Does anyone have a suggestion for a good book on beginning-to-intermediate electronics? I borrowed Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics from the library based on some good reviews here and there, but it spends waaaay too much time telling me the numerous ways capacitors are constructed and how electrons leap from one shell to the next, all of which is well and good, but is hardly practical in the real world. It's like explaining number theory to a person in order to explain that 1+1=2.

I need something that tells me that 1+1=2, and maybe up to about x^2+2x+1=(x+1)(x+1).