csharp, I"ve read "Teach yourself electricity and electronics" from Stan Gibilsco and found his technical writing style to be not so great. I'm much happier reading The Art of Electronics right now, there are a LOT more practical circuits. If you've read the first chapter of The Art of Electronis you should realizes he states quiet clearly that you shouldn't try to memorize all the equations you see as holy writ, just get a feel for how the basic components work and you can gloss over the bulk of the math. I'm not sure why you think the art of electronics is all theory, 90% of the circuits he refrences are all practical working examples including all component specifications.
You WILL get intimated learning electronics especially to start there's a lot of information you need to take in. I'm still just a weekend hack and I've been playing with this stuff for several years.
The learning electronics website refrenced above is a good one, great place to start. Don't forget about all your online resources, there are tons out there. Although books are good too.
One thing I would suggest is pick yourself up a copy of LTspice. It's an electronics simulator. It has about as steep a learning curve as electronics itself does but it allows you to put components together and visually explore how they interact with absolutly no math involved. It comes with plenty of example circuits and you can play around with many different kinds of parts any which way you want and don't ahve toe worry about burning out real world components. It help I think visually the best because you can probe voltage current or power from any point in the circuit in relation to any other point in the circuit with just a few mouse clicks so that you can 'SEE' what is going on rather than have to struggle through the math.
I understand capacitors and inductors just fine, but until I simulated a few simple capacitor/inductor tank circuits with sweeping frequencies I didn't really have a feel for what was going on. You can pop a graph up of the voltage at any point, it's like having a full test bench and million dollar osciliscope to play with, and it's free.