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Rating:  - Visualize
I liked how this book gave many detailed graphs to help explain the concepts. My only complaint so far is how it vaguely explained to apply the Divergence theorem and then gave a pretty ambiguous picture that was pretty worthless to understanding what exactly it applied to.
Rating:  - Average Calculus Text
Great for students in engineering or science--but not for mathematics majors who will go on to take analysis and algebra. They deserve a treatment by Spivak or Apostol. There are some interesting problems that follow the end of each chapter. Overall, it's not that interesting, but not that bad in terms of material presentation.
Rating:  - Stay away from this book!
Examples are too hard to follow which makes this book difficult to read. I spent the whole semester crashing my head on the wall because of this book.
Better get Calculus by James Stewart
Rating: - Good, but could be better
I just completed the Calc series using Thomas Calculus. In Calc I, the instructor commented that we would use this text and that it wasn't the best or the worst (a VERY safe claim to make). I would agee with that.
I found the instructional text adequate but we experienced several cases where the solution to end-of-section problems was not the technique being covered in the section.
I used the softbound vol 1 & 2. You can save some money if you are taking a semester or two of calculus, but if you intend to cover Calc III & IV, I recommend buying the hard bound.
Rating: - One of the better ones.
My boyfriend took two semesters of Calc with this book and was able to essentially self teach himself all of it. The examples are well explained and the problems reflect the section material very well.
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