TESU Capstone book - International Edition

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I needed a textbook for a course, and the new price was $375! Yes, more than twice the price of the $155 course at my local CC. Yikes. I found an International version for $21. So I bought it. Well, I knew there might be an issue, but it was worth a shot (there were no used books that I could find, and it was prior to rentals being a thing). I took it to class, to compare it to the teacher's book, and lo and behold, it was VERY different. Luckily, I found a way to work around it, but honestly, if I didn't already have a copy of the regular book, I would have been screwed. Turns out, while all of the text for each chapter was the same, the chapter order, and chapter titles were completely different. So, I had to go through each chapter, figure out how it matched up to the teacher's version, and put a Post-It note to "rename" each chapter to the correct one. It took about an hour, and was worth it - but I'm glad I knew to check ahead of time.

Anyway, I would say that if your friend could purchase a copy of each (the International version and the regular book) where it was free to return both - and then compare them and make sure that they're the same, and if not, return the IV, and if so, return the regular book, that would probably be the best option.