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Technical Calculus with Analytic Geometry (Available Titles Cengagenow)

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For an expensive book such as this one, you would expect the author to explain the concepts in greater detail. Unfortunately, he doesn't and that is why I am looking elsewhere for an explanation of the material. Also, there are not enough useful examples in the book. If you are looking for a book that explains the concepts in detail and gives an ample amount of examples, save yourself the time and money by purchasing another book.

This book was rather difficult, but I would highly recommend the solutions manual to solve the odd number problems. It helped tremendously and I ended up getting a B in the class. If you want to survive this class, definitely get the solutions manual along with this book. I can't tell you how much it helped me!

This is a great textbook for first timers learning calculus or just as a refresher for the basic concpets. The author Peter Kuhfittig keeps all the concepts together and doesn't bog down the reader with extremely long mathematically definitions. He gives the reader example problems and then plenty of problems to work. The only recommendation I would make to the author is to put every odd problem's solution or some even problem solutions in the solutions manual since they (even problems) or usually the harder problems to work out anyway. Only every other odd problem's solution is in the "Solutions Manual".

Book should be banned and publisher sued for hours lost because the book exists. The book doesn't teach very well, wasted hours finding other books that actually explained calculus. Doesn't even make a decent review book if you learned calc before. Wasted more time looking for author's email address to tell him what a waste of paper he produced. Doesn't speak well for any teacher that would use it either. College is hard enough without poor material like this making it harder. The only reason I didn't give it 1 star was that I wanted the review to be taken seriously.

Wasn't very thrilled to get the book its calculus. But it came in a couple days and book was in promised condition which was new.


Bought several books from this dealer and did not have any problems what so ever.