<P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>KEY MESSAGE</B>: Presented in a clear and concise style, the <B>Akst/Bragg</B> series teaches by example while expanding understanding with applications that are fully integrated throughout the text and exercise sets. Akst/Bragg’s user-friendly design offers a distinctive side-by-side format that pairs each example and its solution with a corresponding practice exercise. The concise writing style keeps readers' interest and attention by presenting the mathematics with minimal distractions, and the motivating real-world applications demonstrate how integral mathematical understanding is to a variety of disciplines, careers, and everyday situations.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>KEY TOPICS</B>: Whole Numbers, Fractions, Decimals, Basic Algebra: Solving Simple Equations, Ratio and Proportion, Percents</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>MARKET</B>: For all readers interested in Basic Mathematics</P>