Essentials of College Mathematics for Business, Economics, Life Sciences and Social Sciences (3rd Edition)

Author: Raymond A. Barnett, Michael R. Ziegler
List Price: $116.00
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ISBN: 0023059311
Publisher: Prentice Hall (15 August, 1994)
Sales Rank: 984,008
Average Customer Rating: 3 out of 5

Customer Reviews

Rating: 4 out of 5
I thought it was pretty good actually
I also had this book for two math classes and found it to be pretty good, probably one of the better text books I've had. It explained things better than my teachers did! In all fairness, I knew all the math before the calculus part so I only really read the book in an in-depth manner the last 3 or 4 chapters. Anyway, just a different opinion.

Rating: 2 out of 5
Is this book talking about math? Did I miss something?
I am a college student and had the unfortunete experience to have to use this utterly useless textbook for two different courses--a finite math and a calculus course. The text is very technical and wordy, with terrible examples not explaining steps but rather using the authors 'ego-boosting' terms such as 'obvioulsy', 'of course' and 'simply' -- wrongly assuming that drawn out text taught the student something. Do not buy this book if you are looking to learn calc--there has got to be something better.

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