Calvary Baptist Day School :: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Friday, May 18, 2012

AP textbooks

Students are required to purchase textbooks for AP classes. Students may purchase used books from a variety of sources, including former students. It is critical that textbooks be purchased by ISBN, so the correct edition is purchased.  All students must have AP textbooks before classes begins in August.

 

AP Literature and Composition:

  • Literature & Composition Reading Writing Thinking'
    By: Bedford/St. Martin's - 2011
    ISBN-10: 0-312-38806-3
    ISBN-13: 978-0-312-38806-5

AP US History:

  • The American Pageant (13th Edition)
    by: David M. Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen, Thomas A. Bailey
    ISBN: 0-618-47940-5 
     
  • A History of Women in America
    By: Carol Hymowitz, Michaele Weissman 
    ISBN: 0553269143  
     
  • The Killer Angels
    By: Michael Shaara 
    ISBN 0345348109            
  • Flags of Our Fathers
    By: James Bradley, Ron Powers 
    ISBN: 055338029X     

AP Human Geography:

  • The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography (9th Edition) 
    By James M. Rubenstein 
    ISBN: 0-13-243573-X       
     

AP European History:

AP Biology:

  • Biology 7th Edition
    by Campbell and Reece
    Published by Addison Wesley
    ISBN 0-8053-7171-0
     
  • Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds
    by Phillip E. Johnson
    Published by InterVarsity Press (July 1997)
    ISBN-10: 0-8308-1360-8
     
  • Click here for summer assignment "reading quizzes" to be turned in the second day of school.
     
  • Optional:
    There are several study guides available, including, but not limited to, Barron's, Cliff's, and The Princeton Review. 
    There are also flash cards by Barron's that many find helpful.

     

AP Chemistry:

  • Chemistry the Central Science AP Edition
    By: Brown LeMay Bursten
    Publisher: Pearson (Prentice Hall)
    Tenth edition, copyright 2006
    ISBN 0-13-193719-7
      

AP Calculus:

  • Calculus - Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic, Second Edition
    by Finney, Demana, Waits, Kennedy 
    3rd edition copyright 2007
    Scott Foresman publishers.
    ISBN 0-13-201408-4
     

AP Psychology:

  • Myers' Psychology for AP
    by David Meyers, BFW Publishers (Bedford, Freeman & Worth)
    First Edition ©2011 
    ISBN-10: 1-4292-4436-4
    ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-4436-7


    OR click "purchase" from this link to buy a 1-year subscription to the eText.
     
  • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (any edition) - cheapest on Amazon or at Ed Mckay's
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AP Statistics:

  • Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis
    Authors: Peck Olsen Devore
    Secnd edition, copyright 2005 Brooks/Cole; Thomson Learning Inc.
    ISBN 0-534-46710-5
    Thomson Learning Academic
    Resource Center 1 800 423 0563