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Summary: you'll be clueless why you bought it
Review: At best, the title is an accurate description of the state you'll be in once you've sat down and tried to make some headway. At worst, it's a misnomer.The format is apparently designed to put your mind at ease that, when the next TEST comes around, you'll be fine. Unfortunately, a good-old-fashioned bromide for unsteady nerves this ain't. A far and away better book is Ash's Calculus Tutoring Book, which is designed to actually TEACH you the calculus (what a concept!) without mystification.
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Summary: Too Cute, Too Short, Too Sloppy
Review: First law of calculus: you can't make it easy. It's hard, requires effort and time to comprehend, and can't be reduced to a few hundred pages, written in a faux friendly style and dotted with cartoons. The typos don't help, either. (Typos seem a common link among all the books in the Bob Miller Clueless series.) I suppose, if you're just getting started, that a book such as this one (but not THIS particular book) would help you achieve a useful overview of the subject, but then you must find a concise, no-nonsense textbook or workbook, where the 'C' word is clarity, not cartoon. The Clueless series, and others books of its ilk, are generally written with a mandate to be appealing and friendly, goals which are often at odds with teaching the material in a clear manner and not hiding the fact that learning is work. I'm sure Bob Miller knows his calculus well; he just can't teach it to others while saddled with the 'Clueless' concept.
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Summary: The book that will help you sleep at night!
Review: This book had very good explanations, which where clear and precise. It's examples where shown step-by-step...no steps were skipped, which some texts tend to do. I especially recommend this book to people who are having difficulty with cosine and sin problems. Your math anxiety will be decreased after reading the logic behind the formulas and practising the problems from this book.
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