This Engineer's Mini Notebook features more than two dozen 555 timer circuits that you can build, 50 operational amplifier (OpAmp) circuits, and a wide range of optoelectronic circuits and projects, including many LED and lightwave circuits. This is a compilation of three of Mims's best-selling 555 Timer IC Circuits; OpAmp Projects; and Optoelectronics.
Forrest M. Mims III is an amateur scientist, magazine columnist, and author of the popular Getting Started in Electronics and Engineer's Mini-Notebook series of instructional books that was originally sold in Radio Shack electronics stores. Mims graduated from Texas A&M University in 1966 with a major in government and minors in English and history. He became a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force.
Although he has no formal academic training in science,Mims has had a successful career as a science author, researcher, lecturer and syndicated columnist.
I really dig these books by Forrest Mims III. Of course, they aren't the be-all-end-all in electronics books, but they are great 'get-your-feet-wet books.