Art of Electronics and the accompanying lab manual are hands down the best electronics books I've read. The Invisible Rainbow is the groundbreaking story of electricity as it’s never been told before—exposing its very real impact on the biosphere and human health. I'm no expert in electronics, so I don't have enough confidence to make a statement about the competency of Scherz, but your assessment seems hyperbolic. For example there is a section of a few pages on transient [over]voltage suppressors, but it's just a catalog of a few different types of device with no real practical information on how to select and size them for different needs, test your design according to the standards, or the design tradeoffs.

Victoria Glendinning is known as a biographer (Rebecca West, Leonard Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, Edith Sitwell, Elizabeth Bowen etc.

The electricity sector – the backbone of the modern economy – is under tremendous pressure right now.

Yes, definitely have the very fundamentals down - the equivalent of a day's reading on the fundamentals should be more than enough IMO. I see one note about the "Rule 2" for transistors but, to me at least, it looks like the author just forgot a "not" in the sentence.Glendinning’s descriptions of the period, down to the finest detail of the way they lived, put the reader deep into the story.

Firstenberg has done just that with one of the most pressing but neglected problems of our technological age. Glendinning read modern languages at Oxford and worked as a teacher and social worker before becoming an editorial assistant for the Times Literary Supplement in 1974.The two of them travel to Morrow Hall, the home of Lord Godwin, who has hired Peter to convert the home to electrical lighting. Victoria (Vicky to almost everyone) has degrees in Evolutionary Biology and Science Communication, and loves writing about the weird and wonderful world. From atoms to solar panels, find out all about electricity and what it does in this fascinating book, including what lies ahead for our use of electricity in the future. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. I found a list of (independent) errata for the 2nd edition [0], presumably because it was used in a class.