Book Description
Stewart's clear, direct writing style in SINGLE VARIABLE CALCULUS guides you through key ideas, theorems, and problem-solving steps. Every concept is supported by thoughtfully worked examples and carefully chosen exercises. Many of the detailed examples display solutions that are presented graphically, analytically, or numerically to provide further insight into mathematical concepts. Margin notes expand on and clarify the steps of the solution. iLrn Homework helps you identify where you need additional help, and Personal Tutor with SMARTHINKING gives you live, one-on-one online help from an experienced calculus tutor. In addition, the Interactive Video Skillbuilder CD-ROM takes you step-by-step through examples from the book.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent service.......2007-04-20
Product was exactly as specified. Very quick delivery. Would definitely order from this seller again!
Even Answers.......2007-02-20
The book should also have even answers. We should unite and form a union of students against even homework assignments.
Horrible...........2006-10-30
I am taking Calc II and am using this book. This book is horrible! I missed a lecture and when I tried doing the homework I got stuck. There are no example like the examples. I am here on this site to buy companion book so that I can do better on my homework. I wish they would stop using this book at university level courses.
Worst calculus text.......2006-10-25
I taught this class with this book several times, and it makes the material more difficult for students. It is one of the worst textbooks available for Calculus.
This is a _stellar_ text!.......2005-12-02
I've been swamped with homework in general, and have been behind in many classes. So, often times I won't have the foundations to understand the current concept my calc teacher is explaining in class. However, with this calc book, the explanations are so clear, and the in-text examples and practice problems so plentiful, that I can truly say I'm confident in my calculus skills, even without any teacher instruction.
Which isn't to say you should [AP] advanced procrastinate like I'm doing right now. But..
It's really a superb book, and possibly my favorite HS/technically college-prep textbook ever.
The only downside, though, is the online supplementary material doesn't seem to work for me no matter what I do. Maybe it needs teacher intervention for things to show up? It seems like it'd be a great source of extra problems, but all I can seem to find are flash videos for a couple sections a chapter. Oh well.
But again, this text really makes me happy. Get it, it's def worth your time, and a spot on your bookshelf.
Book Description
This Student Solutions Manual, written by Jeffery A. Cole, contains detailed solutions to the odd-numbered exercises in each chapter section, review section, True-False Quiz, and Focus on Problem Solving section. Also included are solutions to all Concept Check questions. Use of the solutions manual ensures that students learn the correct steps to arrive at an answer. This solutions manual covers chapters 1-8.
Customer Reviews:
Solutions.......2007-02-20
The solutions in this book are very straight forward and helpful. Unfortunately the book doesn't have even answers or solutions...Drat.
calculus solutions.......2007-02-13
This solutions manual helps explain how to solve odd numbered problems from the textbook by the same name. It is helpful, but some of the solutions skip steps in how to solve the equations. They assume that you can make the leaps of understanding on your own, which is sometimes disagreeable. If I have to look in the solutions manual because I don't know how to solve a problem, there is a good chance that I would like to see all of the correct steps.
Customer Reviews:
Great Book.......2003-05-11
The solutions manuel helped a lot. The answers in the back of the book just give you the answers, but the solutions manuel goes through the problem step by step. The only bad thing about it is that it only includes the odd numbered problems.
Odd numbered solutions only.......2000-10-29
It would appear students are only interested in assistance dealing with the odd numbered problems in this textbook series. It helps, but only with 50 percent of the problems.
It helps make some sense of this calculus mess.......2000-05-08
This book was invaluable in helping to learn the calculus. Where the text book was unclear, this solutions manual helped shed light on the whole mess for me. You won't struggle as much if you use this manual.
Book Description
Student Study Guide for students using Stewart's SINGLE VARIABLE CALCULUS: CONCEPTS AND CONTEXTS, Third Edition. Written by Robert Burton and Dennis Garity, this guide contains key concepts, skills to master, a brief discussion of the ideas in each section, worked out examples, with tips on how to find the solutions. This study guide covers chapters 1-8.
Customer Reviews:
Condensed, concise, and great for reviewing.......2001-07-19
If you've ever read Stewart's Calculus book, you know that it's quite thorough -- sometimes excessively. It's nice to have all the information you will ever need for a topic and more, but sometimes it can be a little cumbersome finding the most important material. (Especially when cramming after completing a major programming assignment and reading two 300 page British Lit books!) This book will effectively let you sit down and get to the point of a topic so that you can learn the basics. Then, if you need to know more, you can always consult the enormous hardcover text. (Did I mention it has great review problems?) It's a great companion to the text, but my only complaint is that some of the topics, though more concise, are still just as confusing to understand.
Book Description
Stewart's remarkable new calculus text signals the meeting of two schools of thought at one historic junction. Calculus: Concepts and Contexts, Single Variable maintains mathematical integrity as it skillfully merges the best of traditional calculus with the best of the reform movement. Written from the ground up, this all-new text takes students beyond memorization and helps them to develop mathematical thinking skills.
