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...read more

Product Description: Dwyer and Gruenwald's COLLEGE ALGEBRA, SECOND EDITION, is a graphing calculator-dependent text with a contemporary flair. Building upon a traditional table of contents, the authors integrate the best of modern math pedagogy including the rule of four, modeling, and a strong conceptual orientation...read more

Product Description: The student solutions manual provides worked out solutions to the odd-numbered problems in the text.

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Dwyer and Gruenwald's COLLEGE ALGEBRA AND TRIGONOMETRY, SECOND EDITION, is a graphing calculator-dependent text with a contemporary flair. Building upon a traditional table of contents, the authors integrate the best of modern math pedagogy including the rule of four, modeling, and a strong conceptual orientation. The authors motivate students with fresh, current applications that address important topical issues, as well as entertaining and illustrative ones. These applications are woven around a carefully paced presentation of algebra and trigonometry topics. A rich variety of exercises further engage and challenge students. Generic graphing calculator instruction is provided in the text while guidelines and keystrokes for specific calculators can be found in the text-specific manual.

Product Description: This text provides a thorough treatment of mathematical concepts and techniques that engages students through motivational questions, applications, and examples from the real world. Mathematics is presented in a cultural context that demonstrates the relevancy of math to other areas familiar to students, such as sports, art, cinema, law, literature, politics, and philosophy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "These verses deal with beasts and flowers and with god and other poets and the worm-in-the-flesh-before-it-dies" --Ariana Vanessa McAnn Keller Olisvos (1881-1975)A poem on her ninety-second birthday, a letter to her daughter,and reveries of lost days are some of the markings in Ariana Olisvos: Her Last Works and Days...read more