The text is a compilation of the primary author's (Elishakoff's)technical papers over the span of several decades. While the topics covered on the general subject of buckling, sensitivity analysis, and probabilistic approaches to buckling should have been good, this is another example of a text where neither the authors (of which there were three) nor the publisher proofread the equations or figures in the text prior to releasing the same old mistakes and typographical errors. Many of the equations contain errors and cannot be utilized as published. Do not punsih any students by utilizing this error ridden text as-is in the classroom!