Elements of Space Technology

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Summary: An Eloquent Text
Review: A good textbook for students of aerospace engineering or other technologically minded people.

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Summary: Did anybody edit/read this thing before it was printed?
Review: Pretty disappointing. With all due respect to the author, who may well have been too busy to see to little details, or who may be the victim of a bad editor, I had to buy this for a class, and it must be amoung the worst textbooks I've seen. It switches levels from elementary to advanced at random, leaves out important equations and includes a lot of things beyond the scope of the book (in the sense that you'd need a different book to act as a bridge between the easy and advanced sections of this one.) Not even very good for a reference book given the spotty coverage.

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Summary: A Well Written Basic Text on a Complex Subject Matter
Review: This text seems to strive to explain the complex subject of engineering for space in a manner that relates everything to first principles. This strategy is terrifically successful and makes for a thorough understanding of the concepts. This text is modern in it's examples and benefits for it. A great university level textbook.