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stevez said:From my point of view, a fairly complete understanding of electronics is what someone would teach you as a stepping stone toward design - if you really mean you want to design something from scratch.
In many books the author's give examples of circuit design in what I'll call "cookbook" fashion. The author provides a step by step process for determining component values and operating characteristics of the resulting circuit. Usually these are very limited in scope and application specific - far from my perception of designing from scratch.
Books that I have which contain some cookbook stuff - Radio Amateur's Handbook by ARRL, several Radio Shack/Forrest Mimms publications and my most recent purchase- Practical Electronics for Inventors/Paul Scherz. I've also seen excellent tutorials on basic circuit design in Poptronics and Nuts&Volts magazines - tutorials used to teach basic electronics though one could follow along and end up with useful designs.
Hope this helps.