<p>I want to self study some Ap's including Ap Psych, AP Envir Science, AP Human Geography, AP Macro and Micro Economics, and AP Statistics.
what are the best textbooks/study books for these??</p>
<p>AP Statistics- textbook wise, try The Practice of Statistics and use Barron's study book.</p>
<p>My school uses McConnell for Economics</p>
<p>Barrons for Psych and HumGeo</p>
<p>For AP Stat, Barron's and Introduction to the Practice of Statistics by Moore and McCabe are excellent.</p>
<p>Human Geo - The Cultural Landscape by Rubenstein
Psych - Barron's</p>
<p>would there be enough time to start the beginning of december?? and how many self-studying AP's would be too many? (I'm taking 2 AP classes at school, so besides those)</p>
<p>Personally, I am self-studying with:</p>
<p>Psychology
Psychology 8th Edition in Modules David Myers
Barrons</p>
<p>Environmental Science
Environment 4th Edition Raven & Berg
Smartypants Guide to Environmental Science</p>
<p>which edition for the rubensteins is the best? is the 9th the newest?</p>
<p>Economics: Principle and Policy by Baumol and Blinder - Tenth Edition</p>
<p>Pretty good, if you can read through every chapter, you are set, of course with a study guide (PR or barrons) </p>
<p>Also is Meyers, D.G. (September 2003). Psychology: Seventh edition in modules.
It was reccomended to me by someone, jw??</p>
<p>i was wondering the books on amazon, does anyone know if the really cheap ones ($1-$20) are really the right books?</p>
<p>depends: marketplace, possible (but they are used so check condition) but on the real amazon.com store it might just be a solution manual or transparencies. so.. best to use isbn.</p>
<p>Some people deliberately post different books under different isbns. Don't go for the extremely cheap books - buy the ones where the prices begin to get clumped together.</p>
<p>eg. prices are
5, 7, 13, 15, 19, 19.2, 19.5, 20 <- The $19 book is probably safe; I'd doubt the ones less that that</p>
<p>The only way I would buy the lower priced books is if the seller has 1000+ ratings with 95%+.</p>
<p>I second what tapedDuck said.</p>
<p>Thanks!
Does anyone have any of the isbn numbers for any of the books?</p>
<p>another question on the books, is the newest years always the best or is there not much of a difference?</p>
<p>Yeah. isbn for 15th edition of mcconnell: 0072340363
In the case of AP Economics, there is no difference between the new edition and the previous editions. Usually, textbook publishers revise a couple of things here and there and publish a "new" edition just to make sure they don't get thrown off business by the flood of used textbooks. In the case of Mcconnell, the chapters are only rearranged. some chapters consolidated and squeezed together for the newst edition(which is 17th edition). </p>
<p>Some comments for AP Economics textbook.
1) McConnell Is the easiest economics textbook there is (for Ap Economics, in my opinion). Other textbooks may go into more depth(e.g. Economics by Case and Fair, McConnell's competitor for 40 years) but sometimes loses students in the process. The AP test favors McConnell to use ( some questions on the AP test are like questions from McConnell test bank, according to my teacher). But McConnell prepares you well enough for the foundation of economics and the AP Test.</p>
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which edition for the rubensteins is the best? is the 9th the newest?
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<p>Yep, the 9th edition is the newest. </p>
<p>It's what my Human Geo class uses. It's a good book. It has case studies to keep your interest. haha</p>
<p>Oh, and Economics by Mankiw is awesome for micro & macro. ;)</p>
<p>I think for self-studiers (my self included) its good to take lots of practice exams which otherwise you miss out from going to class (taking tests and such). The best source for these practice exams are old final exams from equivalent college courses. You can search on google for these exams or try this site. </p>
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