Practical Electronics for Inventors by Paul Scherz is pretty good, but hard for me to tell if it is good for a complete beginner as I come from a non-electrical

Practical Electronics for Inventors by Paul Scherz is pretty good, but hard for me to tell if it is good for a complete beginner as I come from a non-electrical/electronics engineering background and we still get taught the basics in first year and have the fundamentals.