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The book by Sridhar Chitta, where electrostatics and electric circuits are treated in a unified way on the basis of surface charges, is one of the rare exceptions in textbooks today. The primary objective of this book is obviously to encourage students to think deeply by themselves and not just to learn and to apply mathematical equations. If students, for instance, just learn about the term potential as energy per charge they have not understood much. On the contrary, the majority of students learn such mathematical expressions and unconsciously they feel that they have not understood. As a consequence, they might lose interest in further learning.||About the Author||Sridhar Chitta, Associate Professor (Formerly), Electronics and Communication Engineering, Matrusri Engineering College, Hyderabad. His current research interests are in the area of Large Scale Control Systems. He has over 20 years of experience as a practicing engineer in industry in India, the Middle East and Canada and 12 years of teaching experience in engineering colleges in India. As an active life member of I.S.T.E, he has delivered scintillating lectures on unified Electric theory and Circuit Process Mechanisms using animated power point presentations to various engineering college faculty members and students.