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Title: Algebra and Trigonometry with Analytic Geometry (with CD) by Earl W. Swokowski, Jeffery A. Cole ISBN: 0534390501 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: 01 December, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $94.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33
Rating: 4
Summary: Solid math textbook
Comment: I'm a little torn on what to say about this book. On one hand, I have a huge amount of respect for this book. On the other hand, it's not an easy book to learn from.
I have no doubt that if people work through this book, they will be very knowledgable and skilled in the areas covered. It is, however, a slow, tedious, sometimes frustrating process. The authors are clearly proficient at math, but their style is pretty dry. It's a "just the facts, ma'am" approach to instruction. It would be nice to have perspective, interpretation, and helpful guidance in addition to straight math. It's kind of like reading a technical manual. I prefer a more engaging presentation.
Rating: 1
Summary: A math book that leaves you stranded
Comment: This book is required by my college and dealing with it was the most unpleasant period of my life. Prior to using this book I used the Saxon Math Program in which each lesson contains enough information to learn the material without the help of an instructor. There is no way that you can teach yourself from this book if you don't all ready know the material, and many math professors are lazy and tell you to get the knowledge out of the book. The lesson material is too brief and the explanations are almost cryptic. The solutions manual that comes with it is supposed to have the answers to all the odd problems, but the author decided to leave out a couple of these problems in which the answer would take up a little more paper than the others, these are often the ones you need the solutions to, the book just leaves you stranded. If you have to use this book, I pity you, you better hope that you have a darn good math professor. If you don't have to use it, steer clear of it.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Most Coherent Math BooK I Have Ever Used in School
Comment: It was well-organized without being too formatted and nit-picky. The explanations made sense and it was great for note-taking. The problems were challenging, but not so hard that it was no fun. I strongly recommend this book for use in the classroom and out of it for private use and/or review.
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Title: Algebra and Trigonometry With Analytic Geometry: Solutions Manual by Jeffery A. Cole, Earl William Swokowski ISBN: 0534346146 Publisher: Breton Pub Co Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
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Title: The New Century Handbook (2nd Edition) by Christine A. Hult, Thomas N. Huckin ISBN: 0205329705 Publisher: Longman Publishing Group Pub. Date: 25 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $54.00 |
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Title: Calculus Made Easy: Being a Very-Simplest Introduction to Those Beautiful Methods of Reckoning Which Are Generally Called by the Terrifying Names of the Differential calc by Silvanus P. Thompson, Martin Gardner ISBN: 0312185480 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 08 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley ISBN: 0060929871 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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