Calc books that I'm familiar with: note: virtually every book (esp. those with 20 authors) have -some- gems mixed in, but are often generally crap. Anton: -my high school book- // also tutoring at Latin hideous high school text CD-Rom, 2 options for editions: - Early and Late transcendentals - Brief/Combined mind-numbing, rote computations. Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, 1851-1916 Calculus made easy: being a very simplest introduction to those beautiful methods of reckoning which are generally called by the terrifying names of the differential calculus and the integral calculus, some people very much like this... Martin Gardner got a new edition published, and it certainly has a quirky sense of humor. Spivak: -UChicago 160s- rather nice: much more thoughtful and mathematical than most, but a bit of an analysis slant, and less depth than I'd like. Also has real -personality- (Spivak!). The best calc book I know, but could still use lotta improvement. Salas/Hille: -UChicago 150s- mediocre -- like Anton, but not as painful. Harvard one:Hughes-Hallett, Gleason, etc. seems okay -- has some good ideas (multiple presentations), but is rather hard-core "reform calculus" ...also have a pre-calc book: "Functions modeling change" Lang? Apostol? -- other ones by real mathematicians...