On: Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study?

[artemonster]

The art of electronics for electrical engineers. It is dated, but it has everything

[amelius → artemonster]

Except a good scientific explanation of how transistors work, how to build an amplifier given a number of constraints (power, bandwidth), how to design an antenna ...

It's a nice book for hobbyists, though.

[szajbus → amelius]

Do you recommend any alternative or perhaps complementary book?

[amelius → szajbus]

Better have a look at some opencourseware courses, and the books they use. For example, http://web.mit.edu/6.331/www/