Calculus for Electronics Albert Paul Malvino 1977. Electronic Principles 7- Edition by Albert Paul Malvino & David J Bates. Many thanks yungman for telling me your opinion. You could purchase lead Electronic Principles Malvino 3rd Edition or acquire it as soon as feasible. A must have book for Electronics Engineer in you. If this it the book, go for it, you won't find a better one. I studied Laplace transform and Nyquist stability and all, I still think the simple way Malvino explained about the poles and zero compansation so you get one pole when crossing the close loop gain of 1 to get stability. The OP-AMP section is the best I ever seen, being able to explain clearly without getting into Laplace transform and all. Books store!!! I have no reservation to say this is the best intro book to electronics. If that is your book, that is the best I ever have.and I am speaking as a self studier the post grad at this point and I have more books in the topics of EM and RF than Stanford Univ. I know because I was a bipolar IC designer and I was armed with nothing much more than that in 84!!!! It uses a very simple model to explain transistors in terms of r'_e when it is calculate as 25 ohm at 1mA. If it is the same one, I would say it is the best book bar none. For the longest time, I used the info I learn from this book to get myself promoted from a tech to an engineer in the early 80s. It was and I still think it's a fantastic book. I know I studied a very simple electronic book by someone called Malvino.