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Book Information:

Author: Stephen Donkin
Title: The $q$-Schur algebra
Additional book information: London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, vol. 253, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1999, x + 179 pp., ISBN 0-521-64558-1, $39.95$

Author: Andrew Mathas
Title: Iwahori-Hecke algebras and Schur algebras of the symmetric group
Additional book information: University Lecture Series, vol. 15, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1999, xiii + 188 pp., ISBN 0-8218-1926-7, $25.00$

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Review Information:

Reviewer: Brian Parshall
Affiliation: University of Virginia
Email: bjp8w@virginia.edu
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 37 (2000), 467-472
Published electronically: June 27, 2000
Review copyright: © Copyright 2000 American Mathematical Society