Fallen way behind on the surge of textbooks I've been rereading over the last two weeks. I had the custom UIUC edition for this one, which was marred by missing sections. While the general examples and problems were pretty strong in the text, I found the applications sections to be a bit too unfocused (everything from statistics to biology to physics appeared) for learning. The overuse of boldfaced terms and the lack of too many boxed procedures or formulae made the book good to learn from, but not really useful as a reference later.