{"product_id":"9781491826201","title":"\"All This Fun, and a Paycheck, too?\": A collection of stories from a long and satisfying engineering career; showing how much fun, worthy, and enriching a technical life can be.","description":"The book is a collection of stories: assignments from a long and enjoyable engineering career as well as anecdotes and experiences from summer jobs, vacations, and consulting.  The focus is technical; each little story pivots on some scientific principle.  The intent is three-fold:  a) genealogical: to capture descriptions of a lifetime of fun times and accomplishments for descendents who might be curious about old great-grandpa Tom; b) to inspire a next generation of youngsters to consider pursuit of engineering, science, and critical thought, as a door to a fruitful life; and c) to try to bridge that pervasive \"boring and\/or over-my-head\" gap by showing that \"engineering\" concepts are essentially common-sense and intuitive (you learned them in kindergarten playground), and the jargon should not be off-putting.  The book's message: Engineering\/science can be fun; it happens every day and everywhere; a degree is not a prerequisite.","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131835105520,"sku":"9781491826201","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781491826201_p0.jpg?v=1763660432","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781491826201","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}