This book is recommended as a reference for Ph.D. Qualifying Exam in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics of University of Michigan Ann Arbor.

Here's what the Cambridge University educated astrophysicist John Gribbin has to say about this book in the recommended reading list at the end of his excellent popular work "In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality" (Bantam Physics, 1982):

"Kenneth Atkins, 'Physics--Once Over--Lightly', Wiley, New York, 1972.

"This is intended as a textbook for a one semester course in physics for nonscience majors, but it is interesting and clear enough to be of interest for the more casual reader. As a serious guide to physics for nonscientists, it is the best of its kind, and carries the reader through from simple beginnings to relativity, quantum mechanics, nuclei, and particles. Although philosophical implications and the meaning of quantum reality are only touched upon, the book provides the basics of quantum cookery clearly for anyone who wants to try putting a few numbers into the equations. Strongly recommended."

I've just finished reading "In Search of Schrodinger's Cat", and I enjoyed it immensely. So now I'm going to track down a copy of this book, and work through a few of its "quantum cookery" examples.