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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1567935
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Book Information:

Authors: Michael Makkai and Robert Paré
Title: Accessible categories: The foundations of categorical model theory
Additional book information: Contemporary Mathematics, vol. 104, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1989, 176 pp., $31.00. ISBN 0-8218-5111-X.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: John W. Gray
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 25 (1991), 131-140
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1991-16045-3