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Author(s):
K. S. Brown
Title:
Buildings
Additional book information:
Springer-Verlag, New York, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1989, viii + 215 pp., $39.00. ISBN 0-387-96876-8
Author(s):
M. A. Ronan
Title:
Lectures on buildings
Additional book information:
Perspectives in Mathematics, No. 7, Academic Press, Orlando, 1989, xii + 216 pp., $27.95. ISBN 0-12-594750-X
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Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
James E.
Humphreys
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
21
(1989),
303-307.
DOI:
10.1090/S0273-0979-1989-15836-9
PII:
S 0273-0979(1989)15836-9
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