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Authors: Benson Farb and Dan Margalit
Title: A primer on mapping class groups
Additional book information: Princeton Mathematical Series, Vol. 49, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2012, xiv+472 pp., ISBN 978-0-691-14794-9, US $75.00.

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    Reviewer: Mladen Bestvina
    Affiliation: University of Utah
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 51 (2014), 691-700
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-2014-01454-5
    Published electronically: May 27, 2014
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