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MathSciNet review: 1567865
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Book Information:

Author: H. J. Baues
Title: Algebraic homotopy
Additional book information: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, 1989, 466 pp., $89.50. ISBN 0-521-33376-8.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Ronald Brown
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 23 (1990), 182-190
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1990-15929-4