Very wordy textbook!!!
345519
The authors struggled to be concise with this textbook. It took too many pages to convey a concept, whereas the Intermediate Accounting by Kieso was more concise. It takes too long to read through a chaprter and so I tended to use the latter as reference since I just got sooooo tired of waiting for the author to get to the point sometimes. It would also help if some solutions were provided in the book atleast for the Brief Excercises.
In the next edition if the authors decided to review the material and make it more concise, it would reduce printing costs and be less expensive to publish, thereby making it cost effective for us students too!!
Overall not too bad.....
2343287
I'm using this book right now for a graduate nursing pathophysiology course in a FNP program, which in reality demands a great deal of time dedicated to learning various pathology. I found this book very disorganized--within the subsections, the information will be repeated in different words with more or less details. It's like the two authors each wrote a manuscript individually and the editor forgot to edit it before it was published. Hence, two repetitive, yet varying ways of saying the same thing. It is also lacking in the depth of information. I had to supplement with a great deal of other resources, instructional videos, and research articles to build on the poorly presented content in this textbook. Is is a decent resource to pass a graduate college course? NO, not on its own. Would I recommend this book? NO.
4424760
Textbook, good for a textbook I suppose. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3438019
As it has been mentioned before in previous reviews, this book has obviously been written only to impress with much wordiness (and it obviously did, considering it has been reviewed by 7 college professors and still passed) Terrible as a beginner's book; I had to buy another book just so that I could try to do the work assigned to me in this one...
103783
This textbook has to be one of the worst that I have seen as a student. On a first printing, I suppose it's fair to expect some errors or some contradictions, but after the 7th edition, the grace period is over and people are being lazy and irresponsible with the education of our up and coming professionals.

Example - Pg. 309 gigantism in some cases can be cured by surgery along with radiation therapy
Pg. 328,329 - Under "treatment" - it says "None."

This isn't the only one. This is just where I get fed up with reading the textbook. With the goal of becoming excellent at my profession, it is extremely discouraging to not see leadership from those who are supposed to be demonstrating excellence in their field.

I don't know if I am more disappointed in the book, or the fact that I have a professor/college, that has no idea how terrible this book is.
2628443
I know that most of you, like me, have no choice but to but this book for your class. I can only hope that this review gets to some professors out there, and can stop them from choosing this textbook.

Let's begin with examples in the text. There is perhaps one example per section, and the example is only on a specific type of problem, which makes up maybe 1/10th of the section's problems, if you're lucky. The rest of the text in the section is normally half finished proofs that are "left to the interested reader". My favorite one was in section 9.3, where it referenced "formula 10" multiple times. After thorough investigation of the entire book, no such a formula was ever given, or derived, meaning that half of the problems in this section were unsolvable without outside assistance. Yes, you can also see the worked problems in the back to get some sort of remote idea of what you're doing, but most of the time, these "worked" problems just skip over the crucial steps that you need.

Next, the online homework. Personally, I think that online homework is a terrible idea, but whatever. The online package cannot keep up with reasonable typing speed, forcing me to go back and re-enter my answers at a much slower pace. The hints that it gives after some amount of unsuccessful entries are usually just rearranging the words in the original question. The link to text is only good for finding a similar worked problem, as I said before, the text is not helpful at all.

