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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