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Title: Avoid like the plague.
Review: Incomplete explanations, poor exposition, and left-out steps make this a poor choice for the calculus newbie. I tried to learn calculus on my own with this book and was tripped-up repeatedly by this totally inadequate textbook. I then picked up a copy of Calculus with Analytic Geometry by George F. Simmons which was a pleasure to read and work-through. This book even manages to make the concept of limits fuzzy; a problem which the Simmons book cleared up immediately. This text might be a concise refresher for someone who has studied the subject before, but if you are looking for a textbook to study on your own, steer clear.
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