In Calculus: Concepts and Contexts, Single Variable, this well-respected author emphasizes conceptual understanding--motivating students with real world applications and stressing the Rule of Four in numerical, visual, algebraic, and verbal interpretations. All concepts are presented in the classic Stewart style: with simplicity, character, and attention to detail. In addition to his clear exposition, Stewart also creates well thought-out problems and exercises. The definitions are precise and the problems create an ideal balance between conceptual understanding and algebraic skills.
Customer Reviews:
The K. Baumann posted photo of this title is wrong for this ISBN.......2007-08-20
The K. Baumann posted photo of this title is wrong for this ISBN. This ISBN is first addition and the photo is of the second edition.
An spanish review.......2000-06-09
To make book's review is quite hard specially if you are not writting in your native language. The book is a good one, i think is well written and you can understand a lot of the magic matematics reading. Of course, you should study very much if you want to learn!.
this book is good.......1999-09-29
This is a well put together, comprehensive, and easy to understand calculus book. The material and explanations are succint, thereby not confusing. For anyone who should be taking calculus, this is a good book.
Not enough covered in Stewart's Calculus:concepts&contexts.......1999-05-28
The text is very good, straightforward, readable, and has great graphs (I especially like the sections with the graphing calculator). However, the book lacks a) the rigor and b) the amount of examples which would make it an excellent text. The sequences and series unit was cut a bit short, and there could have been more in the differential equations unit (like, for example, how to solve second-order differential equations). Overall, a good textbook.
This book is really difficult for new Calculus students!.......1999-04-07
James Stewart has gone far and beyond from the ordinary math course. He uses good examples and excellent looking graphics. However, once you start doing the problems they soon become quite difficult after doing four or five of them. I have spoken to a different Calculus instructor, not mine, and he says the same thing. He said that the author did not publish enough simple, easy to do problems before immediately getting into real difficult problems. I give it 2 stars because it might be easy for a math major to understand this text, however this book is supposed to gear more towards first time Calculus students.
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It’s fairly obvious that one can’t be a ‘perfect’ environmentalist. But that’s okay. Perfection isn’t the goal. A good life is. And a good life has as much to do with your intent as with the end result.” —from the Introduction
The Newman’s Own Organics Guide to a Good Life is the essential book for those of us who can’t live in an organic hemp tepee but do care about our quality of life, global warming, clean water, and disappearing resources.
Nell Newman shows you how to do what is within easy reach. Along with realistic, practical advice, she shows how and why living a more environmentally conscious life benefits you and your immediate surroundings. In addition to recycling and reusing, the book covers consumer-related steps such as
• how buying and eating organic food supports small farms (and tastes better, too)
• how you can buy clean power through your regular power company
• which long-distance telephone companies offer competitive pricing and service while returning a portion of their profits to environmental and educational organizations
• where to buy everything—from pots and pans to pet food—so that you can “vote with your dollar” and feel good about your purchases
Packed with profiles of fascinating—and sometimes zany—people and a heavy dose of sanity, this book is organized according to the way you really live, making it easy to identify what areas of change are viable for you. A resource directory of publications, retailers, groups, and associations is included in the back of the book.
Customer Reviews:
Helpful.......2007-07-11
This is a great practical book. It's written by Nell Newman (Paul Newman's daughter) and discusses briefly her company Newman's Own. She then spends the majority of the book sharing practical tips that she's found helpful in living a more Earth-friendly life. It was an easy read and felt more like I was listening to my aunt or grandma tell me a story. And it was great because she balanced it out. Not making things so black and white. Realizing that even being environmentally friendly still causes harm to the environment. It's less about being an extremist and more about making informed, practical decisions without being a moralist with it. Which was quite refreshing to hear. It made me want to give their food another try after my disastrous results with their salsa and popcorn.
Less hokey than the cover implies.......2007-02-20
I love this book!! I try and read it often to refresh myself on the contents. I was impressed that the book was printed on recycled paper, a percentage of the profits go to charity and its not a "buy my product" book also.
This book prouldy holds a spot in my Green Living Bookcase!
Beyond political agendas and judgmental shame tactics: just simple talk about living well in America........2006-09-24
There's some rubbish going around that there are two rigidly defined, black-and-white categories of people in the USA: conservative Republicans who don't care about the environment, and Al Gore's superforce of environmental enthusiasts. Or, if you prefer, blissfully ignorant normal people vs. crazy green hippie radicals. As a moderate who likes anybody whose category can't be rhymed with 'glass bowl', I dislike any either/or mindset. It's not the reasonable people who gain media attention, it's the radicals, and they become the stereotype of what we should avoid. In this vein, the absolute worst threat to the environment today is, ironically, the most passionate of environmentalists, whose self-righteous smugness and brimstone rants turn off the average reasonable person, understandably dismissing such vile attitudes. As with religion, environmental consciousness brings the stigma of personal manipulation via shame--for there are, no question, those who try to induce and exploit guilt for a hidden personal gain. The majority recognizes such 'activism' for what it is--at its worst, the pleasure of feeling superior to the 'unenlightened masses', labelled lazy, stupid, ignorant, blind, etc. simply for living in the world as it is. Those radical environmentalists who truly care at heart must see others from an empathic viewpoint, one which doesn't include heavy-handedness or bitter judgment, and thus has a chance of actually convincing others. This is the age of the new environmentalist--common people who come together for a cause that transcends political platforms, because regardless of our personal differences, we all want the same thing: a better life for us all. And you can bet that politicians across the board will need to listen. We are the voters, we have the power here, and we can encourage each other to use it in ways that benefit our country and our families.
