Essentials of topology with applications

The star rating and following comments are based only on a cursory reading of the appendices. The topics are presented in fairly clear language and sequence, but there were distracting editing errors.

I was looking forward to reading this book and had high hopes that it would be a suitable text for our first year graduate course sequence in topology, since Professor Krantz has a reputation for being an excellent expositor of mathematics.After going through about half the book however, I must say that I am seriously disappointed in this book.