starship-design: Spacetime Physics

[Steve VanDevender <stevev@efn.org>]

_Spacetime Physics_, 2nd ed., by Edwin F. Taylor and John
Archibald Wheeler, is in print and easy to obtain.  Here are URLs 
that you can use to order the book through a couple of on-line
bookstores.

http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/bibliographic?offset=4058641&datafile=/view/stock/tec.data

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0716723271/qid%3D918597711/002-3046957-6590440

It's published by W. H. Freeman & Co. and the ISBN is 0716723271
if you want to order a copy through a local bookstore.

I recommend this book most highly for any beginning student of
special relativity.  It has an extremely clear and comprehensive
presentation with many exercises and figures, and you only need
to know basic algebra to follow the math.