In addition to many new problems for practice and challenge, this edition of a self-contained graduate text on abstract algebra contains an introduction to lattices, a new chapter on tensor products and a discussion of the new (1993) approach to the celebrated Lasker-Noether theorem.
It's a good algebra book. I think the section on fields and galois theory is very nice. It is extremely terse and dry though. It feels like its written by a robot. Aluffi or even dummit and foote is much more conversational and thus somewhat easier to read. This makes it somewhat unenjoyable to read, but it is also quite nice since it makes the chapters short, and makes it easy to see what the essence of each chapter is.
It also has really good examples for every concept.
Some of the concepts are a little technical, especially in the "additional topics" section at the end, like the chapter of artinian and noetherian modules and artin-wedderburn theorem was quite difficult for me.
Another ++ is that it has solutions for the odd-numbered exercises.
This was the textbook for my second course in abstract algebra. We mostly did module theory in that class.
I did not like this text book then, and I found it difficult to learn the material from here. However, when relearning the material in Grad School (in a more in depth fashion.) I definitely used this book as a reference.