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Book Review

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Book Information:

Author: Lluis Puig
Title: On the local structure of Morita and Rickard equivalences between Brauer blocks
Additional book information: Progress in Math., vol. 178, Birkhäuser, Basel, 1999, 261 pp., ISBN 3-7643-6156-5, $98.00$

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Review Information:

Reviewer: Jacques Thévenaz
Affiliation: Université de Lausanne
Email: Jacques.Thevenaz@ima.unil.ch
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 97-100
Published electronically: October 2, 2000
Additional Notes: This review is an expanded version of a review in French which appeared in the Gazette des Mathématiciens.
Review copyright: © Copyright 2000 American Mathematical Society