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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition

by David Flanagan

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Printing History:

August 1996:	Beta Edition.
January 1997:	Second Edition.
June 1998:	Third Edition.
January 2002:	Fourth Edition.
August 2006:	Fifth Edition.

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ISBN-10: 0-596-10199-6

ISBN-13: 978-0-596-10199-2

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