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Book Information:

Author: Winfried Bruns and J\"urgen Herzog
Title: Cohen-Macaulay rings
Additional book information: Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, vol. 39, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993, xi + 403~pp., US$79.95. ISBN 0-521-41068-1.

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    • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Melvin Hochster
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 32 (1995), 265-275
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1995-00577-X