I had a short peek at that Make-Electronics-Learning-Through-Discovery book and there are some things I like about it. It's a total beginners book, and it encourages to experiment, for example by cutting relays open to look what's inside of them and how they work.
What I do not like however is that they completely ignore drawing proper schematics. They show a lot of pictures of breadboards and how to put wires on them, but they completely ignore how the electronics circuits work. When they use a 555, pins are drawn in order they are on the IC, with no labels to their function. This is just a horrible way to draw schematics, and in that, this book learns bad habits that you have to un-learn later.
In my opinion a circuit shouls start with a description and a proper drawn schematic (according to function) and then further in an article an example of how to build it on a bread can give additional information. A lot of the articles in that book start with a breadboard layout. Yuch!