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Title: If this book is required for your course..
Review: If this book is required for your course, then it means the publishing company's marketing machine has won over someone powerful in the department under which your course is managed.It's sick how such a crappy book can "convince" many course coordinators to make it a required textbook. This book is marketed very well like James Stewarts' Calculus books (table props), but it's even worse than what Stewart puts out (hard to imagine!).
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