What's refreshing about Nell Newman's book is that it is NOT a work of self-righteous extremism. Ms. Newman, while conscientious, passionate, and very 'green', doesn't try to shove rules down the throats of readers, nor does she stand on a soapbox and rant. She takes a nonpolitical, light-handed, self-critical, practical paradigm which communicates her point better than any alternative. In fact, she acknowledges that a lot of environmental suggestions are a tradeoff, and doesn't judge the reader for their personal decisions about what is manageable for them in their everyday life. All she tries to do, in this nicely written book, is offer thoughtful and intelligent research on how we can use the cutting-edge tools of our modern age along with well-tried old-fashioned ways of living, all to make life better. And that's something that pretty much everyone, whatever their politics or age or conscience or personal beliefs, wants to do.
If every American picked just two chapters from this book, and did only about 2 of the minor ideas listed in each, not only their environment but their own personal life would improve. I've tried the Newman's Own organic answer to popular cookies, which even my large chain grocery store carries, and you know what? In my book, besides being healthier, they actually taste BETTER than the commercial brand. The chocolate in the Newman-Os had a stronger flavor; the cream was softer, smoother, more appealing. And the Fig Newmans (har) redefined my idea of the word "Fig" and what it should taste like. It's also nice knowing that the actual profits go to charity rather than an already rich CEO's pockets. Organic may be a bit more expensive--now, while the businesses are small and struggling--but that will change the more we support them, and even in the meantime, the taste and health benefits are unquestionably worth it, at least once in a while. As Nell Newman frankly says in this book, the question is more, do we want to pay up front or down the road? In other words, would we prefer to pay a little more for the health of our pets, our family and ourselves now, or do we want to make it up in hospital and vet bills later?
Part of the reason we don't eat enough vegetables in this country is because we instinctively know they don't taste right. And they don't taste right because they aren't raised right, by small farmers with natural pesticides the way it should be. That's what organic eating is all about. Not being a hippie or a radical, or nut loaf with yeast gravy. Just supporting a better way of life and a better taste. After all, why give your dollar vote to a system that only tries to phase out partially hydrogenated oils after it becomes widely known among the public that they drastically increase the risk of heart disease, and even then uses tricks like '0 grams trans fat' to blind us to the fact that they're still legally allowed to put 0.5 grams into their stragtegically chosen serving size, which still adds up to an increased risk? The oils are listed in the ingredients, but they think we won't look there, relying on consumer trust to camouflage their cheap, unhealthful choices. And though wheat is becoming more popular as a selling point, its benefits can be stripped away without any indication given if you don't know their legal trick--that's the difference between 'wheat flour' and 'whole wheat flour'--whole wheat is what gives you the benefits, and it can be one of the last ingredients while still giving them the go-ahead to blast "NOW WITH WHOLE WHEAT!" all over the front label. Only '100% whole wheat' and 'NO trans fat' really mean healthy food, and those are the brands that deserve to be bought.
Judging from my range of emotions--disturbed at what unnatural pesticides used on produce can actually do to our bodies and our ecosystem, interested at the money-saver tips for energy, then slowly outraged at what I'd been unknowingly feeding my pet in giving her commercial dog food with vegetables and healthy meat printed all over the package--I'd say Nell Newman did a pretty good job of responsibly exposing the truth, with a little humor and charm along the way, and without being paranoid or alarmist. Corporations just think what they're doing is already good enough for the common person and animal--I've got to disagree with them. I think we deserve a better quality of life. And if enough people agree with that notion, we've got a fine basis for change right there.
That's only the food sections I've covered in this recommendation. If you're interested, pick up the book--there's a lot more to be seen and known, and it's your right to know it.
Good overview of "living green".......2006-07-26
I'm not a die-hard eco-liver, but I like to be good to the environment where I can. This book gave a lot of good ideas for just that. I also bought "Green Living" by The E Magazine at the same time. This one was better. It kept my interest and wasn't just a collection of fact and figures.
Highly recommended.
Buy a copy for your local library.......2006-05-29
The book may not have all that much to offer to those of us walking the talk environmentally, but it has great value as a book to give as a gift to someone who could use some wisdom and can do attitude as far as being materialistic.
Great book to give to your local library where hundreds of patrons will check it out. Now if someone could or would come out with a tough love book on the subject that would knock some sense into the average American.
It's the majority in my opinion who are NOT doing much to live either an organic life but a less materialistic one that bother me. The ones who drive the gas guzzlers while complaining of high gas prices. Or people who buy prepackaged or fast food for most meals each week. How do we reach these folks?
Customer Reviews:
Basic Resource.......2007-02-20
We all hear about using too much oil, but this basic resource goes beyond that. It helps you to make simple changes that not only help the environment, but your purse as well. I've been doing most of these things since the eighties. I will pass this book on to a friend now that I've updated.
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