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June 1992 0874474418 978-0874474411
Successful people in fields as diverse as law, arcyhitecture, book design, fashion, and hotel management rely on a basic understanding of science to do their jobs more skillfully and efficiently. This book can help adults as well as college students discover the pleasure, power, and usefulness of science. A physicist and a popular writer team up to lead the way.

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If Carl Tomizuka knows a lot about science, Sheila Tobias knows a lot about what makes science "hard". -- Preface 1992

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Sheila Tobias is the author of the best-selling Overcoming Math Anxiety and Succeed with math. Carl T. Tomizuka compelted his studies in physics at the University of Illinois and taught at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he designed and taught specialized physics courses for premedical and architecutral students.

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