Review of "Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education by Harry Lewis," Public Affairs, 290 pages.

In this column we review the following books. 1. Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education by Harry Lewis. Review by William Gasarch. This book is about how Harvard had declined; however, it has lessons for us all. 2. The following three books are jointly reviewed by Ronald de Wolf. It is reprinted here with permission. The books are on Quantum computing. Cohen. This is a book on lattices that can be used by undergraduates-it has exercises, diagrams , and good exposition. 4. Computational Techniques for the Summation of Series by Anthony Sofo. Review by Vladik Kreinovich. This is about summing series. It uses complex math (literally-complex analysis) and is a research book, not a textbook. Books I want Reviewed If you want a FREE copy of one of these books in exchange for a review, then email me at gasarchcs.umd.edu Reviews need to be in LaTeX, LaTeX2e, or Plaintext.