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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: 1568128
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Book Information:

Author: Christopher Allday and Volker Puppe
Title: Cohomological methods in transformation groups
Additional book information: Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, vol. 32, Cambridge University Press, London, 1993, xi+470 pp., US$69.95. ISBN 0-521-35022-0.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Alejandro Adem
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 31 (1994), 254-257
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1994-00524-5