist and costume designer. She served as an editor and was a writer for the Costume Society of America's quarterly newsletter, and taught costume design at Southern Illinois University, where she was an associate professor of theater.
These two volumes dedicated to the theory and complexity of scheduling problems are a valuable source of information to researchers and graduate students of operations research, management, and computer sciences. Readers with particular interests in production planning and flexible manufacturing are very well served by this fine set.' Journal of Global Optimization, 7, 1995 The book is well written. ... Therefore, the book can be recommended for readers working in the field of scheduling and related areas from different points of view.' Optimization, 37, 1996