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Calculus: Single Variable
by Deborah Hughes Hallett, Andrew M. Gleason, William G. McCallum, Daniel E. Flath, Patti Frazer Lock, David O. Lomen, David Lovelock, Brad G. Osgood, Thomas W. Tucker, Douglas Quinney, Karen Rhea, Jeff Tecosky-Feldman
from Wiley
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Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0 
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Only useful if you've had Calculus before 
I bought this book for my Calculus I class this semester - and I hate it! The author doesn't break concepts apart; the assumption inherent in that is the reader has had Calculus before. Also, there's a lot of verbiage in place of examples, which makes it confusing to read.
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How I Learned Calculus 
This calculus textbook provides challenging sample problems and clear proofs for calculus students. It highlights the main points well, surrounding each must-know point with an extremely helpful blue box (actually you could probably learn calculus by just reading the blue boxes). Exercises range from easy to very challenging and from random to practical. While most of the problems can be done by hand, a graphing calculator is necessary to get the most out of this book. For those taking AP Calculus, this... more info
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Great Book
I've taught out of this book for several years. Students learn to understand the concepts through some very useful and interesting problems. Extremely well-written.
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These other ratings are too low 
I should start out by saying that I haven't seen this newest edition, but if it's similar to the older ones which also got unfair reviews, I can safely say that this book deserves at least a 3. It is certainly not a one star book, and I suspect that those reviewers are just taking their frustrations out on the easiest target (because as we all know, doing poorly in calculus is NEVER the student's fault).
I don't think this is the book to use if you're a math major, but other than that it's good. I... more info
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