http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Physics-Magnetism-Electricity-Electron/dp/0880292512 http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Physics-Magnetism-Electr... was a s

http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Physics-Magnetism-Electricity-Electron/dp/0880292512 http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Physics-Magnetism-Electr... was a surprisingly good alternative to my high school physics text. He wrote more than stories and essays. (And it really ought to be free: 50 years old, by a writer 25 years dead now.)