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Can anyone summarize the differences between James Stewart's Calculus and Calculus: Concepts and Context?

They appear nearly identical, though slightly arranged versions of exactly the same material, packaged differently (the former aimed down at the US-style high-school textbook market, and the latter aimed up a bit, perhaps at an older audience).

Note: I'm NOT asking for rants about the textbook business.

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    The subject matter was probably finished with Cauchy's Cours d'Analyse and notation probably since set theory became popular. If someone is bored he could arrange all calculus texts in some pedigree tree.2014-05-22

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According to the preface to Calculus: Concepts and Context (4e), Calculus provides "fuller coverage of traditional calculus topics"; while according to Calculus (6e), Calculus: Concepts and Context "emphasizes conceptual understandings" with coverage that is "not encyclopedic and the material on transcendental functions and on parametric equations is woven throughout the book".