The Study Guide includes chapter overviews, key concepts, multiple-choice and true/false review questions, worked and un-worked exercises and problems with complete solutions. It also includes a math review section at the end of the first chapter to help gauge what sort of math background the student is approaching this course with.
David Gillette was an American paleontologist best known for his discovery of the dinosaur Diplodocus hallorum in 1985, and more recently for his work studying Pleistocene megafauna such as glyptodonts. At the time of its discovery, Diplodocus hallorum was the longest dinosaur known.