BOOK REVIEW S Note to Book Authors . The dedicated reader of the book review column will have noticed tha t the majority of books reviewed over the past year or so have come from one or two publishers . This is because only a few publishers are automatically sending their new books to SIGACT News upon publication . We would very much like to broaden the scope of the book review column . So , if you are the author of a new book that you would like to see reviewed in SIGACT News, pleas e ask your publisher to send a review copy of the book to Tom Jacob, SIGACT News Book Reviews , Department of Computer Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203 . The Temporal Logic of Reactive and Concurrent Systems Specification . By Zohar Manna and Amir Pnueli . Springer-Verlag, 1991 . xiv+427pp . ISBN 0-387-97664-7 . $49 .9 5 Over the past few decades much research has been conducted on the specification and verification of concurrent programs . The earlier part of this research was confined to the extension o f the traditional assertional proof techniques (i .e . those used
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