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Author(s): Barry D. Hughes
Title: Random walks and random environments
Additional book information: Clarendon Press, Oxford, New York. Volume 1: Random walks, 1995, xxi+631, $95.00, 0-19-853788-3; Volume 2: Random environments, 1996, xxiv+526 pp., $115.00, ISBN 0-19-853789-1

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Reviewer(s):
Gordon Slade
Affiliation: McMaster University
Email: slade@math.mcmaster.ca

MSC (1991): Primary 82B41, 82B43, 60J15, 60K35
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-98-00762-9
PII: S 0273-0979(98)00762-9
Copyright of article: Copyright 1998, American Mathematical Society

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