There Are No Electrons: Electronics for Earthlings
"Amdahl's book has a serious purpose behind the flippancy and  silliness: to teach electricity and electronics to mathematics and  physics anxiety sufferers."  --Choice"Don't let non-ham friends or family find this book in your  library, though; if they read it, they'll find out that there's no big  mystery to electronics and spoil their image of you as a master of a  stupefying technical art."  Brian Battles  --QST Magazine"Every millennium or so, a radical non-conformist type appears on  the scene to challenge the status quo of science. In this case, the  heretic postures that electronics doesn't have to be so difficult. Kenn  Amdahl is to electronics manuals what Dr. Seuss is to children's books"  Scott Rundle   --B & W's Coda"Here at last is a book that explains electricity in terms  simple enough even for the scientifically impaired. Though uncredentialed  and unconventional  professing disbelief in the existence of electrons  even as he describes their behavior  Amdahl is nevertheless wise, witty,  and very effective, aiding comprehension of abstruse jargon and arcane  concepts with gimmicks like dancing chickens, wizards, and green buffalo" --A Common Reader"Like a lighthearted melding of Mr. Wizard and the folks of  National Lampoon, There Are No Electrons takes a radically different  approach to electronics. Electrons are little green men on their way to a  killer party; capacitors are parking lot sized traffic jams; Greenies, it  seems, like to surf on magnetic flux. And why not? Even the experts must  speculate the details of electron theory. Amdahl just sees things a  little differently. You will too."  --Videomaker Magazine"Most of all, the book is a thought provoker and teacher, leading  the reader with no background in science or math gently down the road to  electrical enlightenment. It would be a useful supplement to any  beginning course in electronics."  --Old Colony Sound Lab"The Mysteries of Electricity are Revealed in this bizarre and  often amusing text-book-in-a-clown suit. It'll seem needlessly frivolous  and even flippant to the annoying minority that have no trouble copping  an A in physics. For the other four billion or so earth citizens, it's  about the easiest and clearest course in basic electronics imaginable. It  serves well as a refresher course or a solid introduction to the  complicated stuff. The presentation is accessible to a sixth-grader, yet  I'd guess that most adults would not be gagged by the author's antics. If  you can hack this style of teaching, you'll get what you need."   --The  Whole Earth ReviewThis is a totally painless way to learn about something that  affects our lives every day. If only we could get Amdahl to write books  on history, geography, grammar, math and brain surgery, we'd have no need  for schools.  --Big Books From Small Presses