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MathSciNet review: 1568173
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Book Information:

Author: Wilfrid Hodges
Title: Model theory
Additional book information: {Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, vol.\ 42}, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993, xiii + 772 pp., US$99.95. ISBN 0-521-30442-3.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: John T. Baldwin
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 32 (1995), 280-285
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1995-00578-1