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Book Information:

Authors: János Kollár and with the collaboration of C. H. Clemens and A. Corti Shigefumi Mori
Title: Birational geometry of algebraic varieties
Additional book information: Cambridge University Press, 1998, viii + 254 pp., ISBN 0-521-63277-3

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Review Information:

Reviewer: Yujiro Kawamata
Affiliation: University of Tokyo
Email: kawamata@ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 267-272
Published electronically: February 7, 2001
Review copyright: © Copyright 2001 American Mathematical Society