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Book Information:

Authors: Michael Harris and Richard Taylor
Title: The geometry and cohomology of some simple Shimura varieties
Additional book information: with an appendix by Vladimir G. Berkovich, Annals of Mathematics Studies, Number 151, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2001, viii + 276 pp., ISBN 0-691-09092-0, $35.00$, paperback; ISBN 0-691-09090-4, $65.00$, cloth

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Review Information:

Reviewer: Alan Roche
Affiliation: University of Oklahoma
Email: aroche@math.ou.edu
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 40 (2003), 239-246
Published electronically: February 12, 2003
Review copyright: © Copyright 2003 American Mathematical Society