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The Seven Secrets of How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist

Written by a rocket scientist

It translates "thinking like a rocket scientist" into every day thinking
so it can be used by anyone
Conversational and humorous in its style
Well organized: 7 parts reveal the 7 secrets; 50 chapters give specific,
useful advice beginning with their titles
Its short and snappy!

Would you like to know the methods that rocket scientists useexpressed in a way that
you could apply to your everyday life? The book you are holding does just that. Illustrated
arethe methods (the 7 secrets) with anecdotes, quotations and biographical sketches
of famous scientists, ideas from sci-fi, personal stories and insights, and occasionally a
bit of space history. It turns out that rocket science is just common sense applied to the
extraordinarily uncommon environment of outer space. (And that rocket scientists are
2007, X, 174 p. 8 illus.
people, too!)

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