So, to summarize: students who are forced to use this textbook, I'm sorry. Professors: please, from a student who is enduring the worst textbook he has ever had to endure, find a different text.
4010674
I am a high school student who just recieved this book for the year. The teacher claims that it is a college level text book, and after a few nights of reading, i agree with him. This stuff is really hard to read. It reads somewhat similarly to a primary source, very wordy with very long sentences. It is very hard to concentrate while reading, so it is vital to take notes while reading. My class and i agree that 10 pages takes about an hour with notes. And it is hard to take notes out too because it is difficult to pick out the most important information.
2214757
Ordered this for the online coursera class that he teaches, this book is incredibly wordy, maybe that's my generational attention span, but it doesn't go along with the course as much as I'd hoped it would. Also, it's going to arrive 1/3 of the way through the course
1116451
Horrible horrible "textbook".  I made the mistake of using this book as my study guide and I sure regretted it!  Wasted both my time and money!  I agree with the fact that this book has many editing mistakes but things like that can be overlooked to a certain extent.  The worst part is definately the content or lack of content I should really say.  The book contains very little useful information.  The practice questions have limited amount of use.  Currently I am very very annoyed with this and will be purchasing the proper Microsoft study guide.  If it were possible, I'd give this product ZERO!
2128005
This text is not written in a clear outline format. It is very difficult to follow for the student. It feels pieced together. There are very few practical examples and no glossary. I was extremely frustrated and had to use supplemental reading to fill in the blanks throughout my course.
1486813
This was a book for one of my math classes at Oakland University (where the professor teaches).  It is paperback and very thick, so it doesn't stay looking nice (my copy has the binding all tore apart from trying to keep the thing open while doing homework problems).  The text is very confusing to understand, as is the homework.  I had a hard time with this book... I'm lucky I had a professor who I actually understood or else I would not have passed the class.
2964169
As many below me say, the book is worded with to many CS Jargon. Necessary of course, but makes it difficult for students to follow through. The best example I can give is teaching someone how to be a Marine utilizing Marine Corps jargon and acronyms w/o them knowing what some of the jargon means. Second, he explains some of the CS Wording with more CS Jargon that if you're new to CS, pfff forget it. This is definitely a book for someone with some CS background, although that would defeat the whole purpose of it! Worst book ever. Even the Oracle version, which I expected to be full of acronyms and what not, explains in a more easily understood way than this. This book SUCKS!!!
1674995
This book is heavy and hard to get through. If you are looking for concise book that is easy to learn from for class then look away! The chapter introductions are drawn out, the explanations of equations and fundamental ideas are unclear, and the jokes and comics throughout are not funny. Basically, by reading this book you'll read a lot about the derivation of long equations you'll never use or understand, no thanks to the poor wording in this book. Also this book is WAY too long for how little you learn about real world application.

However, I did enjoy the chapter on jet engines, and all the practice problems were well thought out and tricky (I would recommend finding the solutions manual because the example problems didn't help most of the time). It's recommended if you buy a much more clear thermo book, then go back to this book do some practice problems. But besides that it's an expensive book that I will probably sell back for cheep.
4064879
I actually returned the book,  Couldn't get 40 pages into it.  I'm sure it has insightful information but it's written so wordy you can't get to it.  The book reads like a textbook that just go on and on to get to the point, making you zone out in the process. An entire paragraph later of extrinsic information and analogies had me completed lost for whatever point they were trying to make.  Not a good selection unless you want to feel like you're back in college zoning out on a textbook or in a lecture.
2119330
What a waste of paper and money!!  The first 118 pages are the questions which are VERY spread out with LOTS of blank space.  They could have EASILY gotten all the questions on half that many pages -- probably even a third.  Then ALL the questions with ALL the possible answers are typed out AGAIN IN FULL in the answers section.  As if the reader is not capable of holding the page with the questions to refer to as they review the answers.  So that is 118 pages that is TOTALLY wasted duplication.  AND they put in a lot of references after each question in the answers section.  Not to mention all the reference referrals in the actual text of the explanations of the answers -- these take up probably 20% of the explanation -- and the typed out references appear to take up about as much space as the answer explanations.  If I want references, I will look at the text!!  I don't want them in the study guide.  I haven't received the text yet so I don't know if all those references are in it but I'm guessing that they are.  What a huge waste of space to put them in a study guide!!!  There are only about 5 or 6 questions per chapter of the textbook.  I wish they would have filled up all that wasted space with more questions and gotten rid of all the duplication and references.  Definitely not worth the money when considered that so much of the information in it (explanations and all those references) are probably in the text.  I plan to send it back.
4322096
I wish I could give this book 0 stars!
I am using this textbook for an undergraduate communications theory course.  The textbook is poorly organized and the writing is difficult to follow!  It is difficult to even approach the problems out of the book even after reading the chapters.  The text tries to cover a wide range of material while offering little or no insight to the underlying communications principles.  Equations after equations with poor explanation is certainly no way to learn communications theory.  I deeply regret choosing this textbook for my course.  Definitely look to other books if you want to learn some communications theory!!!
1665510
This book was required for my organic chemistry class and I found it to be horrible! Nothing is written clearly and the authors drone on and on for pages with useless information. For the second half of the class I bought Klein's text book and it was the best investment! If this is required for your class, talk to your professor to see if you can use another instead and don't waste your money!