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by adamc 6165 days ago
Kind of expensive for anything short of consuming interest, though.
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Here's more info on the author

http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6066

Apparently he worked on the V2 rocket. But there are lots of scientists that can write technical books targeted to experts. This book is worth it because this guy is devoted a lot of his teaching career to explaining difficult topics to non-experts. I think he did a marvelous job, of mixing technical material and history. I think this book was part of a course he taught at yale univ.

It is an expensive book, but I'll go in and say it's worth it. Check your univ library.

The used copies of the older first edition are reasonably cheap.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0387975136/

$23.48 shipped with some of the sale going towards literacy charities.

http://www.betterworldbooks.com/What-Makes-Airplanes-Fly-id-...