Bad-Get a different text for this subject
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Book is very poorly written. Each chapter is by a different author and thus there is a wide range of writing styles. The problems at the end of each chapter are poorly written too. If you want to learn plasma and space physics get a different book.
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There is a similarly-covered paperback out there for half the price but it is smaller and text only.  Make sure you get the right one!
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Baker's text is pretty decent, but there are some problems.  In the chapter  on verbs, the first strong and weak verb endings paradigm is labeled incorrectly--strong verbs are labeled as weak and vice-versa.  This is a horrible blunder. There are other errors as well, but this is the worst one I think.
  Furthermore, Baker compresses weeks and weeks of learning into a few chapters, which is irritating.  The chapters are listed something like, "Nouns," "Verbs," "Adjectives," etc.  For an inflected language, this means tons of info crammed into single chapters.  Not the way I like to learn.
  The choice of texts in the reader is good, and the mini-text translation exercises are an interesting accoutrement, but the lack of intermittent vocabulary is disappointing.  If you have studied Wheelock's Latin Grammar or Bright's Old English Grammar, you know what I mean.
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This book is required for a course. I purchased this new so the condition of the book was fine.  The content is disorganized.  Information shows up in colorful text boxes that seem more relevant for the previous chapter.  Searching for specific content is impossible. My usual study routine is to read the content in the text to get a basic understanding before doing a journal article search.  I spend way more time trying to get through this text than I do on journal articles and that has never been the case for me. I'm in 2nd week of class and I'm on Amazon searching for a better text to supplement this one so I can get through this nightmare of a class.
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I have used this book several times... it is readable but it does NOT have enough exercises. Considering the fact that the even ones do not have answers, there are very few exercises for a college lever course. I ended up making up exercises quite a few times to supplement the exercises in the text. Also the author covers topics in exercises that should be covered in the text itself. The book does not cover the logistics equation at all in the section on population growth- that is no good. An an example of lack of exercises, in the section on homog. linear constant coefficient DE's, he has 19 basic problems, so that means 1/2 of these can be assigned since the other half do not have answers.
It is a readable text but just does not have enough problems; also putting topics in exercises that should be in the text itself is irritating.
I will NOT use this text again. I teach math at Penn State Erie since 1984.
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There are sections of the book where the math in the text does not match the figures in the example (Chapter 6, most notably), and the math in the examples doesn't add up. This makes learning the concepts unnecessarily difficult. There are also terms that should be included in the index or glossary that are not, making it difficult to find information.
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I was sent the beginning AND intermediate book and my professor said that I'm going to have issues down the road because everything from a certain point might not be in the book and/or another location in the book....kinda sucks. I thought I was buying the Beginning Algebra book, update the photo because its not the same book!!
1994851
I'm taking an undergrad class and this is the required text.  I'm a bright student bit I'm finding this incredibly difficult to understand.  Most paragraphs are filled with references, pages and dates that are distracting and unnessasary.  The vocabulary used is overly complicated.  The accompanying Mylab is also a disaster.  It took my PhD husband to interpret part of it and we both got the wrong answer on a quiz.
I'm going to find another text to supplement this one.  I do not recommend it at all.
4294806
This is the required text for a class I am taking. The text barely has the minimum information needed for the course and many of the examples are incorrect.
4328471
I had to use this textbook for a class and I hated it. Not just me either. My entire class would complain about it! There are all sorts of errata, including my new pet peeve - mixing lowercase v and the greek letter nu. They have totally different meanings and are often present in the same equations together - mixing them up is unforgivable for a textbook. It's fine if you already know what you're doing, but if you're learning, the errata can really mess you up. The text was alright but there were concepts that were explained in kind of a roundabout manner. I ended up skimming the text portions and then going back to my undergrad textbook and notes for in-depth study, especially the equations.
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I ordered this book expecting it to be exactly as advertised. Unfortunately, it appears that the seller used an older version and bonded it to a different cover. Many of the economics practice problems that the professor had us work on were different in my book so all semester I had to check my practice problems against others in the class. Seller tried to make up for the incorrect cover by throwing in a knockoff iPhone headphone set, but that still didn't help the fact that the contents of the book were not as advertised!
244697
This is a required text for my statistics course. Personally, I do not understand why this text has been selected.
There are mistakes throughout the book. This causes a lot of frustration as wasted time.
There are very few examples in the book, and there are not examples that illustrate all concepts. Some of the examples start out explaining a certain concept, then instead of solving it all the way through, show how it can be transformed into a different problem which is then solved a completely different way.
There are answers in the back of the book to odd numbered problems, as is normal in most math books. However, that is all. Simply the answers. The work required to acheive the answers is not present, so it can be very difficult to determine where a mistake has been made (Whether in your own work, or if the book is incorrect).
The writing itself is very convoluted and uses far too much jargon for this to be a useful teaching text. I feel that the authors were more interested in making themselves sound intelligent than actually trying to help a student understand the material.
If looking for a statistics text, look elsewhere.
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good content but very BAD BAD PRINTED!!

the contet its ok but the book was wrong printed, i want to contact amazon to re send me
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It should have mentioned it is for the 13 edition in the title.  I have the 14th edition text book and they radically changed the format of the text.

