John Watson was Managing Director of the UK operation of the academic publisher Springer-Verlag for fifteen years. Prior to that he was Editorial Director at McGraw-Hill, and before that, Publisher at Macmillan. The author of several textbooks on electronics and electrical engineering - and one on car maintenance - he is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and has co-written a book on practical astronomy with Sir Patrick Moore.

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