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College Algebra (with CD-ROM, BCA/iLrn Tutorial, and InfoTrac )
James Stewart, Lothar Redlin, Saleem Watson
Edition: 4
Retail Price (not our price): $158.95
ISBN: 0534405991
ISBN-13: 9780534405991
Publication Date: 2003-11-06
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 816


Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Product Description
James Stewart, author of the worldwide, best-selling Calculus texts, along with two of his former Ph.D. students, Lothar Redlin and Saleem Watson, collaborated in writing this text to address a problem they frequently saw in their calculus courses: many students were not prepared to think mathematically but attempted instead to memorize facts and mimic examples. College Algebra was written specifically to help students learn to think mathematically and to develop true problem-solving skills.

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 out of 5

1) Worst I've ever had   [Rating: 1 out of 5]
I don't really feel like doing a detailed criticism, but I'm typically real good at math and I'm used to learning out of the book. This has to be the absolute worst I've ever encountered.

2) College Algebra   [Rating: 1 out of 5]
I hated this book. I didn't think it explained things well. I ended up dropping the course. I have gone through many algebra books and I am finding that many of them do not show examples very well and since I am a very visual learner, I need it to be broken down visually, I was very disappointed in the book.

3) Best written text I've used!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I am a math major trying to find this book because I wasn't able to keep it after I took College Algebra. Yay! I've found it! This has to be the best-written text I've ever used ... over Trigonometry, Calculus 1,2,& 3 (using two different college's different texts), Discrete Mathematics, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, Abstract Algebra, Real Analysis, Probability and Statistics, and college Geometry. The writing is interesting, explanations are very clear, and practice exercises representative of what was taught. This is one of the few texts I could read before class and get a good idea of what was going on! Highly highly recommended, even if you just need a good reference book!

4) Stay away from this book if possible   [Rating: 1 out of 5]
This book is the worst math book I ever had. I had to buy this for my class, but I barely take a look at it because the explanations are so messed up. They do things the long way and do thing more complicated, but the thing that bothers me the most is that their explanations can confuse you more than clarify things. This book has some bad editing because some of the answers in the back are wrong and they don't show the process of the problems. I only use this book for the homework assignments. I usually just jog down what the teachers says, which gives out better explanations which are shorter and clearer ways to do things.

5) Another pathetic college algebra book   [Rating: 2 out of 5]
The marketing machine for Stewart's books is working wonders, but the books aren't. Too many colleges and universities are duped into adopting these books while students and conscious instructors exploit minimal benefit from them, specially in the problem sets, which are quite poor.