Customer Reviews

Human Behavior in the Social Environment: A Multidimensional Perspective (with InfoTrac)

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I'm in a MSW program and this text book was part of the reading material. For a text book, its poorly written. The book jumps from topic to topic and does not have a clear flow from one subject to anouther. Items are misplaced and the information is difficult to find. In my class of 25 student there was no one who was happy with this book.

I had the misfortune of having to read this book in a Human Development course. This textbook is wordy, redundant, and overflowing with irrelevant detail. The writing is incomprehensible. There is a crippling lack of focus which defeats the purpose of any text--to guide a student through relevant material. A good editor would have rejected this book outright, or at least have gotten out a big pack of red pens!

I'm a first-semester MSW student. I don't have a background in social work or the social sciences, so I may be way off when I say that this is the most informative textbook that I've ever read. (Mind you, I'd stil rather be reading something by Howard Zinn or Jared Diamind.) Every page teaches me something new. If it has organizational problems, I haven't noticed, because reading it is so engrossing.

The book itself is boring, but the owner cannot change that. I do like how the previous owner already had stuff highlighted, but on one page it had words in highlighter written on it and made it hard to see. It was a great price and good quality, thank you!

I was worried about receiving this book in time, but it actually shipped almost two whole weeks prior to its estimated arrival time! Thanks soooooo very much :)

This product came WELL in advance of when it was scheduled to come and was in the condition that it said it would be :)

This is a great book on humnan development. I have not finished it but so far for my class it is one of the best that I have seen and my undergraduate courses were in Human Development. I really like this book and the information in it.