Amazon.com description: Product Description: Motivating and contemporary, David Dwyer and Mark Gruenwald's new book builds on the same features as their very successful COLLEGE ALGEBRA, Second Edition and COLLEGE ALGEBRA AND TRIGONOMETRY, Second Edition, while adding material to help readers explore and understand the properties of the triangle in preparation for calculus. The authors provide coverage of the right triangle approach first is this clearly written book. Organized around a traditional table of contents, the new book offers a contemporary flavor through the use of the Rule of Four, modeling, and a strong conceptual orientation. Readers are motivated by the authors' use of interesting, contemporary applications to address important topical issues, and applications are woven around a carefully paced presentation of algebra and trigonometry topics. A variety of exercises further engage and challenge readers. The authors assume that readers will use a graphing calculator, so generic instruction is provided.