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Author(s): János Kollár and Shigefumi Mori, with the collaboration of C. H. Clemens and A. Corti
Title: Birational geometry of algebraic varieties
Additional book information: Cambridge University Press, 1998, viii + 254, 0-521-63277-3

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Reviewer(s):
Yujiro Kawamata
Affiliation: University of Tokyo
Email: kawamata@ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp

MSC (2000): Primary 14E30
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-01-00910-7
PII: S 0273-0979(01)00910-7
Posted: February 7, 2001
Copyright of article: Copyright 2001, American Mathematical Society

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