Incidentally, the publisher of the AGC book, Praxis Publishing, has a whole collection of well-written, engaging, and technically deep books in their space exploration category, namely, 'How Apollo Flew to the Moon'. http://www.praxis-publishing.co.uk/books.php

Gen-Xer here... you would be surprised to learn how many of us wholeheartedly agree with you.

So true. When will they learn? This instantly reminded me of Bruce Sterling's classic book, "The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier". A must-read if you enjoyed this post.