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Calculus (With Analytic Geometry)(8th edition) | 
| Authors: Ron Larson, Robert P. Hostetler, Bruce H. Edwards
Publisher: Brooks Cole
List Price: $227.95
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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 26922
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 8
Pages: 1138
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.2
Dimensions (in): 10.6 x 8.6 x 1.9
ISBN: 061850298X
Dewey Decimal Number: 515.15
EAN: 9780618502981
ASIN: 061850298X
Publication Date: January 11, 2005
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Product Description
Designed for the three-semester calculus course for math and science majors, Calculus continues to offer instructors and students new and innovative teaching and learning resources. This was the first calculus text to use computer-generated graphics, to include exercises involving the use of computers and graphing calculators, to be available in an interactive CD-ROM format, to be offered as a complete, online calculus course, and to offer a two-semester Calculus I with Precalculus text. Every edition of the series has made the mastery of traditional calculus skills a priority, while embracing the best features of new technology and, when appropriate, calculus reform ideas. Now, the Eighth Edition is the first calculus program to offer algorithmic homework and testing created in Maple so that answers can be evaluated with complete mathematical accuracy. Two primary objectives guided the authors in writing this book: to develop precise, readable materials for students that clearly define and demonstrate concepts and rules of calculus and to design comprehensive teaching resources for instructors that employ proven pedagogical techniques and saves the instructor time. The Eighth Edition continues to provide an evolving range of conceptual, technological, and creative tools that enable instructors to teach the way they want to teach and students to learn they way they learn best.
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 Worst Math book I've ever owned. October 27, 2009
P Lance
This math book cannot stand on it's own to convey the knowledge of Calculus. Although there are not many errors, there are errors, which is inexcusable for an 8th try (edition). It's not as if Calculus changes. However, that's not my primary complaint. The problem with the book is that it does a poor job of teaching. It takes some of the simplest ideas, and seems to make an effort to complicate them - as if they're trying to make Calculus harder than it is. Also, it sometimes takes space to explain easy topics while glossing over more difficult ones. I have found Calculus relatively easy to understand, but no thanks to this book. I can't imagine how helpless people who don't find math easy must feel trying to trudge through this book.
 Great book September 25, 2009
I used this book for Calc I and II.
The pre-calculus sections cover everything that you need for the calculus you'll be doing in the book.
If the pre-calc section didn't cover something you'll need in one of the 'real' chapters, the book covers it in the beginning section of that chapter.
Everything is organized well (in my opinion).
I do agree that the way some of the lessons are explained are sometimes hard to understand but all you need to do is fight through it to try to understand. If you still can't understand, just start trying the homework & the examples & you should be able to catch on.
Some classmates were complaining that it didn't review for Trig as much as it should've (you really need to have the special angle (30/60/90, 45/45/90) concepts memorized (or at least have the sin,cos & tan of the special angles memorized), however, I do remember the author adding additional sections in the appendix that covered the Trig you need to know for the course.
So make sure to check the appendix, it may have something you possibly need.
Overall, I really liked the book.
I highly recommend the H Anton book for Calc III though.
I had a really applicational calc III teach that NEVER did examples & never taught anything from the book.
He'd constantly go off on a tangent teaching applicational stuff that was very interesting, however, it did nothing for us in regards to the stuff we needed to learn for the class.
The H Anton book basically taught me the entire calc III material w/o a teacher.
The way it was written made it so you didn't really need a teacher.
If you're taking calc III, I definitely recommend the H Anton book (get it used though, don't pay high price based on my review. Not all books are for everyone, just b/c I liked it doesn't mean you would).
 Not an easy read September 11, 2009
G.R.I.T.S. (NYC)
One plus is that the sections are short and there are lots of examples. However, the explanations are not simplified enough. Average text. The online CD helps provide support for what the text lacks.
Never Again July 12, 2009
JSue
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
We never received our order. Seller never answered any of our emails. Submitted a claim for a refund.
 Calculus textbook July 5, 2009
Kathryn T. Matherly
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
The seller sent the product to me as fast as I asked him to, but it was the wrong edition of the textbook.
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