It was NOT helpful, good thing I only paid $14.00 for it.
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Though I have heard this text being used for German reading courses at Boston University and am currently taking a course with this text at Duke University, there are better options available.  I used April Wilson's&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/German-Quickly-A-Grammar-for-Reading-German/dp/0820467596/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">German Quickly: A Grammar for Reading German</a>&nbsp;on my own and found it much more user-friendly and systematic.  Wilson teaches German reading courses for University of Chicago grad students.

In the very first lesson of German for Reading Knowledge, there are a number of words that are untranslated which you have to look up in the back of the book or another dictionary - not exactly a warm welcome.

The chapters cover more than one grammatical concept.  They don't have titles which would indicate what the chapter covers.  The practice sentences do not cover all of the material presented in the chapter.  The reading selections don't cover things related to the chapter at all.  For example, in the first chapter, past and present tenses are used when those have not been covered yet.

Both this book and Wilson's are broken up into 30 lesson programs.  (Wilson's book has 36 chapters but she recommends a 30 day program on page 265).

Professors, don't require this book.  You can do better.  Look at the reviews of the hated technical&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Reading-German-A-Course-Book-and-Reference-Grammar/dp/0198700202/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Reading German: A Course Book and Reference Grammar</a>, the out of print but useful&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/German-for-reading-A-programmed-approach-for-graduate-and-undergraduate-reading-courses/dp/0390774219/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">German for reading;: A programmed approach for graduate and undergraduate reading courses</a>&nbsp;and the encouraging&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/German-Quickly-A-Grammar-for-Reading-German/dp/0820467596/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">German Quickly: A Grammar for Reading German</a>.

Students studying on your own, go with&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/German-Quickly-A-Grammar-for-Reading-German/dp/0820467596/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">German Quickly: A Grammar for Reading German</a>.  See the reviews on it at Amazon including mine.  Or go with a totally different kind of CD-Rom resource that teaches you how to hear, speak and write German in addition to just reading it such as&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/TeLL-me-More-German-Premium-Complete-Beginner-Beginner-Intermediate-Advanced/dp/2749011027/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">TeLL me More German Premium - Complete Beginner, Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced</a>.

Students who are required to use this book, hang in there.  It does the job.  Be glad you are not using it on your own.  There are flashcards available that other people have made at [...]
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Algebraic geometry in modern times is not an easy subject. A better introductory text is&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Introduction-to-Algebraic-Geometry/dp/0521691419/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Introduction to Algebraic Geometry</a>.
My beef with this type of Mathematical writing is old: the writer gives the student nothing but a new axiomatic language without "context" or contact with objective reality ( no real pictures of the geometry involved).
He also expects after we have read this badly written text to buy volumes 2 and 3? He is not alone in going over students heads in Algebraic Geometry.
I bought this hoping that it would give a decent introduction to Schemes.
It doesn't even give an a good introduction to Zariski topology or why
Zariski  (T0) instead of Hausdorff (T2) ... ? The examples, problems and  definitions are pretty bad too. If you want your grad students in massive depression while taking your course, use this as a text?  I bought this book after doing several weeks of searching for a cheap book
that covered the areas I wanted to learn.
I've pretty much come to the conclusion there are some very strange people in this field and very few real teachers?
If in you are presenting a subject in Mathematics in an Axiomatic form like this, you have to tell the people why the axioms/ theorems are as they are:  not just give definition in strange symbols  and prove using the same new notation.
I've seen worse than this text, but not by much?<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/An-Introduction-to-Homological-Algebra/dp/B0000CKS0U/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">An Introduction to Homological Algebra</a>&nbsp;for example.
Presenting Zariski tangent space without a diffeomorphism definition
is just really bad Mathematics with no excuse in my mind?
Presenting Schemes without reference to Galois theory is not a very good idea either? Not mentioning that Algebraic geometry uses Zariski topology because it excludes the transcendental numbers ( no algebraic variety has root that is Pi or e). Some bridge to measure theory for Schemes
seems necessary, since the use of "spectrum" in the definition tends to confuse the student for other areas that are more concretely defined?
The father of algebraic geometry is Descartes,yet he seems to never be mentioned. Instead Grothendieck appears everywhere where things get most dense? I repeat, if you are approaching a subject axiomatically, you have to made plain the basis for those axioms. And algebra without algebra ( polynomials)  and geometry without geometry ( pictures)  is probably very confusing to most students.
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I ordered the fifteenth edition with the recommended year (2012) and ISBN (13: 978-0-13-255490-9 & ISBN-10: 0-13-255490-9) however, for whatever reason, the questions at the end of each chapter are different from that of the lecturer and the rest of my class. Given the foregoing, I will either have to rent a replacement copy of the text or purchase the correct one.