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ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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Book Information:

Authors: Friedrich Kasch and Adolf Mader
Title: Rings, modules, and the total
Additional book information: Frontiers in Mathematics, Birkhäuser-Verlag, Basel, 2004, x+136 pp., ISBN 3-7643-7125-0, US$49.95$

Authors: Robert R. Colby and Kent R. Fuller
Title: Equivalence and duality for module categories, with tilting and cotilting for rings
Additional book information: Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 161, Cambridge, 2004, x+152 pp., ISBN 0-521-83821-5, US$60.00$

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Barbara L. Osofsky
    Affiliation: Rutgers University
    Email: osofsky@math.rutgers.edu.
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (2007), 475-480
    Published electronically: March 29, 2007
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2007 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.