This book seems to be part of a set for younger readers, say around ten to twelve. Good for what it is but not as comprehensive as I would have liked.

I used an earlier version of this book as a physics student. I TOTALLY agree with the reviewer from LA. It's interesting that the subsequent edition(s) apparently corrected and improved nothing. JJ Brophy should go to jail for this, or be tarred and feathered at a minimum. Way to go Brophy, you're a real pro aren't you?

I was forced to use this error-wracked atrocity for the analog portion of electronics at Cal State L.A. There is a serious shortage of examples and many of them feature diagrams of circuits that don't work! The answers to the problems, assuming you can solve them, are given immediately following the problem, but many of the answers are wrong too. On more than one occasion a problem will refer to a figure which does not exist or, if it does exist, the wrong illustration will be in the figure. You will waste hours trying to figure out why you can't get the same answers as the author. This text is a true dinosaur in the era of the Art of Electronics. Even if you manage to learn how to mathematically analyze a circuit, you won't know how to construct anything in the lab after reading this book. Horowitz and Hill's Art of Electronics may be lacking in the area of analysis, but at least you will know how to build simple circuits at the end of the term. Because of this book, the analog electronics class is by far the hardest offering in the depatment. While other more presitgious schools in town (UCLA and Caltech) use Art, we are stuck with this fireplace starter.