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Good condition, no marks and no writting in the book. I ordered this book on a tuesday and got it that friday. It was amazing how fast it got here.
The price was awesome. I received the book in a timely manner and in the condition advertised.
I am very pleased with my purchase and would do it again. The book was in excellent shape and was shipped in a very timely manner.
I'm not an authority on these things, I'm just a mature student who has returned to college after a 40-year hiatus. Then there will be a sidebar story that repeats the information WORD FOR WORD. I've lived in the real world. That's overkill. I was surprised to find that so many of my classmates really did not know this information. As a student in a City University of New York school, I was required to take a course in Health Education. The course and the textbook are both primarily the reiteration of common sense. Like virtually all textbooks these days, there is a great deal of propaganda.
I would suggest looking at the book carefully and vetting it with supervisors as well as compare it to competitors. Then on top of that, the information will be repeated again in slightly altered form (say, bullet points) as an end-of-chapter summary. While it may not raise an eyebrow in New York City, it could possibly upset some people in rural or conservative areas.Although I think it's a visually attractive book with a plethora of nice color photographs, diagrams, and drawings, my major gripe against this book is that it is three times as large and three times as expensive as it ought to be. The book is padded, over-priced, and weighs too much. Information will appear in the text. Even though I agree with most of the propaganda, ideally a textbook would not be trying to push a social agenda. Virtually EVERYTHING in the book is printed three times. At least that's what I thought.
I haven't been cloistered in academe all my life. Those who select textbooks should be aware of the values of their particular community. So I suppose the course and the book are necessary after all. In that respect the book not only fails, but some people could consider it inflammatory.
Price was decent, just wished the seller would have stated missing pages. This book was missing all of the study guide sheets from the back. It was received in a timely manner.
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