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Author: Boris I. Botvinnik
Title: Manifolds with singularities and the Adams-Novikov spectral sequence
Additional book information: Cambridge University Press, London and New York, 1992, xv+181 pp., US$37.95. ISBN 0-521-46208-1.

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E. Devinatz, M. J. Hopkins, and J. H. Smith, Nilpotence and stable homotopy theory, Ann. of Math. 128 (1988), 207-242. MR 960945 (89m:55009)

[Mil]

J. W. Milnor, On the cobordism ring and a complex analogue, Part I, Amer. J. Math. 82 (1960), 505-521. MR 0119209 (22:9975)

[MS]

J. W. Milnor and J. D. Stasheff, Characteristic classes, Ann. of Math. Stud., vol. 76, Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, 1974. MR 0440554 (55:13428)

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[Nov2]

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[Nov3]

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D. C. Ravenel, Complex cobordism and stable homotopy groups of spheres, Academic Press, New York, 1986. MR 860042 (87j:55003)

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R. Thom, Quelques proprétés globales des variétés differentiables, Comment. Math. Helv. 28 (1954), 17-86. MR 0061823 (15:890a)