Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course

Haven't read it, but: the class was amazing and difficult. There was an older lab notes companion book we used, but mostly it was "Professor draws a circuit, explains it via a metaphor, along with a rule of thumb or two... now go build a thing". Like learning a foreign language through total immersion. So I can't speak to this particular book, but I can say that there's a (a) decent chance it's quite good and (b) expect to do a lot of work if you want to really understand this stuff.