Excellent sea adventure in the vane of Dana and Jack London's Sea Wolf. Light reading (some archaic terms). lots of action/adventure. Good kids book. Not PC at all. Lots of blood and gore. You know, real life stuff.

this book [stinks]! the examples are skecthy and only show one type of the problem the certain trig section is on (when there are many situations and scenarios trig problems could be in). this book makes self teaching impossible. I would suggest another book to use.

*this is a student prespective

This is an absolutely dreadful book. While it does state the principles and/or formulae you need to know at the beginning of each chapter, the resultant mess is nearly impossible to work through. The explanations and sample problems are confusingly explained and walked through, and even after going over them several times, I would find myself with no idea how to go about solving a problem.

In fact, after going through a chapter, you realize that it would have saved a lot of time and effort just flipping to the chapter summary, where they outline everything you need to know, so even if you still don't understand the materiel, at least you'll have it to work with.

There are plenty of other, and much better, trig books on the market. Don't buy this one.

One nice aspect of the text is the examples which are worked out very well for the reader.

I'm looking to buy this to supplement a trig course that I teach. The other bozo may have written 800 reviews, but he doesn't know much about math texts.