I used this book in High School Calculus. The entire class hated it. For the most part the examples are easily followed, although there are occasions where it was so confusing the teacher was unable to follow the steps they were illustrating. The worst thing about this book is that the examples tended to have almost nothing to do with the problems at the end of the chapter. To me this book seemed to follow the new need felt by many people to apply math to some sort of situation, which is all fine and dandy but you need to learn how to do something before you can apply it, especially in problems such as the ones in this book. When I came on looking for my College text books (I am retaking Calculus by the way) I was crushed to learn this is the text that we will be following.The best thing about this book is it's cover