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ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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Book Information:

Author: Gabriel Navarro
Title: Characters and blocks of finite groups
Additional book information: Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1998, x+287 pp., ISBN 0-521-59413-4, $39.95$

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: David Gluck
    Affiliation: Wayne State University
    Email: dgluck@math.wayne.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 37 (2000), 169-174
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-00-00854-5
    Published electronically: January 21, 2000
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2000 American Mathematical Society