Rating: 
Summary: A good practical book
Review: I found this book to be very exciting. I have taken
several calc courses. And after graduating I still did not
understand how calculus fits in real life. This books
focuses on just that. When ever I find time, I
eagerly read this book.. This book shows that maths
is not just number/formulae crunching but has more deeper
meaning. Do not throw this book. You will discover its value
if you re-read.I read a couple of reviews noting that this is not a good book.
Most of those bad reviews are from students who are currently
using this book as a school text book. I know it is frustrating
if your goal is to get to the right answer in the shortest
possible time. This book makes you think, think-a-lot. Clearly
contrary to the expectations.
Rating: 
Summary: The Best Way To Learn Calculus
Review: I got my PhD and am now a professor of physics. A long, long time ago, I used photocopies of this book. The book hadn't been published yet, and was still under review. A decade later, I still remember this book. Poor students will hate this book. It requires you to think critically and analytically. It requires you to understand the material well enough to be creative in your problem solving. It is definitely more of a concepts book than it is a "do this integral", "test this series for convergence", "differentiate this function" type of book. Good students will love this book. You often have to make connections between concepts yourself, but the exercises are obviously written to help you make the connection. This is a thinking person's book. Not a mindless student's book. And, I feel obligated to point out (even though it should be obvious), even a 4.0 GPA student can be a "mindless student". A 4.0 means nothing in this grade inflated, rampant cheating, educationally watered down society we live in. Last words. I used this book before it got published. Our professor used photocopy handouts. I think we were guinea pigs for the book. The one criticism I have is that sometimes you really need just to solve 20 very difficult integrals in a row. Sometimes brute force calculational problem solving is just necessary, not to learn the concept, but to gain the skill required to master a subject. The handouts I recall didn't have the 100 odd mindless calculational type problems. Most of the problems were subtle, thinking person's problems. I think the best approach would be a combination of the two: problems to teach concepts and problems to teach skill. This book (in the form I saw) had more of the former, and very few of the latter. As far as the "back of the book" odd numbered problems being often wrong, I can not comment on that. Even as a undergrad, I never used "back of the book answers". Maybe they were wrong, and maybe they weren't. In any event, that wouldn't kill such a wonderful book for me.
Rating: 
Summary: this is terrible
Review: I got stuck taking a calc course with this book. It was terrible. I had to refer to another calc book I had just to understand where they were coming from. The examples often jumped around skipping steps and leaving the reader hopelessly lost.
Rating:
Summary: This book sucks
Review: I had taken Calc I with this book, and now I am in Calc II and we are using this book. I was sitting here trying to read through the sections assigned and getting very agitated with the vagueness of this book. Since day one, I have hated this book. Instead of teaching you theories, concepts, and how to use the applications, recognize different patterns, their idea of teaching you is by giving a few examples for each section. The problem is that they skip 3 or 4 steps, and you have no idea how they arrived at a particular answer. Then, when you get to the homework problems, it is hard to do many of them because the examples are ... and do not relate often to the homework problems. Do not buy this book if you don't have to.
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Summary: A homemade Calculus book will do better than this text book~
Review: I have never seen any math book with so many calculational error in the conceptual part of there every section. Not only evey odd answer is presented in the back, they are often wrong as well. I mean...what kind of math "text" book it is, when itself is full of error. I often find myself unable to understand it's concept just because of those calculational error. The company that make this text book is very irresponsible, because they've never try to correct their errors. I have seen some company that actually reward their readers if they ever find a caculational error, but this book is just way out of there. Unbelivablly poorly made, the company made this book to earn money, not to teach students to understand the subject of Calculus~ Do not buy it ever~ As for me, I will run as far away as I can the next time I see a book from JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC.
Rating: 
Summary: Poor textbook
Review: I strongly do not recommend this textbook. The book is difficult to follow because of the poor examples. In addition, a lot of the solutions to the odd numbered problems are not in the back of the book.
Rating:
Summary: Not a very good text.
Review: I used this book for a one-semester course and I did not gain a very good learning experience from it. The exercises did not coordinate with the examples and concepts that were presented. I had to use Anton's book to supplement this book. I feel that if I did not go to a different text I would not have gotten above a B in the course. I recommend buying Anton's 5th edition (it is out of print, but available from Amazon) or Stewart's text. Judging from how the book dealt with the material from Calc I, I can only assume that the rest of the material is as bad.
Rating:
Summary: Not a very good text.
Review: I used this book for a one-semester course and I did not gain a very good learning experience from it. The exercises did not coordinate with the examples and concepts that were presented. I had to use Anton's book to supplement this book. I feel that if I did not go to a different text I would not have gotten above a B in the course. I recommend buying Anton's 5th edition (it is out of print, but available from Amazon) or Stewart's text. Judging from how the book dealt with the material from Calc I, I can only assume that the rest of the material is as bad.
Rating:
Summary: this book is no help at all
Review: I used this book in High School Calculus. The entire class hated it. For the most part the examples are easily followed, although there are occasions where it was so confusing the teacher was unable to follow the steps they were illustrating. The worst thing about this book is that the examples tended to have almost nothing to do with the problems at the end of the chapter. To me this book seemed to follow the new need felt by many people to apply math to some sort of situation, which is all fine and dandy but you need to learn how to do something before you can apply it, especially in problems such as the ones in this book. When I came on looking for my College text books (I am retaking Calculus by the way) I was crushed to learn this is the text that we will be following. The best thing about this book is it's cover
Rating:
Summary: A waste of paper
Review: I used this text for Calc I & II college level courses and I was completely disappointed. The examples are very obscure and the approach is far too technical for first timers and experts alike. The solutions to the examples are very hard to trace. I.e. they jump from one part of the equation/problem to another and don't tell you how they got ther, which leaves you feeling uneasy. I think even Isaac Newton would have a hard time with this text. If you can, avoid taking a class that uses this book at all costs, and if you can't, make sure you have an excellent instructor.
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