Basic Electronics books?

[nailbomb]

Before I start jumping into mods I wanna know what I am doing, and more importantly the HOW and WHY:

So, can someone recommend a good primer on electronics? Searching Amazon yields like 70k hits ;)

I did find this thou:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0071377301/qid=1077545887//ref=pd_ka_1/104-1813991-2659128?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

[Ragnarok]

Try

Electrical Engineering
Principles and Applications
By Allan R. Hambley

It has all the intro stuff like resistive networks, KVL KCL, node voltage and mesh currents...