Ideally a textbook should integrate with the lectures and labs in a science course. Select- ing such a book can be an onerous (and sometimes impossible) task for the teacher. Students are wary of getting stuck with a "useless" book, i. e., one to which the instructor never refers. The reader probably has some practical appreciation of their concern. I remem- ber an instructor who not only denounced the very text he had chosen, but also informed the...