The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill ISBN: 0521370957
For a cookbook style try "The CMOS Cookbook" by Don Lancaster.
A good free resource is "Lessons in Electric Circuits" at
http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/electricCircuits/
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