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Book Information:

Author: G. M. Kelly
Title: Basic concepts of enriched category theory
Additional book information: London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, No. 64, Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, 1982, 245 pp., $24.95. ISBN 0-5212-8702-2.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: John W. Gray
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 9 (1983), 102-107
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1983-15172-8