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Rating: 
- A mixed bag
This book can be very heavy going at times and all the extra notes are put at the end of chapters so you constantly have to flick back and forth- sometimes just to find a pointless reference- nearly 150 times in some chapters! Hopefully this will change in the next edition!
Additionally some of the chapters are written filled with pointlessly complex words and quite frankly written in quite a dull fashion. I am not an unintellectual person, I just resent texts unnecessarily making studying even more long-winded.
On the plus side, the writers include much relevant up-to-date material, cross-reference and theorise well, are often quoted in other academics work and obviously know their stuff.
There are many worse textbooks you could buy...
- A mixed bagThis book can be very heavy going at times and all the extra notes are put at the end of chapters so you constantly have to flick back and forth- sometimes just to find a pointless reference- nearly 150 times in some chapters! Hopefully this will change in the next edition!
Additionally some of the chapters are written filled with pointlessly complex words and quite frankly written in quite a dull fashion. I am not an unintellectual person, I just resent texts unnecessarily making studying even more long-winded.
On the plus side, the writers include much relevant up-to-date material, cross-reference and theorise well, are often quoted in other academics work and obviously know their stuff.
There are many worse textbooks you could buy...