Gravitation by Misner, Thorne & Wheeler (http://www.amazon.com/Gravitation-Physics-Charles-W-Misner/dp/0716703440/). As a side benefit, you'll also learn enough about the physics and math of gravitation to earn a PhD. Actually, when I was in math grad school, a fellow (admittedly brilliant) student claimed this book was how he learned calculus. This would help with the intuition side.
Or grab a syllabus (or one each for each course in a precalculus & calculus series) and use web resources such as MIT open courseware (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-01sc-single-variable-calculus-fall-2010/syllabus/) or wikipedia.
Chances are if Calculus is your weak point, you need to review the important topics in precalculus such as rules of algebra, methods/tricks of factoring, and the standard functions such as logarithm, exponential function, trigonometric functions and graphing.
Which books have you tried so far, and what have you disliked about them?
manpreet
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2 years ago
I can't find a real book for a student in engineering that is pragmatic enough. Basically i'm interested about calculus because actually this is my weak point; i want to stress that i'm interested about the engineering and not in a "pure math" book.