This book is actually a follow up to Luger and Stubblefield's older book "AI and the Design of Expert Systems". Being somewhat dated in both title and content, this book serves as its resurrection. Both books are excellent in providing a basic introduction to AI. They contain a number of problems and provide just enough infromation on each topic to give the reader the general idea and a sense of having learned something substantial (this is always the danger when writing a book that surveys a variety of interrelated fields). Another strength of the book is its ability to make connections between the different areas of AI. For example, when discussing knowledge representation, they make sure to draw connections with it and logic as well as natural language processing.