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Book Information:

Author: M. I. Ostrovskii
Title: Metric embeddings: bilipschitz and coarse embedddings into Banach spaces
Additional book information: de Gruyter Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 49, de Gruyter, Berlin, 2013, xii+372 pp., ISBN 978-3-11-026401-2, US$154.00.

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Review Information:

Reviewer: Florent P. Baudier
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
Email: florent@math.tamu.edu
Reviewer: William B. Johnson
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
Email: johnson@math.tamu.edu